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> What if you just... removed the AI part? Maybe I'm not fully understanding the approach, but it seems like if you started relying on third-party MCP servers without the AI layer …

The state already puts a lot of resources into improving road safety, and that's one of the primary goals of the DMV, DOT, etc. There's reason to believe that driverless cars will …

Interestingly, the ChatGPT Plugin docs [1] say that POST operations like these are required to implement user confirmation, so you might blame the plugin implementation (or OpenAI'…

This article argues that there's no reliable way to detect prompt injection: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/17/prompt-injection-more-... One solution to some indirect prompt in…

Agreed that if you focus on any specific task, there's a safe way to do it, but the challenge is to handle arbitrary natural language requests from the user. That's what the Privil…

Giving different permissions levels to different email senders would be very challenging to implement reliably with LLMs. With an AI assistant like this, the typical implementation…

It looks to me like the profile viewer is actually speedscope ( https://www.speedscope.app/ ). I find it nicer for exploring profiles compared with Chrome's built-in viewer. To use…

Like any transpiler, Sucrase can be run in parallel by having the build system send different files to different threads/processes. Sucrase itself it more of a primitive, just a pl…

Hi, Sucrase author here. To be clear, the benchmark in the README does not allow JIT warm-up. The Sucrase numbers would be better if it did. From testing just now (add `warmUp: tru…

itertools.groupby isn't really the groupBy operation that people would normally expect. It looks like it would do a SQL-style "group by" where it categorizes elements across the co…

The big difference, I think, is that dx87's post encourages the reader to make fewer assumptions and to keep an open mind ("While we don't know the details, it's entirely possible.…

FWIW I find that TypeScript types can sometimes be overwhelming or hard to decipher, especially some third-party library type definitions. The connect function from react-redux is …

Great project, really expands what feels possible with the new improvements in TS 4.1. I wonder if this strategy could also be used to have strongly-typed GraphQL queries without t…

I use gitk pretty often and really like the fact that it acts like a modal, showing a richer UI visualization based on a shell command I run, and when I close it, I'm back to the c…

> the downside of functional testing is that it's slower This is certainly true in some situations, but not all, and I think it's important to make decisions based on the tech stac…

> We usually work on challenging problems At least for me (as someone who's more often answering the questions at my company), this varies quite a bit. Certainly sometimes there's …

In case others are also confused by: > The first screen is a long scroll of 20 elegant looking blocks and titles none of which mean anything on their own. The page behaves differen…

Certainly many of them do, but there are also plenty of people who want to focus on investments that also have a positive impact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socially_responsible…

Hi, Sucrase author here. I'm also having a hard time understanding the rationale here, but it looks like it's maybe a nuance around self-hosting. In general, for any regular TS pro…

I solved this using the ts-interface-builder and ts-interface-checker libraries and have been happy with the result. You write a plain TS type (rather than a custom syntax like io-…

It was an attempt at standardizing a browser setting to opt out of tracking, but it was ultimately unsuccessful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

Got it. So I understand, maybe someone saved a filename as the latin-1 encoding of some non-ASCII text, and Mercurial would need to support such files (but also would have no conte…

It's interesting that they wanted to add b' prefixes to all strings, and I wonder if they would have had a better experience by embracing regular strings instead. At least in Pytho…