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New comment by kubav027 in "How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer"

kubav027 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:39:54 +0000

Agreed. I have always thought about refactoring as developer responsibility. If it needs to be done do it while working on real feature and update deadlines accordingly. That way it is way easier to justify it because you talk about it only with technical people. In long run it makes code base way better. This results in easier maintenance and faster development of new features.

New comment by kubav027 in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

kubav027 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:07:27 +0000

I am on my sabatical now which I started to recover from burnout working in early stage startup. I stopped drinking coffee. I have drunk 4 to 8 coffees daily at work. It helped me to survive the day but I did not enjoy the taste. It was like eating pills. Also it did not help with sleep at night and rest during the day. I have not drink coffee or green tea for 4 months and now I have started again because I crave for coffee taste but I drink way less (3-4 coffees a week). Good think is that I enjoy it again, it helps me concentrate and also it does not interfere with my rest and sleep. The same applies to alcohol even in small amounts. It helps you to cope with overwork but it drains you in long term.

edit: So it is not only about health but also about satisfaction and well being.

New comment by kubav027 in "How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do"

kubav027 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:00:38 +0000

This is reason I am not doing workouts at home. I hate splitting workout and normal life to separate categories. So I try to integrate physical exercise into daily schedule. I commute by running, cycling or walking paired with public transport. Also I do a lot of walking/running with my small kids. I am able to average 10 km walk per day with two 30 km bicycle rides in hilly terrain and one 5 km run per week. This is without forcing myself to "workout time". If I have time I am also going to bouldering or wall climbing once a week. It works great because I have reasonable physical exercise despite enjoying time with my kids and being an office worker.

New comment by kubav027 in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

kubav027 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 10:16:09 +0000

During summer french nuclear power plants reduced their energy production because there were problems with cooling caused by heat and drought. So we probably need mixture of all those technologies to make electrical grid stable. Even nuclear energy is not imune to climate change.

New comment by kubav027 in "Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops"

kubav027 — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 18:54:40 +0000

You are right that tuxedo has some issues. But also take into account price of their notebooks. Even lenovo, hp, dell etc. are not without issues in the similar price category. I take it as cheap HW for advanced users.

But you are right that not having drivers upstream is really strange decision.

New comment by kubav027 in "Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops"

kubav027 — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 18:41:15 +0000

I have the same thinkpad as working computer and InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen 9 with 8845 as home computer. Lenovo has better upstream linux support but I was able to make both work without issues. I use debian testing/unstable.

Lenovo pros:

- better case

- better keyboard

Tuxedo pros:

- significantly cheaper price

- two fan setup enables faster performace (it is stable with 90W power consumption)

- almost twice as long battery life (tuxedo has bigger batery with similar weight and size)

- two nvme slots

If you want more powerful notebook with slightly worse build quality, tuxedo is good choice.

New comment by kubav027 in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

kubav027 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:43:33 +0000

Writing code is easier than long term maintenance. Any programmer is able to write so much code that he will not be able to maintain it. Unless there are good AI tools helping with maintenance there is no point to use generative tools for production code. From my experience AI tools are great for prototyping or optimizing procrastination.

New comment by kubav027 in "Google is giving Amazon a leg up in digital book sales"

kubav027 — Tue, 20 May 2025 20:58:22 +0000

My bank gives me virtual credit cards. Google is just unnecessary expensive middle man. But I live in Europe so US situation might be different.

New comment by kubav027 in "Ditching Obsidian and building my own"

kubav027 — Mon, 19 May 2025 16:18:38 +0000

I have switched to joplin from evernote and I am using webdav on synology NAS to synchronize notes. It is open source and also self hosted and works on all platforms without problem. I also share notes with my wife. We use it for planning and shopping lists and it works really great. It has some basic conflict resolution which is usable for two people.

Joplin uses sqlite as storage but you can export collection to md files and there is backup plugin which does that periodically.

Also you can setup external editor. I am editing notes in neovim and joplin is just for viewing.

New comment by kubav027 in "Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code"

kubav027 — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:16:06 +0000

Unless you are prototyping human-friendly code is a must. It is easy to write huge amounts of low quality code without AI. Hard part is long term maintenance. I have not seen any AI tool helping with that.

New comment by kubav027 in "CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use"

kubav027 — Thu, 08 May 2025 19:22:35 +0000

I have tried that and all issues were already reported. It still took them a few months to resolve it. See examples of last year serious bugs:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-72046 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-79448 https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-78077

I can't get how poetry support problems were introduced. They have made new patch release just before Christmas holidays which introduced major problem (IDE periodically updates package lock file). It took them 3 months to fix it. After a few weeks they reintroduced the bug and said that it is feature and added registry option to revert to old functionality. I still do not understand what is the reason for updating package lock file.

New comment by kubav027 in "C++26: more constexpr in the standard library"

kubav027 — Thu, 01 May 2025 21:55:18 +0000

One of my first tasks in my carrier was implementing stable sort to incomplete stl implementation. In 3 years no one used it. This so niche it should not be part of C++ standard.

New comment by kubav027 in "Less Slow C++"

kubav027 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 19:09:15 +0000

At least do not name the function "sin". One former game dev works in my company and he is using similar tricks all the time. It makes code so hard to read and unless you are computing "sin" a lot speedup is not measurable.

New comment by kubav027 in "LLMs understand nullability"

kubav027 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:46:44 +0000

1. Dunning-kruger effect describes difference in expected and real performance. It is not saying that humans confidently give wrong answers if they do not know correct ones.

2. That is not my experience. Almost half of the time LLM gives wrong answer without any warning. It is up to me to check correctness. Even if I follow up it often continues to give wrong answers.

New comment by kubav027 in "LLMs understand nullability"

kubav027 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:26:04 +0000

LLM also have no idea what it is capable of. This feels like difference to humans. Having some understanding of the problem also means knowing or "feeling" the limits of that understanding.

New comment by kubav027 in "Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction"

kubav027 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:02:15 +0000

According to paper model grid resolution is 1.5 degrees. I do not think it can predict accurate weather in any location. It show global weather trends.

New comment by kubav027 in "Switching from Pyenv to Uv"

kubav027 — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:13:34 +0000

You are right that it is faster but how often you are running dependency update? It will take more time to ensure that new dependencies did not break anything than doing upgrade.

New comment by kubav027 in "Switching from Pyenv to Uv"

kubav027 — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:07:16 +0000

I am pretty happy with poetry for near future. I prefer using python interpreters installed by linux package manager. In cloud I use python docker. Poetry recently added option to install python too if I changed my mind.

I have already setup CI/CD pipelines for programs and python libraries. Using uv would probably save some time on dependency updates but it would require changing my workflow and CI/CD. I do not think it is worth the time right now.

But if you use older environments without proper lock file I would recommend switching immediately. Poetry v2 supports pyproject.toml close to format used by uv so I can switch anytime when it would look more appealing.

Another thing to consider in long term is how astral tooling would change when they will need to make money.

New comment by kubav027 in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

kubav027 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:24:25 +0000

Exactly, those people are happy because "Musk will show them!". That is it.

New comment by kubav027 in "Apple Invites"

kubav027 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:03:21 +0000

I do not get it. Do you really need an app for that? Are your family and friends so disconnected? I would sent email and made a phone call to the rest not heaving email. But I am not from US so it might be the difference.