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I’ve shipped backend in Java since 2005. Coded in many other languages. Built an Android app in 2018 — it fought me. iOS dev has humbled me for 4 years. Claude Code finally got me unstuck — but mobile is genuinely harder than the rest of the stack pretends. Am I alone here?

During the Nuremberg Trials, Hermann Göring gave an interview to psychologist Gustave Gilbert and said: “Of course the people don’t want war. Why would some poor farmer want to risk his life in a war when the best he can hope for is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, people don’t want war. No one wants war in Russia, England, America — not even in Germany. That’s obvious. But in the end, it’s the leaders of a country who determine policy. And it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it’s a democracy, a communist state, a parliament, or a fascist dictatorship.” Gilbert objected: “But there is one difference in a democracy — the people have a voice through their elected representatives.” To which Göring replied: “That’s all well and good, but whether the people have a voice or not, they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nuremberg Diary, April 18, 1946 Doesn’t it sound familiar?

Just remember: Your coworkers will NOT be there for you in the last chapter of your life.

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Yet another expert on Germany

They say, "Remove negative people from your environment". Yesterday, Claude's output quality, today, X. What's next, Gergely?! What's next?! 😂

@denisyurchak I don't have an answer, but there are various places where you can find what you're looking for: - ebc-frankfurt.de/mitgliedschaft/. - zpjj.de/membership - kingdomhq.de

I don't understand one thing about Austria and Germany – why gym memberships start from 6 months minimum and have 1-month notice periods to cancel? And single-entry tickets usually cost 1/3 to 1/2 of a whole month subsription! This is super unfriendly to tourists and digital nomads. Meanwhile, the boxing gym in Warsaw I go to has both cheap single-entry cards and 1-month subscriptions So you can train when you are in a city and then not commit to it like to a job

Most Russian-language content on YouTube: "Blah-blah-blah... subscribe to my Telegram channel"

Is anyone doing this yet? Don't you feel like you're prisoners sewing uniforms for the guards?

I live such a boring life... because I don't need such agents. However, it looks impressive 👏

Why don't you all just have children? What's the point of discussing it?

@paulg @nikitabier I view it more as a platform for recruiters - I often see their posts. As well as for people in B2B sales and coaching.

@nikitabier I don't think the problem with LinkedIn is that it's too capitalist, but more that it's too middle-management.

X is sufficiently capitalist where it is valuable to post & build a reputation here (unlike reddit or 4chan), but not so capitalist that it drains your soul like Linkedin. It’s perfect.

THIS GUY LOST $200 IN ONE DAY BECAUSE THE STRING "HERMES.md" WAS IN HIS GIT COMMITS HERMES.md is a real convention used in AI agent projects. it's a system prompt specification file. not some obscure edge case he's on claude max 20x at $200 a month. yesterday claude code hit him with "you're out of extra usage" out of nowhere his dashboard showed 13% weekly usage. 0% current session. 86% of his plan was sitting there untouched but $200.98 in extra usage already burned through what should have been covered by his subscription he tried logout & login, different models, fresh installs and nothing worked anthropic support sent the ai bot (four rounds of the same scripted response). eventually they just gave up on him so he started binary searching repos and commits manually on his own time until he found the trigger the string "HERMES.md" in a recent git commit message uppercase, with the .md extension, anywhere in your commit history that's it claude code includes recent commits in its system prompt and something server side flags HERMES.md and quietly routes you off your max plan onto API rate billing > AGENTS.md? fine > README.md? fine > HERMES without .md? fine > lowercase hermes.md? fine > uppercase HERMES.md? you're getting charged API rates he reported it. anthropic support acknowledged the bug three times, called it an "authentication routing issue", thanked him for finding it then refused to refund the $200 so the man pays $200 a month for max, lost another $200 to a billing bug they confirmed, did anthropic's QA work for free on his weekend, and got a "thank you for your patience" in return check your commit history before claude code quietly drains your account too

If AI helps you, why does everyone need to know about it? If AI only produces slop, why convince everyone of it?

Long-Term Money Some thoughts on generational progress and spoiled kids. collabfund.com/blog/long-term…

I had never heard of jules.google before, and today I got an email from them saying: "...you've been such a big part of building and offering feedback over the last year, that we wanted you to be among the first to know..." What's going on, @julesagent?

@tferriss How's life going? Wanna play padel together this weekend?

If you ended up sitting next to a Nobel Prize winner or billionaire, what would you ask them? If you only had 2 to 5 minutes and they were willing to talk, how could you make the most of it?

Yoga decreases cortisol. Walking decreases cortisol. Hugging decreases cortisol. Laughing decreases cortisol. Gratitude decreases cortisol. Journaling decreases cortisol. Being kind decreases cortisol. Meditating decreases cortisol. Time in nature decreases cortisol. Helping others decreases cortisol. Slow breathing decreases cortisol. Getting sunlight decreases cortisol. Listening to music decreases cortisol. Limiting phone use decreases cortisol. Petting your dog/cat decreases cortisol. Getting enough sleep decreases cortisol.