Hacker News: milicat

New comment by milicat in "You Had No Taste Before AI"

milicat — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:17:51 +0000

Ironically this article reads like it was written by AI.

New comment by milicat in "You Had No Taste Before AI"

milicat — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:17:09 +0000

Our societies incentivize a bunch of bad behaviors, especially when it comes to projecting the appearance of productivity. So I find that unsurprising.

New comment by milicat in "Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age"

milicat — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 21:55:14 +0000

The more I browse through this, the more I agree. I feel like one could delete almost all comments from that project without losing any information – which means, at least the variable naming is (probably?) sensible. Then again, I don't know the application domain.

Also…

  def _save_current_date_time(current_date_time_file: str, current_date_time: str) -> None:
    with Path(current_date_time_file).open("w") as f:
      f.write(current_date_time)

there is a lot of obviously useful abstraction being missed, wasting lines of code that will all need to be maintained.

The scary thing is: I have seen professional human developers write worse code.

New comment by milicat in "Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working"

milicat — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:06:39 +0000

A gross oversimplification of anthropology.

New comment by milicat in "A comparison to Waymo’s auto liability insurance claims at 25M miles"

milicat — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:10:51 +0000

Still worse than public transport, wastes more resources and endangers cyclists and pedestrians. I have yet to see anything that deserves to be called progress in self-driving. Yet another scam to sell more wasteful, inefficient vehicles.

New comment by milicat in "Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid"

milicat — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:40:02 +0000

This is really cool. Fascinating how the intuition maps neatly onto this grid

As a notorious Minesweeper speedrunner I find the animation uncover animation when middle clicking to be a little slow as I find myself waiting it for it to finish for a second or so.

New comment by milicat in "I use cheap notebooks"

milicat — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 16:53:11 +0000

That quote is pretty messed up.

New comment by milicat in "Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)"

milicat — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 23:00:31 +0000

I just think dark mode is prettier.

New comment by milicat in "Automation enables founders to grow companies with fewer and fewer employees"

milicat — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 15:01:10 +0000

A capitalist fever dream to justify how valuable he is to society. Of course, he completely ignores the labour going into the entire supply chain that enables this level of automation. It's full of underpaid workers likely including some living under slavery-like conditions or in authoritarian dictatorships that don't even live up to his free-market ideals.

New comment by milicat in "TomTom’s new mapping platform and ecosystem"

milicat — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 12:45:28 +0000

I have lots of things to hide.

New comment by milicat in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

milicat — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:17:04 +0000

Well, it makes a difference what kind of energy supplier turns a profit from your energy consumption. If you're buying renewable energy from a company that still invests into fossil fuels, it's fairly useless. If you buy it from a company that mainly builds up renewable energy production capacity, that helps the transition.

Of course, even a 100% renewable supplier needs to buy from the market to smooth out peaks in energy consumption for their customer base.

(disclaimer: i work for such a renewable energy supplier)

New comment by milicat in "Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)"

milicat — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 18:18:15 +0000

Interesting. I'd consider it, if I wasn't already on NixOS with home-manager.

New comment by milicat in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)"

milicat — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 07:03:09 +0000

Bürgerwerke eG | https://www.buergerwerke.de | Heidelberg, Germany (partial remote possible) | Full-Stack Developer

At Bürgerwerke over 40,000 people and over 100 energy cooperatives from all over Germany have joined forces to advance the transition to renewable energies as a citizen-owned cooperative. Our goal as an independent national provider of ecological electricity: a renewable, regional and self-determined energy supply in citizen ownership. Our drive as a national network: support volunteers and employees active in the movement towards a citizen-owned energy supply – to protect the climate quickly and effectively using renewable energies.

Our software development team is currently looking for another full-stack developer to help us develop and maintain the systems running Bürgerwerke. Ideally we are looking for a developer who has broad experience with both backend, frontend and databases. Having worked with microservices in event-driven architectures is a plus. German and English language skills at B2-level are required.

Our current tech stack is varied and includes PHP/Symfony, Python, Pandas, TypeScript, NodeJS, Kafka, Postgres, Redis and Nix. If you're interested in picking up new technologies, that's awesome.

We offer an opportunity to take on rewarding role in a fast-growing, agile social enterprise. You will be able to bring your own ideas to the table, have an impact shaping the future of the organization and help us fulfill our potential. We have flexible work hours, regular feedback, fair compensation and 30 days paid time off.

For details, see: https://buergerwerke.jobs.personio.de/job/605132?display=de (in German)

New comment by milicat in "Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames"

milicat — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 19:09:11 +0000

I'd not call pronouns a fad. They're just helpful info to talk about others.

New comment by milicat in "New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers"

milicat — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 10:30:28 +0000

I'd guess fingerprinting without consent is also illegal under these regulations, but may be harder to persecute.

New comment by milicat in "New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers"

milicat — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 10:27:15 +0000

Getting consent for functionality is pretty easy. EU data regulations specifically allow you to set cookies in a scenario that this enables functionality that would otherwise not be possible to provide to a user. Like a classic session cookie, for example. What's affected negatively is the UX for tracking and spying on users – and so it should be. If this forces companies out of business who rely on that for their business model, good.

New comment by milicat in "New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers"

milicat — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 10:24:25 +0000

The law here is totally reasonable to protect people's right to data privacy. It's just that every damn website is trying its best to trick their users into consenting despite the law. Half the solution look illegal anyway, as you can't deny cookies with a single click. Plus the US Cloud Act is an authoritarian overreach and rightfully gives US providers a competitive disadvantage.