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I couldn't find anything else to do exactly what I wanted (or wasn't just a blatent rugpull towards "enterprise pricing" waiting to happen) so I slopped together an MCP Proxy that uses FastMCP to proxy a list of upstream MCPs behind Entra oauth, with CEL-expressions for per-tool RBAC.

The peace of mind it brought not trusting other people's slopped out MCPs to do the right thing with authentication is immense.

It's internal only, but it was a Fable 5 one-shot (3 shot if you count a second prompt to generate the Helm Chart and docs site) that you could DIY because the FastMCP library is extremely sensible and well-documented.

"Extreme Heat" seems to be 37-40 degrees Celsius which is bafflingly mundane to me as an Australian who grew up in rural New South Wales. We'd pack 30 kids and a teacher into an un-airconditioned classroom with just a ceiling fan and the windows open in that temperature.

I imagine the buildings there just aren't built to support that heat plus the body height of hundreds or thousands of attendees?

One approach is to just print CMYK resin like an inkjet printer (and then cure it with UV).

Do that hundreds or thousands of times and you eventually get Z height.

Look up the EufyMake E1 for a consumer/prosumer version.

You don't stay the most cash-rich company by chasing every expensive fad and they've been equally conservative with other "THIS WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING" tech fads such as Cryptocurrency and VR. I don't blame them for not rushing to light Billions a month on fire like the other big players; their play always seems to be to let things shake out and then deliver something refined and sophisticated.

There also doesn't seem like any real opportunity for them to Apple-ify this tech (any more than today's announcement). There's lots of rough edges and the underlying technology is fundamentally janky and extremely problematic in Apple's second differentiator of privacy.

What is the name for the literary device that LLMs use where it explains something and then follows with a "pithy" "gotcha" sentence?

> Atherton didn't have to win. A CEQA lawsuit doesn't need a strong legal theory to do damage — it just needs to introduce enough risk that funders freeze and clocks keep running. The delay is the weapon.

In my opinion, this construct is massively overused by LLMs and is extremely jarring to read. The pithy followup "The delay is the weapon." feels like Year 8 Debate Club and is very melodramatic and cringy.

It must be possible to steer the LLM away from this?

Atherton didn't have to win. A CEQA lawsuit doesn't need a strong legal theory to do damage — it just needs to introduce enough risk that funders freeze and clocks keep running. The delay is the weapon.

In my opinion, this construct is massively overused by LLMs and is extremely jarring to read. The pithy followup "The delay is the weapon." feels like Year 8 Debate Club and is very melodramatic and cringy, which LLMs do a LOT.

There are other spots that stand out, but this is the point where I said to myself "oh this is the point where the author stopped "cowriting" and just pasted the LLM slop directly."

As an Australian with a family and 2 high-paying salaries paying a LOT of tax, none of those countries are remotely comparable to Australia.

If you hate taxes and fees, Singapore has a 60% Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty on residential property applied to foreign buyers, on top of an already insane property market. There's huge fines and government intervention into _everything_ and a massive high-stress culture.

Hong Kong is equally absurd for property and has a sword hanging over its head, that falls if China ever makes a move on Taiwan; the inevitable US and global sanctions would decimate HK.

Dubai is just a comical option.

This is total FUD.

The goal that AI-Megacorp CEOs have been pushing lately is "super intelligence" and so if that's where you truly think we are rapidly heading, what's the risk for those of us not hyper-invested in AI? This "super intelligence" (by definition) will be able to understand us both equally well, so all these "prompting skills" people claim sets them apart from people who don't use AI that much will be utterly pointless.

Assuming the cutting face is down, the handle is on "backwards" too (the swell at the bottom normally goes the other way).

I certainly wouldn't use a compiler that "screws up" 1% of the time; that's the perfect amount where it's extremely common where everything I use it for will have major issues but also so laborious to find amongst the 99% of correct output that I might as well not use it in the first place.

Which is ironically, the exact case those of us who don't find LLM-assisted coding "worth it" make.

At this point, where everyone is using an LLM to post and I'm having to use an LLM to keep up and summarise it, I think I'll just ...stop and go outside for quite a while...

My BYD Sealion 7 has been an absolute joy.

Why do you care so much? Sounds exhausting...

Cancer Council is an Australian charity which raises funds for cancer research and support.

Buying their products supports them (and you would expect they hold themselves to even higher standards for the effectiveness of their product than a random company).

It likely overrides DNS resolution to CDN/POPs in countries which don't require age checking, or routes the traffic through TCP proxies so your traffic appears to come from a different country without these laws.

