Hacker News: brummm

New comment by brummm in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

brummm — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:52:47 +0000

That has existed for a long time and predates the MS acquisition. It's called Github Enterprise.

New comment by brummm in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

brummm — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:10:58 +0000

Skoda is owned by VW

New comment by brummm in "Dark patterns: Buying a Bahncard at Deutsche Bahn"

brummm — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:32:00 +0000

It's not fully state owned, it's semi-privatized. You get the worst of both worlds, so to speak.

New comment by brummm in "US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees"

brummm — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:45:28 +0000

I have never seen this. For all flights I have flown recently, the price for a kid and an adult is the exact same.

New comment by brummm in "Tesla influencers tried coast-to-coast self-driving, hit debris before 60 miles"

brummm — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:25:29 +0000

Actually, that's surprisingly little roads in the US. The population is significantly larger (more than 3x), so on a per person basis roads in Germany see much more use than in the US. And roads there are in a much better state than in the use despite the higher usage rate.

So also as a consequence of this: If the US were to use the same per person $ amount to upkeep their roads, US roads would have WAY more money to be maintained. Yet, the outcome is obviously worse.

New comment by brummm in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

brummm — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:52:25 +0000

Always enjoyed de_dust more than de_dust2. But I am clearly in the minority on that one.

New comment by brummm in "The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history"

brummm — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:48:08 +0000

Lol, Australia and Canada seem to be very similar in this regard.

New comment by brummm in "Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room"

brummm — Thu, 15 May 2025 20:14:06 +0000

Same in Germany. Times are usually assumed to be ct (cum tempore) and start XY:15. When something starts sharp, it's specified as st (sine tempore).

New comment by brummm in "Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment"

brummm — Tue, 06 May 2025 16:10:45 +0000

Uber outsourced they capital intensive fleet of cars to the drivers. Waymo has no such luxury.

But the main point is: if there is no need to compete in price, companies won't do it. There is no other company offering driverless rides and even if Google were to have huge margins on every ride, they wouldn't lower prices.

Happens all the time that companies literally just choose to not compete in price because people don't have options or just have accepted a specific price level.

New comment by brummm in "Why does Switzerland have so many bunkers?"

brummm — Tue, 06 May 2025 16:07:02 +0000

What does size have to do with it? Switzerland also has less GDP, less tax revenue and less people to build things.

New comment by brummm in "How to live an intellectually rich life"

brummm — Fri, 02 May 2025 19:27:17 +0000

I don't think this is a very good list that should call itself top 100. Maybe anglophone top 100, but even then I'd question some of the choices. I completely ignores a ton of more important works in non-English languages.

New comment by brummm in ""AI-first" is the new Return To Office"

brummm — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:05:27 +0000

Isn't Amazon's APIs everywhere another example of just this that came right from the top? In some companies CEOs double as the tech lead, no?

New comment by brummm in "Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment"

brummm — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:12:37 +0000

Waymo is not cheaper than Uber. I don't buy the cost argument tbh.

New comment by brummm in "Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment"

brummm — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:11:56 +0000

Yeah, I'd expect many cities passing laws to forbid empty driverless cars on the road unless they're a taxi.

New comment by brummm in "Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment"

brummm — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:47:07 +0000

That's already possible and called taxis/uber/etc.

In what way would self driving cars incentivize not owning your own car?

New comment by brummm in "What Is Entropy?"

brummm — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:42:47 +0000

I love that the author clearly describes why saying entropy measures disorder is misleading.

New comment by brummm in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"

brummm — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:19:38 +0000

How can anybody trust the US ever again? Trump completely ignored an existing free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico that he himself signed.

You have to assume that the US is sane a maximum of four years in a row and in four years another Trump 2.0 will again be completely ignoring all their agreements.

In my opinion, the US cannot be trusted with any treaties ever again the way they currently are.

New comment by brummm in "Airline demand between Canada and United States collapses, down 70%+"

brummm — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:10:52 +0000

"Everyone can draw their own conclusions as to what’s causing this." - Trump caused this. It's clear and simple.

New comment by brummm in "An election forecast that’s 50-50 is not “giving up”"

brummm — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:12:57 +0000

How can you say this with the current state of US politics? It's clearly inferior leading to such poor outcomes.

New comment by brummm in "Amazon’s delivery drones are grounded in College Station, Texas"

brummm — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 14:40:20 +0000

I don't think this is NIMBYism. The complaints are kind of reasonable and also, allowing a private company like Amazon do this most certainly is not something for the greater good. It's just good for Amazon.