zamalek

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by zamalek 7mo ago
This is just structured logging. Slog in go, tracing in rust, serilog in C#, etc. You should be combining this with the likes of otel or datadog, which will keep those fields structured and filterable.
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by zamalek 7mo ago
I'm not sure about Claude Desktop (it must surely have CLI access?), but I think your line of thinking is correct.
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by zamalek 7mo ago
That is through a ADC then DAC, at least for the previous iteration, analog direct to the drivers was not supported. You would be compounding distortion, and largely throwing away what the external DAC+Amp had on offer.
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by zamalek 7mo ago
Micro-orms (mapping to parameters and from columns) are generally fine last i read. It is the general aversion to writing a SELECT that is suspect.
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by zamalek 7mo ago
I'm a slight audiophile, enough to own a Schitt stack and lower-end planar magnetics, overall cost would be slightly more than the AirPods Max 2. I did try the previous generation and walked away with no emotional response either way t
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by zamalek 7mo ago
Yes, MCP instructions are a blob that is injected at the start of the context. That file is prefixed to the agent specific help[1] for the instructions (that is returned if --help is invoked with CLAUDE=1 or AGENT=1). [1]: https:/&#x2
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by zamalek 7mo ago
That would work, and is still an option. However I think this makes deployment/installation simpler (which is also why I write my MCPs in go).
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by zamalek 7mo ago
In short: JSON. Plan prose or markdown is way more token efficient than JSON. I think that responding in JSON was always a mistake in the spec; it should have been free-form text (which could then be JSON if required).
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by zamalek 7mo ago
What I've done with my MCPs is turning them into a CLI, except there's still an MCP server that only has the instructions to tell the the agent about the CLI.[1] Claude and GLM-5 seem to have no problems with it. As a bonus, the
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by zamalek 7mo ago
I find that the perception of AI coding is very bimodal, and both camps have it wrong. You have the one camp who will only trust it to, at most, write a few lines of code. The other camp prompts, walks always, and pushes (or just has the AI
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by zamalek 7mo ago
I have OTEL + Rust in production, alongside some other languages (+ OTEL), and it is by far more useful and predictable than the others. I often find myself monkey-patching in logging for other language libraries, where with Rust it just
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by zamalek 8mo ago
An yet people will die on the hill of "republican economics." I truly can't understand it.
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by zamalek 8mo ago
> Review by a senior is one of the biggest "silver bullet" illusions managers suffer from. My manager has been urging us to truly vibe code, just yesterday saying that "language is irrelevant because we've reached the
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by zamalek 8mo ago
From the article: > And on nightly it also has support for try fn and gen fn. I haven't been able to figure out what a try fn is.
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by zamalek 8mo ago
I'm terrified by the notion of try fns. Are we getting exceptions (and therefore losing one of rust's greatest features)?
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by zamalek 8mo ago
Friendly reminder: most cloud providers have deletion locks. Go and enable them on your prod dbs right now. Sure, Claude could just remove the lock - but it's one more gate. Edit: these existed long before agents, and for good reason:
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by zamalek 8mo ago
> Another reason is compilation time. The more complicated the function signatures, the more prologue/epilogue code we have to generate that LLVM has to chew on. [...] I know that LLVM completely dominates compilation time, but may
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by zamalek 8mo ago
Unfortunately the US military has very deep pockets.
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by zamalek 8mo ago
Apparently the number of people familiar with the Streisand Effect is vanishingly small.
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by zamalek 8mo ago
There are communities who gobble up anything Microsoft produces. People in the Microsoft MVP program are usually in this camp - if you want to find examples. Me and my coder friends were part of the fandom, but with just me and my biased
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by zamalek 8mo ago
Rust happens to be an extremely good tool. There are definitely situations where it absolutely sucks. e.g. Zed is a heroic effort, but look at the code and you'll see that we still haven't figured out how to do Rust UIs. We may di
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by zamalek 8mo ago
They have earned my business, for now.
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by zamalek 8mo ago
Sora is already a flop. People are sick of slop and are getting good at identifying it. Grok is the only player that has any semblance of success in the visual gen market, only because they do the one thing that will always make money.
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by zamalek 8mo ago
I'm a rust fanboy, but I conceded to Go a long time ago as the ideal language to write MCPs in. I know rust can do a musl build, but the fact it's defacto goes a long way. Back to the article. I've written a few MCPs and the
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by zamalek 8mo ago
> I need to get my car washed; should I drive or walk to the car wash that is 100m away? > Walking 100 m is generally faster, cheaper, and better for the environment than driving such a short distance. If you have a car that’s already
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by zamalek 8mo ago
This is awesome news - and maybe a leap forward to tide us over, but solid state batteries are also usually hyped for safety reasons: puncturing one with a nail won't result in a fire (or some other accident). The article doesn't
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by zamalek 8mo ago
That's why I said "two weeks."
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by zamalek 8mo ago
You should be comparing to AMD, at that. There's hope for the upcoming Intel chips - but anything current isn't competitive. Furthermore, M* is good for a specific form-factor, but don't for a second suggest that 4 P-Cores wi
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by zamalek 8mo ago
Two weeks with Rust and you're still fighting with the compiler. I think the LLM pulled a lot of weight selling the language, it can help smooth over the tricky bits.
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by zamalek 8mo ago
What people get wrong is that you don't just trip balls and get cured. Re-integration therapy is vital for lasting effects. Grabbing some shrooms and digging in is recreation, which is perfectly fine, but don't fool yourself or an

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