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New comment by kenty in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

kenty — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:18:58 +0000

Good article but sorry but it should not be normalized that you have to have an iPhone to join a social network. Something clearly wrong there.

New comment by kenty in "Where does all the milk go?"

kenty — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:56:45 +0000

where do you get the bacteria/ yeast from?

New comment by kenty in "Where does all the milk go?"

kenty — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:54:50 +0000

Thank you. I was a little bit disappointed that these more sinister parts were occluded but I guess that is to be expected after all, the dairy industry spends insane amounts of money to keep us gaslighted. Just ask somebody if cows give milk without being pregnant...

Let's also not forget that the article basically skips what rennet actually is just naming it an enzyme.

New comment by kenty in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

kenty — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:24:52 +0000

It's indeed pretty interesting how our society has normalized being. what I would say is antisocial by the norms of previous generations in the form of the gen z stare. Funnilly I remember a situation where I got a job offer from somebody from an older generation and I just stood still and stared for 1 minute. Not because I wanted to be disrespectful but because I was processing the information and I was simply so baffled that I forgot the social dance of showing the thinking on my face and doing thinking sounds (if you know you know). This led to the other person holding a lecture on how you should respond that you do not have a response yet but I thinking. I ended up accepting.

New comment by kenty in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

kenty — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:23:29 +0000

Dietary fiber is clearly off charts for OP.

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

kenty — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:27:33 +0000

This seems clickbait? Gemini answers:

Method,Logistical Requirement Automatic/Tunnel,The vehicle must be present to be processed through the brushes or jets. Self-Service Bay,The vehicle must be driven into the bay to access the high-pressure wands. Hand Wash (at home),"If the ""car wash"" is a location where you buy supplies to bring back, walking is feasible." Detailing Service,"If you are dropping the car off for others to clean, the car must be delivered to the site."

New comment by kenty in "Dead Internet Theory"

kenty — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:03:40 +0000

Thanks for the thorough explanation, that, indeed, is a level of nuance that's hard for me to spot.

Interestingly, "absolutely right" is very common in German: "du hast natürlich absolut Recht" is something which I can easily imagine a friend's voice (or my voice) say at a dinner table. It's "du hast Recht" that sounds a little bit too formal and strong x[.

Agreed on the sycophancy point, in Gemini I even have a preamble that basically says "don't be a sycophant". It still doesn't always work.

New comment by kenty in "Dead Internet Theory"

kenty — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:29:14 +0000

> it's common for people to be bad at a second language

Non-native speaker here: huh, is "you are absolutely right" wrong somehow? I.e., are you a bad english speaker for using it? Fully agree (I guess "fully agree" is the common one?) with this criticism of the article, to me that colloquialism does not sound fishy at all.

There might also be two effects at play:

  1. Speech "bubbles" where your preferred language is heavily influenced by where you grew up. What sounds common to you might sound uncommon in Canada.
  2. People have been using LLMs for years at this point so what is common for them might be influenced by what they read from LLM output. So while initially it was an LLM colloquialism it could have been popularized by LLM usage.

New comment by kenty in "Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?"

kenty — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:16:34 +0000

I use dark mode unless there is glare coming in. So on foggy or rainy days - dark mode all day. On sunny days - light mode. At night - dark mode.

New comment by kenty in "Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?"

kenty — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:15:15 +0000

Just use dark reader, it works extremely well here.

New comment by kenty in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

kenty — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:07:40 +0000

It is clear that Alphabet is his baby and neither he not Larry ever fully left. He is still in his 50s so maybe just too young to play golf and chill on superyachts all day. While him being a billionaire makes any lesson derived have to have an asterisk him enjoying technical work even after long having won the rat race is a pretty cool role model.

New comment by kenty in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

kenty — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:04:25 +0000

This is exactly my thoughts. If you are reading this, author, please either make the snowflakes less distracting or toggleable. They are a pain on mobile.

New comment by kenty in "Verdichtung"

kenty — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:44:00 +0000

Will remember it for the next article to run some more empirical number crunching, thank you! This was more of a rationalist view on things and focussing on Zurich only.

New comment by kenty in "Verdichtung"

kenty — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:39:32 +0000

Yes. Thanks for pointing this out. I was hesitant to keep it in the article too as it's a bit too much of a simplification since I pool in different actors like Baugenossenschaften, the city and e.g., pension funds together. Further analyzing would have indeed been better but I wanted to keep it compact.

New comment by kenty in "Verdichtung"

kenty — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:27:51 +0000

Megacities are obviously a different beast. Interestingly though, as far as I know, Moscow is heavily expanding into/incorporating/eating up the neighboring towns, expanding borders and building metro stations instead of mainly doing Verdichtung. I guess there are/have to be some projects where they build a bit higher but it is not the main shtick.

Verdichtung

kenty — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 08:42:45 +0000

Article URL: https://alexeygy.github.io/blog/verdichtung/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400242

Points: 54

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New comment by kenty in "Anatomy of a credit card rewards program"

kenty — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 10:38:01 +0000

Came here just to write the same. I've squandered to find an explanation because I absolutely enjoy the subject. Perhaps it's because I'm not a native speaker and generally have non-native speakers around so I don't understand some of the metaphors, perhaps it's because I'm just not used to reading these kinds of long sentences anymore, or perhaps it's just not my kind of beer. I really don't know.

New comment by kenty in "Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring"

kenty — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 07:50:15 +0000

I think we work at the same little company. Tbh, we are already kind of at 5., some divisions are getting shut down and people have n months to find a new team. It's a game of musical chairs.

While others find him inconsiderate, I appreciate that Zuckerberg is at least not all corpspeak. Too bat he bet on the losing horse with the Metaverse and now has to stay in until either it succeeds or he gets sacked.

New comment by kenty in "Swiss back further restrictions on tobacco advertising"

kenty — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:44:14 +0000

I can't prove this part which is why I've explicitly stated the assumption.

New comment by kenty in "Swiss back further restrictions on tobacco advertising"

kenty — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 22:58:02 +0000

It seems all but impossible to fully "ban" second hand smoke: * how do you prove it? * how do you measure the amount in case you've proven it? It seems such a minor individual offense that courts would hardly accept cases.

So we probably have to rely on smoker's good will to not smoke near others instead of on the law.

Every population consists of nice people and inconsiderate people, with something like a normal distribution of niceness. Assuming that smokers follow this distribution, there will always be inconsiderate smokers which don't care and stand in front of doors blowing clouds of tar into other people's faces. The amount of such people will be governed by the rate of smokers. Hence, the best way to reduce second hand smoke is to reduce the count of smokers. Note that this even applies if we assume that smokers are much more considerate than the regular population.