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orra commented on MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/8/1... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko

stanleydrew · 11 days ago

Technically it's not really much different from just giving the LLM an OpenAPI spec.

The actual thing that's different is that an OpenAPI spec is meant to be an exhaustive list of every endpoint and every parameter you could ever use. Whereas an MCP server, as a proxy to an API, tends to offer a curated set of tools and might even compose multiple API calls into a single tool.

orra · 11 days ago

It's a farce, though. We're told these LLMs can already perform our jobs, so why should they need something curated? A human developer often gets given a dump of information (or nothing at all), and has to figure out what works and what is important.

orra commented on PYX: The next step in Python packaging astral.sh/blog/introducin... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko

yoavm · 16 days ago

I actually think this is great. If Astral can figure out a way to make money using a private registry (something that is used mainly by companies), then they'll have to resources to keep building their amazing open-source projects — Ruff and uv. That's a huge win for Python.

orra · 16 days ago

In particular I think it's nice for uv and ruff to remain open source, not open core. And as you say, companies always need paid private registries, for their internal software. A true win-win.

orra commented on PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again servethehome.com/pcie-8-0... · Posted by u/rbanffy

linotype · 16 days ago

800 watt CPU with a 600 watt GPU, I mean at a certain point people are going to need different wiring for outlets right?

orra · 16 days ago

Laughs in 230V (sorry).

orra commented on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England news.sky.com/story/facial... · Posted by u/amarcheschi

elric · 16 days ago

They've been doing this for years at protests, using "Forward Intelligence Teams". Even back in 2010 [1] there was an action group trying to protest this growing police-state (Fitwatch). The UK has had an insane number of CCTV cameras for as long as I can remember.

Must be a truly dangerous place...

https://web.archive.org/web/20100824175032/http://fitwatch.o...

orra · 16 days ago

> Must be a truly dangerous place...

I don't know if you're awaee, but the number of arrests for terrorism has skyrocketed in recent months, in the UK.

Sounds terrifying, until you realise people were arrested as terrorists for holding placards. (That fact is of course terrifying, but in a chilling way).

orra commented on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context anthropic.com/news/1m-con... · Posted by u/adocomplete

GenerocUsername · 17 days ago

Your first week of AI usage should be crawling your codebase and generating context.md docs that can then be fed back into future prompts so that AI understands your project space, packages, apis, and code philosophy.

I guarantee your internal tools are not revolutionary, they are just unrepresented in the ML model out of the box

orra · 17 days ago

That sounds incredibly boring.

Is it effective? If so I'm sure we'll see models to generate those context.md files.

orra commented on 36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens academic.oup.com/mnras/ar... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

qualeed · 18 days ago

PBS Spacetime had an episode somewhat recently about a black hole which is growing at many (hundreds? thousands? I forget) times the Eddington Limit. And, as far as I remember, it isn't the only one to exceed the Eddington Limit - just the one with the record for how much it exceeded it.

I'll try to dig it up when I'm not at work (or if I remember the exact episode through the day).

orra · 18 days ago

I remember this episode too. The answer is four thousand times bigger than the Eddington Limit. Blimey!

The episode is called “The NEW Ultimate Energy Limit of the Universe”. https://youtube.com/watch?v=0rzgYzbzq5Q

orra commented on Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce openai.com/index/providin... · Posted by u/gmays

orra · 23 days ago

Surprisingly little comment about the anticompetitive nature of selling this service for a dollar. Not even a dollar per employee, a dollar in total.

That is WAY below cost. It's anticompetitive, and a bait and switch will happen down the line.

orra commented on Open models by OpenAI openai.com/open-models/... · Posted by u/lackoftactics

spongebobstoes · 23 days ago

I understand. but why this is bad? is there some analysis of the beginning and end locations of the water, and how the utility differs between those locations?

orra · 23 days ago

Water is expensive to move (except by pipes), and expensive to purify from salt water. This is why regional droughts are a bad thing.

Fresh clean water in your area is a wonderful thing.

orra commented on If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) joshworth.com/dev/pixelsp... · Posted by u/sdoering

morsch · 2 months ago

Carrying the metaphor further, that's closer than America was to Europe in the 18th century.

orra · 2 months ago

That's an interesting perspective.

Tangentially, I've long wondered about sci fi like Star Trek. Namely, even with FTL, how large can your interplanetary alliance be? How far away can the parliament be? Over what distances can you defend against common enemies? Trade? Culturally exchange ideas?

orra commented on OpenAI o3-pro help.openai.com/en/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

moomin · 3 months ago

I know they have a deep relationship with Microsoft, but perhaps they shouldn’t have used Microsoft’s product naming department.

orra · 3 months ago

Zune .NET O3... shudders

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KarmaCake day2701November 16, 2011View Original