Hacker News: endless1234

New comment by endless1234 in "Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising"

endless1234 — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:21:59 +0000

The world runs on software. AI makes it easier to create more software, but it still requires humans to keep running and decide what to do. Maybe each individual project will need less pure coders, but there might be a lot more projects?

New comment by endless1234 in "URLs are state containers"

endless1234 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:17:57 +0000

Still leaves the problem of not being able to simply send the current URL to someone else and know they'll see the same thing. Of course anchors can solve this, but not automatically

New comment by endless1234 in "Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?"

endless1234 — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 16:43:22 +0000

I'm sure you know of this, but just sharing the map for others: https://projectmapping.co.uk/Reviews/Resources/Europe%20nigh...

The situation is a lot better today than 10 years ago or so, largely thanks to ÖBB Nightjet. But yep, it's not only state railway companies anymore, as can be seen on the map

New comment by endless1234 in "Debugging my wife's alarm clock"

endless1234 — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 21:51:25 +0000

No. It's just a pre-sale for members. From below: "For a limited time*, paid Nintendo Switch Online members in the United States and Canada can purchase Alarmo online via the My Nintendo Store before it is available to purchase by the general public."

New comment by endless1234 in "AI's $600B Question"

endless1234 — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 22:21:29 +0000

In general, they were not. You're probably thinking of the very niche and unsuccessful Maemo/MeeGo project - eg Nokia N900 - that were indeed Linux-based. But everything else smartphone-ish from Nokia before Lumia (Windows Phone) were Symbian, which predates Linux and has nothing to do with it.

New comment by endless1234 in "Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count?"

endless1234 — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 23:39:49 +0000

Yep, this is basically what the "you wouldn't call watching somebody play a game playing" argument, which was mentioned in the article, boils down to.

New comment by endless1234 in "Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading"

endless1234 — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 10:48:21 +0000

For lots of workloads it is basically true, though. Not something exclusive to Apple laptops of course, others have also been capable programming workhorses for quite some years. It's just weird to say that no compiling should be done on a laptop - that might've been true 10 years ago.

New comment by endless1234 in "Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading"

endless1234 — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 21:10:03 +0000

Perhaps many people building code do not need multiple 16x PCI-Express cards in their day to day workflow, but like being able to move around with their laptop?

New comment by endless1234 in "Beeper Mini is back"

endless1234 — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 07:01:49 +0000

iPhone is not using RCS yet. It has only been announced, to be launched some time in 2024. See eg https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2023/11/17/appl...

New comment by endless1234 in "Gnome Receives €1M from German Government"

endless1234 — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 13:04:36 +0000

It literally says the average is 95k, there is no choice involved.

New comment by endless1234 in "Good code is like a love letter to the next developer who will maintain it"

endless1234 — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 10:57:19 +0000

I've seen comments that basically amount to "here we set the variable to 5". Comments also come with a maintenance burden, it's easy to forget to update them when the code changes.

New comment by endless1234 in "ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI"

endless1234 — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 11:32:47 +0000

Yeah, amount of credit cards & the total available credit limit is used as a negative signal when applying for a loan. But I think you'd have to have some completely silly amount for it to _really_ affect the outcome. You can easily show that you've not used the cards, for example. If you have 10 credit cards which you use constantly, it would affect your ability to get a loan. To me this makes sense, but of course, it's what I'm used to.

New comment by endless1234 in "Vitamin D supplementation associated with a reduced risk of suicide in veterans"

endless1234 — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 17:13:03 +0000

But it's also pretty hard to take too much of it - ref eg https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/taking-too-mu... - and the supplement doesn't cost much at all

New comment by endless1234 in "W3.css – A minimal alternative to Bootstrap"

endless1234 — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 07:05:07 +0000

Yeah, and last commit to github was in 2018, last update to the hosted CSS file in 2020. Not quite sure why it's posted to HN now?

New comment by endless1234 in "Telegram is asking German users when to share information with law enforcement"

endless1234 — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 11:29:03 +0000

No. Is discord, reddit, hacker news e2ee? No, but they are still products people want to use.

New comment by endless1234 in "Electric vehicles are way more energy-efficient than internal combustion"

endless1234 — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 10:54:58 +0000

Sure, but that doesn't really play into the equation when comparing the pure efficiency of different transportation methods. Of course in practice since it's good to exercise at least 30min daily, you can think of the energy spent during that as free from a efficiency standpoint

New comment by endless1234 in "Electric vehicles are way more energy-efficient than internal combustion"

endless1234 — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 09:03:07 +0000

Humans are quite inefficient - we can convert around 25% of food energy to work. The losses in the power plant generating the electricity for charging the e-bike's battery and the motor's efficiency losses would result in a higher overall efficiency than 25%.

New comment by endless1234 in "Deutsche Bahn’s Meltdown and High-Speed Rail"

endless1234 — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 10:23:09 +0000

>Given that, at peak times, some commuter services run once every ten minutes, and thus are ~always on time per this definition, it's wise to be a bit skeptical of the punctuality reporting.

I think that makes sense. If a commuter train leaves every 10 minutes, but due to some technical problems, the first train of the early morning leaves 20 minutes late which then continues through the day, does that mean every train is late? The users wouldn't know the trains they're using should have actually ran 20 minutes ago, they just know a train is to go every 10 minutes.

New comment by endless1234 in "Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time"

endless1234 — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:11:35 +0000

What? $5k a month is absolutely not something you pay for an above average place in east European capitals, nor in old European cities. Check e.g. https://www.expats.cz/praguerealestate/apartments/for-rent for a pretty expensive central european capital - around 20k CZK for studios, or 800 euros/usd. There are only 16 out of 1042 properties at over 120k CZK (~5k eur/usd), and they're huge (around 200m^2 and central).

New comment by endless1234 in "You can‘t take the Bar exam if your laptop is too modern"

endless1234 — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 11:54:14 +0000

My point being that it's quite different if everyone does it on pen & paper. If you're the only one, it's a disadvantage to do an essay exam on paper when your competition does it on laptops, no?