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by avidphantasm 9mo ago
Yeah, but MCP provides a convenient layer of indirection where I can sandbox my app, allowing only files within a given directory tree (i.e., project workspace) to be read from/written to using my tools. How do I accomplish this when a
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by avidphantasm 9mo ago
Cool. Please check back in with us after they’ve raised the price 50x and you can no longer build anything because you are alienated from your tools.
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by avidphantasm 9mo ago
Now try to call some C++ code from your Go script…
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by avidphantasm 9mo ago
Since macOS went to a yearly cadence, I usually upgrade during Christmas break, this allows for a couple of point releases to work out the kinks. I won’t be upgrading this year. I hope macOS 27 fixes this abomination. Otherwise, this 30+ ye
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by avidphantasm 10mo ago
I know, the repairability isn’t great, and they’re not upgradable at all. macOS can be annoying and restrictive. But life is short, so I just buy MacBook Pros. I wasted too many hours in my 20s getting Linux to work on the desktop (not to m
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by avidphantasm 10mo ago
Quick, buy a Mac with higher-specced memory while the price is almost reasonable.
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by avidphantasm 11mo ago
This is great, but why does the write-up read like it was written by someone with brain damage?
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by avidphantasm 11mo ago
AI is breaking more than interviews. I recently overheard someone who is studying to be a psychiatric nurse practitioner (they are already a RN) via an online program say “ChatGPT is my new best friend.” We are doomed.
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by avidphantasm 11mo ago
Looks more sensible than having to use XCode and Apple's atrocious developer documentation.
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by avidphantasm 11mo ago
I don’t get the hype either. Every time I’ve tried to use tools like pyenv or pipenv they fall down when I try to install anything that doesn’t provide wheels (GDAL), so I give up and stick to pip and virtualenv. Does uv let me install GDAL
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
This sounds similar to AWS services depending on DynamoDB, which sounds like what happened here. Even if under the hood parts of AWS depend on Dynamo, it should be a walled-off instance separate from Dynamo available via us-east-1.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Awesome, nice write-up, thanks. TLDR: use PostgreSQL. Only use Oracle under extreme duress.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Also, Windows containers are a thing (not that I’ve ever used them). Shouldn’t it be possible to containerize old games bundled with versions of win32 libraries that were stable when the game was released? Then the games could be run in per
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
> could quickly surpass what humans are capable of and solve problems that have vexed society for millennia. Bunk. Almost all of our vexatious problems are so because we lack the social and political tools to bring to bear existing techn
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
We once had a glass baking pan EXPLODE!!! after being taken out of the oven and placed on a cold stovetop, but with the window open in early December. (We lived in an apartment that had free heat that we couldn’t control so we often had to
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Yeah, I think this is why starting with a smaller part(s) of a big system that is more-or-less working and building on that is maybe the best we can do.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
In starting from scratch, you also run the risk of recreating, from first principles, the thing your are trying to replace.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Yeah, except Apple dogfoods macOS to build most of the software for Macs and everything else they make. Presumably they rely on UNIX-like tools and would have to retool as well. So why mess with what’s working for them and others?
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
The just-released MAHA report[1] mentions PFAS limits for drinking water to be enforced by EPA. Hopefully the unusually extreme contradictions in policy force a change. [1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads&
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
I used this install guide[1]. It went pretty smoothly if I recall. [1] https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/#Guide:Installing-Windows-98
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
If you don’t need to run on iPad, Windows 98 works great on DOSBox, including audio and CD.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
And I will continue to use non-upgradable Macs because, while I miss tinkering with and upgrading my computers, I simply don’t have time for it anymore.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Foundries aren’t the only special case. The test should be, if we can’t afford for it to fail, it shouldn’t be left to the market. Another example? Farms. Also healthcare (expect to hear more on this front in the next few years as more and
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
No important messages are conveyed to me that have emojis in them.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
> The Unicode Consortium has introduced a lot of new emojis since Mavericks was released. We need to add them to Mavericks! No, we don’t. If I had infinite free time, I’d build a Linux distro that completely lacks support for emoji (and
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Was hoping that BlueSky somehow used the AT command set.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
And the problem for Capitalists and other anti-humanists is that this doesn’t scale. Their hope with AI, I think, is that once they train one AI for a task, it can be trivially replicated, which scales much better than humans.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
> A human driver is still far more adaptive and requires a lot less training than AI I get what you are saying, but humans need 16 years of training to begin driving. I wouldn’t call that not a lot.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Have you tried conda? Since the integration of mamba its solver is fast and the breadth of packages is impressive. Also, if you have to support Windows and Python with native extensions, conda is a godsend.
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by avidphantasm 1y ago
Capitalists really want slavery again.

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