Hacker News: florohttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=floroHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 13 May 2026 14:12:09 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by floro in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"]]>As a junior I will share my perspective from the other side.

Companies have outlandish hiring practices. They want juniors who already know everything. That's why admitting that you don't know something is seen as showing weakness to the company in the eyes of a junior. Also, not knowing things will actively keep you from getting promoted.

I'm sure it's not like that everywhere but it's juniors playing the corpo game.

]]>Wed, 13 May 2026 10:15:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119993florohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119993https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119993<![CDATA[New comment by floro in "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student"]]>I agree. I studied at one of Europe's top "research universities". The most important courses often had the most famous profs, who also were either bad teachers or put no efford into their teaching.

On the other hand the course I learnt the most from was taught by a passionate lecturer who isn't even a professor, and he gets the highest ratings every year. (Yes we have a "rate my prof" event)

]]>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:39:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427140florohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427140https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427140<![CDATA[New comment by floro in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"]]>You get downvoted because you're implying substances like methamphetamine are common in vapes (as per your linked article), which it obviously is not, and already highly illegal.

The truth is you can mix your own vape juice from just PG, VG and nicotine. Which are completely harmless to eat (except nicotine) and used in food products. A more rational discussion would be about if inhaling PG and VG is harmful to the lungs, or the additional unregulated stuff you find in flavoring of vape juice.

]]>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:36:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616502florohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616502https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616502<![CDATA[New comment by floro in "Apptainer: Application Containers for Linux"]]>I used it on a SLURM cluster before. The documentation is done well and should be a good introduction. The only issue I had was that the cluster didn't have fakeroot or sudo, so I had to build the apptainer locally and transfer it to the server.

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