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New comment by alex_suzuki in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

alex_suzuki — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:20:48 +0000

We also have great chocolate.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

alex_suzuki — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:14:27 +0000

Yeah I used to live in Zurich before moving into the boonies. We were the first party in the house of 8 to want fiber, filled out a form, ISP contacted house owner and everything was up and running in a manner of days.

I now own (or rather the bank does) a small house in a more rural canton, and while it’s possible to apply for fiber, you have to pay a significant part of the cost yourself, last I checked it was more than 5K CHF. Not really worth it. I get 400 MBit/s over copper at home from Init7. When fiber is rolled out in the street, they will upgrade it for free.

Edit: added link to https://www.swisscom.ch/de/about/netz/anschluss/ftthondemand...

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

alex_suzuki — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:24:06 +0000

Swiss here. Just a minor clarification on the article: fibre is not available everywhere in Switzerland. Actually the rollout has been quite slow, and chances are that if you live in a rural or suburban area (like me) or in an older building then you might not have fibre, and are limited to (fairly decent) copper.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

alex_suzuki — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:39:06 +0000

I hate that this is the first thing that crosses my mind now anytime I read a well-written article.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

alex_suzuki — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:16:13 +0000

It’s a fairly long article, maybe they had it summarized and came to that conclusion…

Musk asks SpaceX IPO banks to buy Grok AI subscriptions, NYT reports

alex_suzuki — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:45:14 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/musk-asks-spacex-ipo-banks-181543226.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636505

Points: 2

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New comment by alex_suzuki in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"

alex_suzuki — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:16:59 +0000

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47527415

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Overcoming the friendship recession"

alex_suzuki — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:29:09 +0000

It’s true for me, and probably for most parents, that connecting with other parents via the shared experience of haing kids is easy: there’s always something to talk about. But I also find that for me, both parties having kids is simply not enough for it to click! I knew my close friends from before I had kids, the connection was already there.

I agree that making new friends across the “kids barrier” is hard. You just live in different worlds.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Overcoming the friendship recession"

alex_suzuki — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:12:02 +0000

For me, kids have had a “filtering” effect. Where previously I had a lot of friends (including shallow ones), having less time and being less flexible in general compressed my circle of friends to just a few people with whom I share both a deeper connection and a mutual understanding that the pressures of life sometimes get between us, and that’s ok. And as another commenter mentioned, kids do grow older…

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Overcoming the friendship recession"

alex_suzuki — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:59:34 +0000

Same here. Spam calls have really picked up these last couple of years, I also get multiple per day. Here in Switzerland you need to register with your ID to get a mobile phone number, but somehow these spam callers still manage to appear to be calling from a mobile phone, which used to be a strong signal for “not spam”. It’s gotten so bad that I completely ignore unknown numbers, except if I’m expecting a call. This has its own downsides of course. Tragedy of the commons. :-( Maybe call screening can help, but at least on iOS it isn’t available yet here.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

alex_suzuki — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:41:56 +0000

Remember to have a little something parked on your savings account. Compounding interest works in your favour over a few centuries.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Pentagon asks for $200bn for Iran War"

alex_suzuki — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:01:17 +0000

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c24d410m3g4t?post=asset%3A0575...

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Pentagon asks for $200bn for Iran War"

alex_suzuki — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:49:31 +0000

At least it’s “ahead of schedule”!

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

alex_suzuki — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:19:37 +0000

Same here. I’ve adopted uv across all of my Python projects and couldn’t be happier. ty looks very promising as well.

Probably inevitable, and I don’t blame the team, I just wish it were someone else.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP"

alex_suzuki — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:43:39 +0000

It's also seeing some adoption in the healthcare sector.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "GitHub having issues [resolved]"

alex_suzuki — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:55:30 +0000

100%. We used to design the pipeline a way that is easily reproducible locally, e.g. doesn’t rely on plugins of the CI runtime. Think build.sh shell script, normally invoked by CI runner but just as easy to run locally.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

alex_suzuki — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:07:46 +0000

Mine would use Swatch Beat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time I’m writing this at @296.77

New comment by alex_suzuki in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"

alex_suzuki — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:49:59 +0000

I do this but it mainly leads to a lot of 1-to-1 conversations, which is fine, but a wider but still “curated” audience would be interesting.

New comment by alex_suzuki in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"

alex_suzuki — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:52:18 +0000

> The entire thing could have been a couple bullet points

It probably was

New comment by alex_suzuki in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"

alex_suzuki — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:38:32 +0000

How do you find those pockets?