ripley12

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by ripley12 1mo ago
It does not guarantee accuracy, but it helps a lot in my experience; I find that models tend to hallucinate a lot more about things that aren't in their context window.
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by ripley12 2mo ago
They are still in lots of cities outside Toronto.
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by ripley12 3mo ago
Awful headline and I doubt it's what the author would have chosen, given that her comments are much more to do with supply: > “In San Francisco, demand is reflected in increased prices,” she says. “In Charlotte, demand is reflected
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by ripley12 4mo ago
Externalities were a very big part of my first-year microeconomics course circa 2008, FWIW.
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by ripley12 8mo ago
Yes, Package Identity was the bane of my existence for a while. It's wild how MS gated important APIs behind it and then made it so difficult+impractical to work with (I honestly think this is a large part of why WinRT was mostly ign
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by ripley12 8mo ago
This was with an iCloud email address.
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by ripley12 8mo ago
The search bugs in Mail are absolutely real. They might not affect every user but I've had major issues on both macOS and iOS mail, and eventually gave up and switched to Gmail.
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by ripley12 10mo ago
That makes sense to me, thanks for the clarification.
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by ripley12 10mo ago
I can see where Mario is coming from, but IMO MCP still has a place because it 1) solves authentication+discoverability, 2) doesn't require code execution. MCP shines when you want to add external functionality to an agent quickly, and
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by ripley12 11mo ago
120m would be an absolutely insane width for a trench. It seems more likely that you’ve misinterpreted that.
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by ripley12 11mo ago
Midori was fascinating. Joe Duffy's writing on it is the most comprehensive I've seen: https://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/ I've heard someone at Microsoft describe i
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by ripley12 1y ago
Not just that - for every tool call, the user's agent has to output some extra tokens to put the context info in the additional argument.
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by ripley12 1y ago
Similar approach as MCPCat (telling agents to specify context about why a tool was called in special tool arguments): https://mcpcat.io/ I don't love it (potential privacy issues, and it makes the user's agent s
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by ripley12 1y ago
That's more or less how Tokyo works. Almost no on-street parking, people have to prove that they have a parking spot when buying a car, liberal zoning so there are lots of very small pay parking lots around the city. It works really we
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Tool Calls Are Expensive and Finite(reillywood.com)
2 points by ripley12 1y ago|0 comments
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by ripley12 1y ago
Sharpening a knife to r/sharpening standards is hard. But just honing frequently and occasionally using a cheap sharpener will get you further than 95% of home chefs.
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APIs don't make good MCP tools(reillywood.com)
5 points by ripley12 1y ago|0 comments
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by ripley12 1y ago
> This has already led to more easily introducing GUI features like a new GTK titlebar tabs option Yes! This is huge, I previously gave up on Ghostty because the title bar wasted so much space on my laptop screen: https://bsky
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by ripley12 1y ago
I work in this space and I was not able to understand how this project works in a couple minutes. The README feels LLM-generated. I think you're supposed to point this at your MCP server's code and not the server itself, is that
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by ripley12 1y ago
Aider is good at one-shotting Git commits, but requires a human in the loop for a lot of iteration. Claude Code is better at iterating on problems that take multiple tries to get right (which is most problems IMO). I was really impressed by
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by ripley12 1y ago
Anthropic's Research is pretty good; I'd say on par with OpenAI. Agreed about Google, accuracy is a little better on the paid version but the reports are still frustrating to read through. They're incredibly verbose, like an
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by ripley12 1y ago
Been impressed by this; it's really fun to watch Void interact with people on Bluesky.
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by ripley12 1y ago
That's sort of the popular wisdom, but rails don't guarantee it will be there for the long run. DC recently announced that they're replacing their light rail with buses: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va
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by ripley12 1y ago
This is very useful, thanks. I've implemented similar authentication with tower_cookies in a home project, and it took me a long time to figure out; Axum is powerful but not always the most intuitive. It was a great learning experien
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by ripley12 1y ago
The README was meh but skimming the source code was amusing. If nothing else, they certainly committed to the bit.
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by ripley12 1y ago
- Lazygit - WezTerm - Signal
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by ripley12 1y ago
yes-rs is a joke, not a serious project.
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by ripley12 1y ago
I agree with this. It's surprising how often I encounter people with that belief, because I was disabused of it very early on in my career; this industry is chockablock with people who are brilliant in 1 area and deficient in others.
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by ripley12 1y ago
From the article: "Of course our American catastrophe played a role in our final decision." "My decision was entirely because of the political climate in the United States." "Both Toronto and the Munk School were an
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by ripley12 1y ago
It's primarily the constant, repeated threats of annexation ("51st state"). Americans don't seem to understand how much these have tanked the relationship between the two countries.

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