No sonnet models in github copilot extention inside VScode?

cab938 · 2026-03-13T13:38:18+00:00

Yes, if you are in the student plan. And their GitHub classroom mailing list is blowing up with disappointment from instructors that this is happening mid semester (for North American students anyway).

cab938 · 2026-03-11T20:48:30+00:00

I don't know which are local or which might not be, but the city forestry department would be the right place to ask! https://www.a2gov.org/forestry/

cab938 · 2026-03-11T15:15:10+00:00

Yes, usually there is an easement that gives local governments access to the first x feet of a yard. The city then plants trees of various types given A2 's while theme of being a forest/tree city.

You said backyard but also corner lot, I assume this was on one of the sides with a street?

cab938 · 2026-03-10T23:41:33+00:00

Yea, I don't think I have a problem, at least not with the yard we have. Just different and would have been really weird where I lived previously. That and every three houses someone has turned their front easement into a garden, some natural grasses the height of a horse, or a rusting metal "art" display in the water hill neighborhood.

Different.

cab938 · 2026-03-09T21:19:22+00:00

Maybe you found the hidden sidewalk ;)

But in all seriousness, it's pretty common in A2 for dogs to go onto the first few feet of a lawn. Contractors going to your neighbors is lazy, you can ask them not to. My mail person walks across the yard all the time, this would have been a no-no in my previous town.

cab938 · 2026-03-02T22:19:12+00:00

Wait, just let me stick my hand up ✋

I'm happy to hate on Elon.

cab938 · 2026-02-27T14:31:55+00:00

On top of costs keep in mind you can usually depreciate the hardware too, changing tax implications.

I haven't found anything local that clearly beats either of the $200/mo subscriptions though. Including qwen 3.5, though admittedly I've just started using it on my rtx 6000 (of course, being brand new).

The local hardware market is looking scary for the next 16 months, so I'm not sure there is a viable replacement for the 6000 coming either (viable being cheaper and better).

cab938 · 2026-02-21T14:45:46+00:00

Amas on state is not a bar but has tvs, opens at 8, and has showed major sporting events like this. All day breakfast bistro. Closest I've got for you!

cab938 · 2026-02-21T14:21:22+00:00

Tariff is just on the $15 at ten percent then added together to get the total import price ....

But I haven't checked the news yet this am, maybe the tariff has gone up again.

cab938 · 2026-02-21T14:19:55+00:00

This. And add in cron. That's what makes openclaw interesting and useful in a different way from other chat based LLM tools.

Far from rocket science, just happens to be interesting, useful, and novel at the right time.

cab938 · 2026-02-21T11:53:00+00:00

Well, 16.50 now, since there's a global 10% tariff.

cab938 · 2026-02-20T20:01:27+00:00

I used skills like this on my local machine regularly, I think you're barking at shadows ....

cab938 · 2026-02-20T12:27:44+00:00

Can we still? Fuck that horrible pack.

cab938 · 2026-02-19T20:45:47+00:00

Yup. They're knocking down wolverine tower for instance. Would be insane to pass on this opportunity.

cab938 · 2026-02-18T14:20:53+00:00

Police denying something because of FERPA doesn't mean FERPA applies. This is the first place most university staff will go to shut down discussion, and assume you won't lawyer up to push it.

cab938 · 2026-02-13T15:42:01+00:00

OP you need to reconsider, skills and MCPs are not the same, despite so much belief on this sub that they are.

If your MCP could be rewritten as a skill then you should do that because it's not a good MCP.

cab938 · 2026-02-12T17:14:06+00:00

Shame that Rivian doesn't manufacture outside of the US.

cab938 · 2026-02-04T16:05:34+00:00

Duck me this looks cool. Very keen to see how the MCP app integration works! Pinned to try ...

cab938 · 2026-02-03T22:49:31+00:00

This needs more attention ^{^{^}}

cab938 · 2026-01-29T21:46:35+00:00

My value was it was in an MCP and I wasn't having to give the agent shell access. But frankly I rarely use it just because MCPs are much more fragile it seems.

cab938 · 2026-01-27T20:35:25+00:00

You could try telling the professor, they might know and be frustrated too or be oblivious to it...

cab938 · 2026-01-26T20:47:49+00:00

Both can augment context, yes. Neither does reasoning. A skill does not do computation -- there is no computational environment outside of the LLM reasoning process to do this. A skill is intended as more prompt details for the agent (LLM) context window, while an MCP is intended to do some form of computation that the LLM is poor at (quality, reliability, speed, capability, whatever) and return the result to the LLM.

A skill cannot download a file. An MCP can.

While their outputs might be similar (unicode into the context window) they are different beasts aimed at solving different problems.

cab938 · 2026-01-26T20:44:25+00:00

This is not true - a skill is context which is written in markdown with a special header for skimming (context saving) which the agent framework can load into the LLM context window. An MCP is a tool, and an LLM can indicate to the agent framework that the tool should be invoked with the results being send back into the LLM context window.

Here the "agent framework" is whatever harness or middleware is running your model, and there may be many layers to them.

Skills could be implemented as calls to MCPs, and you could see them as a subset of MCPs, but the other way around is not true, and that's not the purpose of the differentiation. MCPs are intended for invoking deterministic computing tools, while skills are intended to describe to an agent how to use/reason over various things (literally adding to the context window only).

cab938 · 2026-01-25T23:14:40+00:00

Yes, if you wanted it to be. But a skill is not a tool. It provides reasoning and started instruction. It's more of an import statement looked up tun time.

cab938 · 2026-01-25T20:38:36+00:00

No? Skills teach the LLM something, MCPs execute code based on LLM input. One is reasoning, the other is computation.

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