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thinkindie··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
there are videos of bulldozer in the West Bank eradicating secular olive trees from Palestinian farmland. There is no Hamas in West Bank, no tunnels, no fighters.
thinkindie··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
in a way it's not much different from a time where the E icon of internet explorer was considered "the internet".
thinkindie··on The two Christian saints who are the Buddha
whoever came up with this website name is definitely not Italian, as you would rather say "Signor Galilei".
thinkindie··on Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
I've ramped up my MCP game this year, I started with Linear and Notion and I recently launched an internal MCP for internal data that is being used by my colleagues too for reporting and preparing for meetings with customers (we do upsells for hotels www.upsellguru.com ). It seems like that some of the most tech savvy customers are looking forward to use it too and we may open to them too.
thinkindie··on We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora
Why not serving files compressed if the client supports it even though the origin served an uncompressed file?
thinkindie··on Why some US restaurants are banning tips
with far less cultural differences.
thinkindie··on Dropbox is an obvious PE Target?
They acquired already WeTransfer and Dropbox could be a natural fit with that.
thinkindie··on US's largest newspaper chain partners with Palantir to analyze audience data
they were the one coming up with forward deployed engineers, weren't they? The least I would expect from this model is that I own the whole infra.
thinkindie··on My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
my apple watch triggers a high noise notification every time wind blows a bit stronger than a gentle breeze.
thinkindie··on Western Sahara
I visited the Saharawi refugees camps around 15 years ago or so in the south-west corner of Algeria.

They have been living in a limbo for 50 years at this point, but they still feel like they will be able to go back to their land therefore they don't really settle there (they are also in the middle of a desert). Some people gave up on the idea to return to their land (but still feel temporary), others were really frustrated with the fact nothing moved and you could see this frustration at the annual demo in front of the "Muro de la Verguenza", which is the "wall" erected by the Moroccans with landmines and strongholds along the front line.

thinkindie··on Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest
Question is - when is Claude going to adopt this new version?
thinkindie··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
the US can make Iran look like Afghanistan and still loose the war.
thinkindie··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
Additionally, early success doesn't mean long term success. The US won in Afghanistan initially, then they got dragged in a conflict for 20 years and ultimately Taliban came back.
thinkindie··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
According to the US administration Iran military was supposed to be obliterated, and still. Either way, they have figure out they have a much cheaper way to hold Trump by the balls, and let him dance to their tune. I believe Ukraine and Iran are showing that there is a new level of inflicting damage to your aggressor.
thinkindie··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
the modern USA territory was never taken over, but the US military had to pack and leave quickly in a few occasions. Just because Vietnamese couldn't fight back in the US, nor the Talibans, doesn't mean that the US wasn't defeated.

But even that, let's remember that the British invaded and occupied Washington, burned down White House and Capitol, etc etc.

thinkindie··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
Iran has been preparing for this war for almost 50 years, and they have more leverage than Vietnamese or Talebans had.
thinkindie··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
It wouldn’t be the first war the USA loose against a smaller enemy. See Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc etc.
thinkindie··on Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website
Are you sure? I spoke about decathlon in Canada with a friend of mine living there (Ottawa) and she says it’s there.
thinkindie··on The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn't coming anytime soon
There are several things: * economic uncertainty (wars, energy shocks, etc) * policies chaos * end of free money (interest rates)
thinkindie··on The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency
We’ve never had a QA because we are on a tight budget but our PM is acting as a gatekeeper before declaring something as done.

However, there were too many cases that things were delivered as “ready” when they were not. PR review was not enough as everyone were checking diffs from GitHub only.

I implemented an intermediate step where the responsible engineer must post a screenshot or a short video of the ticket before passing to the PM and that alone resolved a lot of issues before they materialized on customers screens, just because you must take the extra effort to work on a proof of work.

thinkindie··on When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?
I don't think that gaming is the focus of the DC discussed in this article. I don't think gaming will ever require a massive buildup as AI nowadays.
thinkindie··on The human-in-the-loop is tired
It’s not just the destination - there are infinite shades of caring too much about every single line of code (spaces! Tabs! Inline open curly braces! Next line) and caring about the final result without attention to what is running under the hood.
thinkindie··on The human-in-the-loop is tired
I know exactly what he means - and as I said it all depends on personal drivers/motivation etc etc. take doctors: some starts the profession to make money other to care about people. Both categories can live under the same roof in a hospital.
thinkindie··on Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars
A friend of mine went through the same - he got an alert for bill over budget, he logged in and boom 107M$.

I was on the phone with him and we checked that he didn’t leak any APIs keys but no traffic at all. I even thought of a breach at a vendor he uses for some s3 stuff before I found this thread on HN.

thinkindie··on The human-in-the-loop is tired
I think it all depends on your personal driver: personally I rather see a product I built in whatever way used by ever growing number of people because they find it useful. It means that the time I spent working on that helped other people solving a problem (hopefully).

That’s why a was always keen on cutting some corners when and where necessary in order to think about the user first and the code beauty second.

Of course I appreciate well structured and maintainable code but you can always strike a balance, even with LLMs assisted coding sessions.

thinkindie··on Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers
the same as the American hardware - none.

(although you can say that Europe retained some manufacture capacity)

thinkindie··on Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers
How? If anything it seems like they are accelerating some processes - not least the export control over Fable just few days ago or the erratic behavior with the war with Iran
thinkindie··on Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers
As an European, I really don't get where this strategy wants to take the USA to. It's pretty clear everyone is getting scared about changes like this that happen overnight, without clear reason and completely unpredictable.

Business requires a stable environment, and Trump is making everything in his power to disrupt business stability. Ultimately, I see the rest of the world (especially Europe) relying less and less on US tech. The long term damage is done.

All the US companies that used to think about the entire world (minus China) as their market will figure out that it is much smaller then they used to think.

thinkindie··on Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity
https://archive.is/2g0QI
thinkindie··on GoPro warned it may not survive
it's not the first nor the last case. Another excellent similar case was Nokia.
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