<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: distances</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=distances</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:24:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=distances" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distances in "Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All businesses based in Russia should be boycotted, also second-hand (so businesses that deal with other businesses based in Russia).<p>If I knew someone was sending money to Russia, I would of course avoid any contact (let alone financial ties) with them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:05:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398854</link><dc:creator>distances</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distances in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't allow LLMs write my messages in any language I'm fluent in. They just don't sound like me at all. It would feel dirty and dishonest to send that slop out.<p>They can be good at grammar checks, but even then I wouldn't fix quite everything, it's better to let some of my natural flaws go through.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:27:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380636</link><dc:creator>distances</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380636</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distances in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are very good map alternatives, like Organic Maps and HERE WeGo. But Google's place data is such a good moat that I'm also still using it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:19:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380590</link><dc:creator>distances</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380590</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distances in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I disagree. Their spam filtering has been top notch for me. Sometimes spam does get through, but marking that as spam has made sure the next ones of the same are flagged correctly.<p>Lately LLM generated spam has fooled it more often, though. Let's see if that becomes a problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:07:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380531</link><dc:creator>distances</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380531</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distances in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not at all my experience of consulting companies. What I saw was that they were very useful training pipelines for juniors.<p>The companies would staff projects with a mix of seniors and juniors. Seniors to get started fast, in the right direction, and actually guarantee the delivery; juniors to keep the costs lower and to have a pipeline of new people. Hands-on from day 1, sitting with seniors in a project with clear timelines and deliverables, with projects and technologies changing regularly, tended to level up the newcomers fast.<p>This was in small to midsize (50-500) consulting companies where the projects did not come via CEOs being buddies with others.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:40:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353361</link><dc:creator>distances</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353361</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distances in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Scania is Swedish, too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 18:51:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298739</link><dc:creator>distances</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distances in "-​-dangerously-skip-reading-code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The review needs to be done with clear context, or another LLM altogether.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 11:19:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256373</link><dc:creator>distances</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distances in "Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>EU is gradually stopping all energy purchases from Russia. Long term contracts for LNG purchases stop end of this year, pipeline gas late next year. Oil imports from Russia are planned to come to end late next year, too.<p>The days of Russian energy exports to EU are basically permanently over, and will not be reinstated even after the war has ended.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 21:59:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088545</link><dc:creator>distances</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088545</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distances in "Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Solar works also in the north, except in the winter of course, and it complements wind pretty well. So solar does make economic sense and is actively built in the north too.</p>
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<p>Yes yes, sure. Just be Putin's puppet dictator and you'll get free oil. There's nothing worth discussing here.</p>
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<p>Russian propaganda is really running out of steam if <i>Belarus</i> of all countries is now the success case. What's next, statistics of how happy the North Koreans are?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 10:28:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082652</link><dc:creator>distances</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distances in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Russians are always conveniently forgetting that they were the other major aggressor of the European WW2 theater. Heck, the so-called "Great Patriotic War" starts in 1941, skipping over their alliance with Nazi Germany and invasions of neighboring states.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 13:48:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074947</link><dc:creator>distances</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distances in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>De-russification didn't really start until the Orange Revolution, though. It's a long and painful process for Ukraine as reducing corruption requires shedding all the Russian influence. Before that, a lot of the problems genuinely are because of Russia.<p>All states escaping the Russian curse improve speedily once they join the EU, and I expect the same to happen in Ukraine.</p>
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<p>Yes it is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 08:14:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060183</link><dc:creator>distances</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060183</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distances in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What do you do with that many lemons anyway? Lemonade?<p>Asking as a person who buys about 4 lemons per year.</p>
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<p>Well, the main hurdle was that we were 7-9 years old iirc and didn't know any English at all, beyond the memorized "knock knock" etc. So the topic of the questions wasn't on the table :-)</p>
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<p>> I think it was Leisure Suit Larry that asked multiple choice history questions that I guess were meant to be impossible for fifth graders to guess.<p>I'm from a non-English-speaking country. We didn't understand the questions at all, but all us kids in the neighborhood got into the game just fine with some brute forcing.<p>Also, coming up with the expected commands in the game was way beyond our skills so we'd only advance to a point where someone had seen and memorized others play. Didn't matter, as it was one of the only games in the system so we'd play it anyway. I still remember how hard it was to type "ken sent me" in the allotted time window.</p>
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<p>Yes it was a bit weird how the latest generation AMD laptop chip was a sideways step. I blame the useless NPU wasting silicon, but what do I know.<p>I still got it as it was better than Intel's last year's offering, and it's still a fine chip. But kind of highlights how good the <i>previous</i> 7000 series chip was.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:45:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904432</link><dc:creator>distances</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904432</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distances in "Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The investment taxation was already discussed in a sibling comment. As always in Europe, it depends on a country. Good for you if that's possible in Netherlands.<p>Of course some roles can earn six figures or more, hopefully everyone knows there isn't a hard cap on earnings. Should've been obvious that wasn't my claim.</p>
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<p>Yes, as always it depends on the country. Germany and a bunch of others have nothing except completely useless insurance/capital guaranteed options.<p>For investments, you invest post-tax and pay capital gains when withdrawing.</p>
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