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It was incredibly refreshing to read an honest story, warts and all, written by a human. And equally infuriating to read a comment about it written by AI.

There are many tells aren't there? There was clearly hard human work and experimentation here, but it's a shame the OP let AI do chunks of the writing. Once you see it, it's much harder to take the post seriously.

"Google has made it really easy to create api credentials for own use, just follow these few steps..." As someone who's been through that particular gauntlet a few times recently, I got a chuckle from the sarcasm.

I second this -- I just found the Ben Eater series a month or so ago and put together his computer clock over the holidays. It really helps you understand clock cycles, logic chips, etc, and is a good foundation for the 6502 kit you build later in the course. And learning Assembly before BASIC is the right learning path IMO, if only to understand how CPU registers work at the electron level.

I have never made it to the end of a Wolfram post, or a David Foster Wallace book. I'm envious of people who can read AND understand these tomes.

Yeah it's confusing. They mention https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io but it is just a redirect to https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/tree/main/d.... Like MCP itself there's still work to be done, it seems.

Do you have details on what "optimise for token usage" looks like in Cursor? Or is your point more about how Cursor manages the context window?

Thank you, thought I was going crazy. Maybe this is the new thing, adding grammatical errors so people won't think the content was written by AI.

If it gives any unfair advantage at all, the Astros will figure out a way to use them ASAP.

([1,2] For those that don't get the snide reference to cheating.)

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/article/astros-cheating.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Astros_sign_stealing_s...

I like the idea but it will be hard to build a moat -- if that's something you care about. How about making it more general? "touch grass", "feel sand between your fingers", "hug a tree" ...

Similar in nature is Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North. Fridjtof Nansen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridtjof_Nansen) led the expedition.

I had more about a drawbridge but it was really too much :)

The damage is done. You can't overthrow the king (whether you pledge fealty to iTerm2, PowerShell/WSL, Putty, Hyper ... ) if you have to sign up to get past the castle gates. And in the two years it took to remove the signup, the townsfolk have realized their kings are good enough for what they want to do anyway.

Same opinion on 1Password's great service. I've found them to be responsive and accessible anytime I've needed them. I'm not seeing all the bugs and issues others are reporting, but I have noticed a couple of odd UI changes lately that feel a bit like a product manager is bored and looking for work to do.

For the most part this post was easy to read, and I could feel the collective excitement of the team. I came away feeling like I'd learned something and ready to try it myself. The only time the post gets a little fuzzy is "...store the quantized parameters in a selectable data type, where that storage data type is the same data type as the “computation type” of the mode". I assume "selectable datatype" is the float size of the quantization?

This is like looking at a painting and thinking "what's the big deal, I could paint that." I'm guilty of the same, and yet, I've never painted.

You're not necessarily wrong, but you may also be throwing stones from a glass (Substack) house. Barely made it past the fold before I was nagged with a Substack popup.

Say what you want about him, but George is one of the few people I know that can actually go a mile wide and a mile deep into any field they choose. And he does most of his digging live on stream, so he makes an easy punching bag. Do I think he'll successfully raise a $400M round on a $2B valuation? No, something else will distract him before that - but I'm going to enjoy watching him (and pulling for him) regardless.

That's Insider for you. They're often more concerned with doing exactly that than doing good journalism.

Finally, an interesting article on Insider that doesn't feel like a hit piece.

Reminds me of the George Costanza line from Seinfeld,

Jerry (on Keith Hernandez): Yeah, he's a real smart guy too. He's a Civil War buff. George: I'd love to be a Civil War buff. What do you have to do to be a buff?

I believe the original comment was to show some of the sample commit messages in the repo README itself, no?

Full title: "Scientists create entirely new material with plastic and metal properties that ‘can’t be explained’"

Edit: Original title too long; took new title from first line of article.

This stock photo is giving me claustrophobia.

Audible version is great, too. https://www.audible.com/pd/Not-All-Fairy-Tales-Have-Happy-En...

Right, front end on S3 built in something like React, and API/backend on other services. There are established patterns like https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/pat... and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/serverless-mu..., but looking at the diagrams supports OP's point: "it so much harder to create apps in the JavaScript ecosystem."

This article resonated with me, but the main reason I moved from RoR apps to JS/SPA was hosting costs and scalability. I can build a SPA and host the bulk of it on Amazon S3 and pay significantly less monthly costs AND have scalability built in. If you've figured out a way to do something remotely similar with Rails, I'd be back in a heartbeat.

It's beautiful, but what I love most is the detailed README. Thank you for the attention to detail.