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> The new models are quite smart, so suffocating their context with dozens of MCPs and skills isn’t necessary like it used to be. Genuinely curious, how MCPs can suffocate the cont…

> Then use a sort of "reverse" parliamentary trick: the default is that this legislation is accepted. They needed an absolute majority - not of voting members, but of all members -…

> Games are no longer about having fun, they're about how much money or activity can I extract from the player (yes, even the indie experience is tainted: buy off Steam and 30% of …

> It upsets me I never got to live the "glory days" of cars, technology, outdoor activities, music, entertainment, etc. I’m getting closer to 40, but I sometimes feel the same. Lik…

Idk, I actually got the opposite impression. Most of the info is just what I would expect everyone to see: date formats, languages, various webview kind of stuff, network info. Thi…

You are right, but I think you miss the whole point of the agentic workflows that are being discussed in this post comments. Yes, you surely can read man, docs, whatever, then DIY.…

Just speculating and thinking out loud. I think this might be a good news for AI-skeptics. Going with IPO means that investors finally want to get some cash that they cannot get by…

Idk, with the One they already seem to try to claim too many things for a single device. Adding a keyboard and a bigger screen will be even bigger scope creep. As a Zero user, I re…

The job market all over the world is ultimately changing. Wars, AI, energy crisis, etc. — it’s a combination of factors. Yet, the article is too shallow, so it doesn’t clarify much…

I’m also confused by their examples. All of them seem to be perfect renders/exports from 3D models — this is not the use case where I see it the most useful. Making a parametrized …

I think this is true under assumption that you know the CAD tool well. From my recent experience (I have a 3D printer), I regularly find myself in a situation where I know what I w…

Does it require core patches or I can install it into the standard upstream Postgres? Asking because, afaik, it did, but it might that something has changed already.

Interesting point of view, didn't know about Jevon's paradox before. To me, the outcome still depends on whether AI can get superhuman [1] (and beyond) at some point. If it can, th…

I'd totally agree with this point if we assume that efficiency/performance growth will flatten at some point. For example, if it gets logarithmic soon, then the progress will grow …

Love it. I do very occasional birdwatching, so I still don’t know most of the birds I meet. What I like about Bird ID is that when I see in binoculars a singing bird I can quickly …

The title and overall ‘take’ are very broad, it starts with > It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop. But then it falls mostly into multiplayer games.…

I was wondering how cartridges are designed and I think it’s a very simple and elegant design — just wire the standard microSD card. Otherwise, I love such cozy projects. Even if t…

I can only second this. I have an old iPhone with a second sim-card, because I need it from time to time. And Apple introduced this auto-reboot a bit earlier, iirc last year. The p…

> Parameterized queries. Also happy to be wrong, but in Postges clients, parametrized queries are usually implemented via prepared statements, which do not work with DDL on the pro…

I got mine at the end of 2021 and then used it till the mid-2023. I know that it’s not a fair comparison, but I still compare it to macbooks because I’m a mac user for years. Pros …

I hear it all the time ‘coding interviews are useless’, ‘peer review in scientific journals is broken’ and so on and so on. I’d say yes and no. Yes, these are the problems that can…

I use PiHole, it does break some stuff here and there, and sometimes useful things like Private Relay or iCloud in iOS; or once YouTube history stopped working for me (apparently t…

That's where the separation of storage and compute kicks in, I guess. Startup process of our Postgres instance (compute node) is a bit different from vanilla Postgres. We need to g…

> c) Heard the cold start is a second (IIRC), how does that value differ if one runs Neon on bare metal instead of k8s? Yeah, as Nikita mentioned it's 2 seconds now. We did some te…

We do scale compute part down to zero after 5 mins of inactivity now (no active transactions). This 5 mins threshold is a random pick, it could be 1 min or 30 mins later, or even c…