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New comment by jan_g in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

jan_g — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:29:32 +0000

Probably depends on where you are, etc., but as an European, I was taught in school two ways of splitting the year up into seasons: calendar/astrological and meteorological. Calendar split is based on solstices and equinoxes (21st March, 21st June, ...), whereas meteorological is based on month start (1st March, 1st June, ...). They use this also in weather reports, for example, where on 1st March they would add "Today starts meteorological spring" and on 21st March "Today starts calendar spring".

New comment by jan_g in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

jan_g — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:51:19 +0000

I meant speeding cameras, where a system OCRs your license plate and you receive a fine after a month or even two months. Fine being monetary + points, depending on how fast you drove. Police officers measuring speed have become quite rare, at least here at my location (EU country). While speeding cameras are becoming quite common, especially in towns/cities and on the highways.

New comment by jan_g in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

jan_g — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:58:28 +0000

But couldn't you then have the same argument for speeding tickets (or parking tickets)? Like, "I don't know who drove my car too fast or parked my car on the curb, so it's not my problem. The state should prove who did it.".

New comment by jan_g in "Russia Bans Roblox"

jan_g — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:26:07 +0000

I see you have an axe to grind with EU. That's fine, but I'll say that I also lived in socialism, so I do have experience and perspective of what it was like. And precisely because of that, these EU bans don't worry me at all. I know the difference as opposed to many who think they know the difference.

New comment by jan_g in "Russia Bans Roblox"

jan_g — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:10:10 +0000

Of course it's political, what else could it be? If Putin's regime is censoring western media, is it any less political? In other words, is there any censoring of news media (foreign or domestic) you would consider apolitical?

> EU crying about censorship in other countries is just pure hypocrisy.

I don't see any crying about censorship. It's a made up argument. Personally, I couldn't care less about censoring in Russia or any other country that I'm not living in.

New comment by jan_g in "Russia Bans Roblox"

jan_g — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:26:17 +0000

Yeah, I know about that. But it's not been implemented, so RT is in practice accessible. As are other Russian websites. I don't know what is sad about it, I'm just saying what is in real life, not what is on paper.

New comment by jan_g in "Russia Bans Roblox"

jan_g — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:18:44 +0000

It's not banned. I am within EU and can normally access RT website. I can also access yandex, etc. Without VPN or proxies. SO, how is this "standard European censorship"? Don't believe Facebook and Twitter propaganda bots.

New comment by jan_g in "Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D"

jan_g — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:20:40 +0000

    A nautical mile is ~6,076 feet or exactly 1,852 meters (???).

That is actually defined by distances on Earth (which is of course an approximation, but still ...). So, 1 nautical mile equals to one minute in the 90 degrees hemisphere arc. It's approximately 10k km from equator to the pole, so 10,000km/90/60 equals 1.852km.

New comment by jan_g in "Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps"

jan_g — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:30:30 +0000

Can you expand a bit on this use case? Why would Puppeteer constantly crash on your own high end machine, but not on Trigger's infra? Puppeteer doesn't care where it runs, so it would be nice to understand how Trigger's infra works around this problem.

New comment by jan_g in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

jan_g — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 07:05:45 +0000

> Volkswagen sells you another subscription for that now, at least for their electric vehicles. You can buy the option if you want your EV to perform as it's designed.

You can also buy "for life" subscription (around £600, if I remember the news about it correctly), so you could also say that the stronger engine costs 600 pounds more when you purchase the car. Not too different to buying the cars in the past: more powerful engine adds to the price tag.

New comment by jan_g in "Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome"

jan_g — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:15:57 +0000

Same here. I have a colleague that is completely enamored with these agents. Uses them for everything he can, not just coding. Commit messages, opening PRs, Linear tickets, etc. Basically, he uses agents for everything he can. But the productivity gain is just not there. He's about as fast or rather as slow as he was before. And to a degree I think this goes for the whole team. It's the oxymoron of AI: more code, more documentation, more text, more of everything generated than ever, but the effect is that this means more complexity, more PRs to review, more bugs, more stuff to know and understand, ... We are all still learning how to use these agents effectively. And the particular developer's effect can and does multiply as everything else with GenAI. Was he a bit sloppy before, not covering various edge-cases and used quick-and-dirty shortcuts? Then this remains true for the code he produces using agents. And to those, who claim that "by using more agents I will gain 10x productivity" I say please read a certain book about how just adding developers to a project makes it even more delayed. The resemblance of team/project leadership -> developers dynamic is truly uncanny.

