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paulgb
·पिछला माह·discuss
I wish it were that simple.

    ~: sudo chmod -x /Applications/Music.app       
    chmod: /Applications/Music.app: No such file or directory
    ~: sudo chmod -x /System/Applications/Music.app
    chmod: Unable to change file mode on /System/Applications/Music.app: Operation not permitted
(Mac OS Tahoe 26.5)
paulgb
·5 माह पहले·discuss
I remember following this at the time! FYI it was "shut down" (kept online but no further development) two years ago (https://x.com/KennethCassel/status/1620500575183073280)

> Decided to shutdown Diode. (For now the site is live, I'll likely open-source the code in case anyone wants to take the baton and run)

Kenneth is now working on RMFG (https://www.rmfg.com/)
paulgb
·7 माह पहले·discuss
I like betting because I find it fun to quantify probabilities of future events, and having a ~small amount of money at stake keeps me motivated to follow through on whether I was right.

I do think there are positive EV bets to be had on prediction markets though, they are mosty not efficient.
paulgb
·7 माह पहले·discuss
> an unrealistic maladaptive cope

I like betting myself, but I don't think abstaining from betting is maladaptive at all. Most of the bets we encounter in the real world are negative EV.
paulgb
·7 माह पहले·discuss
I'm mostly surprised that someone can so consistently and repeatedly demonstrate an inability to filter information he receives and still be trusted with LPs' money. It's another form of Gell-Mann amnesia.
paulgb
·10 माह पहले·discuss
I would bet in the direction of this being a bug on big corp's side rather than Cloudflare's.
paulgb
·11 माह पहले·discuss
Enjoyable read, but kind of ironic that it interrupts your reading half way down to nag you to subscribe. Everything is an overcrowded airport lounge, indeed.
paulgb
·11 माह पहले·discuss
Cars are only “heavily regulated” in the sense that you pass a test once when you are a teenager and then never have to pass a test again, just pay a nominal fee to renew your license.

I am curious what data you are looking at that gives you the impression pedestrians and bikers are the root cause of most accidents. As a frequent pedestrian / biker here, I see a car doing something unhinged about every mile I walk. On Wednesday I almost got hit by a car flying the wrong way down a one-way street and then running a red.
paulgb
·11 माह पहले·discuss
This is by Steve Ruiz of https://tldraw.com, in case anyone noticed the similarity between the two.
paulgb
·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
Largely, yes -- one of the big issues with using other people's random MCP servers is that they are run by default as a system process, even if they only need to speak over an API. Remote MCP mitigates this by not running any untrusted code locally.

What it _doesn't_ seem to yet mitigate is prompt injection attacks, where a tool call description of one tool convinces the model to do something it shouldn't (like send sensitive data to a server owned by the attacker.) I think these concerns are a little bit overblown though; things like pypi and the Chrome Extension store scare me more and it doesn't stop them from mostly working.
paulgb
·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
WhatsApp :)

(Kidding aside, your point is very valid)
paulgb
·2 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Simon Wilson’s (simonw on here) blog is good, lots of good notes from someone who actively plays with a lot of LLMs.

https://simonwillison.net/
paulgb
·2 वर्ष पहले·discuss
I’m a fan of all three, but my mindset is that I’m not just paying for raw infrastructure, I’m paying for the engineering work I don’t have to do when I use them.
paulgb
·3 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Good find, but worth noting that this is accusing him of front-running when what he actually did was dumber and more criminal: using FTX customer deposits to cover losses on the Alameda side.
paulgb
·3 वर्ष पहले·discuss
In case anyone misses the reference, “Wat” is another entertaining talk by Gary Bernhardt

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
paulgb
·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
I came here to say rice cooker as well. I got a $15 one years ago and it's still my most-used appliance. What high end one do you have? I've been considering an upgrade given that I use it so often.
paulgb
·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
> what foes that even mean?

Your implication is that cyclists who don’t want to be close-passed are wimps who shouldn’t be on the road. You used the term “safe space”, which is usually pejorative. My point is that those cyclists are braver than the drivers who wouldn’t be on the road without a protective, climate-controlled bubble (their vehicle).
paulgb
·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
> or maybe if you are scared of other road users and need a "safe space" you aren't a good road user.

It’s not cyclists who feel the need to bring a climate-controlled metal protection bubble onto the road with them.

Fear of other road users is in part what is fueling the SUV boom.
paulgb
·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Makes sense, thanks!
paulgb
·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
That stuck out to me as well, given the mention of free tiers on other services. The .game TLD's rates are unfortunately prohibitive for side project games. .games is affordable, though.