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by harrall 8mo ago
Yes but I consider that just a bug in the agents that use MCP servers. It could just be fixed to compress the context or the protocol could be tweaked. Switching to CLIs is like buying a new car because you need an oil change. Sure, in this
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by harrall 8mo ago
There’s a third group of people: people who did it, got good at it, and got bored. I do both carpentry and programming and both activities have long since become repetitive. There are only so many dovetails or distributed systems you can ma
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by harrall 8mo ago
Computers took like 3 decades before they weren’t just for the rich either. In the late 70s, personal computers were still like $4-8k (in today’s money). It wasn’t until the 90s when regular people started getting computers. So there is one
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by harrall 8mo ago
No it’s a mindset thing. Some people think all problems should be fixed with regulation. Some people think all problems should be fixed with free market / responsibility. California and liberals tend to lean to the former. A place like
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by harrall 8mo ago
What we actually need to get to is a world where countries have somewhat equal quality of life. This would allow a country to invest in processes that reduce pollution without fundamentally making them uncompetitive. Of course a world where
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by harrall 8mo ago
Only because the studio made Ridley Scott cut the scene. Ridley Scott definitely thinks Deckard is a replicant and interviews of him show that it was his intent. On the other hand, the book says Deckard is a human. So it depends on whether
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by harrall 8mo ago
Sort of but not entirely. While bad pedestrian infrastructure sucks, usually I can get around it. But I’ve been in crutches and a wheelchair many times in a life —- if the actual place is not wheelchair friendly, it is much harder to get ar
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by harrall 8mo ago
Not true. California is doing a ton of things to create housing — just look at the many state bills that have passed in a span of 2-3 years: https://cayimby.org/legislation/?_filter_by_status=signed Sure, some cities a
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by harrall 8mo ago
In humans*
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by harrall 8mo ago
I can make a meal from any set of ingredients so I don’t bother with a list usually. As long as I get some general basics, it’s whatever. In fact sometimes I’ll pick up random things in my grocery store… chaos testing if you will. I make li
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by harrall 8mo ago
You most likely don’t pay per call for your cellphone. You most likely don’t pay per machine to use the gym. You don’t pay per cup if they allow unlimited refills. You are not supposed to go into an all-you-can eat buffet and stuff steaks i
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by harrall 8mo ago
But have you ever tried to clone a product or tool for yourself before? At first it’s great because you think that you saved money but then you start having to maintain it… fixing problems, filling in gaps… you now realize that you made a m
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by harrall 8mo ago
It’s like playing a fretless instrument to me. Practice playing songs by ear and after 2 weeks, my brain has developed an inference model of where my fingers should go to hit any given pitch. Do I have any idea how my brain’s model works? N
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by harrall 8mo ago
People say the same about Instagram but my feed is like all about making clothes, welding, construction stuff, funny memes, snowboarding, etc. It’s all good stuff. I just don’t interact with political content on social media — not because I
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by harrall 8mo ago
Yeah I’ve gotten 8 hours of sleep almost everyday for 15 years, ever since I put 2+2 together. In my early 20s, I didn’t like being bad at sports and I found sleep was my single most important factor. Similar to you, I also noticed that if
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by harrall 8mo ago
I firmly believe this varies between people significantly. Blue light filters do not work for me because I fall asleep on command everyday all the time regardless if WW3 is outside. BUT it also seems the effect of poor sleep seems to be MUC
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by harrall 8mo ago
React state management has changed a lot. React DOM/views have not significantly changed in 12 years. Our 10 year React projects that used mobx have not changed very much. Savage take: I found React when it came out and I thought “wow
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by harrall 8mo ago
Humans are also shaped by the training material… maybe all intelligence is. Talk to people with extreme views and you realize they are actually rational, but the world they live in is not normal or typical. When you apply perfectly sound lo
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by harrall 8mo ago
Yeah you’re right but most people in the world do not need an agent that codes. I think Gemini gives fine answers outside code tasks. Outside of work, where I use Claude, Gemini is cheaper for me (for what I would use AI for) than both Cla
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by harrall 8mo ago
Plus they started making AI processors 11 years ago and invented the math behind “GPTs” 9 years ago. Gemini is way cheaper to run for them than it does for everyone else. I think Gemini is really built for their biggest market — Google Sear
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by harrall 8mo ago
OpenAI only released ChatGPT 4 years ago but… Google has made custom AI chips for 11 years — since 2015 — and inference costs them 2-5x less than it does for every other competitor. The landmark paper that invented the techniques behind Cha
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by harrall 8mo ago
Yes but it’s multiple dimensions other than just waistline. e.g Some brands make boxier shirts and others use longer cuts. Because “my style” prefers one over the other, I know when I buy from a certain brand so it’s going to fit on me bett
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by harrall 8mo ago
Women have it much worse but it’s the same with men’s clothes. A “large” men’s shirt from Uniqlo is totally different from a “large” from Volcom and so on. Start making your own clothes and realize there’a a thousand dimensions to a shirt a
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by harrall 8mo ago
I’ve been helping normal people at work use AI and there’s two groups that are really struggling: 1. People who only think of using AI in very specific scenarios. They don’t know when you use it outside of the obvious “to write code” situat
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by harrall 8mo ago
I think they’re pretty common. Only reason I know is because I wondered if I could walk to the booth and press the button for a new parking ticket and pay for 5 minutes instead of 4 hours..
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by harrall 8mo ago
I agree but it feels like a type-of-mind thing. Some people gravitate toward clean determinism but others toward chaotic and messy. The former requires meticulous linear thinking and the latter uses the brain’s Bayesian inference. Writing c
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by harrall 8mo ago
Yes. And press releases are the same way. There is a literal message but often times there is subtext. They can’t say the subtext literally because it is inherently hurtful and burns a bridge (just like me saying “this guy sucks let’s leave
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by harrall 8mo ago
You don’t get it. We are all extremely good friends and there is no friendship being hurt. Talking in private is different where we are bluntly truthful. This is how we talk in public. It’s like doing steganography[1] on language. I can pas
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by harrall 8mo ago
What? This is basic human social skills. It’s like when you don’t like someone’s friends but you’re not actually going to say that out loud. Instead you say “I'm just too tired to go out” — it’s a “diplomatic out.” Yes it’s a lie at fa
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by harrall 8mo ago
You can wrap any TCP protocol in TLS which means every TCP protocol supports encryption, Telnet included. The app (and server) simply need to wrap their connections in TLS, which is trivial in many programming ecosystems. And IMO, X.509 (us

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