New comment by jan_g in "Kagi Reaches 50k Users"

jan_g — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 05:12:51 +0000

If they didn't take investments (and therefore not beholden to all that unicorn expectations), then it's totally fine. They've reached profitability sometime last yer, if I remember correctly. It was discussed also here on hacker news.

New comment by jan_g in "Redis is open source again"

jan_g — Thu, 01 May 2025 21:32:16 +0000

Yeah, min.io really soured AGPL license, for me at least. Because of their stance I've switched away from min.io in our company and avoid everything AGPL like a plague. Having read the license many times and also all discussions around it, I understand that it should be fine to use an AGPL project in a commercial enterprise (without modifications, internally in backend network). However, if authors themselves of such a project believe and say otherwise, I'm really not going to risk anything and definitely not asking lawyers if "my specific use of min.io violates the license or not". I'm just using it as-is over network, internally in my backend deployment. Not modified and not exposed to external world.

New comment by jan_g in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

jan_g — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:07:54 +0000

Unfortunately, EU is not an entity with single and unified view on things. In the case of Russian invasion of Ukraine, there is a surprisingly strong opposition to related policies in Brussels amongst the people in quite a few member states. In fact, many support Putin and now his best buddy Trump - with plain stupid belief that Putin/Trump wants peace and Zelensky wants to continue war. In short, EU (+ UK, Norway, maybe Switzerland) is simply not as unified against Putin as it may appear in the Brussels press conferences. Putting more effort (in money, materials, soldiers even) in this conflict will be hard to pill to swallow for large percentage of citizens and by extension politicians. What I see happening in the near future is more money flowing into militaries of the member states, which is a sad necessity by having Putin as neighbor. But I'm skeptical of EU countries becoming much more involved in the Ukraine conflict.

New comment by jan_g in "The number pi has an evil twin"

jan_g — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 07:53:35 +0000

Interesting! I can see it in two ways: (1) as elongated U-shaped ellipsis that rotates sideways and (2) as bent lemniscate that rotates vertically.

New comment by jan_g in "I Stopped Using Kubernetes. Our DevOps Team Is Happier Than Ever"

jan_g — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 07:34:45 +0000

I'm wondering the same. Either they are quite a big company, so such infrastructure comes naturally from many products/teams or their use case is to be in the clusters business (provisioning and managing k8s clusters for other companies). In both cases I'd say there should be a dedicated devops team that knows their way around k8s.

Other than that, the experience I have is that using a managed solution like EKS and one cluster per env (dev, staging, prod) with namespaces to isolate projects takes you a long way. Having used k8s for years now, I'm probably biased, but in general I disagree with many of the k8s-related posts that are frequently upvoted on the front page. I find it gives me freedom, I can iterate fast on services, change structure easily without worrying too much about isolation, networking and resources. In general I feel more nimble than I used to before k8s.

New comment by jan_g in "Handling cookies is a minefield"

jan_g — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 07:28:16 +0000

We have *.example.dev, *.example.qa, *.example.com for development, staging/qa and production. Works well and we haven't had any issues with cookies.

New comment by jan_g in "Why we picked AGPL"

jan_g — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:53:57 +0000

But you forgot to cite the next sentence:

   The output from running a covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its content, constitutes a covered work.

So, what is 'covered work'? The license says this:

    A "covered work" means either the unmodified Program or a work based on the Program.

Do you still think it's clearly written license? To me it's dubious enough that I wanted an explicit answer from the authors of Minio. Failing to get it, I decided to move away from Minio.

New comment by jan_g in "Why we picked AGPL"

jan_g — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 07:50:52 +0000

I don't know about ParadeDB, but this was very off-putting for me in case of Minio when they switched to AGPL. If you check their answers to various license questions, they are essentially this: if you use Minio in your stack/product (for profit), then we recommend our commercial license or consult with a lawyer if your use case is covered by AGPL or not.

What me and I guess many others wanted was a simple yes/no to the following: if I use Minio in my stack without modifications (as a file server that my other services interact with via an API), do I have to AGPL all the stuff the touches Minio or not? And they do not want to answer this question. I do not understand why is it so hard to answer clearly. I understand that the majority of opinions is that it's fine to use without modifications, but I wanted a clear statement from authors of Minio. Failing that, I then decided to keep the pre-AGPL version for a while and have transitioned away from Minio since then.

New comment by jan_g in "Tell HN: Wise froze $40k+ in funds for 10 days and counting"

jan_g — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 08:42:37 +0000

I know this won't help you much, but as a point of reference. Last year they've blocked my account as well and wanted some documentation/proofs for their verification team. Which I provided the same day, but then it took nearly 4 weeks to clear. Like you, I've asked them for feedback, but the response was the usual "The verification team is busy".