Hacker News: LaGrange

New comment by LaGrange in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

LaGrange — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:03:58 +0000

And now I find myself staring at Zig and Java as my preferred languages. Zig is very C-like, so I feel like I'm back to the 90s - except a bit less miserable in some ways, more miserable in others.

Even the fashion seems similar - at least based on the teens I saw at the concert I went to recently (I'm not exactly a frequent event-goer) - including, of course, the anorexia. I should check out how the demoscene and FastTracker music are doing.

New comment by LaGrange in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

LaGrange — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:17:59 +0000

It’s more than one thing but the surfactants are pretty bad.

New comment by LaGrange in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

LaGrange — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:11:30 +0000

Actually the aesthetic preferences of people I regularly work with are important to me.

New comment by LaGrange in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

LaGrange — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:10:39 +0000

In my own experience it works pretty well. In fact better than the autoformatters.

It was essentially not an issue. Sometimes I’d grumble about someone, but it would never get in my way the way black or ruff would regularly.

New comment by LaGrange in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

LaGrange — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:05:58 +0000

Gods forbid I talk to people I work with, learn their preferences, and figure out the way we can accommodate each other. Sounds like such a waste of energy. It’s so much better if we all acquiesce to the preferences of some people neither of works with!

New comment by LaGrange in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

LaGrange — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:40:57 +0000

Don’t forget to light some candles and invoke the name of the Omnissiah while you’re at it.

New comment by LaGrange in "Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed"

LaGrange — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:02:04 +0000

Yeah, that too. Like, being old enough to get my start largely in internet cafes means I actually _had_ in-person interactions with the type of person we're talking about - and they were _not_ nicer.

Being kinda big I might even stand a chance against one - unless they had a knife, which they probably IME did - but there was always at least 5 of the "lonely lost boys," at least one carrying a baseball bat everywhere.

New comment by LaGrange in "Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed"

LaGrange — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:59:20 +0000

> As a parent now (but oldest is only 5), it's stories like this which make me determined remain aware of the kind of stuff my kids get up to and continually explain that actions have consequences, even if those consequences are seemingly as trivial as making someone else feel shit about themselves.

Weird, somehow without significant parental surveillance or explicit explanation I somehow managed to _not_ do much of the awful stuff my acquaintances with much more engaged parents did.

Must have been my autism, I guess.

New comment by LaGrange in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

LaGrange — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:16:58 +0000

Yep, that. Sorry, growing up in Poland I know the amount of horrors the EU _prevented_.

Europe without EU isn’t democracy, it’s a bunch of fiefdoms.

New comment by LaGrange in "The new HTTP QUERY method explained"

LaGrange — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:24:30 +0000

I will keep using POST and not some weird thing that isn’t supported by a proxy living in the basement of a shoe store in Wageningen or whatever.

New comment by LaGrange in "There are no instances in ATProto"

LaGrange — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:59:00 +0000

Frontends and relays are far closer to “quacking like an instance.” That’s where your sysop’s power lives. The PDS itself isn’t very powerful - can’t meaningfully limit who you can talk to, for example.

New comment by LaGrange in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

LaGrange — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:30:37 +0000

By 2031 the best employer in Europe will be the water gangs.

New comment by LaGrange in "A dumpster arrived behind my university's library"

LaGrange — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:11:00 +0000

Other paper books. Or the same books but electronic or reprinted when the demand is higher. Just not the exact same pieces of highly fetishized dead wood.

New comment by LaGrange in "A dumpster arrived behind my university's library"

LaGrange — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:20:34 +0000

Some people truly love paper books more than having people read books. It’s one of the more seemingly paradoxical ways anti-intellectualism manifests.

New comment by LaGrange in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

LaGrange — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:37:04 +0000

No we don’t. And the greatest hazard is the soul crushing disappointment that is a Dutch tomato.

New comment by LaGrange in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

LaGrange — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:42:28 +0000

It's so funny reading about how the problem with Wayland is that you have many, often incomplete, implementations while being old enough to remember the time when X11 was actually popular (and thus had many, often incomplete, implementations).

New comment by LaGrange in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

LaGrange — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:04:46 +0000

If you’re a software engineer then yes, I can and do expect you to understand all that.

New comment by LaGrange in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

LaGrange — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:39:46 +0000

I mean normal people shun LLM users so it’s no wonder it’s true for you.

New comment by LaGrange in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

LaGrange — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:57:26 +0000

I don't think we're Ukraine's "teachers," and our treatment of Ukraine was historically just as rough at times.

New comment by LaGrange in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

LaGrange — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:00:06 +0000

We were. And “hard workers” is code for “easily exploited.”

Anyway the trick to explosive growth as a country is who you trade with and how you count things. We now sell things to Germany instead of USSR, of course there’s “growth.” There’s also some very real growth, quite a bit of it - but I wouldn’t put one bit of care in a “top 20 biggest economies” ranking. NL is one of the biggest food exporters in the world because it sells mediocre tomatoes to Germany instead of selling rice to Brazil and food exports are counted in euros, not calories.