What's updog?
Ah, you have fallen for it:
Readit Newshughdbrown commented on Scripts I wrote that I use all the time evanhahn.com/scripts-i-wr... · Posted by u/speckx
This is really interesting, but I need the highlights reel. So I need a script to summarize Hacker News pages and/or arbitrary web pages. Maybe that's what I want for getting the juice out of Medium articles.
hughdbrown commented on Tel HN: GitHub account locked just after launching my startup. Any help? · Posted by u/pingoo-io
Knowing the author of Pingoo I wonder if he may have used anything that may have made GitHub red flag his account.
Your knowledge of the author of Pingoo makes you more likely to believe that he may have erred? This explanation gains strength for you given your knowledge of his character and personality and professional practices?
I’m from south Jersey and have never heard of this “ruckers”. Is it near Ouaisné?
I was about to call fake on this -- Americans from south Jersey are largely unfamiliar with the present perfect and would not say "[I] have never heard of" but "[I] never heard of" instead.
But it turns out this grammatical cue is an effective way to discover that the comment is not about an American south Jersey but a British one.
I once saw racoon prints descend from the rafters in a barn, complete with little muddy handprints on the doorknob into the feedroom, like some sorta sylvan-bandit tom cruise.
When food is on the line, animals can figure all sorts of things out.
'Racoon', variant of 'raccoon'.
Of course, I prefer the double-c variant because of the orthographic anomaly of the person who tends to the raccoons' area at the zoo, the raccoon-nook-keeper.
I forgot for a moment what website I was on and expected the link to be about the board game Root and getting your friends to play it with you.
I thought it was a peevish Kiwi joke about how people of other nations do not use words as they do.
You don't need MCP you just need function calling
Yeah, but there is a distinct advantage to using a standard.
Suppose you want your agent to use postgres or git or even file modification. You write your code to use MCP and your backend is already available. It's code you don't have to write.
hughdbrown commented on Harvard Law paid $27 for a copy of Magna Carta. It's an original nytimes.com/2025/05/15/wo... · Posted by u/jgwil2
It's not an original so much as an official copy. The copies, dated 1300, were created 85 years after the signing of the original Magna Carta in 1215.
Although I suppose the argument is that if you re-affirm the same text several times, that each one is legitimate.
>First issued in 1215, it put into writing a set of concessions won by rebellious barons from a recalcitrant King John of England — or Bad King John, as he became known in folklore.
>He later revoked the charter, but his son, Henry III, issued amended versions, the last one in 1225, and Henry’s son, Edward I, in turn confirmed the 1225 version in 1297 and again in 1300.
But still, it would be weird to say that a copy of the Constitution produced during the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln and re-affirmed by the govt was "an original" even if it otherwise had pedigree.
Came here to understand exactly this point. It made no sense to me that a document created in 1215 would have a copy made in 1300 that was referred to as an original.
hughdbrown commented on Tariff: A Python package that imposes tariffs on Python imports pypi.org/project/tariff/... · Posted by u/khaledh
Because those packages are cheating us.
The recent cold snap in the Yukon had smaller tanks useless just past -35c, and bigger ones not doing much past -40c.
We don’t take it on winter adventures for that reason.
Propane does not freeze anywhere near -60C. Wikipedia [1] says it freezes (liquid to solid) below -187C and boils (liquid to gas) above -42C.
Propane is probably unusable as a fuel below -42C because there is no vapor leaving the tank [not within my experience]. That is different from the propane being a solid.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propane Melting point −187.7 °C Boiling point −42.25 to −42.04 °C