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What I would like is to be able to add a meta tag to my web app pointing to my mcp server and have this browser load it in automatically whenever I visit

Code Companion for neovim has supported ACP for a while now See https://agentclientprotocol.com/overview/clients

Nothing that anyone ever posts anywhere is completely free from bias. What singles the BBC out as somehow uniquely deserving of scorn? In what way is everything single thing they p…

> I see open debate as part of a healthy society. I value the ability to hear perspectives other than my own. That's what "freedom of speech" means to me I don't think this open de…

> Google was never able to build or buy a social platform to build their walled garden higher. Does buying YouTube not count?

> Want first class tuples/immutable arrays. On this subject specifically, see the records & tuples proposal (currently at stage 2): https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple

Whatever algorithm used though the truth is that qualifications achieved this year are not directly comparable to qualifications achieved in other years due to the lack of exams. W…

> Which can be explained by teachers assessments being too optimistic This can also be explained by teachers assessments being an accurate representation of students ability, but s…

> It's also a bit sad that most English names are gendered. fwiw the name George in English can be applied to women as well as men (though only rarely I guess). See for example Fam…

> Name one retailer that lets you hock your product in their store without paying anything? This is a bad take. Hey is a subscription service. If you buy a magazine from a newsagen…

1 times faster means "the same speed as". 100% faster means "twice as fast". Though of course nobody would say 1 times faster in reality.

The prices are listed on this page[1]. Looks pretty expensive to me. [1] https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/licensing...

> Football hooliganism was well on the way to being solved by the early 90s I'm not old enough to remember football hooliganism in the 80s and before, but abroad at least, it was v…

> Bear in mind neither MPs or electorate got to choose him to lead the Tory party It's worth pointing out that Tory MPs absolutely voted for him before Tory party members got the c…

I think it's worth pointing out here that the terms Gen Y and Millenial both refer to the same generation (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials )

I don't think it's fair to say that preserving page structure and formatting is never a good idea. For example, at least one good use for PDFs is sheet music/tabs. Formatting is ob…

> Business logic has no place in your view components, of course, but is quite appropriate in your controller components. Sure. Where you actually put stuff depends entirely on the…

The problem with putting all async code directly into components is that often, async code is business logic or some other non-view-layer thing that doesn't really belong in a comp…

> Notice how a real person’s arm doesn’t reach the handle quite as easily as the stick figure in the diagram Not that these doors aren't terrible design (they are), but notice how …

Schools exist for the same reason that farms and factories exist: it's a lot more efficient having specialised workers (in this case teachers) who can do the job far more effective…

I don't see why? You can of course create as many horizontal/vertical splits inside each tab as you like.

If you like tabs, you can just use tabs inside vim instead of buffers

So we're both agreed then that the goal isn't to "use less code"? I get your point though, so I'll rephrase: > The goal should be to try harder to use less code Why is this the goa…

> The goal should be to try harder to use less code The goal is to deliver content and experiences that people actually want, it has nothing to do with the amount of code at all. A…

> This leads to women generally having a harder time negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and leading. That is, he's saying explicitly that women find leadership rol…