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New comment by binarymax in "I want to live like Costco people"

binarymax — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:35:27 +0000

My favorite Costco story is when it opened up in my town, we joined. We were there one day and bumped into some very good friends of the family there (since passed sadly).

They were talking about how they were admiring all the services offered to members, and said they considered buying a cruise vacation package, but then immediately realized “we’d just be on the ship with people from Costco”

New comment by binarymax in "Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years"

binarymax — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:01:42 +0000

We have a cherry blossom tree. It bloomed a week earlier than last year. We’re not in Kyoto but I did notice and it’s a bit strange. I also noticed some other blossoming trees that typically bloom for about a week, went green after 3 days.

New comment by binarymax in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

binarymax — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:24:58 +0000

Nonsense bills get introduced all the time. I’m not saying this shouldn’t be taken seriously, but this eventually getting codified is a long shot.

There are so many issues with how this can work in practice. Best case it just asks how old you are like a website that shows mature content, and the user lies. So from a liability perspective that shifts it to the user who gave false information. Beyond that there’s no practical way to actually verify someone’s age at the OS level.

New comment by binarymax in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

binarymax — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:59:31 +0000

In a multiline text box, enter should NOT submit the form. Chat interfaces violate this rule and it results in lots of premature chat submissions.

New comment by binarymax in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

binarymax — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:59:54 +0000

Codex switched to paid API tokens only. Not to mention their alignment with the department of war.

New comment by binarymax in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

binarymax — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:28:27 +0000

Why do you think the author of this piece, to who you originally replied, has any control over this?

New comment by binarymax in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

binarymax — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:24:00 +0000

Yeah of course. He has nothing to do with Microsoft operations or strategy. But does he still use the products?

New comment by binarymax in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

binarymax — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:21:04 +0000

Given how bad windows has become since windows 7, I’ve been wondering. Does Bill Gates still use Windows? Does he put up with the horribleness?

New comment by binarymax in "AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers"

binarymax — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:21:45 +0000

No. Aside from just making an algorithm that didn’t even run, it refused to use an MCP that it had registered in the same context session.

New comment by binarymax in "AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers"

binarymax — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:46:25 +0000

It’s wrong. It made large mistakes on my code literally yesterday.

New comment by binarymax in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

binarymax — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:52:37 +0000

Making a whole movie just to retcon the parsec misuse in Ep IV was a choice

New comment by binarymax in "HyperAgents: Self-referential self-improving agents"

binarymax — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:32:18 +0000

I disagree that evaluation is always a coding task. Evaluation is scrutiny for the person who wants the thing. It’s subjective. So, unless you’re evaluating something purely objective, such as an algorithm, I don’t see how a self contained, self “improving “ agent accomplishes the subjectivity constraint - as by design you are leaving out the subject.

New comment by binarymax in "Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights"

binarymax — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:50:14 +0000

I want to echo the top comment in that post. Apple removing the headphone jack from iPhones was absolutely criminal.

New comment by binarymax in ""

binarymax — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:46:23 +0000

Discovery, Activation, Execution as per the linked doc

New comment by binarymax in "Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP"

binarymax — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:43:04 +0000

Why not use skills? They follow a three-tier loading approach, and you can stick an MCP as part of the toolset for the skills, so it will only load it when the skill is selected.

See the progressive disclosure section in the skills docs: https://agentskills.io/what-are-skills

New comment by binarymax in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

binarymax — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:50:45 +0000

IIRC you can tell Spotify to never play a certain track, but I think only as part of a playlist…and it’s buried in hidden options.

New comment by binarymax in "Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability"

binarymax — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:42:54 +0000

An odd take on a regime that has known and significant human rights violations. I’m not saying the US is doing great right now, but China is not something to look up to.

New comment by binarymax in "I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites"

binarymax — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:19:59 +0000

Dude there’s only three graphs in there. Do they really bother you that much? The third may be a bit unnecessary but I think the visuals add to the post.

New comment by binarymax in "Cloudflare Crawl Endpoint"

binarymax — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:11:08 +0000

Based on the post, it seems likely that they'd just delay per the robots.txt policy no matter what, and do a full browser render of the cached page to get the content. Probably overkill for lots and lots of sites. An HTML fetch + readability is really cheap.

New comment by binarymax in "Cloudflare crawl endpoint"

binarymax — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:08:49 +0000

Really hard to understand costs here. What is a reasonable pages per second? Should I assume with politeness that I'm basically at 1 page per second == 3600 pages/hour? Seems painfully slow.