<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: easychris</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=easychris</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:00:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=easychris" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easychris in "Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, very frustrating for me as well. I consider now purchasing Gemini Advance with another Non-Workspace account. :-(<p>I also found this [1]: “ Important:<p>A chat can only use one model. If you switch between models in an existing chat, it automatically starts a new chat.
If you’re using Gemini Apps with a work or school Google Account, you can’t switch between models. Learn more about using Gemini Apps with a work or school account.”<p>I have no idea why the workspace accounts are such restricted.<p>[1] <a href="https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/14517446?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid" rel="nofollow">https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/14517446?hl=en&co=G...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:50:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952349</link><dc:creator>easychris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952349</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flixbus Acquires Greyhound]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/flixmobility-acquires-greyhound-expand-u-060200449.html">https://finance.yahoo.com/news/flixmobility-acquires-greyhound-expand-u-060200449.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28941456">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28941456</a></p>
<p>Points: 11</p>
<p># Comments: 3</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2021 07:30:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/flixmobility-acquires-greyhound-expand-u-060200449.html</link><dc:creator>easychris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28941456</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28941456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easychris in "EU citizens feel time's up for changing clocks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hm. 4.6M „voters“, and I know a couple of persons who were not able to vote due to server issues. I also doubt that the way the voting was setup was safe against the most basic manipulations (e.g. voting multiple times).<p>I’d say that this was not a representative poll. ;)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2018 07:38:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17883680</link><dc:creator>easychris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17883680</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17883680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easychris in "Project Gutenberg blocks access from Germany"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They belong to the Holtzbrinck Group [1]. They also operate a VC [2] and own or are invested in a lot of startups.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.holtzbrinck.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.holtzbrinck.com/</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.hvventures.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hvventures.com/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2018 21:32:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16511704</link><dc:creator>easychris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16511704</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16511704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easychris in "How Booking.com manipulates users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately directly booking with the hotel has  drawbacks as well. 6 months ago I booked The Pullman Hotel in London directly (they had the same pricing as the online agencies).<p>When I arrived late in the evening my room was not available: the (online, credit card backed) reservation I've made was "lost" and no more rooms available.<p>There was no way to sort it out easily so I booked another Hotel (higher price,  and had no time to do some Tripadvisor/Rating research).<p>The exactly same thing happened when I booked a hotel in Czech last year via HRS. When I arrived I was told by the hotel guy that there was only 1 room available instead of the booked 2. I tried to sort it out directly with the hotel - no chance after 10 min. of discussions.<p>I then called the HRS hotline, the service agent put me on hold while he called the hotel. I saw the guy at the reception pick up the phone, a few seconds later he came to me and told me that 2 rooms were available. :/<p>That said: it seems that the OTAs (HRS, booking, expedia) have enough "arguments" (e.g. 
threaten with delisting etc) that as a customer you may also have benefits from this kind of oligopoly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2017 07:59:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15301360</link><dc:creator>easychris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15301360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15301360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easychris in "I made a Phoenix webapp as a veteran Rails dev"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it's also about the ecosystem. With Elixir all third party packages etc. can be relied on having no side-effects / immutability.<p>If you try to code functional in an OOP language, you would have to make sure that no third party modules (or coworkers accidentally) write code that "misbehaves" in such aspects. Just like you currently have to make sure that the Ruby code you use is threadsafe.<p>With immutability you gain all those features baked into Erlang/OTP (scalability, reliability).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2017 19:14:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14388698</link><dc:creator>easychris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14388698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14388698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easychris in "I made a Phoenix webapp as a veteran Rails dev"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's true for threads (although most of your threads should be blocked by IO, e. g. DB queries, and that means the GIL lock isn't a big issue).<p>But the beauty of HTTP is that you can scale simply by adding more "endpoints". That means you can add as many processes (workers) as necessary to utilize all CPUs, or even add as many servers as you can afford.<p>I'm not saying that Elixir does not do a better job with it's lean processes and built-in OTP stuff.<p>But it's not true that you can't utilize all CPUs with a Rails app.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2017 17:58:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14388295</link><dc:creator>easychris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14388295</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14388295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easychris in "I made a Phoenix webapp as a veteran Rails dev"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think that's not true. If you have e. g. 4 cores, and you start Puma with 4 workers (i. e. processes) it will utilize all cores.<p>I guess you're mixing up processes with Ruby threads.<p>You normally start as many Puma processes as your CPU/Core count with probably additional threads per workers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2017 17:40:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14388228</link><dc:creator>easychris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14388228</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14388228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easychris in "Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just today the author of the "merge-conflicts" package for Atom emphasized that his plugin is depcrecated because Atom 1.8 will have that feature included by default.<p><a href="https://github.com/smashwilson/merge-conflicts/commit/f61950a81670099fbee51c21443722afbe36041b" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/smashwilson/merge-conflicts/commit/f61950...</a><p><a href="https://github.com/smashwilson/merge-conflicts/blob/master/docs/announcement.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/smashwilson/merge-conflicts/blob/master/d...