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New comment by gerhardi in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

gerhardi — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:45:39 +0000

Have you seen him or a picture of him? Looks about as white as they come to me, putting his religious heritage aside.

New comment by gerhardi in "Qwen3-Max-Thinking"

gerhardi — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:33:03 +0000

Mention a few?

New comment by gerhardi in "Jaguar Land Rover hack cost UK economy an estimated $2.5B"

gerhardi — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:10:58 +0000

I used to drive for five years (2015-2020) a 2009 naturally aspirated petrol Jaguar XF and it had zero issues except a single vacuum hose leak during my 100 000 kilometers (from 120 000 to 220 000) or so. The original rear upper wishbone arms were replaced and no more than expected normal wear & tear brake part replacements were needed. I still sometimes think that I'd like to have one again because in my opinion it was a quite nice and comfortable ride and turned out to be very good value as a used vehicle!

Maybe I had some kind of exception or are there dramatic differences between models and engines?

New comment by gerhardi in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

gerhardi — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:14:21 +0000

I’m not well versed enough on this but wouldn’t it be a problem with custom training that the specific project training codebases probably would likely have a lot of the implemented stuff, relevant for the domain, only once and in one way, compared to how the todays popular large models have been trained maybe with countless different ways to use common libraries for whatever various tasks with whatever Github ripped material fed in?

New comment by gerhardi in "JD Vance's team had water level of Ohio river raised for family's boating trip"

gerhardi — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 20:37:28 +0000

Seems pretty normal amount from many western countries / EU perspective though. A quite standard 30 days paid time off could go like:

- Christmas to New year off (~3-5 days PTO + public holidays paid)

- Winter holiday in Feb/March (5 days PTO)

- Maybe a week off around Easter or Ascension day (4 days PTO + public holiday paid)

- 3 weeks off in the summer (15 days PTO)

- A long weekend in the autumn (1 day PTO) or a week if you didn't take a week off in the spring

-> 30 days PTO total

New comment by gerhardi in "Jazz Comping (2021)"

gerhardi — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:40:56 +0000

Learn scales. When you understand and know the scale of the song you can quickly start improvising then.

New comment by gerhardi in "Apple to scan iPhones for child sex abuse images"

gerhardi — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 12:48:45 +0000

So would this make a good vector for black mailing? Also I guess many parents might have a lot of pictures of their small children playing around naked.. at least where I live.

New comment by gerhardi in "Lightroom app update wipes users' photos and presets, Adobe says not recoverable"

gerhardi — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 09:10:54 +0000

DaVinci Resolve free version should provide enough functionality and powerful features for even most professional work! DaVinci is a product I'll happily promote. I feel that the software somehow flies "too much under the radar": if you don't know where to look for and seek free video editing software, you end up easily in a swamp of terrible freemium software even when DaVinci Resolve is easily available.

New comment by gerhardi in "Some SQL Tricks of an Application DBA"

gerhardi — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 19:52:51 +0000

Materialized views are also nice for many modern DW applications where you don't live in legacy "once in a hour/day/week" ELT/ETL environment, but more in a real timeish or micro batch world. You can have data marts / reporting tables composed with these materialized views over many kinds of underlying DW models. Just dropping this to promote the Materialized View functionality :)

New comment by gerhardi in "Launch HN: Paragon (YC W20) – Visually Build API Workflows"

gerhardi — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 19:36:42 +0000

Quickly this looks like something similar to Azure Logic Apps - you probably know about it too. Why should I use Paragon instead of Logic Apps? Educate me! :)

New comment by gerhardi in "What is the unique value proposition of selling honey?"

gerhardi — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:56:24 +0000

I dont remember what is the requirement in my part of Europe (maybe there is a EU standard?) for free range chickens, but anyway: many years ago a close family friend wanted to start producing free range eggs on his farm. There was a huuuge area (to meet the requirements) fenced that the chickens were free to use, but still very rarely any chicken walked over 15 meters away from their shelter.

New comment by gerhardi in "Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?"

gerhardi — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:42:48 +0000

Many of those who probably should know or who give the impression that they know, dont actually know or even want to know how the sausage is made. This can be both a good and a bad thing.

"Ignorance is a bliss."

New comment by gerhardi in "Booking.com agrees to EU demands to change travel offers"

gerhardi — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 17:27:32 +0000

I've made around 50 reservations in last couple of years through them and I really like it for the uniform experience across chains, cities and countries. They've been helpful and I've never run and into actual problems. I also probably ignore their dark patterns subconsciously.. I dont have proper incentives to try other platforms, agoda, trivago etc. seem worse (without trying).

New comment by gerhardi in "SQL Window Functions"

gerhardi — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 06:27:17 +0000

I interview people quite often for data engineer positions where good knowledge of SQL is also required and I'll usually have the applicant give me a presentation of some system or data pipeline that they have worked on earlier (any possible business or client secrets can of course be obfuscated or omitted). I'll ask questions about that system or process "like I'm 12 years old" and then I'll make up on the fly some kind of problem statement that I would like to have this and this kind of results from the data - how would you do it? Very often I include problems that would be easily solvable with window functions and more often than not those who know them get hired :)

IMHO it is really helpful to know these.

New comment by gerhardi in "Art's sale value? Zero. The tax bill? $29M"

gerhardi — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 10:31:45 +0000

Yes and still, the idea of taxing sentimental value feels as absurd as tax on level of life satisfaction or something similar.

New comment by gerhardi in "Art's sale value? Zero. The tax bill? $29M"

gerhardi — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 10:24:57 +0000

Taxing sentimental value would be a perfect way to make the poor even poorer.. I don’t like the idea. Why would someone want to do this?

New comment by gerhardi in "New Report/Dataset: Just 10% of Workers Receive Nearly Half of Global Pay"

gerhardi — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 00:11:23 +0000

Culture, entertainment, motivation, thrill and experiences also for the spectators. It is well known that people around the world have enjoyed also watching sports for thousands of years. But as mentioned in another comment, only the very best make any real money from being an athlete.

New comment by gerhardi in "Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B"

gerhardi — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 12:22:36 +0000

Microsoft has PowerBI which is already almost magic for many business users with it's ease of connectability with different databases and SaaS services. Transformations, parsing, mixing data from different sources and reporting capabilities are also easy to start with and quite powerful in the right hands. It's not integrated into Excel directly but sits quite well imho in the MS ecosystem.

New comment by gerhardi in "Storing UTC is not a silver bullet"

gerhardi — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:59:27 +0000

Why not:

valid_from: 2019-01-01T00:00:00+x

valid_until: 2019-01-02T00:00:00+x

Even 23:59:59.9999999 would still be < valid_until without any special tricks.

New comment by gerhardi in "Ansel Adams’ pictures of LA recall an era of war factories and 10-cent hot dogs"

gerhardi — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 20:11:13 +0000

I believe in this and also that the overall cumulative amount of activity really makes the difference. A while ago we met with couple of childhood friends and even though none of us are really sedentary it was obvious that one of the guys in our group was in seemingly excellent physical condition. We discussed about this and he wasn't involved in any actual sports hobby or nutritional diet but lives in a small town with his wife and two dogs, works in a industrial production plant and turned out that his average daily step count over the last year or so with his current phone was something between 15 000 - 20 000 steps per day without even trying. Those of us who live in a city doing office work and mostly trying to hit the gym couple of times per week clocked in around 6000-7000 steps per day on average. That difference must add up somewhere!