By way of analogy, if there was an article saying "I bought a 1Tb drive and it only came with 0.91 terabits", I think if you started explaining that technically the problem is the confusion between SI vs binary units and the title should really be "I bought a 0.91 terabit drive and was disappointed it didn't have more capacity", technically you'd be right, but people would rightfully eyeroll at you.

There's your answer. If you want to use local tools, use Skills. If you want to use services, use MCP. Or, you know, whatever works best for your scenario.

The main difference is I initially only needed a mechanism to check if my "Manually-Installed or Source -Compiled" (MISC) packages have updates, but now it also supports install/upgrading too.

In other words, things I am forced to do by hand outside of a package manager, I now only do by hand once, save it as an 'install' script, and then incorporate it into this system for future use and to check for updates. Pretty happy with it.

  target:
      llm command "Install X for me."

/s

I'll start:

  Linux             : trash-empty 
  windows equivalent: format C:

  Linux             : sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
  Windows equivalent: shutdown /r

Just because one falls in the "Cha bu duo" camp and (potentially) looks down on the "Kaizen" types doesn't mean the two products are equivalent.

That also doesn't mean that slop / cha bu duo / made in china products are bad, mind you. They have their place, and occasionally a Kaizen approach would be detrimental to getting "something" done quick and dirty that will likely work ok anyway. The danger is in believing that just because they're "ok" this means they are equivalent (or at least largely overlap) with the more refined products, which is demonstrably false and can be a dangerous attitude to have.

There, FTFY :D

"You know what ... screw this."

It's how Prime Ministers and Project Managers prefer to abbreviate it. Especially in the afternoon (Post Meridiem). Particularly Meaningful if it relates to Project Management or Post Mortems.

on the other, I really, really loved my original jolla phone back in the day. I happily used it as my daily driver and only phone for 2 years. Until it had a hardware fault which I could no longer repair via the company.

Given that both pypy (through RPython) and mypy deal with static type checks in some sense, I kept confusing the two projects until recently.

Also, I just learnt (from another comment in this post) about mypyc [1], which seems to complete the circle somehow in my mind.

  [0] https://www.mypy-lang.org/
  [1] https://github.com/mypyc/mypyc

> It turns out it's X!

Counterargument:

> Ah, but here's the thing! Actually, it turns out it isn't X!

Everything is well with the world again.

Better yet. Make a cartoon / infographic / meme of someone 'superior' explaining to someone 'inferior' that X is true. Extra points if the 'inferior' person does something unrelatedly obnoxious or stupid in the panel. Seems to me this is the strongest form of argument used for anything these days.

The only way to counter that form of argument is to make your own cartoon / infographic / meme. Nothing else even gets close (it turns out).