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BLanen commented on MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code   lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/8/1... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko
BLanen · 10 days ago
What this is saying is again, that MCP is not a protocol. Which is the point of MCP, making it essentially worthless because it doesn't define actual behavioral rules, it can only describe existing rules informally.

This is because defining a formal system, that can do everything MCP promises to enable, is a logical impossibility.

BLanen commented on MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems   julsimon.medium.com/why-m... · Posted by u/yodon
BLanen · 19 days ago
As I've been saying.

MCP is not a protocol. It doesn't protocolize anything of use. It's just "here's some symbols, do with them whatever you want.", leaving it there but then advertising that as a feature of its universality. It provides almost just as much of a protocol as TCP, but rebuild on 5 OSI layers, again.

It's not a security issue, it's a ontological issue.

BLanen commented on MCP is eating the world   stainless.com/blog/mcp-is... · Posted by u/emschwartz
BLanen · 2 months ago
It's literally just a mediocre api spec.

With creating 0 added value you can wrap your normal http+json "rest" api so it's mcp.

BLanen commented on Gaussian integration is cool   rohangautam.github.io/blo... · Posted by u/beansbeansbeans
algorithmsRcool · 3 months ago
Did anyone else's antivirus complain about an exploit on this page?

---EDIT---

I'm about 98% sure this blog has a browser hijack embedded in it targeted at windows+MSEDGE browsers that attempted to launch a malicious powershell script to covertly screen record the target machine

BLanen · 3 months ago
You should not be using antivirus browser plugins anyway.
BLanen commented on Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run   blog.atuin.sh/atuin-deskt... · Posted by u/freetonik
joh6nn · 4 months ago
My experience with runbooks has been:

- I am on a team that oversees a bunch of stuff, some of which I am very hands-on with and comfortable with, and some of which I am vaguely aware exists, but rarely touch

- X, a member of the latter category, breaks

- Everyone who actually knows about X is on vacation/dead/in a meeting

- Fortunately, there is a document that explains what to do in this situation

- It is somehow both obsolete and wrong, a true miracle of bad info

So that is the problem this is trying to solve.

Having discussed this with the creator some[1], the intent here (as I understand it) is to build something like a cross between Jupyter Notebooks and Ansible Tower: documentation, scripts, and metrics that all live next to each other in a way that makes it easier to know what's wrong, how to fix it, and if the fix worked

[1]Disclosure: I help mod the atuin Discord

BLanen · 4 months ago
If the fix/solution would be easily describable and automate-able, it wouldn't/shouldn't be a problem anyway. I don't see how this solves anything.
BLanen commented on Why is the world losing color?   culture-critic.com/p/why-... · Posted by u/trevin
crazygringo · 5 months ago
It's not "losing" color.

At periods when technology resulted in new color possibilities, people went overboard with color. Make all the things colorful!! Think of the technicolor sixties. And we can go back in history and see the same thing with new clothing pigments, new paint pigments.

But when everything is colorful, nothing stands out. Everything being colorful is as monotonous as everything being, well, monotone.

Modern taste is more about more neutral-colored foundations with color accents. Don't paint a whole room green -- have a gorgeous green plant that stands out all the more against its neutral background. Don't paint a whole wall orange -- have a beautiful orange-hued piece of art on the wall. It's just more tasteful to use color as one element, along with size, shape, texture, and so forth. Making it the main element in everything is just overdoing it. It's bad design.

I don't want constant "riotous color", as the article puts it, in my home, or my workplace, or while I'm driving. It's visually exhausting.

BLanen · 5 months ago
> But when everything is colorful, nothing stands out. Everything being colorful is as monotonous as everything being, well, monotone.

This is meaningless.

"When many things are different, everything is the same".

Its a sentence that seems meaningful, but actually is not. It's just abstraction without generalizing.

"000000000000000000000000000" is a sequence just as something as "H90F3iJsjo$(4Opla1zSKX@)!2k" because in the second sequence they're different and in the first they're all the same? Great, you just discovered sets and the axiom of choice.

We are literally discussing the difference within the sets! Obviously the second sequence is more diverse.

First, I thought your argument was going somewhere but then it took this turn.

I would agree with the first part and then argue that before the synthetics-revolution things were mostly just shades of browns(which is a type of dark unsaturated orange). Except for the upper classes who could afford the expensive colors. Now that color is cheap and normalized, it lost (some) of its allure. Not being able to signal your wealth anymore.

Now adding just a conjecture of mine; Now that 'clean' is still somewhat more expensive(upper classes still being able to afford more cleanliness by using other peoples labor), minimal textures(not literal textures but design-wise) are more attractive because it displays your wealth. Plain-white being the easiest to see blemishes on. With black being easier look unblemished. Also, 'tasteful' color arrangements will still signal your class somewhat due to requiring cultural knowledge.

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BLanen commented on The Tesla Files Unveil More Accounting Fraud Than Imagined   bradmunchen.substack.com/... · Posted by u/Jaauthor
csomar · a year ago
The author talks about some bearish points but all points he presents are far from the $650 market cap that Tesla is boasting. A billion here and a billion there does not take a "practically" broke company to a trillion dollar valuation.

There is more at play here. I think it's mania and a strong case of the market can remain irrational longer than the short can remain solvent. Tesla, at the current fundamentals, is worth much less than $650Bn. How is that possible and how one takes a company with y value to 10.y is still not yet answered.

Maybe Elon Musk is not a fool after all. He did buy Twitter at a big mark up. But if momentum drove his market cap and he can capitalize on that through the stock market then buying Twitter does make sense: It's backed by Tesla stock but the Tesla stock itself is backed by Twitter.

BLanen · a year ago
Maybe if you read the report you would've have seen the >10% fraudulent sales?
BLanen commented on Sales happen when buyers fear missing out   tidyfirst.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/etrvic
BLanen · a year ago
This is a bad article only meant to market the book. Almost 0 information in this, actually impressive.
BLanen commented on MIT students stole $25M in seconds by exploiting ETH blockchain bug, DOJ says   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/em3rgent0rdr
democracy · a year ago
Wow, what happened to the "screw the government" position? As soon as there is a problem with "free money", its adepts run to the police for help ))))) It's hilarious, frankly. tbh after ETH modified their "unmutable" blockchain in DAO attack, they are just full of BS "innovators" and "investors".
BLanen · a year ago
> Wow, what happened to the "screw the government" position?

It was always just a meme.

John Perry Barlow was deeply, deeply, wrong.

u/BLanen

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