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Re:Stealth Model on Friday August 21, 2026 @06:04AM (#49385986)
Knowledge cutoff seems to be around mid 2025, in my testing
Re:Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP on Thursday June 18, 2026 @06:53PM (#48592719)
my account is too new I can't flag them :/
Re:Kickbacks.ai – Get Paid for Waiting on Friday June 12, 2026 @11:23PM (#48512591)
you can put custom endpoints in claude settings.json
Re:How to setup a local coding agent on macOS on Friday June 12, 2026 @04:07PM (#48508875)
this is the way, given anyone could swap for oh my pi / pi / etc
Re:I was wrong about Electron on Sunday May 31, 2026 @03:00PM (#48348600)
big fan of paseo, btw. really easy to setup and get going
I'm absolutely stealing this
nice, going to point my hermes agent to this instead of obsidian
Re:I’ve banned query strings on Sunday May 10, 2026 @05:47AM (#48082433)
I was just thinking about something like this. Instagram and TikTok are major offenders, not everyone wants their personal info blasted everywhere because they copied a link. It would be great to have an iOS shortcut that automatically removes them, it's something I'm going to look into.
Re:GPT-5.5 on Friday April 24, 2026 @12:09PM (#47892135)
I believe the technical term is "acquihire"
Taxes? The same place tons of other stuff we buy as a society comes from. I expect the ballot measure this fall will pass, worst case they file bankruptcy and will probably need to reduce service
>cleanly >without subsidies

Source? The biggest source of environmental issues from EVs, tire wear from a heavier vehicle, absolutely applies to AVs. VC subsidizing low prices only to hike them later isn't exactly "without subsidy" - we pay for it either way

The government facing a budget deficit doesn't mean BART would be worse off with more subsidies.
Very few transit agencies have fares that cover services. I know others said this, but I wanted to add my take as well