It's a fair point, but for any well-established capability, the plugin with the most monthly downloads (overwhelmingly) is generally going to be "the one". For MCP, the top plugin [1] has 1M/mo, and the next one down has less than 2k/mo.
I do agree that in the case of benchmarking, it's a bit silly to put the onus on the benchmark runner to try and pick the right plugin for each capability that won't make someone point to /that/ as the reason Pi didn't do as well as expected.
That reminds me a bit of The Harmsworth Room [1] in the Churchill War Rooms, where you can dine while you stare at the "original 1940s electric generator wall complete with dials and switches". Very cool space!
I'd been to the War Rooms decades ago, when they were simply a WWII restoration.
It was an obscure grim bunker where important decisions had been made during the worst period in 20th century British history.
I remember a small electric bell at an exit with a small sign "Immediate danger above if ringing". Just a warning not to go outside during bombings.
Apparently it's been gentrified to the point of ridiculousness.
How do you mean, gentrified? I went for the first time early last year and it was an amazing experience. It's definitely very museum-like, and not cheap to enter, but the rooms all look like perfect time capsules and the audio tour is excellent.
It would be really funny, and sociopathic, if every state change registered as a browser history entry so I had to click Back 50,000 times to get back to Hacker News.
Oh wow, you don’t do “Open in New Tab” when reading HN?
Thanks for the idea, I should really try that, maybe it will help with my infinite open tabs problem.
Incredible write-up, as usual. I still fondly remember discovering Red Blob Games' Hexagonal Grids [1] guide while building an implementation of the Tzaar board game [2]. The illustrations are enormously helpful!
I do agree that in the case of benchmarking, it's a bit silly to put the onus on the benchmark runner to try and pick the right plugin for each capability that won't make someone point to /that/ as the reason Pi didn't do as well as expected.
[1] https://pi.dev/packages/pi-mcp-adapter?name=pi-mcp-adapter