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New comment by bartekrutkowski in "Sites in ChatGPT"

bartekrutkowski — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:24:35 +0000

I've said it before but I'll repeat it here until someone changes my mind: jobs in IT are safe until using AI gets its equivalent of "no one ever got fired for buying IBM". Until there can be financial and legal responsibility for when things go bad, people are going to be needed. Once it's so good AI labs will be happy to accept liability, it's game over. It was never about code quality.

New comment by bartekrutkowski in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

bartekrutkowski — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:59:44 +0000

I never said anything about private health care.

You can take a tiny fraction of any good image and find it lacking. The OP wasn't talking about "golden age of public health care" but about "golden age" in general. I'm still waiting for anyone to answer the questions I've asked above, when was it better to live in Poland if not now?

Not "when it was absolutely perfect to live in Poland" not even "when was the public health care 100% ideal". It feels that the day to day life issues (of which there are plenty, sure) are stopping you from realising how good you have it compared to generations before you.

I don't know for sure, but I think it's a safe bet that should you be from your own parents generation, you could've been prosecuted for complaining publicly about "the state of the state", not to mention obtaining a computer for your personal use would be next to impossible.

New comment by bartekrutkowski in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

bartekrutkowski — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:06:16 +0000

I am very well aware. Again, the question still stands: when was that the public healthcare provided more services, for more diseases, better medications, better care? When was that there was no wars in Poland for longer than it is currently?

I'm aware of all the issues we're dealing with, with the horrible war in Ukraine, but that's still unspeakably better situation than it was in 1945 or in 1965 or any other time before that. I hate any war, I'm not happy with the one in Ukraine, but I will take any war happening in the country next to the one I am in, over a war happening in the country I am in.

New comment by bartekrutkowski in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

bartekrutkowski — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:58:12 +0000

"Golden age" doesn't mean that everything is perfect and we've reached mythical utopia. It merely means there wasn't a better period in history, to date. Please, name one period, where you had more freedom, more rights, more money earning opportunities, bigger food abundance and variety, longer life expectancy, more safety, less wars (speaking locally about Poland) so on and so forth.

New comment by bartekrutkowski in "Pong Wars on the Commodore 64"

bartekrutkowski — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:56:17 +0000

That's absolutely great read - especially recently I'm trying to get back to the childhood fun with C64 myself and re-learn some of the little programming I did back then, learn something new. Articles like this are a treat, thank you!

Xbox to fire 3200 employees in 2027

bartekrutkowski — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:55:19 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/asha_shar/status/2074124008795369482

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805546

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Commodore Releases Flip Phone

bartekrutkowski — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:15:31 +0000

Article URL: https://commodore.net/why-a-flip-phone/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552614

Points: 186

# Comments: 130

New comment by bartekrutkowski in "A brief look at FreeBSD"

bartekrutkowski — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:52:57 +0000

This is about unprivileged users - privileged ones can see everything. The idea is to make figuring out what's the surface of the attack harder (for those attackers who are less than skilled) by making it less obvious that 10 years old game server process is running on this OS.

New comment by bartekrutkowski in "Swift on FreeBSD Preview"

bartekrutkowski — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 07:21:45 +0000

Then Podman for FreeBSD exists for a while too.

New comment by bartekrutkowski in "Swift on FreeBSD Preview"

bartekrutkowski — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:33:48 +0000

In what sense? FreeBSD had containers before anyone heard about Docker ;)

Samsung Gives Up on Super Thin Smartphones

bartekrutkowski — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:55:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/17/samsung-reportedly-gives-up-on-thin-smartphones/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618989

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bartekrutkowski in "OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals"

bartekrutkowski — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 07:36:41 +0000

I think the point here is that free beats easy peasy, especially when learning a new skill, where your easy peasy isn't their easy peasy. And getting something up and running on Oracle Cloud with Terraform is nowhere near easy peasy for someone who never did anything with Terraform ;)

New comment by bartekrutkowski in "iPhone Air"

bartekrutkowski — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:19:59 +0000

You can submerge recent iPhones completely in water for few years now. Every year I make some quite fun and surprisingly looking underwater pictures with mine, that's just fine afterwards given I'm still able to write this comment on it.

Amazon asked corporate employees to help fulfill deliveries for Prime Day

bartekrutkowski — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:52:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/amazon-asked-corporate-employees-to-help-fulfill-grocery-deliveries-for-prime-day-131022042.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502370

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by bartekrutkowski in "Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing"

bartekrutkowski — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 22:13:23 +0000

So you haven't purchased it from Apple but instead you've purchased it from Amazon. This may change things. In Europe you have two ways of dealing with it, either by manufacturer warranty (completely good will and on terms set by the manufacturer) or by consumer rights (warranted you by law, overruling any warranty restrictions).

Sellers often will try to steer you to use warranty as it removes their responsibility, Amazon is certainly shady here. Apple will often straight on give you a full refund or a new device (often newer model), that happened to me with quite few iPhones and MacBooks.

Know your rights.