Hacker News: calessian

New comment by calessian in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

calessian — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:01:18 +0000

It's not entirely uncommon, even companies like Volkswagen have 3 weeks of summer vacation. Strictly speaking, some people still work there for maintenance, etc. that can't be done while making cars, but the majority is on vacation.

I know a handful of companies with a week of mandatory Christmas vacation as well (but there's typically not too many working days between Christmas and New Years' either way).

New comment by calessian in "Steam Machine"

calessian — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 11:47:23 +0000

VR has so far failed to reach an amount of people to make developing games for it really worthwhile, and the metaverse really doesn’t have much going for it either.

I don’t really see much momentum in that space, and the consensus among my friends is that it’s a gimmick to try a few times - with their vr headsets collecting dust since.

New comment by calessian in "Gemini CLI"

calessian — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:11:02 +0000

How the platform and the vendor split that money is irrelevant to me, and I’m not convinced this would become cheaper - evidently consumers are willing to pay the current price, so why wouldn’t the vendor just increase their profit?

In the same vein: Games don’t cost less on the epic store despite their lower (compared to Steam) either, so as an end user it makes no difference where I buy games.

New comment by calessian in "The weirdest bug I've seen yet"

calessian — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 07:41:27 +0000

The manual pointed out this can happen at higher compression levels, but they were able to reproduce it at all levels.

New comment by calessian in "Tell HN: Upgrade your Metabase installation"

calessian — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:36:40 +0000

That’s simply not true, sadly; you’re very much reliant on the company not attempting to sue you. Counter examples (not implying these have been successful, but it is also not unheard of to have the police show up at your door and collect all computers/phones etc. to investigate)

- https://www.golem.de/news/connect-app-cdu-verklagt-offenbar-... - https://www.heise.de/news/Modern-Solution-Anklage-gegen-Aufd...

New comment by calessian in "Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain"

calessian — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 04:40:29 +0000

LTE/5G data is extremely expensive in Germany compared to essentially everywhere else in the EU.

Here’sa comparison what 30 EUR per month for you in terms of LTE data volume in 2016, and I don’t think there’s any real contracts with unlimited volume available for 30 EUR still: https://imgur.com/NXu0ZoP

Getting a contract for unlimited data with the German Telekom costs 85 EUR/mo currently, while it would cost 35 EUR on t-mobile.nl

New comment by calessian in "Reddit Strike Has Started"

calessian — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 19:50:42 +0000

They could very well convince me to pay a subscription fee if they promised to not change the site anymore. Sure, that’s not exactly a great business model, but I do wonder if they’ll eventually pull the plug on old.reddit

New comment by calessian in "We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their Own Gravity"

calessian — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 02:09:49 +0000

I’m inclined to say that’s more due to integrated gpus not being a good replacement if you need CUDA or play games; If a better combined alternative existed (and not at an outrageous price) I don’t see the majority skipping it die to lack of being modular.

New comment by calessian in "Using a Canon EOS camera as a webcam in Debian"

calessian — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:45:14 +0000

My DSLR camera has a mini HDMI out that you can use out of the box, doesn't require the camera to be in recording mode or such. It simply gives you the live video feed -- rather than having it write to SD card, having software on your computer decode the video & show the last frame there.

The only option I think (it's been a while) I had to vaguely enable is to have it not show the normal camera UI over HDMI, but that was a simple setting.

Having hardware emulate a SD card sounds like a niche product, if anything, whereas the only item I needed for my camera was a mini-HDMI to HDMI cable.

New comment by calessian in "MonoLisa – A font designed for developers"

calessian — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 02:25:27 +0000

Some fonts also just have different variants with and without ligatures, for example Cascadia Code/Mono: https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code

New comment by calessian in "On Receiving my Certificate of Loss of Nationality"

calessian — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 19:19:19 +0000

At least in the US, unilateral no-fault divorce is possible in nearly all states.

New comment by calessian in "How Does FaceTime Work?"

calessian — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 19:37:07 +0000

I wonder how much that translates into actual use. A lot of internet providers (in Germany) technically include a landline using VoIP, but that doesn’t reflect the number of calls necessarily.

I’ve made some calls, but less than five in the last few years.

New comment by calessian in "Security Issues with LastPass on Android"

calessian — Sat, 29 May 2021 11:53:42 +0000

Too short passwords being generated sounds like an issue that IMO violates user expectations, the other two do not.

New comment by calessian in "Down the Golang Nil Rabbit Hole"

calessian — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 22:45:47 +0000

I’ve seen break label a handful of times for nested loops. Whether that was the best choice is of course always up for debate. It’s definitively possible to replace and not a necessary language feature.

Maybe it’s a good thing it’s not widely known, generics are trivial to discover.

New comment by calessian in "Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python"

calessian — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 16:11:26 +0000

That's not exclusive to Ruby, though. Is there a language in which a project of at least a small team would not diverge?

Devs at my current dayjob have established, in multiple rounds, that it is impossible to find at least a minimum of viable coding standards, where every draft has been heavily opposed.

New comment by calessian in "Blog with Markdown and Git, and degrade gracefully through time"

calessian — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 21:03:47 +0000

I run my blog using perhaps the most boring option - Wordpress, with close-but-not-quite the default theme (different fonts mostly). Outside of adding a cover image on every post and occasional footnotes, I don’t really need much.

However, that’s pretty lightweight on decisions I had to actually make to publish, and all the alternatives seem to be more involved. I wouldn’t mind migrating off WordPress, but just on the theming side that has a decent chance of involving a non-free theme, making the idea of hosting it on a public repo somewhat of a non starter...

New comment by calessian in "You’re better off using Exceptions"

calessian — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 17:18:15 +0000

See, having reasonable typed exceptions is perfectly acceptable, but that's rarely been the reality I encountered. About every method in our code base has the same 3 checked exceptions in the declaration, and none of them are handled - they're even passed to service clients.

And it's just super clunky, but the devs who came up with it just refuse any suggestions to have expressive exceptions (that's what exceptions messages are for). It's impossible to actually know what could go wrong when calling any method.

New comment by calessian in "The ArdaCraft project seeks to recreate Tolkien’s Middle-earth in Minecraft"

calessian — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:58:15 +0000

A vaguely similar project, for the world of George R. R. Martin: http://www.westeroscraft.com/

New comment by calessian in "Windows 10 Store Refunds ‘Call of Duty’ Player Because Nobody's Playing It"

calessian — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 22:13:27 +0000

The steam API allows servers to verify a player owns the game and provides a server list. Actual networking once players are connected isn't part of its scope iirc.