This is top of mind because I recently read Breakneck by Dan Wang. He makes the case that this practice of rebuilding the shrine preserves knowledge that would otherwise have been lost to time. Wang contrasts Ise Shrine with Notre Dame, where rebuilding the roof is apparently quite difficult, perhaps in part due to the loss of knowledge. I'm not familiar enough with either structure to judge whether this is a fair comparison, but I like the principle.

(Edit to add: This is only a minor analogy from the book, which I highly recommend overall.)

> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

US VPN works, though.

edit: Seems to be resolved.

You can get a taste of this already.

While they still call it a prototype/beta, Sentry's MCP server [0] is a model for others to follow when it comes to convenience and usefulness.

Remote-first with OAuth. The biggest hurdle to using it as-is at the moment, is that most clients don't natively support OAuth yet, so often you'll rely on a local proxy server, like mcp-remote [1], to handle auth. Clients will catch up.

[0] https://mcp.sentry.dev/

[1] https://github.com/geelen/mcp-remote

I mean, sure, these characters could be used to help estimate the likelihood text was generated (because human writers might be less likely to add proper non-breaking spaces), but I doubt these are watermarks.

MacWhisper [0] (the app I settled on) is conspicuously missing from your benchmarks [1]. How does it compare?

[0]: https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper

[1]: https://withaqua.com/blog/benchmark-nov-2024

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> Filtering with vector search may be harder than you expect.

I've only ever used it for a small proof of concept, but Qdrant is great at categorical filtering with HNSW.

https://qdrant.tech/articles/filtrable-hnsw/

Elsa Bleda https://www.collater.al/en/elsa-bleda-photography/

But does it float used to feature generative art sometimes https://butdoesitfloat.com/

Recent versions allow trivial RCE. [1]

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Does it really change anything?

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I understand you meant no harm.

The remaining inequality (especially along racial lines), government corruption, and violent crime are terrible problems, yes, but pale in comparison to the dehumanising codified violence of Apartheid.

Are you seriously proposing that a two-state solution would have served the people of South Africa as a whole better in the long run? I think the resultant inequality would have been far worse. Do you have another proposal?

(Edit to point out that I'm not implying that what worked for South Africa can or can't work for Israel. This comment is about South Africa.)

(As an aside) I know this community prefers not to focus on weak arguments and avoid flame wars (no pun intended), but I have to point out blatant fear mongering:

> where people install flamethrowers on their cars because violent carjackings are so common

I wouldn't repeat this as fact. The device referenced was a short-lived gimmick from 1998, four years after South Africa's first democratic election. It is in no way a reflection of reality.

Yes, carjackings are a problem in South Africa, but repeating the flamethrower story reads like FUD.