aflam's comments

On: Show HN: MCP App Template designed for coding agents

[aflam]

First time I see a clear split where the README markets to humans and the AGENTS.md has a clean tutorial for LLMs.

I'll give it a try, MCP apps are full of promises but protocols are so unstable that I wouldn't want to write the boiler plate myself.

[sebderhy → aflam]

Yeah, I have to say that finding the right balance between what to write and not to write in the AGENTS.md is quite hard.

Regarding the protocols being unstable, that's quite a fair point. Maybe it is possible to automate this? That is, detecting changes in the official docs automatically, and adapt the docs and tests automatically based on it via a Coding Agent.

On: GitMounter: A FUSE filesystem for Git repositories

[aflam]

Neat! We started working on something similar, using LD_PRELOAD. After setting some env variables we'd see a commit's files layered at some path, on top of artifacts saved for this commit. The goal is to run jobs that expect to access both git files and build artifacts, while avoid duplication of storage. FUSE would be better but users don't have enough permissions.

[vesinisa → aflam]

> FUSE would be better but users don't have enough permissions.

This is also going to be a great prank on the next engineer who's never gonna figure why he can't see any of the files the build jobs are seeing in his shell.

On: Wine 8.0

[aflam]

Libs that use C# but nobody wants to try building on Linux, Windows binaries we get as-is from outside the organization, C++ code relying on MVSC non-standardness, C code relying on a custom toolchain that can't be ported...

On: Curvature consistency in Apple hardware and software products (2017)

[aflam]

Last year I wanted to have a table custom built using those shapes. It's easy with CNC: https://shapescience.xyz/blog/creating-a-super-ellipsis-tabl...

[CSSer → aflam]

Very cool article! Thanks for sharing. Is numpy just global in Python now? I see it everywhere, and I eventually sound it out. Yet I never fail to have a few moments where I go, “Wait, what is ‘np’? Oh, yeah… Numpy.” And I always feel like just listing it as an import in the snippet would’ve solved it.

[tonyarkles → CSSer]

Just a “standard” convention. I’ve been doing a bunch of analysis work lately and almost all of the scripts start with something like:

    import numpy as np
    import pandas as pd
    import seaborn as sns 
    import sympy as sp

[dagmx → aflam]

> It’s unlikely you can do it at home…

I think you could if you had a small bench top cnc or laser cutter.

You’d have to split up the DXF into pieces that fit on your bed, but you’d be able to make a template by joining the parts together.

Then rough cut your workpiece to the template, followed by a flush bit router.

On: -h –Help -help Help –? –?

[aflam]

-hh is what a major app at work requires. Engineering indeed provides room for creativity.

On: A gentle introduction to HDBSCAN and density-based clustering

[aflam]

ANN is the building block of density estimation. If I recall correctly that's the bottleneck for density-based clustering as its various algorithms then take advantage of faster yet algorithms (sort, union-find, spanning-trees..). While very interesting I am not sure this gentle introduction is the best place to discuss ANN.

On: Performance Matters

[aflam]

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On: ROSshow: ASCII art visualizations for robot sensor data

[aflam]

We had issues reliably using rviz or other visualisation tools on ROS. Something will often break (opengl with docker ? outdated version of ROS or missing packages ?). There is a lot of value in having a text-based way out for simpler debugging.

On: Let’s Try t-SNE

[aflam]

Thanks for the article.I came across it as part of scikit-tda, but did not investigate. Looks promising! The TDA background is appealing, as well as runtime complexity.

On: Orange Livebox ADSL modems are leaking their WiFi credentials

[aflam]

Related issue: my ISP uses as default wifi password part of the router's MAC address... It could be the kind of problem described in the article - but the site seems down.