Hacker News: lenlorijn

New comment by lenlorijn in "Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices"

lenlorijn — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 08:12:20 +0000

Why is incarceration suddenly not an appropriate possible punishment for theft if it is done by someone in a suit. These are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars being swindled from poor people. Not a single 5 cent mistake as you try to make it out to be.

New comment by lenlorijn in "A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018)"

lenlorijn — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:52:00 +0000

By far the largest amount of cyclist deaths and injury are still caused by cars. The ebikes just get more news coverage because they're novel. But cars are heavier and go faster so will almost always be more dangerous to other cyclists and pedestrians.

New comment by lenlorijn in "A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018)"

lenlorijn — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:33:46 +0000

Electric bicycles basically solve the hill issue. Dutch people bike in any weather. We have a ton of terrible weather, both hot and cold but mostly wet. Our summer heat might not be very hot, but the summer heat is very humid, it feels hotter than it is.

Also the Netherlands is not the only region where people bike a lot. There are places in Finland for example, with more hills and more extreme weather that have loads of people biking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU

New comment by lenlorijn in "PHP 8.4"

lenlorijn — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:43:21 +0000

Most PHP apps use a deployment method where a symlink gets set to a directory with a new version of the code. Because of how opcache works this has no impact on running requests, while new requests get handled with the new code.

New comment by lenlorijn in "A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018)"

lenlorijn — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:38:03 +0000

Bikes are small and fast, and only a small fraction of cars will need to turn here as this is a street going in to a neighborhood. The chances of multiple cars wanting to take this turn and there being a long stream of bikes that holds them up is small. So 'never' is not the right word here, but the times this happens is negligible.

New comment by lenlorijn in "London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids"

lenlorijn — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:35:57 +0000

I'm sorry but anecdotal evidence is barely any evidence at all. I could list a very large number of news reports of cars ramming in to houses an businesses, which I can promise you are not built in a lane. Bike lanes and car lanes should be physically separated, sure for bikes to not veer out of lane, but more importantly to keep cars in theirs. In any of these situations cars are still the ones bringing a 1.5k bundle of glass and steel to the fight. Just take a quick look at https://x.com/WorldBollard for numerous examples of cars going all over the place and making a mess of it.

New comment by lenlorijn in "London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids"

lenlorijn — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:31:05 +0000

You say this as if cars adhere to the rules given at all times. The difference is that bikes do it at their own peril and cars do it at the peril of others. Give cyclists good infrastructure separate from cars and they'll use it.

New comment by lenlorijn in "London saw a surprising benefit to ultra-low emissions zone: More active kids"

lenlorijn — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:27:11 +0000

I briefly studied law in the Netherlands and it was used as an example. Our lecturer told us that if "A person on a bike would jump out of an airplane on a bike, land with a parachute on a highway and get hit by a car, just maybe would the car have a case." The reasons for this are varied. Cars are insured, bikes are not. But most importantly, in basically all traffic situations with cars and bikes the car introduces the danger and should thus bear the responsibility of any accidents.

If I go out in public swinging a katana, and someone walks in to it. I'm still the person swinging a katana in public. Driving around in 1.5 metric tonnes of steel and glass comes with certain responsibilities.

New comment by lenlorijn in "RegreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems"

lenlorijn — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:21:55 +0000

As the security maxim goes: POC || GTFO

New comment by lenlorijn in "The Reasons Not to Use Scrum"

lenlorijn — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:36:39 +0000

Also having some iterative improvement instead of a large project (waterfall) seems to fit quite well for certain (software) engineering projects.

New comment by lenlorijn in "Animal Sex Determination Is Weirder Than You Think"

lenlorijn — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:07:40 +0000

Yes

New comment by lenlorijn in "Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London"

lenlorijn — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:07:40 +0000

I see lots of folks in the comments assuming what would happen when you bike drunk, seemingly not ever having done so themselves or seen it.

I live in a student city in the Netherlands (Groningen), where most students go out on the town by bike. It's really not much more dangerous than walking drunk. And it's very much preferable to driving drunk.

Thousands of students park their bikes in the city's central underground bike parking spots every weekend. I have never heard of someone dying because biking drunk. The biggest danger for any bike, drunk or not, remains the car. This is also reflected in the enforcement of laws by the police. Although driving drunk, and being drunk in public is not allowed, fining cyclists for this is rarely enforced. Partially because the consequences are not too bad, and partially to make sure people don't drive home drunk instead to avoid a fine.

According to the Dutch central bureau of statistics in 2021, out of all deaths of cyclists 34% are due to losing consciousness, getting a foot stuck in the wheels, making a wrong movement, or due to bad road conditions and slipperiness. Out of this 34%, 72 % is over the age of 70. https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2022/37/meer-fietsdoden-na-e...

New comment by lenlorijn in "Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London"

lenlorijn — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:33:52 +0000

Space is expensive in city centers. Cars take up lots of space.

New comment by lenlorijn in "Reassessing relative temporal lobe size in anthropoids and modern humans"

lenlorijn — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 10:07:43 +0000

Basically we can. Not everyone, but you can imagine someone that relied on it for their survival definitely could. In these races the horse gets to subtract hold time. Take a look at this interview for example where one of the racers explains this, and won over a horse by an hour and 15 minutes: https://www.irunfar.com/catching-up-with-nick-coury .

It's also covered in this very nice episode of Radio Lab: https://radiolab.org/episodes/man-against-horse

New comment by lenlorijn in "Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming Moments in Years"

lenlorijn — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 18:10:24 +0000

I've only had this experience with one game that was marked as not supported at all (Batman: Arkham Asylum). After first setting a different version of Proton for the game as per internet instructions I could not get past the startup menu at all. I tried all the buttons and got quite frustrated that I had to quit the game with the available shortcuts every time.

Then I found out I could just click next on the touch screen :')

I haven't had any issues with games since. Lost of games, even some marked as not playable, ended up working fine.

New comment by lenlorijn in "A Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's MongoDB database"

lenlorijn — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 09:23:24 +0000

This is why security in depth is important. A simple DB user could have prevented this, and many other consequences from misconfiguration. This time it's docker, next time it's a broken private cloud setting or a compromised node elsewhere on your network.

New comment by lenlorijn in "CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)"

lenlorijn — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:56:40 +0000

Do you think your culture might be close enough to the US that your opinion is biased in a certain way?

New comment by lenlorijn in "Penetration testing and low-cost freelancing"

lenlorijn — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:10:14 +0000

This isn't really comparing the results to other pentests, so I have a hard time seeing the use of this. I think almost any pentest will miss some/many security issues.

And these issues look more like CTF style issues than real world security issues. If you're not thinking about the challenge in the right way, it is probably harder to see the vulnerabilities.

New comment by lenlorijn in "Free and Open Source Product Information Management(PIM) System"

lenlorijn — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 13:04:34 +0000

I think this should have "Show HN" in the title. For people looking for an open source PIM, https://www.akeneo.com/ is also worth considering.

New comment by lenlorijn in "Letsencrypt, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly"

lenlorijn — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:28:54 +0000

I usually enjoy articles by Jacques, but this one has a different tone and I don't think I understand its point.

Saying things like

> hey should just shut up, sit in a corner and do their bloody job. seems unnecessarily blunt.

And if you don't like Let's Encrypt, don't use it. It's being compared to convenient paid services, so why not use those instead if they end up being more convenient for your usecase?