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New comment by jwe in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

jwe — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:52:03 +0000

That sounds like a neat statistic. Do you have a source containing the data or better yet a rendered map showing this?

New comment by jwe in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

jwe — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:47:32 +0000

> I also don't pretend the history I learned about WWII and the persecution of Jewish people was objective truth either.

I'm not sure what you expect by spewing stuff like this apart from downvotes without comments.

New comment by jwe in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

jwe — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 07:35:00 +0000

As long as there is a forum as technical as this where LLM performance commentary uses the word "it understands" irony is still alive.

New comment by jwe in "We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers"

jwe — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:43:23 +0000

I can't follow your thought there. Who wrote it?

New comment by jwe in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"

jwe — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 09:59:39 +0000

The amount of neo-antisemitism, ignorance towards history of antisemitism, Oct 7 denial, WW2 perpetrator/victim reversal, among other perception errors in this thread (and of course all online threads about this) is staggering and breathtaking.

At this point - except for this one message in this one thread on this one website - I have stopped all interaction with this topic online. I feel helpless, powerless and hope that this phase of human/news/information/power interaction is well past all of us within my lifetime.

New comment by jwe in "AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds"

jwe — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:42:15 +0000

Not really. A pastor is hardly a trained mental health professional.

New comment by jwe in "AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds"

jwe — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:40:39 +0000

As somebody who has been through various forms of psychotherapy, knows trained professional psychotherapists, knows highly educated personell in the relevant educational institutions, etc. the very mild summary that I think when reading what to my mind is a generalized statements like "Whole schools, e.g. psychotherapy, are possibly net dangerous." is:

Citation needed.

Also: Psychotherapy is not a school but is divided in many different schools.

New comment by jwe in "Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever"

jwe — Fri, 30 May 2025 09:12:35 +0000

I can recommend to use Pinboard with the archive option

New comment by jwe in "Try Switching to Kagi"

jwe — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 06:10:06 +0000

I agree. He doesn't take that stance and thus I am not a customer and speaking out about it.

New comment by jwe in "Try Switching to Kagi"

jwe — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:29:16 +0000

As somebody who is also not a Kagi customer because of this the statement of Vlad is exactly "throwing his hands up".

Two quotes from his response: "Any good search engine remains unimpressed by world politics." "We set out to fix search, not the world."

All the technical explanations between these two quotes could have also been used to justify why they are not contributing to Russias economy. But he didn't do that. That is a conscious choice while clearly being aware of the issue.

New comment by jwe in "Try Switching to Kagi"

jwe — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:43:56 +0000

After a quick internet search apparently Google produces Pixel phones mainly in Taiwan with additional processes happening in China and India. What is the point you are trying to make?

New comment by jwe in "Try Switching to Kagi"

jwe — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:39:34 +0000

Same for me. I don't understand why they are not able to cleanly separate themselves from Yandex. Their explanations don't help me understand it but only serve as "we hear you and consciously decide to still fund a Russian company".

If anybody reading this is willing to disabuse me of this I'll try to be open for a different perspective.

New comment by jwe in "Let's knock down social media's walled gardens – Tim Berners-Lee"

jwe — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 06:44:10 +0000

I value this insight but think that you might be part of the 1% your parent has described.

New comment by jwe in "Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative"

jwe — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 21:56:05 +0000

I had to check if Help & Support is indeed linked to Discord and sadly it is. For me this is an instant turnoff. If there is no documentation but rather I am expeced to scout chat logs, I won't even start to use it. (I realize that this is a bit of a meme but it is true for me)

New comment by jwe in "PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs"

jwe — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 05:23:29 +0000

I recently saw an interesting service online and wanted to try it. After I saw that the only support option they offered was discord I gave up immediately and searched for something else.

New comment by jwe in "Adblockers: The Only Way Out"

jwe — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 18:31:40 +0000

I might be wrong but I don't think those are services that can be characterised as micropayment like e.g. Flattr is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment for more).

New comment by jwe in "Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics"

jwe — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 22:08:55 +0000

Oh wow - I would be really interested in more about this!

New comment by jwe in "Use Python in Excel without add-ins"

jwe — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 18:09:42 +0000

If you have any specific questions about VBA feel free to contact me. I spent a couple of years on macros in various contexts and still have loads of links. (I second the links already posted)

Automated Image Transformation: Comparing Java Libraries

jwe — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 01:16:22 +0000

Article URL: http://dev.orf.at/stories/26/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7106476

Points: 1

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New comment by jwe in "AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem"

jwe — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:58:55 +0000

It's not so much about thinking that somebody else could do better.

By doing what they do they create the expectation that they _are_ doing better than everybody else.