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New comment by mrkramer in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

mrkramer — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:23:05 +0000

I feel like they overhired over the years and now they reap what they sow. AI just accelerated their awareness of overhiring. I think if Cloudflare or any other well established software company stopped hiring this year, they would be doing the same as they did last year. At the end even the management will be replaced by AI.

New comment by mrkramer in "AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities"

mrkramer — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:56:49 +0000

I actually think the good old Page rank[0] is crucial because if the authoritative sources link to some website, webpage or content it means that particular item provides some kind of value to the entity that linked it. I'm also a big fan of metadata which can be used to describe web content and make the content more usable to the search engines and the Web users.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

New comment by mrkramer in "AI slop is killing online communities"

mrkramer — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:26:11 +0000

The importance of good search engines and good discovery engines will grow even more.

New comment by mrkramer in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

mrkramer — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:11:36 +0000

I meant this https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency..., this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_euro and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_renminbi

New comment by mrkramer in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

mrkramer — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:47:55 +0000

I meant digital dollar and digital euro, you won't need Visa and Mastercard anymore.

New comment by mrkramer in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

mrkramer — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:38:31 +0000

Pix is for domestic use right? So tourists who come to Brazil still use Visa and Mastercard as well as Brazilian tourists who travel abroad. Visa and Mastercard are companies of the past, crypto and stablecoins will destroy them sooner or later.

New comment by mrkramer in "DeepSeek v4"

mrkramer — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:36:07 +0000

All empires are to some degree evil because their agenda is to dominate weaker peoples and nations. They almost all committed crimes against humanity and genocides if you look retrospectively from the todays point of view. Even our beloved Roman Empire that the Western civilization is built upon was genocidal empire.

New comment by mrkramer in "The hottest college major [Computer Science] hit a wall. What happened?"

mrkramer — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:52:13 +0000

Some things are better when they are outsourced because other companies specialized for that problem set. Just like you won't roll your own cryptography, you won't and can't do everything in-house.

New comment by mrkramer in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

mrkramer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:19:32 +0000

Good luck competing with Google which has "unlimited" budget.

New comment by mrkramer in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

mrkramer — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:56:42 +0000

Epic lost billions of dollars when they were kicked out of the App Store and Google Play and they were out for a long time. Only now Fortnite is coming back to mobile.

New comment by mrkramer in "Regex Blaster"

mrkramer — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:22:26 +0000

I vibe code web apps with Google's Gemini and I think it actually mimics Google's UI and UX because I see similarities between my vibe coded web apps and Google's web apps.

New comment by mrkramer in "Regex Blaster"

mrkramer — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:13:02 +0000

This looks like something I would vibe code with Google's Gemini. Interesting concept.

New comment by mrkramer in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

mrkramer — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:13:34 +0000

I use to have wired headphones for years but wires always get damaged over time and then headphones stop working. Now I got wireless headphones.

New comment by mrkramer in "Random Numbers, Persian Code: A Mysterious Signal"

mrkramer — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:46:43 +0000

Isn't this a risky way to transfer intelligence information because when people see gibberish data they will know something fishy is going on. Better way would be to use subliminal channels[0] for intelligence exchange.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_channel

New comment by mrkramer in "Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting from beyond the grave"

mrkramer — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:13:08 +0000

At least nobody will be able to sue you for things you say when you are dead. Zuck will get all the lawsuits.

New comment by mrkramer in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

mrkramer — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:06:20 +0000

It was just one of my numerous thought experiments....starting with text only social network (like Moltbook) is probably way easier than to go with full blown Facebook/Instagram type network.

New comment by mrkramer in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

mrkramer — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:03:13 +0000

Tbh I don't care if I speak to a human or a bot as long as they are "useful"; by useful I mean if they provide me useful information but then again humans can provide unique information that bots can not. But I think identity is not relevant anymore, what's relevant is reputation. People think internet bots are bad per se but we need to build useful bots, just like there are chat bots that are useful on various platforms like Telegram, Discord or whatever other platforms people use.

New comment by mrkramer in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

mrkramer — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:59:17 +0000

I had a similar idea where AI bots run its own social network and talk to each other but my AI social network would be more realistic (human-like) e.g. AI Instagram-like network where AI bots would share their photos and comment on each other posts.

New comment by mrkramer in "Major airline bans 'barebeaters' across all 24 daily flights from UK airports"

mrkramer — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:36:38 +0000

I've never seen or heard anyone listen music out loud from his or her phone in the public transit or on the airplane. They all have headphones but sometimes they listen music so loud that you can actually hear it from the headphones or earbuds. People usually listen out loud some short clips or they talk out loud via speaker but music, that's just disrespectful.

New comment by mrkramer in "OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading"

mrkramer — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:44:55 +0000

Inside trading on the public market and on the public blockchain, that's smart!