Esophagus4 (u/Esophagus4)

Esophagus4 commented on Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/gfortaine

Esophagus4 · 3 days ago

AWS has theirs as well: https://awslabs.github.io/mcp/servers/aws-documentation-mcp-...

As it turns out these are very helpful for obscure features and settings buried in the documentation.

Esophagus4 commented on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams euractiv.com/news/commiss... · Posted by u/Arathorn

kisamoto · 4 days ago

> EU can’t out innovate US tech

why not?

Okay not today but China was known as the cheap copier and is now the innovator.

Esophagus4 · 4 days ago

Do you really believe that?

If so, I think the onus would be on you to prove it, not me.

Or, more importantly, if you really think the EU will be a tech powerhouse, shouldn’t you be writing checks to their startups left and right?

Because I think that would be the revealed preference here. I’m guessing you’re not heavily invested in EU tech companies, right? Because that would say a lot about your true beliefs.

Esophagus4 commented on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams euractiv.com/news/commiss... · Posted by u/Arathorn

stronglikedan · 4 days ago

> Sadly, the US has done this to ourselves… all this arm twisting and strong-manning is coming home to roost.

No it's not. This is theater to give the impression that they are "getting the orange buffoon". They'll be back in short order, and even if they aren't, it'll just be an insignificant blip on a financial chart somewhere, not even big enough to warrant someone's attention. They did similar things in Trump's first term, and came back groveling.

Esophagus4 · 4 days ago

Maybe, and you might be right. These might be one-off posturing things from the EU.

Sure, a few back office shifts to OpenOffice aren’t a big deal today, but I’m worried about where we are in 10, 20 years. There is no EU tech competition to us today, but who knows… tomorrow is a new day.

Esophagus4 commented on Anthropic AI tool sparks selloff from software to broader market bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/garbawarb

otikik · 4 days ago

I have provided an actual, concrete example of how the security completely backfired with llms - OpenClaw. The reason why I tried to provide something recent is because the usual excuse when providing examples more away in the past is "llms have improved a lot, they don't do that any more".

Yet now I provide an example of a very recent, big, very obvious, very prominent security explosion and now I am "grasping at the latest straw".

Ok man.

Esophagus4 · 4 days ago

I’ll take that as a “no, I haven’t tried it.”

I’m guessing you’re not even aware of what OpenEvidence is, nor are you aware that every doctor you know uses it.

Esophagus4 commented on European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams euractiv.com/news/commiss... · Posted by u/Arathorn

Esophagus4 · 4 days ago

Someone once said to me, be very careful about negotiating with leverage… when you twist someone’s arm, they’ll say, “I’ll remember that. You may have won this one, but I’m gonna win the next one.”

Sadly, the US has done this to ourselves… all this arm twisting and strong-manning is coming home to roost.

It’s not clear that patchwork EU government back offices migrating off Teams will hurt US tech, but long term, in aggregate, this is going to be a headache for American tech.

EU can’t out innovate US tech, but they can make it harder to dominate their markets.

Esophagus4 commented on Child prodigies rarely become elite performers economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/i7l

Esophagus4 · 5 days ago

Fantastic book called Range that talks about this phenomenon. Surprisingly, the child prodigy to adult superstar pipeline is less common than the generalist to adult superstar pipeline.

Tiger Woods is the classic example of a child prodigy, but it turns out his path is unusual for superstars. Roger Federer’s (who played a wide range of sports growing up until he specialized in tennis as a teen) is more common.

https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/review-range

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41795733

Esophagus4 commented on Anthropic AI tool sparks selloff from software to broader market bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/garbawarb

otikik · 5 days ago

No, it is "absolutely right". The chatbots will say they can do it, but they can't. See the Openclaw debacle for a recent example.

Esophagus4 · 5 days ago

Have you tried it? Or are you just grasping at the latest straw you can find?

Esophagus4 commented on Bitcoin Looks Set for Longest Monthly Losing Streak Since 2018 bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

fallingfrog · 7 days ago

Yes this is absolutely true. Difficult to impossible, I would say.. my prediction of "2 to 3 years" could very well be totally wrong.

The dominant narrative around bitcoin right now is "hodl because in the long term it always goes up." Thats the core premise that the bitcoin price is based on. If that premise were to crack, bitcoin could drop to near zero for all we know.

Esophagus4 · 7 days ago

Yeah, exactly.

While I’ve been watching it, it seems like the narrative of value has rotated between:

- BTC will be a global currency (this has only proven true for illicit activity)

- BTC will be a hedge against inflation like gold (this has also not been correct recently)

- BTC is a store of value??? Which is just circular reasoning… you should buy it because other people are buying it

Idk man, what do I know

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b00ty4breakfast · 7 days ago

even when they do something nominally good, they gotta send it through the Propagandaministerium apparatus to glue on all the party-approved buzz words and various other bits and bobs so it reads like your grandma's facebook wall.

Esophagus4 · 7 days ago

My grandmother’s Facebook wall would probably be pretty reasonable if she had one.

She’s actually pretty cogent for 90 years old.

She does watch too much CNN though, winds her up a fair bit. Though at that age, your world tends to shrink so at least it gives her something to do.

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