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13,000 US casualties in this war. The public is being deceived



> Oracle is worth $400 billion > Its founder is the third richest man on the planet > Oracle reported a 22% revenue gain this quarter Still they fired 30,000 employees over email to fund AI Data centers. You don't hate billionaires enough.


so... I audited Garry's website after he bragged about 37K LOC/day and a 72-day shipping streak. here's what 78,400 lines of AI slop code actually looks like in production. a single homepage load of garryslist.org downloads 6.42 MB across 169 requests. for a newsletter-blog-thingy. 1/9🧵




is there something like google docs, but for markdown? i need a cloud based collaborative markdown editor please.




Our health checks passed during an outage. For 40 minutes. The endpoint returned 200 but the DB pool was exhausted. App was lying to the LB. Added a real dependency check to the health endpoint. A health check that does not check health is not a health check.


my indian cousins are all very hesitant about spending money. to outsiders, it seems like indians are cheap. but something way more interesting is happening. we dropped wispr flow's price from $12 to ₹300 ($3.30) in india. our users started converting at rates we'd never seen in the us. most companies look at purchasing power parity, apply a discount, and think they're done. then they wonder why nobody buys. the math isn't the problem. the mindset is. ₹300 isn't just "cheaper than $12." it's the cost of a month of mobile data, netflix india, or a meal for two. at $12, we're asking someone to choose us over their phone bill. at ₹300, we fit into their life. but it's not just the price. indians aren't "price-sensitive." they're spending-conscious. price-sensitive = wants something cheap. spending-conscious = every rupee must be worth it. so beyond lowering the price: 1/ over-invested in reliability. one crash and you lose trust for months. 2/ responded to every support ticket within hours. 3/ explained every decision transparently. why this price? why this feature? we don't hide anything. the result: 75% of indian users buy annual plans upfront vs 50% in the us. they're not testing it out. they're committing from day one. because we committed to them first.















