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I would hope that lazy polarization found some resistance on this particular forum

Very cool! I was just today thinking I should have an AI help me design a new piece of furniture I've been thinking about, and send it off to a CNC shop.

The MCP server seems to have a bug. The tool list flashes for a second in Claude Desktop, but then immediately states "This connector has no tools available." and the error "Couldn’t reload tools from the server." when I try to refresh it.

In the last few months I have been building an AI assistant that is quite possibly saving my life.

It's an iOS app that uses LLMs to estimate and track nutrients and calories in all the food I eat. It is plugged in to Apple Health so it sees all my activity, sleep, body metrics, etc. I have set some general health goals in the app and it uses this to rate (poor, neutral, good) and advise me on the food I log. A calendar view shows how each day has gone in a traffic light coloring system. I can also log contextual notes to help it make sense of my day, and it has a memory system so each session has continuity.

The assistant can save extracted or inferred nutritional data in a library, like when I give it photos of nutritional labels for foods I eat frequently or I log the same thing repeatedly, for easy reuse later. Also useful for home made meals and recipes.

I've connected it to my workout tracker app Hevy so it can keep tabs on my exercise and also adjust my programs based on me chatting with it in the app about how a workout went. This is really useful for swapping out exercises I struggle with, for example, or to keep a well-balanced program over time.

Recently I added an Apple Watch companion app with a watch face complication so I can keep an easy eye on things like up-to-date calorie deficit.

All built in Swift with Opus on the $20 plan. I realize I can probably use existing AI nutrition tracking apps, and probably also connect Claude to Apple Health, but the joy of building and getting this to be completely tailored to me has been so fun and extremely useful. I've shared it with a few friends, but since I am paying for all the API tokens currently I have not yet tried to get more users onboarded.

Wow, I’ve had it for 15 years and until now I’ve never thought it may be connected to also being «treated» for glue ear as a kid. Do you have more info on this and how you came to that conclusion?

So it was you! /s

A particularly pronounced version of this can often be seen by letting 2 agents review and code in a loop. One agent will find some problems with the code, the other agent will address the review by adding more code.

A good human developer might see that the better way to address the review is to backtrack and pick a different approach. The ai agents seem more prone to getting stuck down bad branches of the decision tree.

Code reviews should be done by someone other than the author though, so the only thing that changes with ai generated code in that respect is the amount of it

They specifically mention "H.264, H.265, and av1 codecs, along with many others" here https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

Thanks, I did not know this. My Tailscale was unaffected by the outage.

Tailscale Funnel, but might need a paid account

Checkout tailscale

I read their point as why have passwords at all when the security is you having access to your email account.

> The backup roll thrusters in use are now at risk due to residue buildup in their fuel lines

Such a human experience this probe is having

I had good results with pyannote and the following model for that use case in the past https://huggingface.co/pyannote/speaker-diarization-3.1

I believe their comment was about safety, not usability

Curiously, Scipio is also arguably one of the most famous family names from Roman Antiquity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scipio_Africanus

I share your frustration on services that won’t let you automate them, but to me that’s precisely what generative AI will let you do. You don’t need an API at the family doctors to have AI automate it for you. It just rings them up and sorts it out at your command. AI is like obtaining an API to anything

Walking, cycling, running, driving, relaxing on the couch

iOS and macOS ships with Pomodoro. Open Shortcuts and you should see it.

John Landis film The Blues Brothers crashed a reported 104 cars

Lowering the speed limit where there are sidewalks next to cars driving seems to work well in Europe. But that also requires policing of those speed limits so they are not considered mere suggestions by drivers.

An excellent write up on this great game! One particularly striking element of Curse to me is the soundtrack. Michael Lands compositions for the series is absolutely perfect in this high fidelity form. The familiar themes from the earlier games take on a whole new dimension and the music has its own narrative which perfectly complements the visuals and gameplay. A masterpiece in its own right. I still find myself loading it up on YouTube and playing it in the background while working or doing house chores.

If you’re measured on number of users, why would you remove lots of them?

While you’re correct that you would see the same graphs if drivers had become exemplary, observing traffic in SF anecdotally point towards the opposite. It’s frankly shocking.

Some institutions have requirements that files don't leave your computer or network

> applications must also attach a police certificate or letter from every jurisdiction in which they have resided in, disclosing whether they have any convictions and the nature of those convictions.

Presumably to prove that you have a criminal record before approval? /s

edit: this was a joke about their mutiny, was unaware of the criminal issues brought up in another comment

> however with software nobody dies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

From the perspective of society, this is how to start Google

I still love going to the movies, but I stay with my 40-seat local. Grab some popcorn, a cold can of beer or glass of wine and settle in. Always showing great, old classics too. Best cinema experience I’ve ever had.

The irony here especially with furniture is that if you’re rich enough to buy real quality design pieces you’ll sell them for more than you bought them for when you’re ready to move on