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by bloppe 2mo ago
This is the kind of thing where everyone just talks past each other because "coding" can refer to a ton of different things. I think we've all had the experience of having to write large mechanical boilerplate or refractors w
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by bloppe 2mo ago
In my own CLAUDE.md files, I tell it to liberally use the `gh` CLI to search for issues and error messages across the entire GitHub code index. It's insanely effective, but it feels like I'm part of the problem, and I'm sure
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by bloppe 2mo ago
Ya they're getting boned
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by bloppe 2mo ago
Letting the harness inject the credentials implies not exposing them to the LLM. Besides, the current state of MCP authentication almost always involves just hard coding secrets in .claude/settings.json so it's not like that'
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by bloppe 2mo ago
The one introduced by Gregory. I'm not sure if countries that reformed later cared enough to use a different name, but the Gregorian calendar is pretty well defined.
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by bloppe 2mo ago
I guarantee you any LLM will be perfectly capable of navigating HTTP auth [1] which has been around since 1999. You could use `curl`, or you could bake an HTTP client tool into the agent harness which operates at a more abstract level. The
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by bloppe 2mo ago
The read-only QUERY method can send much bigger requests than GET. For delayed answers, MCP offers no improvement, because remote MCP servers use an HTTP transport anyway, and local ones don't involve middleware you can't control.
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by bloppe 2mo ago
Yep. There's already a well-established system of `.well-known` URL paths to support things like API spec discover, auth discovery, etc. Why re-invent those wheels?
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by bloppe 2mo ago
When I say REST, I basically mean HTTP/JSON. I know. Shame on me. But there's a pretty large body of RFCs that define what makes a good REST API. For instance POST should create things, PUT should re-define them, PATCH should incr
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by bloppe 2mo ago
See my point #2. There are already standards to describe APIs. This is easy to see when you think in terms of a developer. The natural way to adapt an existing REST API into an MCP server while keeping the two synchronized is to simply writ
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by bloppe 2mo ago
Are you trying to say that REST APIs don't have a strict wire format with shared semantics for a huge range of features?
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by bloppe 2mo ago
MCP is basically just: 1. a REST-like API 2. with a spec (OpenAPI, introspection, etc.) 3. with harness-level authz (the ability to allow / deny specific methods in the harness) The only part that's actually new is #3, but it seem
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by bloppe 2mo ago
It's kinda hard to have a truly informed conversation about the scam industry since it's so secretive, but many of the scammers in Myanmar are actually incredibly big businesses that basically enslave people who otherwise wouldn&#
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by bloppe 2mo ago
"normal applications", no. But there are more platforms besides databases, e.g. programming languages. Any platform that works with dates will have to deal with these weird quirks. And application that works with dates probably wo
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by bloppe 2mo ago
> Those 10 days certainly exist, in both calendar systems. Not in the standard Gregorian calendar. Those dates only exist in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. The standard Gregorian calendar explicitly skips them. That's because you
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by bloppe 2mo ago
Most applications don't have to worry about it, but platforms do. The SQL standard requires accurate date representation for years 0000-9999. I was surprised to learn about the Gregorian shift while testing our database system. I also
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by bloppe 2mo ago
Considering it only diverges from the standard Gregorian for dates more than 400 years ago, it's not super relevant. Most people don't think about it. But it made a lot of sense to do the shift at the time. All recorded dates up t
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by bloppe 2mo ago
GitHub
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by bloppe 3mo ago
Destruction is not necessary. Google Books is a solid precedent. You can keep the content, you just can't make significant parts publicly available
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by bloppe 3mo ago
Aaron Schwartz was re-publishing the journals, which is the core concern or copyright and indeed where the word "copyright" comes from. Anthropic could get in a lot more trouble if their models are caught reproducing copyrighted w
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by bloppe 3mo ago
I think the expansion of terms over time is a bit damning, but originally the term was very pro-public-domain (sometimes as low as 7 years): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright#/media/Fi...
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by bloppe 3mo ago
They're attitude is more "this is fair use" which, according to all precedent, is probably true in most cases (unless the models actually start regurgitating huge parts of the Copyrighted material without a license). Of cours
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by bloppe 3mo ago
If most books never recoup the advance in sales, then isn't this a better deal for most authors? It sounds like a guaranteed floor which might be very low but is nonetheless higher than the alternative
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by bloppe 3mo ago
Elon likes his companies financially intertwined. He convinced the Tesla board to invest in xAI to help get it off the ground, which converted to SpaceX stock after the merger, so Tesla has about $2B in SpaceX stock on its balance sheet. Sp
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by bloppe 3mo ago
That's what people said about operating systems, and databases, and compilers, and so many other big complicated categories of software that over time became increasingly dominated by OSS
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by bloppe 3mo ago
You could tell the average user that installing a native app would require memorizing a URL too. You would be lying, but you would be lying just as much as if you told them that they'd have to memorize a URL to use a PWA.
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by bloppe 3mo ago
You'd be surprised. Obsidian, slack, Spotify, figma etc don't usually get panned for lack of performance, and those aren't even very light weight. As wasm apps mature, it will only get harder to justify maintaining 5 differen
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by bloppe 3mo ago
At this point, most of those "native" apps are actually just web apps packaged in Electron. The fact that you generally can't tell the difference is proof that there aren't any real reasons to prefer a native app. All
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by bloppe 3mo ago
> Earlier proposals from America and the European Union looked to the amount of computing power used to train a model as a rough guide for when oversight was required. Sir Demis instead suggests designating AI models as “frontier” if the
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by bloppe 3mo ago
Very agree. I think people can mostly agree on a definition for intelligence that boils down to an ability to model the world and predict outcomes. An if/else statement can be considered somewhat intelligent. People tend to conflate

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