mikeocool

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by mikeocool 5d ago
I think the point of those comments is this could have been much simpler for everyone if the model providers had given us some tools around existing standards. Instead they invented something new/weird/complex standard, and then e
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by mikeocool 5d ago
Yeah, from a design perspective MCP upsets me, because it’s a poorly designed standard and creating a good one could have been much easier. But you’re right, since clients don’t have a nicely sandboxed “make api request” tool, it’s basicall
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by mikeocool 5d ago
All of these things are perfectly possible with a plain REST API with an Open API spec and using some standard auth options, and an AI client that implements a reasonable “make api request tool” (just like the AI clients implement MCP today
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by mikeocool 9d ago
I believe you can use your codex subscription with Pi, and it’s officially endorsed by OpenAI and uses your subscription usage. Though for cc you are correct, using it with your sub draws from extra usage.
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by mikeocool 9d ago
Neovim’s current donation page says that funds are managed by OpenCollective — a 501c6 organization in the US. 501c6’s are tax exempt. So assuming they are the holders of the bitcoin as well, there would be no tax liability.
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by mikeocool 10d ago
Previously having a deck was basically a signal that said “I took some time to prepare for this meeting and put together some coherent talking points” even if the deck itself was just a bunch of of text outlining what the speaker was saying
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by mikeocool 11d ago
One person can build a $22 billion company (in year 2000 dollars) that sells an operating system used by 97% of personal computers, the world’s most popular office suite, along with a bunch of other software used by virtually every company
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by mikeocool 14d ago
JOSM is great when you get really into, but if it's really your first edit, just use the editor on openstreetmap.org. If it's something you end up enjoying, one really satisfying thing to do is pick a small rural town and improve
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by mikeocool 15d ago
Given this feature seems to be premised off guessing a user’s age based on their inputs, and a common use case for Claude it uploading personal legal and tax documents to have Claude explain them to you, I am guessing Anthropic is not hurti
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by mikeocool 16d ago
Have you never had a conversation someone you trust that you prefer there not be an automated written record of?
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by mikeocool 17d ago
It also summarizes your full conversations.
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by mikeocool 17d ago
People have plenty of conversations where if one party intentionally chose to record it, it would be big violation of trust. This is basically just "always on" recording/transcribing that people have to intentionally remember
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by mikeocool 17d ago
Yeah, even more weird was when they highlighted the privacy aspect of it. Sure, it maintains the wearer's privacy, just not that of anyone around them.
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by mikeocool 25d ago
> They're packing lots of signal into fewer words “The load-bearing seam is real” or “Autumn hits different” appear to have absolutely no signal in them.
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by mikeocool 29d ago
The President of the United Stated doesn’t actually have the authority to tell anyone besides the executive branch what to name geographic places. So the order only forces official US government maps created by USGS and the like to be updat
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
Companies got to release an MCP server for their product and tell their investors they were pivoting to be AI native.
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
Kinda sounds like you are finally realizing the dream of XML and DTD envisioned 25 years ago.
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
Lots of standards are terrible without the actual tools on top of them (try making an HTTP request with just a network socket). But that doesn’t mean we should have single centralized tool that does everything. I’d posit there’s no big loss
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
> You need centralization (or at the very least, a standard) for that. We have a standard! It’s this great decentralized VCS called git. For most of the stuff integrations do, they’re just showing code or commits — both of which are read
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
There’s still a world difference between communicating with Claude and managing humans (well). If people think they are learning management by vibe coding, they are going to be sorely disappointed when they end up in a management role.
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
If it is like management, it’s like the most low effort version of management. You just blindly tell it what to do without any regard for its motivations or morale. If it does something wrong, you just delete it and slightly rephrase your i
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
Guess it was a bad idea for everyone to switch to a browser made by one of the world’s biggest advertising companies.
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
As far as I've seen /clear is the same thing as starting a new session. If you type /resume right after clear, the first thing in the list is the session you just cleared.
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
I'm sure that's technically true -- but as long as your personal item doesn't have wheels they seem completely unconcerned with the size. I frequently travel with a duffel bag carry-on that goes in the overhead. On most flig
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
My favorite but of airport-ese that emerged post-9/11 is that on most US airlines you can now have 1 carry-on and 1 personal item. As far as I can tell the difference between them is that a personal item can't have wheels.
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
Oh, that’s good, because if you automate something then you’re automatically absolved from all responsibility for its actions. And you certainly shouldn’t bother monitoring what it’s doing.
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
> appear to be profiting from is "an invitation-only programme that lets you earn money from the performance of your eligible public reels, photos, stories and text posts." The difference between “We ask white nationalists to j
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
Yeah, by most definitions at least 50% of “40-somethings” are solidly millennial.
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
I think AI is a great learning tool - I have learned a ton from it. But when I just ask to do a thing and then read the code (typical in a professional environment when there’s pressure to get shit delivered), i have not found that be an ef
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
Pre-AI juniors were valuable because on many tasks, it was faster for me (senior eng) to write a quick spec have a conversation with a junior, and have them go off for a few hours or a few days and write the code, and then come back with it

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