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New comment by krowek in "Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds"

krowek — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:25:35 +0000

> Why would they do that though

You won't be the first or last asking why Russia does the thing it does. Russia is world's Dog in the Manger, why wouldn't we give it a bit of credit, though?

New comment by krowek in "The kind of company I want to be a part of"

krowek — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:11:42 +0000

There's always an NPM package, even for trivial things like

  function fn(val) {
    return typeof val === "number" &&
      isFinite(val) &&
      Math.floor(val) === val;
  };

New comment by krowek in "Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?"

krowek — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:08:53 +0000

I was in the same boat until a couple of months ago.

Long time vim/neovim user, used fennel to configure it lastly, but I wanted to see what Emacs has to offer to compare.

I started by reading Mastering Emacs by Mickey Petersen and from there start adding things that I felt I needed (configure key bindings, project.el, eglot, LSP things, helm, corfu, vterm, flycheck, etc)

I still have things to do, but I'm not in a hurry, I'm quite comfortable with Emacs right now, so will approach them shortly.

There's also Protesilaos' Stavrou channel on YouTube with a good amount of videos covering Emacs' topics in depth. I highly recommend them.

(Btw, I still don't know what Vertigo and Consult provide, but I can navigate through files, text search and replacement, functions and all with comfort, so not sure if I'm missing something.)

New comment by krowek in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

krowek — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:23:56 +0000

Shameless from them to make it look like it's a user problem. It was loading fine for me one hour ago, now I refresh the page and their message states I'm doing too many requests and should chill out (1 request per hour is too many for you?)

New comment by krowek in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

krowek — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:38:14 +0000

I tried my best to start using Hetzner, but they wouldn't let me.

I got my account validation rejected despite having everything "in norm" and tried 3 times, they wouldn't give me a reason why it ended up rejected.

I think it's better that way, I wouldn't like to get the surprise my account was terminated at some point after that.

New comment by krowek in "Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025"

krowek — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:37:22 +0000

One of the major sources of funding was cut because they sided with the devil...

New comment by krowek in "Show HN: I built a web framework in C"

krowek — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:02:22 +0000

Curious, why did you decide to go with your own test helpers rather than using something like check?

New comment by krowek in "Clojure Civitas – Publish Clojure Ideas and Explorations"

krowek — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 07:02:57 +0000

(jeez, OPs account is pure trolling...)

New comment by krowek in "Can a Country Be Too Rich? Norway Is Finding Out"

krowek — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:24:52 +0000

Getting the Nginx default installation message. Not sure why (?).

Anyway, not sure why paywalled articles are shared in HN if that means people won't be able to read them and engage in further discussions...

New comment by krowek in "Brut: A New Web Framework for Ruby"

krowek — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:07:07 +0000

Very talented person, and good speaker as well. I recommend some of his talks as well, perhaps this one closer to the content of the book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRboMkFdZfg.

New comment by krowek in "ClojureScript 1.12.42"

krowek — Sat, 17 May 2025 11:16:42 +0000

Have you tried Cherry or Squintjs?

New comment by krowek in "Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI"

krowek — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:04:30 +0000

I've just uninstalled the app and deleted the account (sadly, I have some relatives still stuck on a yearly subscription) after having used Duolingo for years (almost 2000 days streak) and finished multiple languages (English, German, Polish, Esperanto).

Duolingo was quite an innovative platform years ago, it really led me to keep learning, but now all that's gone. I managed to save every single sentence in the last language I was learning, which I can now import into Anki, so the ad bloat won't be a problem anymore.

They can push their greediness far and beyond, until the extent they find suitable, I won't be part of that.

New comment by krowek in "French scientist denied entry into the U.S., French government says"

krowek — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 07:48:52 +0000

Your comment is out of context, but to add to the case, yes that's how you do it. You don't need to be a lawyer to know this, you can consult one.

New comment by krowek in "This Month in Ladybird February 2025"

krowek — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 11:42:21 +0000

> CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to "Ninja". CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set. You probably need to select a different build tool.

But at the end the problem is a missing header somewhere else. A pretty common thing in their Discord #build-problems channel.

New comment by krowek in "This Month in Ladybird February 2025"

krowek — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:53:16 +0000

Still unable to install it in MacOS arm64. As many other people have said, we'll go back to it on 2026.

New comment by krowek in "Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes"

krowek — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:51:26 +0000

How would that be?

New comment by krowek in "Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M"

krowek — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:00:57 +0000

Easy champ. This is not X.

New comment by krowek in "Llama.cpp supports Vulkan. why doesn't Ollama?"

krowek — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 13:54:33 +0000

> But why run it in a VM?

Because you don't execute untrusted code in your machine without containerization/virtualization. Don't you?

New comment by krowek in "Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (kind of) for vocabulary building"

krowek — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:14:48 +0000

I think pretty much the same, to the point where I've committed to save every sentence seen in Duolingo to make then my own Anki deck. I wouldn't bother going back again to Duolingo if I already finished the tree and there are no new units for me.

New comment by krowek in "Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder"

krowek — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:57:17 +0000

He's also deleted some of his videos because they had mentions to brands or companies with wrong practices (yes, plain wrong).

Also has very good books. So, totally not the average youtuber/content creator out there.