Hacker News: fifilura

New comment by fifilura in "AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less"

fifilura — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:50:59 +0000

I definitely agree with the GP, and the point is that most often someone else (or an LLM) added all those LOC that are removed to make the system sensible.

New comment by fifilura in "Vance: Iran can have access to $300B reconstruction fund"

fifilura — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:50:52 +0000

> Can anybody for f.ing f. f. do something against the snipers who annoy and add nothing to the discussion?

I don't care about your comment but I downvoted you for the rude language.

New comment by fifilura in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

fifilura — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:44:19 +0000

A doctor knows about enough dangers and germs to never let you out the door!

New comment by fifilura in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

fifilura — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:19:24 +0000

I'd argue that indexes is an implementation detail here and exactly the kind that should not leak into the abstract "thinking about sets and how to combine them".

It is valuable and critical in lots of real situations. But it may interfere with the actual learning.

New comment by fifilura in "F-15E pilot downed over Iran had been shot down a month prior"

fifilura — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:42:49 +0000

Good memories. I didn't know it looked so good on a color monitor. And must have had better specs than my 286, looks much smoother than I remember.

New comment by fifilura in "Justice Department announces a $1.7B fund to compensate Trump allies"

fifilura — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:49:23 +0000

Comey should apply.

New comment by fifilura in "Den stora Älgvandringen – The great moose migration (live)"

fifilura — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:15:56 +0000

Norwegian public service pioneered slow tv

Other programs

https://tv.nrk.no/serie/hurtigruten-minutt-for-minutt

https://tv.nrk.no/program/DVFJ64001010

https://tv.nrk.no/serie/besseggen-minutt-for-minutt

New comment by fifilura in "Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)"

fifilura — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:15:16 +0000

Not sure how to describe this, but in a small/medium size company you have a few chips with talent.

And somehow k8s tends to use one of the most valuable chips. The smartest guy who from then on only works with maintaining and updating k8s. Instead of building the best and smartest products.

Kafka also competes with this.

New comment by fifilura in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

fifilura — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:49:26 +0000

Killing of families is what happened in Ukraine in the Russia controlled territories.

New comment by fifilura in "Iran war has drained U.S. supplies of critical, costly weapons"

fifilura — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:54:16 +0000

Those systems could have been used to prevent Russia from trying to annihilate the Ukrainian civilization.

USA is not even paying for it anymore so it would have been pure income.

New comment by fifilura in "Do you even need a database?"

fifilura — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:56:48 +0000

Isn't this the same case the NoSQL movement made.

New comment by fifilura in "Von der Leyen uses Orbán defeat to push for end of veto in EU foreign policy"

fifilura — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:36:35 +0000

> what would I do if giving up the right to veto hinged on my veto power?

Was that a rhetoric question? Of course it is a leap of faith. But the idea is that it will make the union as a whole stronger, and then maybe even giving up your veto right would make it worthwhile.

New comment by fifilura in "The Importance of Being Idle"

fifilura — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:05:15 +0000

So the politicians made mistakes then (apart from Macron then whose only crime is being unpopular).

Who are you comparing to?

There has to be at least one ideal politician, otherwise I'd say the job is just inherently difficult. And hindsight is 20/20.

New comment by fifilura in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

fifilura — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:40:09 +0000

Took a little bit of figuring out why I always exploded. The restart button was right where I tapped to launch.

I loved the simplicity, it was fun!

New comment by fifilura in "The Importance of Being Idle"

fifilura — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:49:01 +0000

> a stunningly incompetent array of bad leaders

I am honestly curious who you are pointing at (in particular if you exclude British leaders)

Partly because I am actually curious, I don't doubt there are bad leaders.

But partly also because, without any details, this is a very general trope, that I don't really think is very healthy at the moment. Since it is food for right wing extremists (you probably know yourself where some politicians in USA originate from).

New comment by fifilura in "No Taco: This Is Complete US Strategic Failure"

fifilura — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:52:52 +0000

> apparently incapable of win-win scenarios

And this is exactly the opposite of how trade works. Trade only happens if both parties have something to gain from it.

New comment by fifilura in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

fifilura — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:18:42 +0000

Ooh, the telephones in the 80s! You should get one of those!

New comment by fifilura in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

fifilura — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:56:43 +0000

The chicken is always the good part of the TACO. That doesn't make the whole thing great.

New comment by fifilura in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

fifilura — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:00:40 +0000

Ok, TIL :)

New comment by fifilura in "Running out of disk space in production"

fifilura — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:14:19 +0000

I did this too, but i also zipped the file, turns out it had great packing ratio!