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Interesting how Venezuela has more oil than Saudi Arabia but is not able to capitalize on it due to systemic issues
What was your prompt to get it to run the test suite and heal tests at every step? I didn’t see that mentioned in your write up. Also, any specific reason you went with Codex over Claude Code?
MCPs feel complicated. Skills seem to me like the simplest possible design for a mechanism for adding extra capabilities to an existing coding agent.
Can skills completely replace MCPs? For example, can a skill be configured to launch my local Python program in its own venv. I don’t want Claude to spend time spinning up a runtime
On the contrary, I thought Gemini 3 Live mode is much much better than ChatGPT. The voices have none of the annoying artificial uptalking intonations that ChatGPT has, and the simplex/duplex interruptibility of Gemini Live seems more responsive. It knows when to break and pause during conversations.
Apart from sounding a bit stiff and informal, I was also surprised at how good Gemini Live mode is in regional Indian languages.
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The biggest issue with Windows 11 for me is the noticeable performance lag in basic apps like Notepad and File Explorer. Simple tasks, like opening files or navigating folders, feel sluggish, and I can visibly see windows rendering in slow motion. I’ve heard this might be due to Windows 11’s UI elements being redrawn over lower level UI. I’m considering switching to Linux as my daily driver.
Author here: the beauty of DuckDB spatial is that the projections and CRS options are hidden until you need them. For 90% of geospatial data usage people don't and shouldn't need to know about projections or CRS.
Yes, there are so many great tools to handle the complexity for the capital-G Geospatial work.
I love Felt too! Sam and team have built a great platform. But lots of times a map isn't needed; an analyst just needs it as a column.
PostGIS is also excellent! But having to start up a database server to work with data doesn't lend itself to casual usage.
The beauty of DuckDB is that it's there in a moment and in reach for data generalists.
Last I checked DuckDB spatial didn’t support handling projections. It couldn’t load the CRS from a .prj file. This makes it useless for serious geospatial stuff.