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New comment by feinstruktur in "Technology Behind the Lilium Jet"

feinstruktur — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 21:16:36 +0000

That whole article looks and reads like an automatic translation. I’m guessing the original says “Ist der Lilium Jet eine Luftnummer?” Or perhaps “Luftpumpe”. A “Luftnummer”, an “air number”, is “hot air”. A “Luftpumpe” is an air pump but can also mean someone is a BS artist.

There’s also a bit of a bad pun hiding in there if it was “Luftnummer”, because “eine Nummer schieben” means to have sex, colloquially. If you really wanted to preserve that … you’d reach for the “blow job”.

Arena: Explore Swift Package Manager packages with ease

feinstruktur — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:34:31 +0000

Article URL: https://finestructure.co/blog/2020/3/3/arena-explore-spm-packages-with-ease

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22539395

Points: 3

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Show HN: Hummingbird – A macOS utility to make window management a breeze

feinstruktur — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 19:19:59 +0000

Article URL: https://finestructure.co/hummingbird

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20823074

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by feinstruktur in "English speakers should learn math instead of a second language"

feinstruktur — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 20:44:21 +0000

Or walk and chew gum, like the rest of the world does.

New comment by feinstruktur in "Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job"

feinstruktur — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 09:28:17 +0000

Should have job title changed to Junior Penetration Tester and be rewarded for exposing an outfit of highly questionable competence.

New comment by feinstruktur in "What went wrong at BA?"

feinstruktur — Tue, 30 May 2017 03:57:40 +0000

Should have been BREAKING: What went wrong at BA?

New comment by feinstruktur in "Debugging a Docker Heisenbug in production"

feinstruktur — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 12:09:01 +0000

Oh, for sure. Docker doesn't replace actually knowing what you're doing once your setup grows. But it gets you further with less upfront knowledge, especially as a lot of it is really good dev knowledge for setting up test infrastructure as well. (That's why I started using Docker.)

New comment by feinstruktur in "Debugging a Docker Heisenbug in production"

feinstruktur — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:24:29 +0000

Docker allows a mere mortal like myself with only 20+ years of sw engineering experience and a physics PhD under my belt to run a setup in something that resembles production more than a few hosted boxed cobbled together do. I vaguely know about ARP and I can just about follow along this post. So what you seem to regard as just a toy is actually what makes my work possible and/or viable.

I find that pretty super hip.