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by brookst 4mo ago
I agree that having auth outside of context window is good. But the real value of MCP is adding a semantic layer on top of APIs. Skills are client side and don’t know the server’s capabilities. MCP lets the server explain its API in natural
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by brookst 4mo ago
So, failure to do research and ensure a coherent mental model leads to erroneous inferences… for humans as well :)
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by brookst 4mo ago
Sure, that’s the motte / bailey. Easy to point to living, starving writers who suffer grevious harm, in defense of perpetual copyright. Disney and others use literally this exact argument year after year. I’m not even disagreeing. I’m
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by brookst 4mo ago
What specific inventions in those areas? Electricity runs from simple batteries (600 BCE) to today’s power grids. RF was predicted but not demonstrated by Maxwell in the 1860’s. His work built on Faraday’s (1840’s) and Coulomb’s (1780’s).
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by brookst 4mo ago
Funny, working in product I think designing the right thing is far more difficult and interesting than just typing in source code.
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by brookst 4mo ago
So just do -1 shuffles and save yourself a lot of effort?
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by brookst 4mo ago
Games that sort the cards are the worst / most interesting for this. Gin rummy, etc, where the end result of a game is sorted groups of same-numbers and runs. You can really tell when then shuffling has just transposed a few cards.
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by brookst 4mo ago
I love programming CNC machines; I am a terrible carpenter. Someone still has to tell the LLMs what to build, specify design constraints and goals, etc
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by brookst 4mo ago
Out of curiousity, can you share a human invention that is not merely scaling things that were decades or centuries old at the time? Fire? The wheel? Archimedes screw, maaaaybe?
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by brookst 4mo ago
What? This is a massive misunderstanding. It’s easy to get truly novel ideas from LLMs, unless your definition of “new things” is so strict that no human can do so either. The training set is about patterns, not facts or specific configurat
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by brookst 4mo ago
It’s been amazing to see the arc of tech people going from “evil Disney, copyright is an abomination, information wants to be free” to “OMG copyright is inviolable and AI is taking money out of Plato’s descendants’ pockets!”
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by brookst 4mo ago
When a human plays, the learnings (if any) are in the human’s head, and they eventually die. When your model plays, the learnings are captured forever, and enable smaller/cheaper/faster models. It’s the same principle that makes “
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by brookst 4mo ago
Ah, QUERY is explicitly scoped to be read-only, unlike PUT, POST, DELETE, etc. I had missed that part.
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by brookst 4mo ago
You make a good point in that there are large, slow-moving, but statistically significant effects in climate change, gender, and race. You out yourself pretty badly in implying that individuals can be ignored in gender and race in the name
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by brookst 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brené_Brown I am not sure if you posted a brilliant, subtle joke... or if you're demonstrating the exact behavior that you suggest is a flag of inauthenticity.
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by brookst 4mo ago
The “attackers only have to win once” principle is core to infosec; a company has to ensure every single employee rejects every single phishing attempt every single time, an attacker just has to get one employee once. But I think people mis
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by brookst 4mo ago
Thanks for the explanation! I still don’t get how idempotency can typically be ensured without state. It very much depends on data model and application design. Even side effects like using a user’s lookup quota need to be handled at a high
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by brookst 4mo ago
And if you tell us to stop, we’ll punch ourselves in the face even harder just to prove you can’t tell us what to do.
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by brookst 4mo ago
It’s one of those topics where there’s a kernel of truth, but most people who insist women or Black people are scientifically different are not doing so out of any interest in science. So the small percentage of people who just want to make
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by brookst 4mo ago
It’s true. In the US reality itself has become controversial. Maybe the oligarchs’ lies are just as valid as objective reality? Who can say!
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by brookst 4mo ago
Wouldn’t just putting an etag on POST requests accomplish the same thing? If I’m understanding it the server has to maintain state to ensure idempotency.
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by brookst 4mo ago
Death only has to get lucky once. Are you going to stop wearing seatbelts?
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by brookst 4mo ago
Also consider blending different levels of grey. Blending 20% to 0% versus 40% to 60% versus 80% to 100% will look wildly different.
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by brookst 4mo ago
Can we retire the “seatbelts are useless because they can’t prevent every loss of life” approach to risk mitigation please? If the acceptance criteria is “would prevent every single past instance and every imaginable future instance”, then
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by brookst 4mo ago
For the typical user, this is far far far more likely to happen than that they would “pop out” the drive and read it in another machine. Defaults should be safe for most users. Power users are exactly the people who can deal with changing a
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by brookst 4mo ago
Not me, but I would produce a much larger output with 48h focus on my token fix.
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by brookst 4mo ago
While I agree that LLMs have yet again surfaced the “new tech fails to separate data and control” issue that affected everything from pay phones to SQL, I disagree that there’s something different that prevents the introduction of separate
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by brookst 4mo ago
It wasn’t always that way. In 1984 almost 40% of CS grads were women.
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by brookst 4mo ago
Read the linked article? It is absolutely a cloud service. Neither Apple nor Anthropic is suggesting otherwise
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by brookst 4mo ago
I would think so, as “use” doesn’t specify implementation. If you use a word processor it may be running locally or remotely. From a user’s perspective, it doesn’t matter.

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