mech422

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by mech422 7mo ago
Yeah - but you have to be a good enough programmer to really understand the headers.. the 'bootstrapping' problem was real :-) Especially if you didn't live in a metropolitan/college area. My local library was really sh
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by mech422 7mo ago
I started by working on back-end accounting systems - most of those seemed to be COBOL ... or SHUDDER RPG.
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by mech422 7mo ago
Thats sorta the point... at one time or another, those were all projected to be 'the end of programming as we know it'... Hell, COBOL's origins was in IBM wanting to make programming an 'entry level' occupation. Odd
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by mech422 7mo ago
Oh yeah - thats a good one... Maybe the move from teletype to CRT's as well ?
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by mech422 7mo ago
Hmm - I'm not sure I'd say that 'changed programming' - but the internet in general changed 'learning to program'. I can remember when I first discovered gopher and found I could read tons recent material for f
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by mech422 7mo ago
Off the top of my head, I can think of the following during my career: 1. COBOL (we actually did still use it back in the 80s) 2.AI back in the 80s (Dr. Dobbs was all concerned about it ...) 3. RAD 4. No-Code 5. Off-sho
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by mech422 7mo ago
IIRC, that was inspired by the SGI interface. Wonder what other movies saw that and decided to crib it ?
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by mech422 7mo ago
"you literally have to tell it to slow down, focus and think" - This soo much! When I get an unexpected result from claude, I ask it why - what caused it to do such-and-such. After one back and forth session like this putting up t
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by mech422 7mo ago
That sounds neat! I especially like "I give the code a sense of its own emotional state". I can just imagine a function crying "Why did they use that algorithm ?? Why so much spaghetti ?? I'm soo ugly ..Why Why Why"
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by mech422 7mo ago
Yep, it was a 'momentary' glitch in the matrix ... Things came back even stronger then before, and 'off-shore' just became another tool. Its still around, but it hasn't destroyed the domestic programming industry. H
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by mech422 7mo ago
If offshoring started before your time, that might be coloring your perception. I had already been working in tech for decades when the offshoring craze started. It was remarkably similar to the current 'ai craze'. Loads of jobs l
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by mech422 7mo ago
Hmm - that might be ?? This has been going on for a week or two, but it definately seems worse tonight...
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by mech422 7mo ago
I've been doing it myself for 40 years...I wanna play with the new shiny abit :-D Whats the point of being a geek if you don't play with the new shinies ?
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by mech422 7mo ago
Maybe I should just hang it up and go to bed: That's a Claude Code issue — queued slash commands not executing between steps. you didn't answer me - is that last rule we added to MEMORY.md active and working ? ● Your poin
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by mech422 7mo ago
hmm - I don't use the web UI... but as you say claude code seems to be working.
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by mech422 7mo ago
oh yeah - I get that too. Also, if I tell him to verify something - he'll do a big song and dance about verifying it as correct. Then you point out something very basic and he'll trigger that 'let me do this properly',
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by mech422 7mo ago
Oh - another 'fun' new behavior this week: He contradicted himself within 1 paragraph and when asked about it, admitted the correct answer was explicitly listed in his MEMORY.md file - he just ignored it...
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Whats Up with Claude Lately?
19 points by mech422 7mo ago|14 comments
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by mech422 8mo ago
Thanks! I appreciate the heads up!
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by mech422 8mo ago
The consumer goodwill is working then - it pushed me to upgrade my plan on march 1st... (do they bill on rolling 30 day cycle ? or calendar-month to calendar-month?)
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by mech422 8mo ago
Terms of Service would like to have a word.... Not like limiting uses of products is anything new
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by mech422 8mo ago
I must be missing something ... Why broadcast speech over AM in an 'unmanned' tunnel ?? who's gonna hear/receive it ?? I wish the repo had some sort of use case summary or something... Edit: I'm also sorta puzzled
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by mech422 8mo ago
Oh huh ... I actually did a lot of AS/400 & Stratus work back in the 80s. So Infor isn't written in RPG is it? the 400 actually had a decent COBOL compiler but everything seemed to end up in RPG :-/
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by mech422 8mo ago
Just wanted to mention it was nice to see such a down to earth posting. Unfortunately, I've never even heard of the ERP you mentioned, but you sound like a good company to work for :-)
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by mech422 1y ago
lobste.rs ? Highly curated, restricted posting, pretty much pure tech
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by mech422 1y ago
Thanks - I actually looked in there..but I thought 'About Finder' was just gonna be around the app and not the OS... Thanks again!
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by mech422 1y ago
am I missing something or is there absolutely no description/about/etc ? it would be nice to have some info. about the architecture, etc.
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by mech422 1y ago
Hmm - don't remember if it was micro-kernel, but AtheOS (1) was a REALLY nice OS developed by a single very talented developer. It included display server, networking, partial POSIX compliance and lots of goodies like GCC, Bash, etc.
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by mech422 1y ago
from what I've heard - sculpt is pretty close to 'daily driver' territory, and genode is used in the companies commercial offerings so it gets continuous work. Its actually the next OS I want to play with ...
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by mech422 1y ago
not sure if you've seen this... https://www.microkernel.info/ but it might be helpful :-D

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