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This is the kind of thing where everyone just talks past each other because "coding" can refer to a ton of different things. I think we've all had the experience of having to write…

In my own CLAUDE.md files, I tell it to liberally use the `gh` CLI to search for issues and error messages across the entire GitHub code index. It's insanely effective, but it feel…

Ya they're getting boned

Letting the harness inject the credentials implies not exposing them to the LLM. Besides, the current state of MCP authentication almost always involves just hard coding secrets in…

The one introduced by Gregory. I'm not sure if countries that reformed later cared enough to use a different name, but the Gregorian calendar is pretty well defined.

I guarantee you any LLM will be perfectly capable of navigating HTTP auth [1] which has been around since 1999. You could use `curl`, or you could bake an HTTP client tool into the…

The read-only QUERY method can send much bigger requests than GET. For delayed answers, MCP offers no improvement, because remote MCP servers use an HTTP transport anyway, and loca…

Yep. There's already a well-established system of `.well-known` URL paths to support things like API spec discover, auth discovery, etc. Why re-invent those wheels?

When I say REST, I basically mean HTTP/JSON. I know. Shame on me. But there's a pretty large body of RFCs that define what makes a good REST API. For instance POST should create th…

See my point #2. There are already standards to describe APIs. This is easy to see when you think in terms of a developer. The natural way to adapt an existing REST API into an MCP…

Are you trying to say that REST APIs don't have a strict wire format with shared semantics for a huge range of features?

MCP is basically just: 1. a REST-like API 2. with a spec (OpenAPI, introspection, etc.) 3. with harness-level authz (the ability to allow / deny specific methods in the harness) Th…

It's kinda hard to have a truly informed conversation about the scam industry since it's so secretive, but many of the scammers in Myanmar are actually incredibly big businesses th…

"normal applications", no. But there are more platforms besides databases, e.g. programming languages. Any platform that works with dates will have to deal with these weird quirks.…

> Those 10 days certainly exist, in both calendar systems. Not in the standard Gregorian calendar. Those dates only exist in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. The standard Gregoria…

Most applications don't have to worry about it, but platforms do. The SQL standard requires accurate date representation for years 0000-9999. I was surprised to learn about the Gre…

Considering it only diverges from the standard Gregorian for dates more than 400 years ago, it's not super relevant. Most people don't think about it. But it made a lot of sense to…

GitHub

Destruction is not necessary. Google Books is a solid precedent. You can keep the content, you just can't make significant parts publicly available

Aaron Schwartz was re-publishing the journals, which is the core concern or copyright and indeed where the word "copyright" comes from. Anthropic could get in a lot more trouble if…

I think the expansion of terms over time is a bit damning, but originally the term was very pro-public-domain (sometimes as low as 7 years): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o…

They're attitude is more "this is fair use" which, according to all precedent, is probably true in most cases (unless the models actually start regurgitating huge parts of the Copy…

If most books never recoup the advance in sales, then isn't this a better deal for most authors? It sounds like a guaranteed floor which might be very low but is nonetheless higher…

Elon likes his companies financially intertwined. He convinced the Tesla board to invest in xAI to help get it off the ground, which converted to SpaceX stock after the merger, so …

That's what people said about operating systems, and databases, and compilers, and so many other big complicated categories of software that over time became increasingly dominated…