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New comment by blauditore in "The Slow Death of the Power User"

blauditore — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:30:25 +0000

That's... Normal. Technology has always been moving towards higher-level abstractions. In terms of software, many engineers nowadays know how to code in high-level languages like JS or Java, while maybe 30-40 years ago many folks probably knew C, assembly, and all the low-level stuff like e.g. explicit memory management that most modern devs never deal with.

New comment by blauditore in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

blauditore — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:17:05 +0000

It's the same in Europe. There are many car drivers who would never admit that, but they just don't want to leave their comfort zone and learn how to use public transport. But when asked they will say stuff like "well, we live a bit outside the city", or "now with kids you basically need a car".

New comment by blauditore in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

blauditore — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:03:16 +0000

Not sure of it's a class thing, but rather the fact that software engineers often make good money, especially at places like Meta. It'st the same for me: If I lost my job tomorrow, I'd have enough savings to take some time before needing another job. Not sure if this would have been true for my parents.

New comment by blauditore in "LLM=True"

blauditore — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:57:23 +0000

Software folks love over-engineering things. If you look at the web coding craze of a few years ago, people started piling up tooling on top of tooling (frameworks, build pipelines, linting, generators etc.) for something that could also be zero-config, and just a handful of files for simple projects.

I guess this happens when you're too deep in a topic and forget that eventually the overhead of maintaining the tooling outweights the benefits. It's a curse of our profession. We build and automate things, so we naturally want to build and automate tooling for doing the things we do.

New comment by blauditore in "Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue"

blauditore — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:44:45 +0000

Translating this page to English is quite funny

New comment by blauditore in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

blauditore — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:55:41 +0000

Ah yes, like no-code programming in the past, or what was it called again?

New comment by blauditore in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

blauditore — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:52:26 +0000

The SO copy-pasting is actually quite accurate. The same folks are now just blindly generating code. That's why most software in the world is shit, and will continue to be in the future. There might just be more of it.

New comment by blauditore in "How to effectively write quality code with AI"

blauditore — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:39:02 +0000

Completely disagree. That's like saying that user manuals and driving assistances (e.g. alerts about approaching an object) in cars are only for bad drivers.

New comment by blauditore in "How to effectively write quality code with AI"

blauditore — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:15:47 +0000

I can't help but keep finding it ridiculous how everyone now discovers basic best practices (linting, documentation, small incremental changes) that have been known for ages. It's not needed because of AI, you should have been doing it like this before as well.

New comment by blauditore in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

blauditore — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:05:25 +0000

The Kessler syndrome is mentioned, satellites colliding, causing a cascade of follow-up collisions. This gets brought up a lot, but people have a poor intuition on how large the orbit space is. Think of it this way: It's obviously larger that Earth's surface, and placing, say, a million objects on Earth still leaves a lot of space between them (there are thousands as many humans). Yes, satellites move in certain orbits, not in random places, but space is large, and humans are bad with imagining large numbers and things. The illustrations with fat dots on tiny earth images are misleading too IMO.

Apart of that, I do agree that space data centers are probably just a marketing stunt at this point, although some things could obviously be done to increase their chances, like more lightweight designs on GPUs, something that was never a big topic before.

New comment by blauditore in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

blauditore — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:42:40 +0000

What hotkey-driven and fast-paced workflows are you referring to? I used to be an Office user, now G Docs, and I hardly miss anything. Hotkeys do exist, and more complex stuff can be automated quite well with AppsScript.

Maybe I'm not enough of a power user, but these things often sound to me like the 0.1% productivity boosts that are nice to have, but often hardly relevant in the grand scheme of things.

New comment by blauditore in "The hidden engineering of runways"

blauditore — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:46:50 +0000

Not sure if that's a serious question, but your driveway might lack a proper foundation, so the surface is moving and cracks. Also, it's likely not concrete, but tarmac (which is much softer).

New comment by blauditore in "Television is 100 years old today"

blauditore — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:39:18 +0000

Note that your memories might not be accurate, as your brain may have skightly altered them over the years, over and over. There is generally no way for yourself to know (except for some external proof).

This is not just the case for early childhood memories, but for anything - the more time passes, the less accurate. It's even possible to have completely "made-up" memories, perceived as 100% real, e.g. through suggestive questioning in therapy.

New comment by blauditore in "First, make me care"

blauditore — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:15:04 +0000

I disagree with the stated examples and literally quit reading there.

New comment by blauditore in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

blauditore — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:25:24 +0000

Does anyone ever reach a high level of productivity with correct posture? I can't.

New comment by blauditore in "Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet"

blauditore — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:10:55 +0000

Excuse me, I remember when DSL was the latest and greatest, it can't possibly be this old. :')

New comment by blauditore in "Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet"

blauditore — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:08:42 +0000

The bright side of this is that there is at least some sort of competition, since they operate on very different infrastucture. This is the free market premise on how quality and price should improve. Reality is often different though, because most customers are not really comparing and/or voting with their feet.

New comment by blauditore in "The longest Greek word"

blauditore — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:58:21 +0000

Seems okay on mobile, how does it look for you?

New comment by blauditore in "ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering"

blauditore — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:24:20 +0000

Nice! Now add colors and we can finally play Doom on the command line.

More seriously, using colors (not trivial probably, as it adds another dimension), and some select Unicode characters, this could produce really fancy renderings in consoles!

New comment by blauditore in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

blauditore — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:38:17 +0000

This reminds me that I should update https://morningtunes.music.blog/ (I'm keeping track of the songs, just haven't posted updates in ages)