cstrahan

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by cstrahan 11mo ago
> Okay....now what function calls or libraries should the API use to write that code? Whatever the most popular library is which provides a client to whatever "thing" (locally running process, or service, or whatever) you are t
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by cstrahan 11mo ago
What whoknowsidont is trying to say (IIUC): the models aren't trained on particular MCP use. Yes, the models "know" what MCP is. But the point is that they don't necessarily have MCP details baked in -- if they did, th
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by cstrahan 11mo ago
> but those that I have used (GitHub, [...]) > Most MCP severs don't sit in between the LLM and the API endpoints [...] Your first example certainly isn't an example of that: https://github.com/github/gi
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by cstrahan 11mo ago
I just skimmed the README. I believe the point is to do something akin to "promise pipelining": https://capnproto.org/rpc.html http://erights.org/elib/distrib/pipeline.html When an MCP t
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by cstrahan 11mo ago
I don't think there is any attempt at lock in here, it's simply that skills are superior to MCP. See this previous discussion on "Show HN: Playwright Skill for Claude Code – Less context than playwright-MCP (github.com/l
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by cstrahan 11mo ago
The LLM output differentiates between text output intended for the user to see, vs tool usage. You might be thinking "but I've never seen any sort of metadata in textual output from LLMs, so how does the client/agent know?&qu
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by cstrahan 11mo ago
You're not wrong, but I figured I'd point out the cons / alternatives: > They can encapsulate (API) credentials, keeping those out of reach of the model An alternative to MCP, which would still provide this: code (as sugge
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by cstrahan 11mo ago
You are correct. I think many here have no idea what exactly MCP is, and think it's some sort of magic sauce that transcends how LLMs usually work. “But Brawndo has what plants crave! It's got electrolytes! '...Okay - w
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by cstrahan 11mo ago
This is very true. But why stop there? Imagine a future where we have an evolved version of MCP -- call it MCP++. In MCP++, instead of having to implement a finite list of specialized variants like CreateUserAndAddToGroup, imagine MCP++ has
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by cstrahan 11mo ago
You're misinterpreting OP. OP is saying that the models have not been trained on particular MCP use , which is why MCP servers serve up tool descriptions, which are fed to the LLM just like any other text -- that is, these description
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by cstrahan 11mo ago
> Is that just bad implementation? Where are the wasted tokens? How wouldn't it be wasteful? I'll try to summarize a couple sources: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/code-execution-with-mc... https
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by cstrahan 11mo ago
(Not OP) This is pretty well established. See for example: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/code-execution-with-mc... https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode/ Code (including shell scripting) a
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by cstrahan 11mo ago
While the comparison doc mentions it, I don't see anyone here talking about Wipr 2. As the comparison doc states, if all you need is configuration-free ad blocking on macOS and iOS, Wipr 2 definitely gets my vote.
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by cstrahan 11mo ago
It sure sounds like the problem is subsidizing the free tier by making the paid tiers excessively expensive. That in turn drives people to squeeze as much out of the free tier as they can, complain online, and jump ship to either a differen
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by cstrahan 11mo ago
There may be some herbal supplements that impact GLP-1 release to some extent, but what is being talked about here are synthetic GLP-1 receptor agonists.
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by cstrahan 11mo ago
I think OP is talking about the compression and bit rate, not the placement of the mic. When the mic is turned on, many headsets go from sounding good enough to sounding absolutely horrible. Something about switching from A2DP to HFP, and s
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by cstrahan 11mo ago
> If one needs an integer or a float, the parser converts it. Which parser? That’s the problem: if you’re using JSON as a data interchange format, you’ll need to carefully control both the serializers and deserializers, and whatever li
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by cstrahan 1y ago
JSON numbers are not JavaScript Numbers. While the grammar is specified (that’s what JSON is , after all), the runtime representation is unspecified. A conformant JSON parser can parse “1” as 1.0. They can be backed by doubles, or singles,
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by cstrahan 1y ago
I think a more charitable interpretation of TFA would be: "I Have Come Up With A Recipe for Solving PyTorch's Cross-Platform Nightmare" That is: there's nothing stopping the author from building on the approach he shares
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by cstrahan 1y ago
> The alternative is to import packages directly from the (git) repository. That sounds great in theory. In practice, NPM is very, very buggy, and some of those bugs impact pulling deps from git repos. See my issue here: https:/&#x
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by cstrahan 1y ago
Another idea: an indication of how many background jobs are currently running. With many terminal tabs open, I can forget if I already have $EDITOR (or something else) running, so the number of jobs can be a nice cue. _jobscount() {
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by cstrahan 1y ago
> This is defaulted to toggling on. You actually meant to say “this is the option that is given focus when the user is prompted to make a decision of whether to share data or not”, right? Because unless they changed the UI again, that’s
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by cstrahan 1y ago
"Synchronized demand is the moment a large cohort of clients acts almost together." Imagine everyone in a particular timezone browsing Amazon as they sit down for their 9 to 5; or an outage occurring, and a number of automated sys
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by cstrahan 1y ago
> Also, that gitignore doesn't even work. It's not terribly far off. This works: diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore.new index 7dc7aea..fc9ebfe 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore.new @@ -3
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by cstrahan 1y ago
> if anything, meds for high blood pressure come with negative effects on that It’s really a mixed bag. Recall that Sildenafil (aka brand name Viagra) was originally developed to treat high blood pressure. Turns out that while it does lo
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by cstrahan 1y ago
Given that a lethal dose of fentanyl is about two milligrams (similar to 5-7 grains of table salt in volume), that still feels pretty risky.
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by cstrahan 1y ago
They are super successful at creating them, though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38104554
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by cstrahan 1y ago
I often can’t remember what I did the previous week / weekend before that. I’m 36, and this is how I’ve been for as long as I can remember (our high school had alternating daily class schedules, and I very often forgot if the day befor
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by cstrahan 1y ago
You might want to re-study this topic. The decimal number 0.1 has an infinitely repeating binary fraction. Consider how 1/3 in decimal is 0.33333… If you truncate that to some finite prefix, you no longer have 1/3. Now let’s suppo
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by cstrahan 1y ago
I’m guessing you’ve already realized this, but in case it helps clarify things for someone else: The signals rates mentioned in the article are with respect to how frequently the segments are updated, not the brightness. (With the one excep

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