Hacker News: chupy

New comment by chupy in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

chupy — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:31:41 +0000

You say this because young men use TikTok as a distraction?

New comment by chupy in "Bloom Filters"

chupy — Fri, 02 May 2025 14:46:30 +0000

Because it has AI in it's name /s

New comment by chupy in "India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops"

chupy — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 21:28:23 +0000

Not op but how I understood it is that until recently the majority of programmers were geeks and liked to tinker and understand the systems they were writing and deploying code on.

Not sure that this is the case now, nonetheless it can be a good thing that people are specializing and concerned just on the frameworks or design patterns.

New comment by chupy in "Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won't buy a Tesla car"

chupy — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:15:56 +0000

What alternatives in Europe?

My wife had to buy a car last year, wanted to buy electric and Tesla was the only one that was ready to deliver within a month and at a decent price per features.

Don't care about Elon but in the end all these corporations building the cars are on the same level of general disregard for the population or environment and just chasing profits. Doubt there is a real ethical choice when buying a car nowadays

New comment by chupy in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

chupy — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:02:10 +0000

Companies are still charging 100x for the pills that cost pennies to produce.

Besides deals with insurance companies and governments, one of the ways that they are still able to pull this is convincing everyone that it's too dangerous to play with this at home or buying it from an Asian supplier.

At least with software we had until now a way to build and run most things without requiring dedicated super expensive equipment. OpenAI pulled a big Pharma move but hopefully there will be enough disruptors to not let them continue it.

New comment by chupy in "Hacking Subaru: Tracking and Controlling Cars via the Starlink Admin Panel"

chupy — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:16:43 +0000

Volvo EX40, fully electric is made in Belgium and it does not seem that it will be phased out soon.

New comment by chupy in "Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round"

chupy — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 21:34:21 +0000

Occam's razor here.. Polling failure and it's very clear from the actual amount of people voting for the guy. Yes you can make a conspiracy theory but it's a bit ridiculous.

Most Romanians that work in IT(and post here) live in their own bubble (because they make 5-10x average Romanian salary) and are totally disconnected from the common folks and can't now believe that the person making less than minimum wage that is serving their 3 euros expresso is not loving it.

Those common folks are similar to the rest of Eastern Europe with strict religious beliefs and very conservative so it's not a surprise they vote for someone that they resonate with.

Similar stuff happened in Brussels where a radical islamist party won seats in the parliament by using TikTok tactics. He did not show up in the polls either.

New comment by chupy in "Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round"

chupy — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 06:53:25 +0000

Most of those cases of even the prime ministers were just for show. Getting a suspended punishment while not having to pay anything back from bribery and no repercussions. This is equivalent to how I punish my kid, stay in the corner for five minutes and promise you don't do it again.

If you also relatively think the couple that are actually in jail they are too few for the amount of politicians or general corruption that is in prevalent Romania.

New comment by chupy in "Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round"

chupy — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 22:08:47 +0000

As you well know since you are Romanian there are not many cases of people tried and in jail in Romania for corruption. Now take a state actor and imagine that they are responsible. Let's not kid ourselves and pretend there will be repercussions for this mess except - if possible - make people trust even less the 'system'.

New comment by chupy in "Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round"

chupy — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 21:51:48 +0000

A lot of the things that we buy in Europe are already manufactured cheaply in China with different standards etc. We are moving a lot of manufacturing back to Europe, mostly in the eastern part of it. That part is still 'cheap' aka they can put the made in eu logo on the box, pay employees eastern Europe prices and ask buyers western Europe prices.

The same thing with the eu car companies... they even took the money from the states where they had factories (Germany, Belgium, France) which greatly subsidized them, increased their profits and margins then moved to the next EU state and beyond.

New comment by chupy in "You must read at least one book to ride"

chupy — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 07:27:28 +0000

I get it, I live in Belgium and being a freelancer is truly the only way to make a more than decent wage(more or less silicon valley salary with 36 hours week). Problem is that is not really fair

New comment by chupy in "You must read at least one book to ride"

chupy — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 21:24:02 +0000

Most of EU countries havr some kind of consultancy embedded deep into the their core financial and governments and other critical institutions. The EU commission is full of barely competent consultants developing some sort of applications. Probably getting EY or Accenture to solve the problems is one of the key steps in becoming accepted as a 1st world country.

New comment by chupy in "Do not try to be the smartest in the room; try to be the kindest"

chupy — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:10:38 +0000

What would be kind accomplish there?

New comment by chupy in "SQL for data scientists in 100 queries"

chupy — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 08:17:18 +0000

It's because data engineering has been reduced to be able to login to a cloud provider and know which workflow to drag and drop. This is easily learned in a couple of weeks so that s why those skills might not be considered software engineering.

New comment by chupy in "Remote: Windows 3.11 Administrator (m/f/d)"

chupy — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 07:07:27 +0000

Can you give an example of modern technology that you believe would be supported or maintained in 50 years?

New comment by chupy in "Software engineering lessons from RCAs of greatest disasters"

chupy — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:04:46 +0000

Is it because you risk doing something like this? https://hackaday.com/2022/03/18/welcome-to-the-future-where-...

New comment by chupy in "Time to subsidize e-bikes?"

chupy — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 05:20:52 +0000

Even though bosch engines are amazing their support service is execrable. I had an issue where there was a weird noise after 25km/h and even if there was an warranty they are taking months to fix it. First they said it's normal then send a recording of the sound etc.. Bought a 5k bike with a good engine to not have these kind of issues or if you have them then the repair should be in point.

New comment by chupy in "EU-wide maximum limit of €10K for cash payments"

chupy — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 07:10:25 +0000

On the block where I live there are a couple of hairdressers all empty and also a café owned by shady 20 year old Albanians. A bunch of shops for construction gear where there is nobody etc. It's possible that it's a bad way to launder money but it does still exist.

New comment by chupy in "Norway to track all supermarket purchases?"

chupy — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 18:24:42 +0000

Check out the Dole corporation to see how evil can they actually be - https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-dark-and-bloody-hist.... Nestle with the classic baby formula marketing to 2nd/3rd world countries, chinese milk scandal etc and probably most other multinationals are in the same league.

New comment by chupy in "Kharkiv Rubyist during the war: We are still here"

chupy — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 20:11:25 +0000

Let's be frank here, both of us know what you are implying. Cutting excerpts of wikipedia without the context is a pretty valid disinformation tactic. Replacing words randomly also to suit your previous point is ridiculous.

Glory to the heroes of the country is also pretty common in the army in Romania, there is even a famous monument with this written on it: "Intru slava eroilor neamului" which means To the glory to the heroes of the nation. This monument was built after the first world war.