Hacker News: AndyPa32

New comment by AndyPa32 in "Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?"

AndyPa32 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:59:01 +0000

Usually that false quote is attributed to Blaise Pascal, but I have also seen it being attributed to Albert Einstein.

I am a fan of falsely attributed quotes...

New comment by AndyPa32 in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

AndyPa32 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:09:52 +0000

You may not want to hear this, but this came down on you the day russian troups entered a sovereign country, the day your missiles attacked a sovereign country.

Slava Ukraini!

The audacity of those bots these days.

New comment by AndyPa32 in "LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor"

AndyPa32 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:02:06 +0000

AI;DR

New comment by AndyPa32 in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

AndyPa32 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:14:09 +0000

There are regions in Germany (Hessen) where "Azure" is pronounced the exact same way as "Ärger" (trouble). Makes you think...

New comment by AndyPa32 in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

AndyPa32 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 08:01:29 +0000

I disagree with cheapest. If you factor in twenty years build time and nuclear waste disposal, the whole thing is not economically viable.

Then there's a problem with nuclear fuel. The sources are mostly countries you don't want to depend on.

You are of course right with your assessment that nuclear is green, safe and eco-friendly. That's a hard one to swallow for a lot of eco activists.

New comment by AndyPa32 in "Kenvue stock drops on report RFK Jr will link autism to Tylenol during pregnancy"

AndyPa32 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 21:28:45 +0000

The risk of NSAID ulcers can be vastly reduced by Pantoprazole (Protonix®)

New comment by AndyPa32 in "An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia"

AndyPa32 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:48:51 +0000

The first thing I tell the juniors under my supervision: any LLM is not a fact machine, even though sometimes it pretends to be. Double check everything!

New comment by AndyPa32 in "Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs"

AndyPa32 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 08:57:06 +0000

It's not. I use vim on a daily basis, but all I do with it is writing commit messages. The rest I do with an IDE or different editor. I'm surely not alone with that.

New comment by AndyPa32 in "Apache ECharts"

AndyPa32 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 09:08:57 +0000

The "Examples" page doesn't work for me. I don't get further than "Line Charts". (Firefox)

New comment by AndyPa32 in "Addition with flamethrowers – why game devs don't unit test"

AndyPa32 — Sat, 25 May 2024 08:37:47 +0000

> Games are just software engineering. Fun software engineering.

I do question the "fun" part. Midnight crunches, unpaid overtime and - as far as I have read - some of the worst working conditions in all of software engineering. I pass.

New comment by AndyPa32 in "Full AMD Linux Laptop (Radeon 7600M XT GPU, Ryzen CPU): Tuxedo Sirius 16 Review"

AndyPa32 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 19:44:54 +0000

I have a TUXEDO Pulse 15 - Gen1 for almost 4 years now. And I am running Debian. Works great for me.

New comment by AndyPa32 in "If architects had to work like programmers (1995)"

AndyPa32 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 08:20:42 +0000

As an architect and tech consultant I mostly advise against going all in on microservices. And when I do recommend them, tooling is never part of the argument. Organizational and team structures are.

New comment by AndyPa32 in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022)"

AndyPa32 — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 21:39:20 +0000

Almost the same here. But I have two files, one as archive for completed stuff.

New comment by AndyPa32 in "All code is technical debt"

AndyPa32 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:37:23 +0000

In a similar vein I always try to convince colleagues that the best code is the one that is never written. As a close second the code that has been deleted. It has no bugs and doesn't need maintenance.

New comment by AndyPa32 in "The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)"

AndyPa32 — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 18:20:06 +0000

I don't think that it's a contradiction.

Too much of any of those is bad. Four year olds are driven by feeling only. Psychopaths are driven by thought only. You don't want the world in the hands of any of those.

It's a good mix of both feeling and reason that we should strive for.

New comment by AndyPa32 in "System76's Lemur Pro Laptop Is Just a Nice Linux Laptop"

AndyPa32 — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 15:12:16 +0000

I have one running almost all the time. Bought it three years ago and it just works.

When I bought it, there was the option to not include a separate Graphics card. Onboard is just fine for me. And that brought down the price considerably.

However, they currently don't have that many AMD options for Laptops, so my next one probably won't be System76.

PopOS never did it for me. Not once did it survive a system upgrade. So I just switched back to Debian.

New comment by AndyPa32 in "Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]"

AndyPa32 — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 11:06:38 +0000

Yes, it's different for different patients.

It's also true that chemo treatment has gotten better over the years. Chemo 20 years ago was much harsher and it's not the same anymore. Advancements in pharmacology.

New comment by AndyPa32 in "RabbitMQ vs. Kafka – An Architect’s Dilemma (Part 1)"

AndyPa32 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 20:44:56 +0000

Yes, I can confirm that. Confluent is the most expensive part of our current infrastructure.

New comment by AndyPa32 in "GraalVM for JDK 21"

AndyPa32 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:24:08 +0000

Yes, Jackson really was a bummer. To this day I can't understand how a project like Springboot advertises Graalvm readiness when Jackson is not supported without tweaks. What do the Springboot devs think we are using Springboot for, Hello World blog posts?

New comment by AndyPa32 in "Ableton Push 3"

AndyPa32 — Tue, 23 May 2023 10:39:45 +0000

I't think, it's not packaging. From RPM to DEB to Snap to flatpack there are lots of options. But support I get. KDE, Gnome or whatever choice of window manager, many different distributions etc., that sounds like support hell.