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by james_marks 10mo ago
This was my first reaction, too. The buyer at the university could just be doing their job, signing contracts to ensure (ideally) stable vendors and a good price by signing such a long contract term.
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by james_marks 10mo ago
I've always assumed we'll end up re-processing landfills when it hits an economic tipping point: better tech emerges, raw sources are exhausted, etc. There's a story in Junkyard Planet of this exact thing making someone wealt
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by james_marks 10mo ago
> never let anything even have the remote opportunity to ingest data unless you don't care about the data This is objectively untrue? Giants swaths of enterprise software is based on establishing trust with approved vendors and syst
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by james_marks 10mo ago
I was ready to hate this, guessing it was a low-effort collection of text files. But the approach looks very thoughtful. I turned memory on for Claude, and quickly discovered that I didn’t want fragments of old conversations haunting new on
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by james_marks 10mo ago
If we say “artificial flavoring”, we have a sense that it is an emulation of something real, and often a poor one. Why, when we use the term for AI, do we skip over this distinction and expect it to be as good as the original—- or better? T
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by james_marks 10mo ago
Consider naming them like YYYY-MM and they’ll be sorted alphabetically and chronologically at the same time. 2025-12.md, 2026-01.md, etc Source: spent too much of my life creating monthly financial reports.
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by james_marks 10mo ago
I hear you, but there are true moments of progress. Vue is a huge improvement over jQuery, is the first one that roughly hit your timeframe.
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by james_marks 10mo ago
This is a key part of the AI love/hate flame war. Very easy to write it off when it spins out on the open-ended problems, without seeing just how effective it can be once you zoom in. Of course, zooming in that far gives back some of t
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by james_marks 10mo ago
Several decades into this, I assume all documentation I write is for my future self. Beautifully self-serving while being a benefit to others. Same thing with picking nails up in the road to prevent my/everyone’s flat tire.
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by james_marks 10mo ago
I stumbled across a fun trick this week. After making some API changes, I had CC “write a note to the FE team with the changes”. I then pasted this to another CC instance running the FE app, and it made the counter part. Yes, I could have C
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by james_marks 10mo ago
“Execute it much better in some way” is the definition of a startup. And typically the ones that succeed execute one thing much better than their peers: distribution.
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by james_marks 10mo ago
Yes and no. PC, Web, etc advancements were also about lowering cost. It’s not that no one could do some thing, it’s that it was too expensive for most people, e.g. having a mobile phone in the 80’s. Or hiring a mathematician to calculate wh
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by james_marks 10mo ago
Unpopular opinion, but couldn’t this be explained by something as innocent as seeing what changes are likely to be coming? By having lawmakers as peers, you’d have a natural feel for what laws have momentum, who would benefit, etc. I’m not
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by james_marks 10mo ago
Nice article-as-ad for their DB product. The product itself reminds me of MeteorJS, which seemed like it could take over in ~2016, and then... didn't.
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by james_marks 10mo ago
I was thinking along the lines of, if a sycophant always tells you you're right, an anti-sycophant provides a wider range of viewpoints. Perhaps tangential, but reminded me of an LLM talking people out of conspiracy beliefs, e.g. http
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by james_marks 10mo ago
You could tackle it like network news and radio did historically[0] and in modern times[1]. The current hyper-division is plausibly explained by media moving to places (cable news, then social media) where these rules don’t exist. [0] Fairn
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by james_marks 11mo ago
Perhaps confusingly, I’m referring to MCP as the sum of the protocol, a server adhering to the protocol, and clients adding support (e.g. “Connectors”). The combination of these things turns into an ecosystem.
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by james_marks 11mo ago
MCP is not just providing an API, it’s providing a client that uses that API. And it does so in a standard way so that my client is available across AI providers. My users can install my client from an ordained URL without getting phished,
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by james_marks 11mo ago
You might be surprised to learn more about him. Hard to remember the idealism Twitter was founded with now, but I suspect Biz saw where Twitter was headed long, long ago and didn’t want to be party to it. He’s used his status to support awe
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by james_marks 11mo ago
What do you dislike about Biz Stone being on the board? He’s a mensch with a highly relevant credential by all accounts I’ve heard.
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by james_marks 11mo ago
Literally part of the brain. Limbic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbic_system Frontal Lobe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal_lobe Disclaimer: I only know this from armchair psychology book
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by james_marks 11mo ago
Glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, the daily levels are algorithmic with an RNG seeded with the date. Took ages to find an algorithm that produces mostly interesting puzzles in the goldilocks difficulty zone.
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by james_marks 11mo ago
Really nice concept and super clean execution. Wish I’d had 1/2 this restraint on adding complexity when I made my own tile-based puzzle game[0] [0] https://www.hidden-mirrors.com
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by james_marks 11mo ago
Not a weird thing to teach a child. It’s 5-why’s style root cause analysis, which will build a person that causes less harm to others. I am willing to believe that the same parent also teaches when and why it is sometimes right to apologize
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by james_marks 11mo ago
Flies may, but files do not feel pain.
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by james_marks 11mo ago
The power of this is in the work you’ve done to frame it as yes/no, with a default to going ahead. This is how things get done.
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by james_marks 11mo ago
So they’ll call you first with the fake video of your mom. You’ll be suspicious and ask for the pass phrase. The attacker now knows the nature of the protection you setup between you and your mom. And then the real attack on your mom, with
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by james_marks 11mo ago
If it’s survived this long, it likely because it has years of small fixes to make it reliable and useful, and more than anything—- predictable for the user. Modernizing will roll some of that back; I would only consider it if there’s a plan
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by james_marks 11mo ago
“This is unnecessarily complex” and cite 1-2 egregious examples, with a LOC estimate that you think is more reasonable. 5 minutes, off the cuff.
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by james_marks 1y ago
Love it > Jacqueline is an experimental bootloader written in Pascal (Free Pascal dialect) written for the i386 architecture, just because

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