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I 100% agree.

fascinating and thank you for the great explanation. I was actually going to followup and ask with regards to AI but your response covered it aswell :)

theses types of adaptations make it easier for the species to go extinct since its so highly specialized.

super interesting. I'm guessing because being highly dependent on a single tactic can make it difficult to adapt or course change ?

This is a very exaggerated take. I have an Apple M5 Max with 128 GB ram running 15'ish Coasts (coasts.dev) environments, each of them running postgress, python, redis and FE stack + locally running voice models and face swap models .. and the only time the fan kicks in is when I open multiple google analytics tabs.

By that same logic (and I’m agreeing with you as of now), engineers shouldn’t get too comfortable treating “being good at text communication” as a lasting edge. With how quickly agentic coding is evolving, it’s worth considering the possibility that many of the prompting and steering skills we view as valuable today could become far less important in a matter of weeks or months.

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100% !

You are theoretically right to assume this but practically this will never happen (i.e iran's nuclear ambitions) .. let me explain

As Putin once quipped, "having the desire to do something is very different from having the ability to do something" ..

Iran can desire as much as they like to "want" and "have" a nuclear program .. but the objective truth is that US just crushed the intellectual and philosophical source of this desire by eliminating their rolodex of ayatollahs ... whether you agree or not with this approach is a different matter but US has been successful in scrubbing the source of that desire so aggressively that the new hopefuls are simply exhausted to play the nuclear long game ..

Now at a personal note, I live between Dubai and London (previously Hamburg) and all these places have a significant Iranian diaspore and not a single one of those people in my circle is against what the US did and is doing in Iran ..

What hilarious though is that some HN folks have such vitriolic hate for Trump (based on the comments of the OP's post) that they'd rather see Iran have a nuclear capability than admitting that the defanging of Iran's nuclear program has been a good thing for the world ...

Agreed. There's no place for racist slurs on HN, especially when they're posted from behind anonymous usernames. It's often the kind of thing people wouldn't dare say under their real name if their livelihood depended on it ;)

You should try Natoora in Notting Hill or Daylesford. I live in Belgravia and am admittedly spoiled for choice .. the Harrods Food Hall has excellent seasonal and harder to find fruits, and Daylesford consistently has some of the best British produce I've come across... the one in Sloane street even has the best organic Alphanso Mangos from India.

As for Brexit, I actually think it's been a net positive.

to me this phrase/word/term is in the same category as "weaponization" .. they are rhetorically powerful because they do a lot of emotional work before any argument has been made .. Once you've labeled something as "fracking" or "weaponized," you've already framed it as extractive, destructive, and morally suspect ..

P.S. my completely unscientific heuristic is that whenever an authors bio contains phrases like "late stage capitalism" or a Bluesky account (not X cause OBVIOUSLY Elon is evil), theres a decent chance the article will arrive pre loaded with conclusions rather than arguments ...

i dont buy it ..if the concren is undisclosed affiliations, then study all undisclosed affiliations .. instead we get a defence only study, because "defence industry ties" are assumed to be inherently suspect ..

Regardless, when the topic is national security, defence- ector experience is often exactly the expertise you want... not some acadmic or commie whod rather we not

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It’s great for society. It may not be working for you, but don’t project that on the rest of the world.

weird boomer flex but okay

stunning to watch one of the countries the world owes so much to in terms of scientific and intellectual progress drift toward something this dumb .. if the reporting is accurate.

I lived in Hamburg for thrre years, and the town center constantly felt like a stage for some protest .. activist NGO campaign .. or ideological cause., .. and every time you mentioned it .. folks would respond with the same almost predictable utterence about how “protest is part of German democratic tradition” and how proud they are of it ..

what was interesting though was that privately, a lot of them quietly agreed with my observations .. especially coming from an Indian guy, because they knew I wasn’t coming at it from some stereotypical right wing European angle...

