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spiderfarmer

6,044 karma · joined November 11, 2015

Full stack developer. Chipping away at building the world’s largest agricultural community. Getting closer every day.
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spiderfarmer··on Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
Elon was proven to manipulate and censor Twitter. So you should prefer neither.
spiderfarmer··on Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
Did you notice they also haven't invaded other countries so far? And that France now supports Ukraine's long range strikes?

You're bad at noticing the tits for each tat.

spiderfarmer··on Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
People who think everything is a zero sum game are mathematically destined to lose. Trump is finding that out in record time.
spiderfarmer··on Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
We could if we wanted to. We just don’t have to behave like the biggest bully in the world in every geopolitical context.
spiderfarmer··on Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
Read up on game theory. This was just tit for tat. At that time Russia openly contemplated invading EU countries.
spiderfarmer··on Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
That’s a pretty childish take on a serious subject.
spiderfarmer··on Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
US military products are also full of European parts.
spiderfarmer··on Bob and Van
The problem is not showing what you stand for. The problem is that your political system only offers two options.

And then all that’s left is game theory.

spiderfarmer··on Bob and Van
This is such a uniquely US thing.

Maybe the healthier past wasn’t one where nobody talked about politics. Maybe it was one where disagreeing about politics didn’t automatically make someone your enemy.

As someone from the Netherlands, I find this especially strange. You can call the leader of the party your neighbour voted for every name under the sun, preferably involving some kind of disease, because that’s our style, and still have a beer together afterwards.

spiderfarmer··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
You can add rich people and religious zealots to the list of attackers as well.
spiderfarmer··on A mysterious kidney disease has arrived in Texas
Travel more.
spiderfarmer··on 'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres
It's just sad that Americans only unite when it's something in their own backyard. Democracy in the US is collapsing, and people are standing idly by. Maybe they'll leave an angry comment under a TikTok video, but that's about all the patriotism people seem to muster.
spiderfarmer··on A mysterious kidney disease has arrived in Texas
And your experience in a back ally of a tourist place is representative for all people who pay taxes in The Netherlands because.....?
spiderfarmer··on A mysterious kidney disease has arrived in Texas
The Netherlands. I’m alive thanks to the policies of the government. I don’t mind investing time, money and effort in a well run society. A better society starts with you.
spiderfarmer··on A mysterious kidney disease has arrived in Texas
I drove over a perfectly paved road today.

My wife went to a hospital that was run perfectly. No charge.

The food I ate today was safe.

There's almost no criminal activity here.

We do not have any active wars.

spiderfarmer··on Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
For some of my projects I use it instead of a CMS. I still have that CMS, but I rarely use it anymore.

Could I have used an API? Maybe. But Laravel MCP makes it very easy to run a MCP server.

spiderfarmer··on Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
Simplified:

——

GP: “You’re lucky you’re dealing with an incompetent bully. Imagine a competent bully.”

Me: “You should not accept bullying at all.”

You: “what about…”

——

People like you are a huge part of the problem.

Elect competence.

spiderfarmer··on A mysterious kidney disease has arrived in Texas
The government in the US isn’t for the people.
spiderfarmer··on Fuck Off as a Service (Foaas)
More like WebMCP
spiderfarmer··on Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)
Cool a science blog! But it's a rehashed article, followed by an infinite amount of random Taboola scams, arbitrage posts, clickbait articles with jarring content.

Why does shit like that work better than quality contextual advertising?

spiderfarmer··on Muse Spark 1.3
Same with Grok.
spiderfarmer··on Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
GEO seems to be winning, Generative Engine Optimization.
spiderfarmer··on Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
That kind of normalises Trump, which is totally the wrong thing to do. You should not accept this as fact, nor should you tolerate this current regime. Doing so without protest is the biggest problem you have. Your defeatism is a self fulfilling prophecy.
spiderfarmer··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
Are you a software tester?
spiderfarmer··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
That's seriously impressive.
spiderfarmer··on AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too
I just allow access to their application only for their IP address(es) and my deployment server checks if I need to update anything. That's not expensive.
spiderfarmer··on AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too
Why does it have to lead to a 10x increase in revolutionary companies?

Next to maintaining and expanding my own network of websites I 10xd writing boring CRUD applications for companies that were otherwise unable to afford it, making all their employees more productive. There's true economic value in that.

spiderfarmer··on Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)
After everything they tried no-one ever expected Google to launch and immediately ignore a product.

For real though, I think their reputation with developers is in the gutter after years of trial balloons.

spiderfarmer··on The EU has begun enforcing the AI Act: first RFIs to model providers
Hence the “It doesn’t have to stand up to scrutiny“
spiderfarmer··on Lake Ontario Now Called Lake America on Google Maps
It was very surprising to me 10 years ago to find people who supported Trump on HN. He was so obviously out of his depth in any debate, so obviously a con man and so obviously not that smart.

What’s even more surprising is that after all this time, all his grifting, indecency, incompetence, blunders, bluster and shameful behavior, it’s still more likely to get downvotes than upvotes for criticizing him.

It’s so hard for people to admit they backed the wrong guy.

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