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New comment by juvvel in "Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker"

juvvel — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:45:51 +0000

Well, you need a font that is single-line by design. Then it works just fine. There are some single-line default fonts, too. For filling shapes, there is no automated cross-hatch or anything, that's true, but you could create such a pattern in a vector program.

New comment by juvvel in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

juvvel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:35:09 +0000

We could start by taxing capital gains progressively, similar to salaries. In my country, you pay a flat 25% no matter if you make one dollar or a billion. Why should a worker have to give away up to 50% of their salary when people with capital only have to pay 25% tax?

New comment by juvvel in "More German than many Germans"

juvvel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:29:30 +0000

The Witcher 3 is great in German. It actually suits the game a lot better than English imo.

New comment by juvvel in "More German than many Germans"

juvvel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:45:06 +0000

You'll find that Scandinavian countries are not readily welcoming foreigners into their social circles either.

New comment by juvvel in "More German than many Germans"

juvvel — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:42:47 +0000

German films are mostly not great, but if one wants to get immersed into the language, music and literature are much better places. And also comedy. The language allows for some great puns.

New comment by juvvel in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

juvvel — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:43:13 +0000

No. This is what capitalists want you to believe. The truth is that we are all subsiziding the capital gains of the wealthiest 2%. You could easily pay for generous social security programs by taxing property and capital more (as opposed to labor). But the ultra-wealthy point at the weakest and poorest and tell the average worker "look, they're coming for your house and your humble savings!". This is a very deliberate distraction.

New comment by juvvel in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

juvvel — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:36:57 +0000

If you have the money, you can get excellent healthcare in almost any civilized country. You're free to pay for your treatment in Canada, too.

New comment by juvvel in "I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens"

juvvel — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:38:24 +0000

This reminds of sensitivity vs. specificity for medical tests. You essentially have a 2x2 matrix: Error vs. non-error on one axis, and detected vs. not detected on the other. If we assume that a reviewer LLM has 95% accuracy, meaning that it produces the correct result 95% of the time it (identifying errors as errors, and identifying non-errors as non-errors), you get the following: Of 100 cases, the output of 5 is wrong, and the output of 95 is correct. Of the 5 wrong outputs, the LLM correctly identifies 4.75 (95%) as wrong. But it will also create 4.75 false positives (5% of 95). Of the 95 correct ones, the LLM correctly identifies 90.25 (95%) as correct. Therefore it creates 0.25 false negatives. So the positive predictive value is low: When the reviewer LLM flags an error, it's actually only an error 50% of the time. On the other hand, the negative predictive value is high, so in ~99.7% of cases, there will be no error if the reviewer LLM didn't catch one. All of that is assuming that the actual accuracy of the reviewer LLM is truly a flat 95% and that the base error rate is truly only 5%. I think that in reality, LLMs perform better with a certain type of tasks / errors and 5% error rate is just an average.

New comment by juvvel in "The lost joy of music piracy"

juvvel — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:47:07 +0000

Oh, the joy was never fully lost to me. I still listen to bands so obscure that Spotify and Youtube Music don't have them, so I have no other choice. I'm slowly reverting back to my tech use of the late 2000s and early 2010s, with the added bonus of being able to access my own music collection from anywhere. I've seriously been considering getting an MP3 player again.

New comment by juvvel in "The lost joy of music piracy"

juvvel — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:44:51 +0000

The opening of FFX basically is basically an FMV with edgy metal built in. :D

New comment by juvvel in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

juvvel — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:18:11 +0000

English is not my native language, but I consider myself fairly fluent. I've never heard the expression "belt-and-suspenders" before Claude.

New comment by juvvel in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

juvvel — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:58:20 +0000

I've recently noticed an increase in "bite". "This will only bite if..." It also loves "stress-testing", "matrix", "anchor" and "flagging".

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

juvvel — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:15:06 +0000

I love Tiled Words, thanks for making it.

New comment by juvvel in "DIY Soft Drinks"

juvvel — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:34:33 +0000

Kombucha is the best "natural" soft drink for me, too. It's not entirely sugar-free, though (even though you can get it to low-sugar with longer fermentation).

New comment by juvvel in "DIY Soft Drinks"

juvvel — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:31:32 +0000

Ah, good old Dragonspice.de, they have provided me with supplies for many of my experiments as well. I have many of the essential oils already, I might try this! Thank you for posting your recipe.

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: What older games are you playing through?"

juvvel — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:01:29 +0000

I regularly replay FFX, I recently replayed the Battle Realms remaster, and now I'm once again on Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: For those trying to hire how hard is it to find people currently?"

juvvel — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:52:13 +0000

I agree with this observation. I often assumed it would be an USP if I highlight that I want to understand how things work instead of blindly following paradigms and frameworks, but it seems that (a sense of) uniformity just comes with too many perceived advantages, like you said.

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: Why don't AI artists show their prompts?"

juvvel — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 01:29:20 +0000

I don't know the exact reason, but when they don't share the process or prompt, it seems like they're trying to gatekeep their results – which is very ironic from someone using a tool made possible by ingesting other people's work without their consent.

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: For those trying to hire how hard is it to find people currently?"

juvvel — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:28:10 +0000

That's interesting to hear, because my impression was that software/web development is a field full of people who are self-taught or at least very enthusiastic about learning new tech. I am personally pretty undogmatic when it comes to languages or tools and I assumed most developers who care about solving problems are the same way.

New comment by juvvel in "Ask HN: For those trying to hire how hard is it to find people currently?"

juvvel — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:23:28 +0000

So you're saying that someone who likes both OOP and Javascript and more functional-style programming could be a sought after candidate?