bshaughn

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by bshaughn 8d ago
Well intentioned laws today can be used by illintentioned actors in the future, and mild legal exceptions can become significant ones with a couple additions. The 100 mile zone is a good example - that 100 mile zone assumes the entirety of
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by bshaughn 8d ago
Also crazy that lake michigan counts as the border, despite being entirely in the US, so you could be minding your business in Fort Wayne, Indiana and have your phone searched for no reason.
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by bshaughn 8d ago
There are much worse things the government spends money on (or doesn't tax) than well paying jobs that play an important role in society. What do you think happens to that $200k? Do you think it just gets sent to the void? That money i
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by bshaughn 9d ago
Luckily I do have a macbook, and try to put all my passwords in a "neutral" password manager, but this post has made me think about the edge cases of this sort of thing. Ive always said, the number one reason I will stick with an
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by bshaughn 9d ago
Dumb question, does backing up my iphone to icloud help solve this? Assuming im willing and able to get a brand new phone? What 2fa would the Apple store need, if hypothetically my lost iphone was my only apple product?
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by bshaughn 9d ago
After they go get a second phone
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by bshaughn 11d ago
If this is basically an MCP/api with curated data sources, then yes im interested. I think there is some legit market opportunity to try to provide this to small - medium businesses. The biggest advantage Amazon has over them is visibi
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by bshaughn 12d ago
I've long been thankful for a lot of ADA requirements in software, like OSX, which has enabled some interesting automation tools over the years. More recently, I have been saying the best part of MCPs and AI era is all of a sudden its
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by bshaughn 12d ago
Legal issues asside, I find this agentic commerce goal naive. Its like expecting me to buy a different microwave so the popcorn button works with the official amazon popcorn. Theres no way they will be able to replace the context and toolin
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by bshaughn 16d ago
A horrifying number of people flagrantly use their phones while driving. Im not talking about peaking at a text or google maps, but straight up scrolling tik tok while driving. At the end of the day there is going to be a lowest common deno
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by bshaughn 4mo ago
The number one value of MCP's is that it forced everyone align on an API protocol, but the protocol itself has room for improvement.
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by bshaughn 4mo ago
Websites should have a lean markdown or .txt page for each human friendly webpage. A lot of the surge in bots is because of LLMs. Its insane that a technical documentation web page can use 200MB + of memory, when the core information I care
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by bshaughn 5mo ago
I've described the field of Psychiatry as trying to describe a building, using only its shadow (projection from high dimensional space to 2d space), with only a handful of choices for the building type. Ultimately only the building (th
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by bshaughn 7mo ago
This tool should finally make it possible to setup a good web interface to my obsidian notes. I have a hacky setup using github as the backend storage system but its slow. Ive been surprised at how few people are interested in an obsidian b
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by bshaughn 8mo ago
Yes it is, this happened before almost 20 years ago and the NBA ref went to jail. Yet somehow the whitehouse insider trading is. Did you know someone took out a $300M BTC Short position right before a trump tarriff announcement in October?
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by bshaughn 8mo ago
I completely agree insider trading is an issue, especially with the legality of sitting congressmen being able to day trade. But with the exception of elected officials voting for bad bills / policies, the "victim" is whomeve
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by bshaughn 8mo ago
I think you have completey missed my point. The stock market only allows you to trade securities, and (in theory) there is a lot of regulation and enforcement on who buys / sells stocks. Additionally, no one has the power to magically
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by bshaughn 8mo ago
It gives people in power, wether it be the government or even an NBA ref, a vehicle to profit off of conflicts of interest / fixing games / etc... Ive seen people point out White House press conferences do weird shit, like cut the
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by bshaughn 2y ago
You can do a lot of this in obsidian with the dataview and execute-code plugins!
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by bshaughn 2y ago
I've implemented a POC on exactly this and am working on something more sophisticated right now. Can I reach out to discuss more?
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by bshaughn 2y ago
Not exactly what you're looking for but I a few months ago I spent a day building a llama-index pipeline against my markdown notes with a really privative note crawling implementation, and had surprisingly good results for question ans
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by bshaughn 3y ago
Yes! Pikapods, which is a service to "self host" open source tools cheaply. I discovered and implemented this yesterday during lunch, took only a few minutes. you get $5 in credit without entering a CC https://www.pikap