Hacker News: kubelsmieci

New comment by kubelsmieci in "Ten ways a check passes while the thing it checks is broken"

kubelsmieci — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:08:40 +0000

Can't you have performance tests, executed by agent?

New comment by kubelsmieci in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

kubelsmieci — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:54:42 +0000

This is real risk. Someone could really have a serious health problem.

New comment by kubelsmieci in "AI builders outnumber AI governance hires 7:1 in Europe"

kubelsmieci — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:20:01 +0000

Who are these "we"?

New comment by kubelsmieci in "How little exercise can you get away with?"

kubelsmieci — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:07:42 +0000

> Most people who exercise regularly enjoy it.

And because the most people don't exercise, it's easy to conclude, that the most people don't enjoy it. One can even conclude reverse, that only people who enjoy exercising, are doing it.

New comment by kubelsmieci in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

kubelsmieci — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:55:38 +0000

Don't antropomorfize countries. Countries can't have friends. There are only common interests. Or opposite.

New comment by kubelsmieci in "“Playmakers,” reviewed: The race to give every child a toy"

kubelsmieci — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:05:53 +0000

As a child, I could play wit sticks and stones

New comment by kubelsmieci in "Hypergrowth isn’t always easy"

kubelsmieci — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:09:10 +0000

Cannot unsee :)

New comment by kubelsmieci in "Automatic Programming"

kubelsmieci — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:09:59 +0000

let's have another though experiment:

there are two programmers. first is very talented technically, but weak at negotiations, so he earns median pay. second is average technically, but very good at negotiations, and he earns much better.

is it fair?

life is not fair.

New comment by kubelsmieci in "Toxic Fumes on Planes Blamed for Deaths of Pilots and Crew"

kubelsmieci — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:43:27 +0000

How will you know that you should change mask?

New comment by kubelsmieci in "Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed"

kubelsmieci — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 10:51:53 +0000

Most logs are probably never read, but nevertheless should be written (fast) for unexpected situations when you will later need them. And logging have to be fast, and have minimal performance overhead.

New comment by kubelsmieci in "The hit film about overworked nurses that's causing alarm across Europe"

kubelsmieci — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:22:15 +0000

Solution: preventive health care, promoting a healthy lifestyle from an early age, and healthy eating

New comment by kubelsmieci in "Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts"

kubelsmieci — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 10:29:55 +0000

> MariaDB, though I'm moving over to MySQL 8 for any software that needs it due to their 11 release having compatibility issues with MySQL drivers

Could you tell more?

New comment by kubelsmieci in "New IQ research shows why smarter people make better decisions"

kubelsmieci — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:28:38 +0000

My amateur theory is that basic problems are boring for them and they don't try enough to solve everyday problems

New comment by kubelsmieci in "How to modify Starlink Mini to run without the built-in WiFi router"

kubelsmieci — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 18:11:18 +0000

"As of May 2024, Poland continues to pay subcription fees for more than 20 thousand terminals it has bought for Ukraine" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russian-Ukrain...

New comment by kubelsmieci in "Circular Pedestrian Bridge in Lujiazui, China"

kubelsmieci — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:27:16 +0000

Similar in Poland, Rzeszów https://images.app.goo.gl/2siR7sUP4qLnfyz86

New comment by kubelsmieci in "FlexBuffers"

kubelsmieci — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 08:36:37 +0000

I think it is called polymorphism, at least on msgpack libraries I used.

New comment by kubelsmieci in "Illustrated Guide to Databases"

kubelsmieci — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 21:15:50 +0000

probably https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

New comment by kubelsmieci in "PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity"

kubelsmieci — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 11:31:24 +0000

Process Hacker allows you to execute program as user of any specified process, ex: create cmd.exe as IIS APPPOOL\app. Very useful for debugging access issues. I didn't find any other method to do this.

New comment by kubelsmieci in "Cloudflare Brings Its 1.1.1.1 DNS Service to Android & iOS Mobile Devices"

kubelsmieci — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 20:00:19 +0000

Why android app requires access to microphone, photos and multimedia files?

New comment by kubelsmieci in "Economist Says Most of Billionaire Wealth Is Unearned"

kubelsmieci — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:02:43 +0000

> Isn't an inherent flaw in this that it encourages people to have as many children as possible?

Not when this income is lower than cost of raising child.