Wrote an mcp server for Cursor Background Agents. This makes Cursor agents accessible like any other tool: your AI-assisted IDE (Kilo, Cline, Roo, etc) can spin them up programmatically, fan out subtasks in parallel, or wire them into ci/cd pipelines. It’s useful for distributing long coding jobs, spreading out llm costs, and treating Cursor as just another composable backend service.
What exactly is your setup and use-case? Are you using Claude Desktop/Cursor? What kind of prompts does it allow you to do?
I tried a bit with the filesystem-mcp server but claude ended up using it when I didn't really want it to, and even tried to write files instead of simply responding in code fragements that I wanted to wire up myself.
I feel like once your project has any meaningful size no MCP server is going to be able to actually find the relevant context by itself, so you're better of providing it yourself (at least via the @ syntax in cursor)
Veganism is about reducing suffering as much as practical and possible. Some people (you included) have a problem with that and reject it altogether because of cognitive biases.
Yes there are crop death and suffering due to veganism. A plant based diet however reduces this by about 75%.
you're saying this typing on a _computer_ - how does that fit into human evolution?
IMO humans evolve in an ethical standpoint as well and tend to want to cause the least amount of suffering possible as we evolve. That is why we have medicine, don't usually own slaves, don't hit children, and don't abuse animals.
A bit random plug - I made a flashcard site and generated flashcards based on this resource (because I want to learn computer architecture, among other tech topics)
His computer architecture book (listed here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42621236) is still one of the best focusing on principles and design and hence timeless. The language is succinct and very focused on explaining things. I have found it much better than many popular textbooks on computer architecture.
As an example, the submitted article is just 18 pages (pdf) and yet manages to highlight all the major points; a absolutely beautiful overview.
Wasn't the first rule of flash cards not to memorize things which you don't already understand? Generated (LLM?) flashcards might result in you missing out on the whole "understanding the text and breaking it down into flashcards" part of the process - which seems rather important.
Yes, it's meaningless if the topic is mostly unknown to the learner. But that's not the goal of flashcards - the goal is to first read the text, and then reinforce what you learned with bite-sized questions/answers.
Everyone learns differently, I always found flashcards to be incredibly useful and entertaining.
I got very positive feedback from students preparing for high school keystone exams (given that it can generate questions from a given online resource / PDF) so I'm pretty happy about that!
I don't mind food sovereinty per se, but do we need to subsidize meat?
Lately, in the supermarket, there would usually be some meat at about 2€/kg, which I could not comprehend, as most other groceries have gone up. Pricewise it's competitive with carrots, potatoes and bananas.
How can meat end up cheaper than ordinary pastry? Measured per kg and yes, meat has a lot of water, but still..
> Sometimes I talk to my vegetarian friends and ask "If you want to be vegetarian, why don't you just eat natively vegetarian dishes? Why the fake meat?". So far no satisfying answer.
Because there are people who like the taste and consistency of meat, but object to killing animals.
If your objection to killing animals is strong enough there are millions of purely vegetarian recipes that are delicious and much more tastier than fake meat. Why not switch to those?
>emissions tend to do more damage at high altitude than they do at ground level
I've always been a bit dismissive of aviation as a carbon emissions contributor because globally it only accounts for around 2%. Thanks for pointing this out, I was unaware of this fact. Is the relationship between altitude and warming effect known? Are we talking linear or something worse?
