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New comment by dranudin in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

dranudin — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:21:26 +0000

A guy at my company (very old company, we need to maintain our software for 30+ years) gave a presentation about how they used opus 4.6 to onboard people, like giving new team members access rights etc. Then another guy (even higher in management) proposed using a team of agents for that.. It's getting pretty wild

New comment by dranudin in "The quiet resurgence of RF engineering"

dranudin — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:42:33 +0000

They do heavily outsource to India, though. At least for their electronic control units..

New comment by dranudin in "Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)"

dranudin — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:02:20 +0000

They are guessing much more than computer scientists would think, typically . A structural engineer does not know: the peak wind force, what the ground under the bridge is really made of, what the actual tensile strength at the weakest piece of material is, what the exact force on the screws were at time of fastening (and after), etc... Heck, they don't even know if euler bernoulli beam theory is actually right about the existence of a neutral axis..They just take their best guesses, add generous safety factors and have the bridge inspected regularly ..

New comment by dranudin in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

dranudin — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:39:19 +0000

However, people born before 2008 smoking around you, affects you, as well. If they want to protect people they need to ban it for everybody..

New comment by dranudin in "Inflation Rose to 3.3% in March, Driven by Rising Fuel Costs"

dranudin — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:27:27 +0000

If there is a jump of inflation in the US it might very well spread to my place (EU), as well. It is interesting for me, as I am interested in economics and finance. So it sparked my curiosity, at least.

New comment by dranudin in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

dranudin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:32:31 +0000

I very much hate Schufa for the way they calculate your score (which until very recently was not even disclosed). But hey, at least they don't sell my income data to random private companies. In fact they do not have my income. Just credit related stuff. I demand an overview from them every 3 months that they have to physically mail to me, just to annoy them..

New comment by dranudin in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

dranudin — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:07:28 +0000

My grandpa (ww2) was one of them. He helped my father dodge the draft, when he was supposed to go to military service.

New comment by dranudin in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

dranudin — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:32:59 +0000

sure, nobody would ever speak English as a second language ;)

New comment by dranudin in "CERN to host a new phase of Open Research Europe"

dranudin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:25:47 +0000

It'd be great if this could one day be a real alternative to Elsevier. Today, professors and postdocs are doing the peer-review for Elsevier, for free. They can do that because they get a paycheck from the government (through university and grants). Then, the governments pay for Elsevier access through university libraries, ontop of that. It'd be much more efficient, if everybody could just publish and subscribe for free on a publicly funded platform.

New comment by dranudin in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

dranudin — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:20:35 +0000

In Germany. I have a degree in mechanical engineering and am thus allowed to call myself an engineer, even though I write software professionally. Colleagues who have studied computer science cannot, as it is not considered an engineering, but a science degree. This is why most people talk about "software developers" and not about "software engineers" (in German) to avoid this problem. That being said, most people would not actually care.

New comment by dranudin in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"

dranudin — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:49:13 +0000

I guess most just did not have a car before...

New comment by dranudin in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

dranudin — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:41:53 +0000

I noticed something similar at my work. The CEO is hyping AI, but at the same time free access to the big models was taken away and rate limits seem to be much tighter..

New comment by dranudin in "Dutch House of Representatives advances controversial 36% tax law"

dranudin — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:31:53 +0000

Will they also do tax refunds on unrealized losses? This seems hard to do in reality..

New comment by dranudin in "Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success"

dranudin — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:19:38 +0000

The roi is unfortunately not the same if you earn your money in euros and need to pay your taxes in euros. At one point one has to do a forex trade and that will be a loss for the euro investor

New comment by dranudin in "Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay"

dranudin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:19:09 +0000

New Balance and Brooks make shoes in "wide". I like them very much. Also their normal shoes are wider than Nike or Adidas. In the past, like 10 years ago, I used to wear adidas shoes and they fit. Now, the new ones are way too tight. I think they made them narrower, probably for fashion reasons...

New comment by dranudin in "Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?"

dranudin — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:04:13 +0000

I could imagine being a car mechanic or a welder. Repairing my car is a little hobby of mine and I could imagine doing that full time, if programming work would stop paying my bills.

New comment by dranudin in "Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?"

dranudin — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:48:01 +0000

Me too :). Mostly engineering systems for programming Edge Devices used in factory automation. The user usually runs windows, the edge device linux.

Microsoft updates flexible work expectations to three days a week in the office

dranudin — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:40:50 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/09/flexible-work-update/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183560

Points: 14

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New comment by dranudin in "The End of Handwriting"

dranudin — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 05:13:00 +0000

No never. They taught us some type of preletters in cursive, in kindergarden, as a stepping stone to real cursive. We never wrote print in elementary school. However, the kindergarden and elementary school were catholic institutions. Most probably they are more conservative than the average in the country.

New comment by dranudin in "The End of Handwriting"

dranudin — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:49:31 +0000

Well, I was never taught otherwise. However lots of the other kids later in high school had developed another way of writing. So me writing cursive, now, as a grown man, is a little strange. I still write with the fountain pen, because it is much nicer to write. You need almost no pressure and that is good for your fingers, if you need to write for a longer time.