bengillies

9 ms·

1.
by bengillies 11mo ago
What I would like is to be able to add a meta tag to my web app pointing to my mcp server and have this browser load it in automatically whenever I visit
2.
by bengillies 11mo ago
Code Companion for neovim has supported ACP for a while now See https://agentclientprotocol.com/overview/clients
3.
by bengillies 2y ago
Nothing that anyone ever posts anywhere is completely free from bias. What singles the BBC out as somehow uniquely deserving of scorn? In what way is everything single thing they post untrustworthy? Did you read the article? It happened exa
4.
by bengillies 6y ago
> I see open debate as part of a healthy society. I value the ability to hear perspectives other than my own. That's what "freedom of speech" means to me I don't think this open debate you're talking about actual
5.
by bengillies 6y ago
> Google was never able to build or buy a social platform to build their walled garden higher. Does buying YouTube not count?
6.
by bengillies 6y ago
> Want first class tuples/immutable arrays. On this subject specifically, see the records & tuples proposal (currently at stage 2): https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple
7.
by bengillies 6y ago
Whatever algorithm used though the truth is that qualifications achieved this year are not directly comparable to qualifications achieved in other years due to the lack of exams. While nobody's fault, imho we'd have been much serv
8.
by bengillies 6y ago
> Which can be explained by teachers assessments being too optimistic This can also be explained by teachers assessments being an accurate representation of students ability, but students traditionally not faring as well in exams as thei
9.
by bengillies 6y ago
> It's also a bit sad that most English names are gendered. fwiw the name George in English can be applied to women as well as men (though only rarely I guess). See for example Famous Five books
10.
by bengillies 6y ago
> Name one retailer that lets you hock your product in their store without paying anything? This is a bad take. Hey is a subscription service. If you buy a magazine from a newsagent and then sign up to a subscription from it, the newsage
11.
by bengillies 7y ago
1 times faster means "the same speed as". 100% faster means "twice as fast". Though of course nobody would say 1 times faster in reality.
12.
by bengillies 7y ago
The prices are listed on this page[1]. Looks pretty expensive to me. [1] https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/licensing...
13.
by bengillies 7y ago
> Football hooliganism was well on the way to being solved by the early 90s I'm not old enough to remember football hooliganism in the 80s and before, but abroad at least, it was very far from solved by the 90s - which is why passpo
14.
by bengillies 7y ago
> Bear in mind neither MPs or electorate got to choose him to lead the Tory party It's worth pointing out that Tory MPs absolutely voted for him before Tory party members got the chance to, and that if MPs in general don't lik
15.
by bengillies 8y ago
I think it's worth pointing out here that the terms Gen Y and Millenial both refer to the same generation (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials )
16.
by bengillies 8y ago
I don't think it's fair to say that preserving page structure and formatting is never a good idea. For example, at least one good use for PDFs is sheet music/tabs. Formatting is obviously important here as it tends to lose me
17.
by bengillies 9y ago
> Business logic has no place in your view components, of course, but is quite appropriate in your controller components. Sure. Where you actually put stuff depends entirely on the complexity of what it is that you're building. If y
18.
by bengillies 9y ago
The problem with putting all async code directly into components is that often, async code is business logic or some other non-view-layer thing that doesn't really belong in a component. The benefit of redux-thunk (and there are obviou
19.
by bengillies 9y ago
> Notice how a real person’s arm doesn’t reach the handle quite as easily as the stick figure in the diagram Not that these doors aren't terrible design (they are), but notice how the stick figure is facing towards the handle when t
20.
by bengillies 9y ago
Schools exist for the same reason that farms and factories exist: it's a lot more efficient having specialised workers (in this case teachers) who can do the job far more effectively (in this case teach 30 or so children) than having e
21.
by bengillies 9y ago
I don't see why? You can of course create as many horizontal/vertical splits inside each tab as you like.
22.
by bengillies 9y ago
If you like tabs, you can just use tabs inside vim instead of buffers
23.
by bengillies 9y ago
So we're both agreed then that the goal isn't to "use less code"? I get your point though, so I'll rephrase: > The goal should be to try harder to use less code Why is this the goal? At best it's a performan
24.
by bengillies 9y ago
> The goal should be to try harder to use less code The goal is to deliver content and experiences that people actually want, it has nothing to do with the amount of code at all. At best, using less code might be a performance optimisati
25.
by bengillies 9y ago
> This leads to women generally having a harder time negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and leading. That is, he's saying explicitly that women find leadership roles more difficult. Generally if somebody finds somet
26.
by bengillies 9y ago
The bit where nobody bothered to listen to what experts were saying on the basis that both sides spent much of their time lying. If arguments that are counter to people's preconceived opinions are full of holes and exaggeration then th
27.
by bengillies 9y ago
imho the government isn't wilfully malevolent and pretending that it is is a surefire way of getting people to write you off as a crazy person. > When you don't have facts to back you up you can just make up whatever story you
28.
by bengillies 9y ago
From the article: > Given the gravity of what’s at stake – which is nothing less than the integrity of personhood in the digital age and the future of democracy in Europe So banning encryption in online chat programs (she obviously can&#
29.
by bengillies 9y ago
While I agree that what the UK government is trying to do is dangerous, wrong and ultimately won't help all that much anyway, this article is so full of hyperbole, bluster and FUD that, even though I know and understand most of the iss
30.
by bengillies 9y ago
It's hard to know what's actually going on behind closed doors, but it sounds like the tech companies want to do something about it and are quite prepared to work with the government on a solution. Of course, what that solution tu

More ›