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The repo is showing initial commit of the entire codebase "6 minutes ago", and this was posted an hour ago? Are we time travelling now?

Is this the same algo used for Magic Carpet (1994)? The style looks very familiar, and I always wondered how they pulled it off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Carpet_(video_game)

They specifically avoided this due to the center of gravity issue, as mentioned in a top gear article several days ago. The design philosophy makes sense to start from scratch - but IMO they hired the wrong designer.

Or arbitrarily remove something that everyone takes for granted. Like the glove box or the door handles.

I mostly agree here. I just treat skills as “prompts”, and I scope them to domain specific tasks. I’m surprised when I see skill files that are really short. Most of mine are pages long.

A more surprising title would be “Google announces search results will be included in AI Mode ads”

I’ve been asked to sign up to plaid by clients three times. Each time I’ve said no. I’m not giving a 3rd party access to my bank account. I don’t understand how people enable this total loss of friction for direct account egress. There needs to be friction.

Well, if all the training data for auto software was trash anyway, then you know what they say:

Carbage in, carbage out.

My favorite Costco story is when it opened up in my town, we joined. We were there one day and bumped into some very good friends of the family there (since passed sadly).

They were talking about how they were admiring all the services offered to members, and said they considered buying a cruise vacation package, but then immediately realized “we’d just be on the ship with people from Costco”

We have a cherry blossom tree. It bloomed a week earlier than last year. We’re not in Kyoto but I did notice and it’s a bit strange. I also noticed some other blossoming trees that typically bloom for about a week, went green after 3 days.

Nonsense bills get introduced all the time. I’m not saying this shouldn’t be taken seriously, but this eventually getting codified is a long shot.

There are so many issues with how this can work in practice. Best case it just asks how old you are like a website that shows mature content, and the user lies. So from a liability perspective that shifts it to the user who gave false information. Beyond that there’s no practical way to actually verify someone’s age at the OS level.

In a multiline text box, enter should NOT submit the form. Chat interfaces violate this rule and it results in lots of premature chat submissions.

Codex switched to paid API tokens only. Not to mention their alignment with the department of war.

Why do you think the author of this piece, to who you originally replied, has any control over this?

Yeah of course. He has nothing to do with Microsoft operations or strategy. But does he still use the products?

Given how bad windows has become since windows 7, I’ve been wondering. Does Bill Gates still use Windows? Does he put up with the horribleness?

No. Aside from just making an algorithm that didn’t even run, it refused to use an MCP that it had registered in the same context session.

It’s wrong. It made large mistakes on my code literally yesterday.

Making a whole movie just to retcon the parsec misuse in Ep IV was a choice

I disagree that evaluation is always a coding task. Evaluation is scrutiny for the person who wants the thing. It’s subjective. So, unless you’re evaluating something purely objective, such as an algorithm, I don’t see how a self contained, self “improving “ agent accomplishes the subjectivity constraint - as by design you are leaving out the subject.

I want to echo the top comment in that post. Apple removing the headphone jack from iPhones was absolutely criminal.

Discovery, Activation, Execution as per the linked doc

Why not use skills? They follow a three-tier loading approach, and you can stick an MCP as part of the toolset for the skills, so it will only load it when the skill is selected.

See the progressive disclosure section in the skills docs: https://agentskills.io/what-are-skills

IIRC you can tell Spotify to never play a certain track, but I think only as part of a playlist…and it’s buried in hidden options.

An odd take on a regime that has known and significant human rights violations. I’m not saying the US is doing great right now, but China is not something to look up to.

Dude there’s only three graphs in there. Do they really bother you that much? The third may be a bit unnecessary but I think the visuals add to the post.

Based on the post, it seems likely that they'd just delay per the robots.txt policy no matter what, and do a full browser render of the cached page to get the content. Probably overkill for lots and lots of sites. An HTML fetch + readability is really cheap.

Really hard to understand costs here. What is a reasonable pages per second? Should I assume with politeness that I'm basically at 1 page per second == 3600 pages/hour? Seems painfully slow.

The reasoning for some of these questions is that if you are caught, it’s sometimes easier to charge you with fraud (lying on the form) than the actual thing (such as espionage).

Or rather, since we know fast fashion is horrible because of the things you just said - it forces a more thoughtful approach to production.