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I personally wouldn’t blame MCP, it’s just a protocol. My theory is the feature was vibe coded in the vulnerable tools and nobody thought about it much.

GPT Researcher is a research agent, just one of many AI tools.

I think the idea is that these tools let users configure mcp servers, and because mcp doesn’t necessarily use the network but can also just mean directly spawning a process, users can get the tool to execute arbitrary commands (possibly circumventing some kind of protection).

This is all fine if you’re doing this yourself on your computer, but it’s not if you’re hosting one of these tools for others who you didn’t expect to be able to run commands on your server, or if the tool can be made to do this by hostile input (e.g. a web page the tool is reading while doing a task).

I use Codeberg for public stuff. I also run a self hosted forgejo on coolify on a Hetzner cloud instance but realistically that’s overkill.

Swift is a modern language that offers good performance paired with a lot of safety features you’d otherwise go to Rust for (type safety, memory safety, concurrency safety,… although memory safety based on ARC is slower than Rust’s approach, and Swift makes it easier to disable safety features). Personally I like it more than Rust because the syntax is a bit cleaner and it has exceptions.

The problem is, using it on e.g. Linux is a completely different experience from using it on Apple platforms and it doesn’t really transfer over. Apple devs will use Xcode and all the Apple tooling and will get used to Apple APIs. On Linux you don’t have Xcode, you rely more on Swift Package Manager for dependencies than on Apple platforms, you suddenly have to learn what part of the libraries you’ve been using are Swift standard library and what parts are Apple only or are from the Objective C runtime that’s not used on Linux, and the ecosystem is much smaller.

A lot of things that also mean that code written for Apple doesn’t often work on Linux unchanged, not because of Swift as such, but e.g. before Swift had Regex you’d use the one from Objective C, which just works on Apple, but isn’t there on Linux.

I haven’t tried it for Android development but I imagine it’ll have similar issues.

I set up Forgejo with runners on Coolify on a Hetzner instance for myself, and it’s great. But I use Codeberg for code I want to publish.

As far as I know Tears of the Kingdom is capped at 30 fps and 900p on Switch 1 in docked mode. This update gets you this Switch 1 docked mode experience on handheld, so it should not get you 60 fps or any of the other improvements of the switch 2 upgrade pack.

Why? It’s an optional feature, if you don’t need your Octave programs to interact with Java you can disable Java support at build time. Loses some of the MATLAB compatibility (since MATLAB has this feature too) but you’re not required to use it.

I basically do option 2, but I’d never mount all my configuration. If I want an isolated environment, I’m not making all my ssh keys available to it. So some things have to stay outside for me.

Emacs :)

Ok joking aside there were these things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine

There also are modern examples but they tend to be for specific niches like Mirage.

What do you mean by “change standards”? Python is older than all the other languages you mentioned other than C.

You don’t have to be the first person. I joined a startup a long time ago as a regular engineer and they made me team lead within a year. Startups generally move a bit faster and a lot more chaotically. Especially when they’re growing fast. You do have to be good but having a vision also helps.

I stuck with them through acquisitions etc. and everything slowed down a lot. Should have gotten out of the large corporation life earlier tbh.

I don’t have ai psychosis myself but man did Claude Code make it easy to see how people could develop it. I guess it makes sense too considering humans thought ELIZA was intelligent. My employer does some AI stuff and I think it just took me a while to understand how these LLMs appear to people outside that sphere.

30 games for 822 hours. Not sure how I managed that as a working adult with a family who also spent more than a month abroad without my Switch. And apparently didn’t play on Switch in January or February. (Probably something on Steam Deck got my attention but I don’t remember.)

Top game is Xenoblade X at 143 hours. My favourite Wii U game so not surprising. It would be a lot more hours too if I hadn’t played it before on Wii U. In the full 9 year range it’s only rank 8.

FWIW I’m not in the NA region and the link worked for me too.

I have written code this holiday, but I was afk on vacation for a month in November. That was a good reset too. But tbh I like programming, the reset is more for the other circumstances of my work.

I was surprised how many of these I’ve actually done at some point in the last 35 years.

scopeguard would be one way to get defer in Rust

In Rust you’re kind of stuck with it, but at the end of the day combined return types are just syntactic sugar for something a lot of languages can do. Even in plain old C there’s a pattern where you pass pointers to your return and/or error variables. In many languages you can return structs or similar. In some I’d argue it looks nicer than having to write Result<>, e.g. in Python or in Swift you can just return a tuple by putting things in parentheses. (Of course you can also still use something more explicit too. But if every function returned (result, error) by default and every call was like result, error = fn(), I don’t think it’d be necessary.)

However I don’t really know of any language where people prefer to use this over exceptions if exceptions are available. Even in C some people used to use setjmp/longjmp in macros to implement exceptions. Exceptions have their problems but people seem to overwhelmingly be in favor of them.

Personally I like exceptions in languages that have some kind of built-in “finally” for functions. For example defer in Swift. You can have proper error handling for a lot less typing in many cases because passing through exceptions is fine if your defer blocks handle the cleanup. And if you do want to handle an exception, Swift also has optionals, and a try? that transparently converts a return value into an optional that’s nil when an exception was thrown, and a coalescing operator ??, which means you can catch exceptions and provide a default value on one line, instead of a 4-5 line try…catch/except block or an error checking conditional for every call.

Well that’s true too. As humans we should generally aim to be more cylindrical than spherical.

Well politicians doing politics isn’t getting us anywhere so I’m open to alternatives

The video conferencing platform my work uses works well because it’s a large well-known platform and they punched holes for it into the firewall and the vpn. Not really something a service provider can just replicate.