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weirdmantis69··on AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video]
I do that basically all day long and it works great.
weirdmantis69··on I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978
When I was 8 I sent a letter to LEGO about a line of toys that slid down on stair bannister's. I gave it to my mom to send to them but apparently she betrayed me and kept it for herself because she thought it was "cute". Thanks to her I don't work for LEGO :(
weirdmantis69··on Silicon Valley can't import talent like before. So it's exporting jobs
oh well.... I'm totally fine with this.
weirdmantis69··on AI made coding more enjoyable
The famously unsuccessful restaurant of McDonald's begs to differ
weirdmantis69··on There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)
Well it was a metaphor I guess but I certainly took it that way.
weirdmantis69··on H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation
Many of the top tier companies (meta, Amazon, google, microsoft etc) have had massive layoffs in the 10's of thousands range. Those workers were top tier programmers. So you need to be quite delusional or uninformed to have your view point on the work force.
weirdmantis69··on Privilege is bad grammar
One anecdote about Bill Gates is he was in the Bahamas perhaps to purchase some real estate and he was dressed very down to the point where he looked like a bum. He went into a local real estate office where the lady was dressed in a suit and to the 9's despite it being 40 degrees outside. And she went and told him that real estate was expensive in the Bahamas and he needed a lot of money to buy to which he replied "I might be able to work something out you never know". So ya the super rich don't need to sound good or look good they simply have money.
weirdmantis69··on Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver
I've always wondered how people who are not 1/10th as smart as Elon convince themselves that he is not intelligent after solving robotics, AI, neuralink, and space all simultaneously.
weirdmantis69··on The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline
Every country will have to figure out how to deal with this. Once India and China go negative who is going to fill that gap? It's impossible. The only question is whether or not countries can retain their culture and population or whether they will be replaced by outsiders.
weirdmantis69··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
That's just not how the economy works.
weirdmantis69··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
That was my thoughts exactly.
weirdmantis69··on Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden
10000% true.
weirdmantis69··on Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden
Sorry but it is true, almost entirely because of immigration. https://dragonflyintelligence.com/news/sweden-gang-bombings-...

Wishing it away doesn't make it any less true.

weirdmantis69··on Lessons from economies that closed their borders
Strange to leave out successful modern examples like China, South Korea, Japan, Germany until they decided to destroy their industry for green goals etc.
weirdmantis69··on House of Lords Votes to Ban UK Children from Using Internet VPNs
People worry about the US but there is no country I'm more worried about than the UK.
weirdmantis69··on U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office
I'm very curious about this because even tho we need to preserve democracy, some elements of meritocracy also seem needed. Obviously as Xi's latest purges show, there is some politics to it as well, but China does seem to do a fairly good job of meritocracy in the bureaucracy.
weirdmantis69··on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
Ya it's so weird lol
weirdmantis69··on Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee
good little sheeple.
weirdmantis69··on What Will You Do When AI runs Out of Money and Disappear?
Why lie on a site where people know things.
weirdmantis69··on Miami, your Waymo ride is ready
but then that guy has to get home somehow
weirdmantis69··on Why I don't have fun with Claude Code
Is it a bubble waiting to implode or is it going to be detrimental to all junior devs?
weirdmantis69··on Why I don't have fun with Claude Code
I'm more the final product oriented. I think this made me a less good developer but hopefully I'm going to thrive in the newer world.
weirdmantis69··on Ask HN: What's an API that you wish existed?
General sports APIs where you can get real time and historical sports data.
weirdmantis69··on Tech workers ask their bosses to pressure Trump over ICE crackdowns
I thought they fired most of these people. I guess more cuts incoming.
weirdmantis69··on American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis
So since you are so smart what do you think of the trade deficit collapsing?
weirdmantis69··on Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction
It's forward looking P/E is 24-26. That doesn't seem like a huge crash is coming. It could come down a bit but they print money. They also have potential car market and robots coming in.
weirdmantis69··on Greenland Crisis
What do you think selling US bonds will do? Because selling US bonds is good for the US actually.
weirdmantis69··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
If Something Cannot Go on Forever, It Will Stop
weirdmantis69··on To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
AI can often synthesis information out of for example, code and screenshots and navigate a website. It could effectively document the current state of a given web application for example whereas most companies have 0 documentation whatsoever.
weirdmantis69··on GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
Guess what the U stands for
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