This will increase the latency of all traffic to that site though.

AI proponents keep drawing perfectly straight lines from "no AI --> LLMs exist --> LLMs write some adequate code sometimes" up into the horizon of the Y axis where AIs run all governments, write all code, paint all paintings and so on.

There's a large overlap with the crypto true-believers who were convinced after seeing "no blockchain --> blockchain exists" that all laws would be enshrined in the blockchain, all business would be done with blockchains, etc.

We've had automation in the past; it didn't decimate the labour-force; it just changed how people work.

And we didn't go from handwashing clothes --> washing machines --> all flat surfaces are cleaned daily by washing robots...

I made my own really mediocre version of this 2 years ago just for PS4 and Switch ROMS, also using IGDB etc. Glad to see something so polished and professional looking.

For the maintainers, does this pull the metadata (e.g Title ID or PKG ID) from the (supported) ROM files directly, or only from the filename? I skimmed the README and Docs and couldn't find a clear answer.

Couldn't you try implement them in a game engine?

I know you’re being disparaging by using language like “bake into their identity” but everyone is “something” about “something”.

I’m “indifferent” about “roller coasters” and “passionate” about “board games”.

To answer the question (but I’m not OP), I’m skeptical about LLMs. “These words are often near each other” vastly exceeds my expectation at being fairly convincing that the machine “knows” something, but it’s dangerously confident when it’s hilariously incorrect.

Whatever we call the next technological leap where there’s actual knowledge (not just “word statistics” I’ll be less skeptical about.

My country (Australia) in the past month shut down 3G and 2G was shut down in 2017.

The 3G shutdown was ...problematic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJavqEzEIw

In my opinion the difference is that a recent graduate knows to say “I don’t know” to questions they’re not sure on, whereas LLMs will extremely confidently and convincingly lie to your face and tell you dangerous nonsense.

https://6ammc3n5zzf5ljnz.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/inf2...

It’s astounding that 2 sentences generated this. (I used text-to-image and the prompt for a space marine in power armour produced something amazing with no extra tweaks required).

I had 2 (stolen) cars pull up out the front of my house and 6 teenagers swarm my house (whilst several stayed in the cars) in Brisbane, Australia.

I was notified by the motion alarm in my driveway and then my front door and was able to hit the Siren button and scare them off.

Without that, I would have had 6 "armed" intruders inside my house with myself+partner+4 year old.

The camera system prevented the crime being far more serious than it would have been (both cars+valuables stolen and maybe a stabbing or 3).

Are you misunderstanding something? Clothes Railings are "normally" fixed on the ends (to the wall of the cupboard) or from above and can thus, be positioned any distance from the rear wall.

Do an Image Search for "Clothes Railing U Bracket" for example.

Asking a statistics engine for knowledge is so unfathomable to me that it makes me physically uncomfortable. Your hyperbolic and relentless praise for a stochastic parrot or a "sentence written like a choose your own adventure by an RNG" seems unbelievably misplaced.

LLMs (Current-generation and UI/UX ones at least) will tell you all sorts of incorrect "facts" just because "these words go next to each other lots" with a great amount of gusto and implied authority.

Not true Open Source, but One Page Rules is close in spirit with what you're talking about and has a community of people who actually do play it.

A HTTP 500, 502 or 504 error usually.

Steam does this when you're going through the discovery queue and land on page with a "stream" or whatever going. You're about to click Next and then the Stream element loads and shifts the whole page down ~500px and then you click on something else.

It's absolutely infuriating!

Wearing gloves when using most power tools is so unbelievably dangerous.

If your gloves get caught by anything rotating at several thousand RPM, there's a huge chance that the material of the glove will catch on the working edge/face and continue to pull your hand/arms/whole body deeper and deeper.

You also don't have any sense of proprioception or kinesthesia with the glove itself, so it's even easier to accidentally do this, whilst thinking that you're well clear.

A lot of those upper layers and the bureaucracy which is seen as "bloat by the bottom layers comes about from compliance. The compliance burden grows as the business grows (e.g PCI, insurance and government requirements kick in at certain thresholds).

Sure engineering adding a new widget to the site might increase profits by 12%, but all that bureaucracy can prevent the company losing its payment provider or breaching a government regulation which might cause the company to close overnight. So if the stakes are +12% vs -100%, who is actually doing the most important work?

I don't disagree with your desire to work somewhere lean and task-focused, but I think it's almost impossible for that to happen anywhere but small(er) workplaces.