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New comment by bionade24 in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"

bionade24 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:15:59 +0000

> no income taken away, as it is subsidized and compensated on the federal level

Only 50% of the relative loss of transit agencies is subsidised by the federal government, the other 50% gets subsidised by the respective state. And since the compensation is calculated in relation to the prices of monthly subscription tickets on routes in the respective transit area, transit agencies are left with even less.

Additionally, a lawsuit determined that the train network price cap for public transport is illegal, further increasing costs for the states.

This already has caused service reductions in multiple states, e.g. just now in Berlin additional overground Metro services during commuter peaks got halfed. With the results of the lawsuit and now interest from the federal goverment to put more funding into public transport, a lot more services will get axed in the next 3 years.

New comment by bionade24 in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

bionade24 — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:08:34 +0000

Using runsc instead of runsc means that there's a hypervisor layer (gvisor, probably) in-between the kernel and the container userland

New comment by bionade24 in "Gvisor on Raspbian"

bionade24 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:18:18 +0000

Using distcc networked compilation instead of cross-compiling is reasonably fast too and easier to set up if one isn't familiar with either.

New comment by bionade24 in "Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?"

bionade24 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:30:51 +0000

> I only use it [..] for research.

And it can be pretty great for that. But I'm not sure if this works well for people who don't have experience reading API documentation or coding support sites like Stackoverflow. Beginners having a problem most likely don't know any abstract term for the problem they want to solve, so they'll feed their scenario meticulously to the LLM, causing it to output an already tailored solution which obfuscates the core logical solution.

It's like starting to learn how to code by reading advanced code of a sophisticated project.

New comment by bionade24 in "A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project"

bionade24 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 08:54:10 +0000

> Everything already works fine.

No, Archlinux was repeatedly behind with package updates. This even went as far as lagging behind Ubuntu in at least one instance, causing inconvenience and frustration for users which then either had to use other more up-to-date sources for dependencies or package the newer version of dependencies under a different installroot themselves.

This problem is caused by a staff shortage or the average necessary maintanance effort for repo packages. At least one of those 2 causes has to be solved.

New comment by bionade24 in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

bionade24 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:14:20 +0000

> But I'd love to see Switzerland take over some of those international connections.

The Giruno EMUs of the SBB serving the Eurocity from Hamburg to Basel are having technical malfunctions causing delays & aborted trainrides for the last few weeks.

The Eurocity(Express) Zurich-Munich is the most delayed long-distance train route in Germany. Most of the German route is only single-tracked and overcrowded.

New comment by bionade24 in "Comparing xeus-Haskell and ihaskell kernels"

bionade24 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:36:00 +0000

It certainly can be inefficient depending on what you want to do, but loading files with functions into the scope of your GHCi session works quite well for quick debugging. When cabal repl all necessary deps for the project get loaded and it just works.

New comment by bionade24 in "WebAssembly (WASM) arch support for the Linux kernel"

bionade24 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:14:20 +0000

Unrelated to this issue but I've had a race condition with Automake which while run oin 2-4 threads occured exactly every 2nd run. With -j48 it was obvious it's a race condition. No idea how cache invalidation works in the automake stack, but that must have caused it to fail exactly 50% of the time.

New comment by bionade24 in "Btrfs Allocator Hints"

bionade24 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:49:55 +0000

Most likely yes, but the also envisioned periodically repacking oft multiple small data extents into one big that gets written to the HDD would wake up the HDD. And if you'd make the SSD "metadata only", browser cache and logging will keep the HDD spinning.

This feature is for performance, not the case you described.

New comment by bionade24 in "How reliable are MicroSD cards?"

bionade24 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 08:02:41 +0000

Write cache flushing is a Software behaviour thing, it's unrelated to reliability.

New comment by bionade24 in "Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC"

bionade24 — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:51:18 +0000

Well, the author does have a link to the git forge of the VideoLAN project prominently displayed on the blog and also contributes to projects there: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/LibVLCSharp

Additionally, Videolabs is listed at https://www.videolan.org/videolan/partners.html

I guess the project is well-aware of the corporation.

New comment by bionade24 in "Don't fear getting fired if you have ADHD"

bionade24 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:14:12 +0000

I think you misinterpret the message of the article. I think the message is analogous to "don't feel guilty if you failed to obey the norms of behaviour", which does not mean at all that you should aim to break those norms and behave uncordial and inappropriate on purpose. You absolutely have to try your best, even for your own good. But for your own good, you have to have patience and empathy with yourself, too.

On another note, your perspective of trying to avoid being unemployed 3-12 months during job seeking is a rather US-American centered perspective. I get that HN is from the USA, but this view doesn't apply to every other region of the world.

New comment by bionade24 in "Daily driving a Linux phone, but why?"

bionade24 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:04:00 +0000

Sailfish(OS) supports VoLTE in newer, supported devices. For community ports and other mobile Linux distros it's afaik still rare. Closed drivers and obtaining configurations for carriers in other countries are the 2 big showstoppers.

New comment by bionade24 in "SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B"

bionade24 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:46:01 +0000

Isn't Marvell/Cavium still in the ARM server business, too?

New comment by bionade24 in "Falkon: A KDE Web Browser"

bionade24 — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 15:38:49 +0000

Embedlite is still maintained, even though it's not a Mozilla project nor very active. Since it's the base for the Sailfish browser, it even does have Qt bindings.

Relevant repos:

https://github.com/sailfishos/qtmozembed https://github.com/sailfishos/embedlite-components https://github.com/sailfishos/gecko-dev

New comment by bionade24 in "Introducing ChatGPT Gov"

bionade24 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:22:34 +0000

I really doubt that it is literally pre-jailbroken. More likely, OpenAI will configure a custom prompt to improve the usage scenario of a large customer anyway.

New comment by bionade24 in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

bionade24 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 13:15:46 +0000

Any US resident that could write something about their insights how Tiktok became so popular with residents over 30? What are the typical usage reasons for more mature people that differ from the incentives for young people?

New comment by bionade24 in "Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'"

bionade24 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 09:09:30 +0000

Smart move for Nvidia to subsidise their ARM CPU and platform business by selling a big GPU packet with a CPU that most users don't really care about. Even if the margin is less than selling the raw GPU power would be (which I doubt), it'll look good on the shareholders conference if other business segments go up steep, too.

New comment by bionade24 in "Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'"

bionade24 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 09:03:51 +0000

It always has been the userspace of the Jetsons which was closed source and tied to Nvidia's custom kernel. I have not heard from people running Jetpack on a different userland than the one provided by Nvidia. Companies/Labs that update the OS don't care about CUDA, Nvidia contributes to Mesa support of the Jetsons and some only need a bit more GPU power than a RasPi.

New comment by bionade24 in "Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger"

bionade24 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:27:20 +0000

Plenty of people here talk about the mistakes from Intel CEOs. But do they really have so much influence over the success of new production lines? Or is this maybe caused by some group of middle-management that backed each other's ass the last 10 years? How high is the possibility that the production problems with new nodes are mostly bad luck? I haven't seen anything trying analyse and quantise those questions.