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bingo. capital, talent has no borders.

the current admin are working hard to destroy the U.S as if they're foreign agents.

not only are they making it hard & unbearable for families of US citizens & PR holders to be together.

while at the same time - discouraging talent to come to the US at a crucial time when talent is at a premium due to A.I development.

last the backwards energy policy of banning renewable energy.

I don't know anything about you or where you're based.

but in Main Street US - guess what the dentists are using ? guess what the auto-shop is using, the auto-dealer ?

mostly desktop software running on on-premise hardware, with some using cloud version but just being a small population overall. most of the software has no APIs, & no web version.

it's not sexy, nor fun. actual FDEs are needed for those industries, if anything A.I will unlock so much lost productivity.

> Before release, we tested GLM-5.3-Flash anonymously as ox-alpha on OpenCode and OpenRouter to gather user feedback. It quickly became the most popular model of the week — with all of this traffic served on Chinese AI chips.

Just like that we are witnessing an open burial. It's now in everyone's interest to keep the valuations in the 'A.I' economy as they're though it's apparent they're not justified.

whether it's the cost to develop models, cost of hardware, cost of serving ie inference.

we already have something better than WebMCP - i.e general APIs.

more impactful work has to be done on the native legacy desktop app scene. that's where most of major companies big or small do their work.

agents automating websites is kinda easy. automating legacy desktop apps that's another issue though there's RPA.

AWS acquiring DuckLabs is massive. nice move.

one feature I can't wait from the DuckDb team are real-time materialized views.

these things have to be operated from Russia or some country that has total independence from US legal system.

effects of vibe coding + the zealotry like passion of DHH & this is the result.

Elon - great product guy - he has to let go of his scammy tendencies of overpromising stuff.

just one launch base will transform the Louisiana economy.

only if it could be run serverless.

but nice product overall - just like s2 lite.

having lived in Taiwan for a year. that's the sentiment of majority of the population - they want to maintain the status quo.

ministry of truth.

those r the versions or the truth the gvt wants you to see.

the best approach & sustainable cities has always been mixed zoning.

city buildings at human scale i.e 4-5 stories like in most European cities. shops / retail etc at retail level. then offices / apartments occupy the other levels.

make places walkable & dense. then have public Parks etc. then shit like niteclubs etc - should be relegated to basement level. same as parking.

either wait for bigger batteries, hydrogen or some super efficient material to create the fuselage.

biofuels won't work. they take too much land and are inefficient in terms of producing.

they carved because most of those places want access to the 'yuuuge' US market.

politics vs reality. they could correct though by selling US treasuries - but that would make the world economy sneeze which might result in pneumonia.

the rate of growth is the worrying trend.

then that the debt has been accelerating with either party in power - means this is a problem that won't be solved politically by the current actors i.e both parties.

CIA has funded a lot of things that are of national interest.

From Google etc ...

I think x.com does this too - haven't been able to dig deeper.

> I’m sorry, but if you’re building or using a tool like this, then you’ve got slop for brains.

unfortunately a lot of people in tech tend to think in terms of technology - looking at this from one solution - not looking at the problem holistically. turning their brains into slop brains.

my take from this article - there's a point you miss. is the organization product driven ? because usually that changes how engineers solve or approach problems. a few organizations are product driven.

if it's product led - and every engineer no matter the level are supposed to understand the business and the requirements that drive value i.e create their own tickets etc - then yeah the value of the junior engineer stays the same or goes up.

with other orgs - where product managers act like high priests and everything has to go through Jira. then the value of not just junior engineers but engineers in general has been always at an all time low.

> In a handful of cases the detainee's possession of a Casio watch or the wearing olive-drab clothing is cited as evidence that the detainee is an enemy combatant. No basis is given to explain why such evidence makes the detainee an enemy combatant.

to risk sounding like a madman - if you're a solo individual- serving b2b small businesses.

then Sqlite works as well too. can run the whole thing on Cloudflare.

running Postgres isn't difficult. but dealing with a VPS for low traffic is a headache that's not necessary.

starling bank uk uses a similar kind of stack. both java based as revolut.

what the author doesn't say - is being ambitious at what ? ambitious at making useless software ? useless hardware ?

in tech we like to overwork on nonsense problems ie working on problems that change or are non permanent. literally if 98% of the software went away today it won't be missed, just like shit that came before.

if people listened to Jeff Bezos - who said - focus on things that don't change - you will realize - you can live your life - without overworking. because guess what - if you don't do something today, the problem Will exist tomorrow & the day after.

certain problems never get fully solved, just tiny bits of progress.

but I guess zero sum thinking has taken over.

once Huawei was forbidden from using Android - that's when people ie western markets & the world at large should've shifted. look at HarmonyOS.

in China - there's no google apps available on their 'android' versions.

their platforms are already performant and fluid - so people should build on that.

people blame apple but this a result of the duopoly - we have in the mobile operating system market.

I was once a iOS mobile dev before - most apps don't need to be native unless banking, maps, video games & maybe ride-hailing (before I even used uber web).

the rest the web is sufficient - hell even games.

so most of what apple is proposing won't affect you if you're using the web platform.

scary shit is this is out there for people to read & learn.

but the same thing keeps happening.

top heavy organizations.

kinda crazy how Microsoft just destroyed the Github goodwill.

also crazy how the noisemakers about rails scaling for GitHub have gone quite all of a sudden i.e Github being on the main rails branch.

anyways the future is decentralized - a developer from say Russia/ Ukraine (Crimea), Iran etc - wouldn't be able to access GitHub but surely they can access decentralized repos without the permission of not being from a forbidden country as if they're at fault for their country's ills.

the last image - it's barely visible to human eyes

they're tryna convince the populace who don't like to read with useless studies.

get rid of medicare etc, then let it be handled on a city / state level. if some states wanna provide for public hospitals clinics - let them do so. even more if cities too wanna provide for public healthcare. then we can gladly reduce taxes too. the amount spent on medicare vs outcomes is already scam level.

trying to solve this at a national level won't work - too many middleman, too much politics and perverse incentives.