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2017 19:39:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14352587</link><dc:creator>easychris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14352587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14352587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easychris in "The High-Speed Trading Behind an Amazon Purchase"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We have a grocery store in Krefeld, Germany, which uses e-ink price tags exclusively[1]. But I never noticed a real-time change when I was shopping there.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.lebensmittelzeitung.net/storechecks/Neues-Real-Konzept-in-Krefeld-1015" rel="nofollow">http://www.lebensmittelzeitung.net/storechecks/Neues-Real-Ko...</a> (e.g. pics 9, 20-24).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2017 09:29:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13966202</link><dc:creator>easychris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13966202</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13966202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easychris in "Cloudflare hit by leap second “software panic” snafu on New Year’s Day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-and-why-the-leap-second-affected-cloudflare-dns/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-and-why-the-leap-second-affe...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2017 17:07:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13310631</link><dc:creator>easychris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13310631</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13310631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PHPMailer RCE]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://legalhackers.com/advisories/PHPMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-CVE-2016-10033-Vuln.html">https://legalhackers.com/advisories/PHPMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-CVE-2016-10033-Vuln.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13257889">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13257889</a></p>
<p>Points: 46</p>
<p># Comments: 10</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2016 11:29:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://legalhackers.com/advisories/PHPMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-CVE-2016-10033-Vuln.html</link><dc:creator>easychris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13257889</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13257889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easychris in "German Cities Are Solving the Age-Old Public Toilet Problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At a bar it's most probably voluntary. There are some toilets where you have to pay after your visit but normally they put a sign on it, if it's mandatory. I only know it if there is a funfair or some kind of it. Like this: <a href="http://www.kem-zelte.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/1-IMAG0175.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.kem-zelte.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/1-IMAG017...</a><p>I'd say it's a good habit to always throw 50 Ct on the table - except if the person is as agressive/unfriendly as you describe. ;)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2016 15:41:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12999346</link><dc:creator>easychris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12999346</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12999346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easychris in "German Cities Are Solving the Age-Old Public Toilet Problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In Germany you receive welfare no matter of your work history. True, you need to sell your assets, like your house, but I think that's understandable. Your 65 year old retiree would receive ~410€/mo. + costs for an apartment (incl. heating etc).  Again, I'm not at all saying that makes a decent living. Just that no one is really FORCED to work there.<p>Greece has a 25% unemployment rate. Therefore if you did not find anyone wanting to do your job, it must have been a really bad one. Or - my guess - you just didn't offered to pay a reasonable amount.<p>I don't know the exact employment rate among migrants, but I guess it makes no sense to discuss it here. I'm just sure that, if the unemployment rate amongst the migrants would be low, you were crying about the bad migrants taking over our jobs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2016 14:20:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998953</link><dc:creator>easychris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998953</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easychris in "German Cities Are Solving the Age-Old Public Toilet Problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It is fine to force 70 year old pensioners to clean toilets<p>No one forces these 70 years olds to work there. I honestly believe that the people who do are happy to be able to earn  some money (because they may not find a "better" job).<p>In Germany no one is really forced to accept a job because of the reasonable good-enough social benefits / welfare systems (not saying that you can live a good life with it though).<p>Anyway, you probably didn't want to discuss a real issue but rather spread your, umh, questionable ideas about the "army" of immigrants. :-/</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:32:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998543</link><dc:creator>easychris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998543</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easychris in "German Cities Are Solving the Age-Old Public Toilet Problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A toilet in a mall is not considered public (= state-owned) in context of this article. The latter are usually really dirty and not nice to use.</p>
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<p>Yes, you're right, I too think people would "tip" anyway. I just assumed that if you're participating in the program the cities may kind of forbid to ask for money.</p>
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<p>I think the toilet business is only a good one on a large scale anyway: mostly due to fixed costs for paying the cleaning staff no matter if you operate a restroom with 1 or 20 seats.<p>BTW: I'm not sure about the neighbor. As I would only ask for a voluntary 50 Ct. there's no reason to prefer the other guys toilet. I assume my toilet would be preferred because it's cleaner (cause I'd pay more to my cleaning staff).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2016 10:17:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998153</link><dc:creator>easychris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998153</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easychris in "German Cities Are Solving the Age-Old Public Toilet Problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The cities pay 50-150€/mo to the owners [1]. I wouldn't participate if I would own a bar/restaurant.<p>Slightly OT: A shopping mall in germany, where paying for the use of the toilet is voluntary (50Ct / use) makes on avg. ~300€/day, during christmas season up to 8000€/day [2]. If I would own a venue at a highly frequented place I'd rather request 50Ct from the user. ;)<p>[1] <a href="https://www.welt.de/regionales/koeln/article13794805/Nette-Toilette-steht-vor-einem-Comeback.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.welt.de/regionales/koeln/article13794805/Nette-T...</a> (german)<p>[2] <a href="http://waz.m.derwesten.de/dw/staedte/oberhausen/gladbecker-firma-kassierte-trinkgeld-von-klofrau-id8899268.html?service=mobile" rel="nofollow">http://waz.m.derwesten.de/dw/staedte/oberhausen/gladbecker-f...</a> (german)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2016 09:49:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998089</link><dc:creator>easychris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998089</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easychris in "Don’t Mess with The Google"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not required in Germany either. The data protection law allows to "lock" data instead of really deleting it from all devices. And IMO that's the only sane solution to deletion requests.<p>Otherwise, any kind of backups would be unlawful for a company.</p>
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