What a weird first world problem this guy has …

thanks for sharing .. given tech policy press's editorial perspective, i'd take the result with a grain of salt. … also tbh .. the existence of the poll is almost as interesting as the outcome .. reminds me of taleb's "wittgenstein's ruler" from black swan .. before using a ruler to measure a table, you should probably know whether the ruler itself is trustworthy.

the poll may be telling us as much about the priorities and assumptions of the people asking the question as it does about public opinion… in fact, the need to run a poll on this specific question arguably says more about the agenda behind it than the resuglt itself ..

I didn’t notice. But regardless, a summit doesn't dictate or reflect the desires and opinions of 27 member states and its 450 million citizens and more importantly its companies and business to want to switch to European alternatives.

To give you an example, if India or China or Africa holds a summit on climate change, it doesn’t mean that its citizens want that or even care about it.

Anyway, the idea that such a big geography should move away from the best software factory of the world because it has some political agenda with its current leader is both impossible and overall quite childish and will never come to fruition.

The subtitle “Across Europe, there have been increased concerns about the bloc’s reliance on American tech.” is false and really an economic chamber.

The author has no basis for this claim, factually or otherwise .. maybe a small tiny group would love to see this happen, but EU is happy like rest of the world minus China to enjoy the products made by great American software companies.

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Im a big fan of democracy. It's made me fabulously wealthy compared to the third world one party socialist system (until early 2000s) I grew up under ... my point isn't that the US knows better than Dutch voters. It's that I doubt the average Dutch person (and by average I literally mean the 99%) gives a flying f*K about whether Google Cloud is the right place to store data or whether AWS is a monopoly. Most people care about housing, jobs, wages, immigration, crime, healthcare, and the cost of living ... the reason these bureaucrates can spend so much time meddling in tech is precisely because most people aren't paying attention. I'd like to see the same regulatory energy directed at the problems ordinary people actually talk about at the dinner table ..

It’s not so innocent and pure are you are trying to portray. The average person cares more about important issues like immigration, jobs, economy .. not self appointed experts trying to regulate software companies about things that don’t have material impact on their lives ..

this is great for both consumers and businesses. The fake intellectual doomers who constantly lecture about how evil ads are, how everything is “gamed,” and how the internet is supposedly collapsing should probably sit this one out ;)

This is a racist sentiment. Shame on you.

He’s talking about outsourcing/pollution economics, not rhat Chinese people are inferior .. not every inelegant sentence needs to be turned into a civil rights case .. [insert clown emoji here]

You can almost map each comment to a kubler ross stage

@deadbabe 100%

THIS COMMENT IS GOLD.

Another example I can point to is software security. For context, I’ve built and sold two edtech companies that taught enterprise developers about software security .. It didn’t matter how good the training content was .. ouur product replaced boring appsec video training with interactive labs, vulnerable code snippets to hack and fix .. gamification ... leaderboards .. whatever it took so they couldn’t complain about having to watch boring videos .. however the completion rates sucked .. because they just didn’t care regardless of how hard we tried ..

Now post AI .. my Linkedn is full of blogs and think pieces about how important “software threat modelling” and “cybersecurity” are, and how “coding was never the hard part.” ... suddenly, TM, something only a tiny fraction of companies actually practice, is being framed as the real challenge .. and having deep understanding of OWASP / secure design , vulnerable dependencies ..secure architecture ,, is the real bottle neck .. lol

100% .. as a product designer/developer, i use it heavily for early feature ideation .. i’ll do a loose, exploratory back and forth on a long walk .. then pass the transcript to claude to validate and turn into a spec ..

I’m in the UK/Dubai, so I can’t help much with SF but the best spot I can recommend in Palo Alto is Ettan. Their chicken biryani is a modern interpretation and very close to the recipe you’d find in most five star hotels in India.

In London, the most authentic biryani (by which I mean closest to the original style, before other regions adapted it to their own tastes) is Awadhi/Lucknowi biryani. You can find a great version at Biryani Kebab & Chai in Soho, and another solid option is at TH@51 Restaurant & Bar at St. James’ Court, which is owned by Taj Hotels ,.. a very old school Indian hotel group ...