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mvc··on GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands
self-interested hate is it not?

Maybe I'm more attuned to this type of thing having grown up as a national of a smaller state living in the shadow of a bigger state but you constantly see actors from the bigger state belittling and condescending anything contributed socially or economically from the smaller state.

And I see this sort of dynamic here in this forum where Americans very frequently talk condescendingly like this about Europe generally and European tech especially (they did it to China too but China smartly ignored this self-interested nonsense and carried on anyway which is what Europeans should do).

It really grates on me and presumably many others. But it serves an agenda too of a lot of the founders and financiers that hang out here that have big fat customers in Europe they'd like to keep sweet and competitors they'd like to keep down.

mvc··on GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands
Isn't it up to Europeans to define the purpose of the EU? What's your claim to having the right to define it?
mvc··on How to earn a billion dollars
> The reason her startup was growing so fast was that she and her cofounder had been working their asses off

Just the co-founders eh? Fuck off Paul.

mvc··on Google's Antigravity bait and switch
"show me the diff in emacs"

and claude opens up a new emacs frame (aka "window" if you're not an emacs doc writer) with a magit diff buffer of whatever we've been working on. This happens instantly because the emacs server is already running since startup and this is just popping up a little client window

mvc··on Appearing productive in the workplace
> Reminded me of when I had to be extra wordy to meet the 1000 minimum word limit for my high school essays.

At my uni, dissertations were supposed to be 10k words.

I handed in 7.5 and got a distinction because it met the brief.

Never pad.

mvc··on The Traveling Salesdog Problem
Hello fellow sighthound owner. I have thought about it. But never done it.

Whenever I sit down with a few spare minutes to try it, my lurcher appears and wants a walk :-)

mvc··on Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
That'll sure teach them not to abuse their power over their fellow humans with less physical strength.
mvc··on Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
zoom literally makes a summary of meetings available now if you enable it.

unfortunately you still have to show up to the meeting and engage with your friends and colleagues for half an hour.

mvc··on Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
Maybe clojure wouldn't have had it's nubank "exit" if we'd called ourselves clojuristas but this old clojure lefty loves it.
mvc··on A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury
So you've....worked hard. Understood the language and social landscape. Delivered what your employers wanted. And earned lots of money.

Congrats I guess? Not sure where the abuse/guilt comes from.

mvc··on Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links
Once a week?! Aren't you killing the repl at least to run a full test suite without any stale leftover developer state before deploying?
mvc··on Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
> the bettors are motivated to predict truth.

But also motivated to bend the truth to their bet as the journalist in Israel found.

mvc··on Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
> So far, these two groups have used democracy to get their way.

Oh is that what January 6th was?

mvc··on Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
Did the suffragettes not believe in democracy?
mvc··on Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
What about executives/scientists on the US nuclear programme?
mvc··on Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026
> But it was incredibly dumb to build many GW of offshore wind in Scotland when the grid was already over capacity.

Isn't it equally dumb to continue to bet the entire country's economy on a tiny little bit of England (and then shame the other regions as unproductive layabouts when they don't produce as much tax revenue)? Energy production is not the only, nor even the biggest imbalance in UK resources. Maybe people and businesses should go where the energy is instead of waiting for it to come to them.

mvc··on Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
You must be new here
mvc··on Meta acquires Moltbook
Ha! I stopped worrying about that when someone got $1m for the "Yo" app.
mvc··on Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP
When you're using an agent, the "query" isn't just each bit of text you enter into the agent prompt. It's the whole conversation.

But I do wonder about these tools whether they have tested that the quality of subsequent responses is the same.

mvc··on Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees
They're not exactly proportional to the value of the property though are they? There's folks in London with multi-million pound mansions who pay the same or less in council tax than a family home in the suburbs.
mvc··on US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives
Also, what would they win? The death of their wealthiest customers?
mvc··on H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation
I think Apple benefits from the tax incentives, "stable" society, and freedoms in my country too. And it employs many people here and elsewhere around the world and there is no chance it could sell as many units as it does without those people

https://share.google/aimode/k9blzn3HX1PvqOTFO

Maybe Apple wouldn't be founded anywhere else but it wouldnt be what it is without immigrants.

Even Steve Jobs was an immigrant.

mvc··on H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation
Why _should_ Apple employ only Americans (whether in America or elsewhere)?

They generate revenue all over the world. Seems only right that their costs should be distributed around the world too.

mvc··on European Tech Alternatives
There are 50 different sets of regulations in the US though and lately even federal regulations have been "changeable" shall we say from year to year.

Just ask Moderna

mvc··on Micropayments as a reality check for news sites
> The hubs keep track of everything to keep the Osama Bin Laden's or Russian Oligarch's, or Cuban nationals out of the U.S. financial system.

Yeah I don't think that worked:

https://marker.medium.com/how-russian-oligarchs-stow-away-th...

mvc··on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
Oh no! Not 4chan.

How ever will we Europeans keep up with the latest theories about which celebrities are actually AI influencers.

mvc··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
A cool thing to do by the way, when you have run over a hill like us. Is to run back over it the other way.
mvc··on Software is mostly all you need
I think it makes better decisions than me provided I give it enough high-level direction and context.

Sometimes I give it __too much__ direction and it finds the solution I had in mind but not the best.

I'm not into it enough that I'm formally running different personas against each other in a co-operative system but I kind of informally do that.

mvc··on First, make me care
Sure, when it's fronting a great product, I have no issue with marketing. But it can be abused, which makes people suspicious (but not invulnerable as we know).

Anyway, I am currently in "lean in and find out" mode with AI :-)

Not quite at Gas Town yet but I've dropped a lot of baggage and willing to take a hike to try and find it.

mvc··on First, make me care
> each me something but make me feel like “Finally someone who gets it” rather than challenged or threatened.

Ironically, AI has been making me feel like this lately. But it taught me all of this (i.e. your exact point about the psycological levers employed by people/organizations who understand why stuff goes viral).

So is that real or am I just being successfully marketed to, now by AI.

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