abeyer

> tool-calling ... in C

The snarky part of my mind immediately jumps to "all the risks of MCP, now with memory safety bugs too!"

> Browsers can talk to those local servers too. Again, this seems useful to me, as long as native apps have capabilities that web apps lack, they should be able to offer them as extensions to the web API.

Not sure if I agree on that one... at a minimum I think that should be behind a user consent prompt.

I suppose your proof just didn't fit in the margin?

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This feels like one of those threats teachers use to reinforce something they don't have any other strong argument to support... while reminding you that it will end up "on your permanent record."

Isn't that exactly what the sentence after the one you quoted encourages?

Agree, though I 100% see it on PC too, when web pages try to override standard scroll behavior to do some visual trick at the expense of well tested platform and browser scrolling support.

I'd be interested in knowing which independent agencies have backdoored the military's operational communication channels. Wasn't aware that was a well known thing.

> use search and actually have it find stuff

There has never been a good first-party answer to that in the past, though there were various third-party extensions and tools. Today the answer is just add the copilot license to your o365... its automatic rag over all your stuff is better than anything available before.

You may pay more for it, but "culinary solvent" is what you want to buy if you are trying to get it as an individual. It's pure food grade ethanol.

It's still tricky most places in the US -- you will likely have to jump through hoops to pay taxes and/or get the license to purchase, depending on your state's rules. I agree that IPA is not enough of a concern to actually justify it in my mind.

Unless of course you're owed a refund, in which case they'll hold your money and pay you interest on it (at least for a few years.)

...but then tax you on the interest they paid you if you claim it.

But only because we're confused and think we're still paying for pro wrestling. :D

While there's merit to the "know your enemy" approach, I wouldn't expect everyone to take it.

Maybe... but I read it more as (and tend to agree with) blow it off because it's explicitly an approach that makes the world a worse place in almost every way except perhaps your bank account balance. It's possible to be successful without being mercilessly amoral and there's a big difference between not personally caring for a product vs thinking a product is toxic and holding your nose anyway for the sake of a paycheck.

> like not seeing the difference between a beaten Lada car and a modern Toyota Camry.

So, both ugly, and only one with evidence of being useful and used?

Feels like a case study in _why not_ to trust internet randos without hardware experience with a device that's meant to handle a bunch of private data.

Maybe we just have vastly different understandings of "ordinary" job seekers, "ordinary" career counselors, and why they'd interact... but I'm not sure I get the point?

Isn't the book the basis of exactly what one would want a career counselor for? I'd expect a counselor to bring more personal and customized advice along, too, but telling someone to start with understanding the book doesn't seem like a bad approach. Now it's true that if what you're trying to do is get a job tomorrow, then yes, the book isn't going to help much with that... but that's not why I'd visit a career counselor either.

Don't worry, I'm sure they'll give you a free three month subscription to a new pair of eyes every time they leak your iris scans.

Agreed -- we had a team account at work for a while, but then they both took away a huge portion of the back catalog (something like 60% of my queue disappeared) and then immediately after wanted to increase our pricing enormously... we passed.

Hopefully without also learning that the most efficient means to that end is eliminating children.

Don't trust the server, trust the poster/client... that's really where the preview should be coming from anyway. And if you _don't_ trust the poster, you shouldn't be trusting anything they link you to anyway. It's trivial to lie to these preview generators with a couple of meta tags if the destination isn't trustworthy.

Nope, unless things have changed since I last dealt with it, Open Graph metadata is not considered "http-equiv" so does _not_ get served as an http header, only as a meta tag in the html header... so the HEAD verb won't get them for you.

No, that's fine, you're just supposed to make it look like you aren't doing it _because_ they unionized.

It's an issue everywhere, some places choose to have and enforce laws to curb it. The PNW mostly doesn't.

and a spare $1B

Of course. If you have a viable business and the debt is related to that, that's exactly what the corporate veil is for. If you just want to hedge your bets on your personal GCP bill for hobby stuff, not so much.

Read your sibling comment... basically doing this solely for the purpose of trying to avoid debt won't work unless the creditor is just too lazy to pursue it.

+1

If the latter... I'm not sure that it's explicitly against the rules, but coopting a name of something as your handle just to complain about it is in poor taste and probably should be.

Not comparable at all... the latter knows and admits it's a joke/money-grab and is not trying to pretend it's actually doing something good for the world.