Hacker News: blodkorv

New comment by blodkorv in "Ask HN: Where has creativity in software gone?"

blodkorv — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:18:34 +0000

Its not gone, just that the bar has been increased.

New comment by blodkorv in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"

blodkorv — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:56:51 +0000

No they dont approach men more then they do anywhere else.

New comment by blodkorv in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"

blodkorv — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:40:21 +0000

I dont see how a goverment-run dating service would solve the issue that social-media had made hypergamy run on steroids and that people today have much higher demands on their partner than ever before.

In sweden we have one semi popular dating site with minimal amount of matching algoritms and swiping and such and its no easier there to find a partner than on tinder.

New comment by blodkorv in "Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over"

blodkorv — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:36:05 +0000

It is not about money it about that you start to feel like they take you for granted when every time we did plan a party or dinner, me hosting it was always the best or only option according to the group. If it was a few times then it would not be an issue but systematically it always being me hosting takes the fun away.

I now have an other friend group and I have gotten tired with cooking for a x-amount of people.

New comment by blodkorv in "Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over"

blodkorv — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:29:29 +0000

Being the only one hosting without asking for money.

New comment by blodkorv in "You are no longer invited to dinner"

blodkorv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:22:08 +0000

Another challenge to hosting dinner parites today is that everybody is on a special diet, count calories, on ozempic because they need to be healthier or have a athletic goal only few people 30 years ago had.

This makes it even more difficult to host because of everybody's needs and regimes they dont buckle on.

New comment by blodkorv in "Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over"

blodkorv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:14:40 +0000

Swede here, I used to host a lot of dinners and parties.

But then i realized that it was mostly me who hosted them and the few times i got invited there was an agreement that guest chip in on the costs or that it was a potluck kind of thing.

Made me regret spending all that time and money on the parties i hosted.

New comment by blodkorv in "Australian House passes bill to ban children under 16 from social media"

blodkorv — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 12:16:56 +0000

we will see a rise of bootleg socialmedia plattforms hosted under the radar.

New comment by blodkorv in "Fractional scales, fonts and hinting"

blodkorv — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 13:30:00 +0000

He means utilizing GTK. In sweden its common to say "Utveckla mot xxx" Develop against, when talking about using a framework or library. I bet they say the same thing i Other germanic languages.

New comment by blodkorv in "What Is New in MySQL 8.2"

blodkorv — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:39:04 +0000

Whats the bennefits of using mysql today when mariadb exists.

New comment by blodkorv in "Wegovy, other weight-loss drugs scrutinized over reports of suicidal thoughts"

blodkorv — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 12:28:16 +0000

>the vast majority of people who discontinue, even after long term use, regain 100% or more of the weight they lost

Thats true for all weight loss. With or without drugs. Only surgery has a bit better stats on long term weightloss.

New comment by blodkorv in "Cancer cases in young adults rise by 80% globally"

blodkorv — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:52:27 +0000

I personally beleive that weight gain among young adults are one big contributing factor.

In the future we will look at obesity the same as smoking today.

New comment by blodkorv in "Windows 11 collects an awful lot of telemetry about your PC"

blodkorv — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:17:04 +0000

If windows is certified to run the US military its secure and stable.

New comment by blodkorv in "Windows 11 collects an awful lot of telemetry about your PC"

blodkorv — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:14:34 +0000

>How does it compare to the mysql one or MS sql server management studio for that matter?

It dosent compare, but then when working with php and mariadb you dont often use the advanced/esoteric features you have in SQLserver

>Wamp installer is windows specific but i'd assume you browse to find the download for it, etc or use winget or chocolately instead of sudo install xyz, etc so i fail to see the advantage there?

Well there is less configuring with wamp and there are gui tools to manage things, installing the services in linux and setting them up is always a bit more work. I have never tried xampp in linux so it might be equal there.

>There's a reason people jokingly call it microsoft java. The second half might be mischaracterizing it on many fronts but the first half is true to form. I'd argue it as an argument in this matter is similar to bringing up the best platform for developing with Swift.

It being an complete integrated package from the OS to the IDE is the best feature about dotNet. You can look at it the same way as "the lisp machine" but with better third party software support. I guess swift has the same benefits, altho when i tried it the tools where not really up to the same standards as visual studio.

I have yet came across a language platform i cant develop with ease on windows. Also these days with tech such as docker etc there really are no boundaries.

New comment by blodkorv in "Windows 11 collects an awful lot of telemetry about your PC"

blodkorv — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 09:06:11 +0000

With php its very little difference except that you run Windows and get all the benefints from that regarding drivers and software support, i have yet found an equaly good database manager on linux as heidiSQL(it is unstable in wine) for ex. Also it "feels" easier to click on the wamp installer and just run it from there compared to sudo apt install xyz.

With C# the difference is huge since you just need to install visual studio and you have everything you will need, with the best tooling there is.

New comment by blodkorv in "Windows 11 collects an awful lot of telemetry about your PC"

blodkorv — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 08:32:13 +0000

In my view Windows has always been a great development system. Been doing both php and c# development on windows for years and it always been "start computer, install wamp/editor or visual studio" then you are set and can develop great software.

New comment by blodkorv in "Soybean oil decreases oxytocin levels in hypothalamus in mice (2020)"

blodkorv — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 08:50:29 +0000

I really dont see how soybean oil in by itself causes obesity as is stated in the article. If you don exceed your daily caloric intace then you wont gain weight no matter what kind of oil you eat.

New comment by blodkorv in "Why don’t more people live close to friends?"

blodkorv — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 09:29:18 +0000

Because friends more often than not, comes and goes.

New comment by blodkorv in "The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux Laptop"

blodkorv — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:15:33 +0000

I have a thinkpad X1 bought in 2019(idk which gen) its horrible as a linux laptop, mainly because of the scaling issues. But also the touchpad is not good. Its quite bad in windows but even worse in linux. The battery get empty much faster in linux as well.

Another annoying thing about it that has nothing to do with the os is that the trackpoint randomly makes the pointer "drift" and theres nothing you can do when that happens except to wait for it to stop. It seems to be sort of a common thing on thinkpads and i have gotten lenovo to replace my trackpoint and its still an issue.

My next laptop will be a dell or something.

New comment by blodkorv in "Robots have been about to take all the jobs for 100 years"

blodkorv — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:08:43 +0000

They haven taken our jobs. But they have made the buying power of workers lesser by time. Try buying a house today with an avarage sallary.