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New comment by natoliniak in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

natoliniak — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:17:45 +0000

> (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia mostly) where they eat most of the EU funds

"Eat" the funds? whaat? Is EU really viewed as some kind of charity to the ungrateful "easterners" in France? does surrendering their market and massively adapting and opening their economies to the dominant western EU economies completely goes unnoticed in this context? The provision of cheap educated workforce to the western companies also never happened?

BTW, Poland probably has the most pro-EU population with a full awareness that soon we will likely become a net payer. I am also starting to be convinced that this patronizing attitude from the "real" Europeans that is starting to drive EU skepticism in the eastern flank. peace.

New comment by natoliniak in "This website is hosted on Bluesky"

natoliniak — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 16:57:29 +0000

> Twitter became toxic / suppressed speech dramatically

But what kind of speech is supressed nowadays on X? what about Bluesky? does Bluesky not supress any speech?

New comment by natoliniak in "Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says"

natoliniak — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 19:58:21 +0000

not to mention that gp editor is disabled on non pro windows. i think there is some kind of a funky command line or registry hack to enable it. So yeah, I moved on from windows largely because of this force fed software.

New comment by natoliniak in "Are commercial "third places" a dying breed?"

natoliniak — Wed, 22 May 2024 13:16:31 +0000

But it sounds like in Italy you entered the coffee shop to drink coffee and socialize - which fulfills the mission of a coffee shop. However, I noticed that in post-pandemic Poland and the USA where i spend a lot of time, coffee shops are starting to become more like coworking spaces where the "laptop class" is demanding not only perpetual space but worst of all, silence, since they are busy working and concentrating. It is simply not what it used to be.

New comment by natoliniak in "Rents are soaring. Is RealPage to blame?"

natoliniak — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:42:34 +0000

question: how can a municipality determine if a unit is vacant?

New comment by natoliniak in "Your database skills are not 'good to have' (2023)"

natoliniak — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:43:09 +0000

I'm dealing with a very large partitioned table (several millions of inserts per day) and i solve this by running `vacuum analyze` nightly which somehow solved 99% our read issues

Prior to that, we tried various indexing strategies, de-normalizing some of the data, but ultimately i found that weird plan inconsistency to be solved by the vacuum job

New comment by natoliniak in "UnitedHealth Group has paid more than $2B to providers following cyberattack"

natoliniak — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:20:46 +0000

> We continue to call on Congress and the Administration to take additional actions now to support providers

ah yeah, the old socializing losses and privatizing profits.

New comment by natoliniak in "HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 explained"

natoliniak — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:17:45 +0000

> you can do whatever horrors you want

and i do. i run a personal static website over http. oh the horror.

New comment by natoliniak in "Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap"

natoliniak — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:10:02 +0000

> best way to get ketchup out of a glass bottle.

i store the ketchup bottle upside down and when i open it, it is immediately ready to pour and is mostly controllable

New comment by natoliniak in "Canadian internet bill S-210 is a step closer to becoming law"

natoliniak — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:51:21 +0000

> any site or service that makes sexually explicit materials available

so basically, the internet.

> Canadian ISPs required to ensure that the sites are rendered inaccessible

At best, this is regulatory capture for the current tech giants, at worst, basically ability to hand pick who gets to see what sites. So yes, censorship under the cloak of "age verification" and "protecting kids". We have heard it all before. I'm surprised they didn't somehow stuff the "terrorism" angle in there as well.

New comment by natoliniak in "Bird with GPS flies into typhoon"

natoliniak — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 23:01:51 +0000

that is my point - in order to stay up, the bird would need to either flap its wings for 700 miles non-stop (unlikely) in order to maintain velocity difference between it and the ambient air OR glide which basically means he was not traveling at the speed of ambient air, otherwise there would be no lift pressure generated on his wings and he would drop to the ground

New comment by natoliniak in "Bird with GPS flies into typhoon"

natoliniak — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 22:34:55 +0000

ok, if the bird's natural speed is that of the ambient air, then how does it stay up? the bird is not lighter than air, so where does the upwards pressure on the bird come from? either the bird must flap its wings to stay up or there must be speed difference between the bird and the ambient air to generate lift.

New comment by natoliniak in "Bird with GPS flies into typhoon"

natoliniak — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 21:22:32 +0000

but wouldn't the wind exert some pressure on the back of the bird? wouldn't it not generate any lift otherwise and just drop back to the ground? like sails on a sailboat, for the sailors it feels like there is no wind, but the sails are carrying massive pressure

New comment by natoliniak in "Software disenchantment"

natoliniak — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:24:54 +0000

in my experience, when it comes to picking two out of: quality, cost, or speed to delivery, businesses always choose speed and cost. I dont' like it, but I just grew to accept that. The reason why physical engineering seems focused on delivering quality is because of strict regulatory oversight, which for better or worse, we lack in software.

New comment by natoliniak in "Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools"

natoliniak — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 21:59:00 +0000

> not once

not even on a white board?

New comment by natoliniak in "TikTok Shop"

natoliniak — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:35:07 +0000

same. it feels like QVC for generation z

New comment by natoliniak in "Ask HN: Those with success using GPT-4 for programming – what are you doing?"

natoliniak — Mon, 22 May 2023 22:51:16 +0000

I use it as a personal tutor. It is really good at it, because it can respond to clarifying follow up questions and it is usually right. For pure development or peer review, it is not there yet. I asked it recently to help me decipher some real life SQL performance issues and it did not really help. Actually, it turned out to be a waste of time. The classic Postgres query analyzer and some 3rd party query visualization tools got the job done.

New comment by natoliniak in "Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index"

natoliniak — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:56:47 +0000

i tried, but I was immediately put off by the inability to search for an exact string. To me, that makes a search engine useless. Am i missing something? I tried using quotes etc, but the results always force up approximate matches.

New comment by natoliniak in "The Great Electrician Shortage"

natoliniak — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 14:05:20 +0000

In Boston it is illegal. Plumbing as well. I tried to hire a plumber and electrician to do simple bathroom rewire and could not find a willing contractor - job too small. "Call us in a couple of months, maybe we will squeeze you in" was a typical response. So, I did it myself, according to code but without pulling the permit. I had not other choice.

New comment by natoliniak in "Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for the 15-Minute City"

natoliniak — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 19:23:19 +0000

My problem with the article is that it builds something of a straw man "conspiracy theorist" to battle against, instead of looking at the actual problem:

"The plan will require local residents to apply for permits to drive on certain streets" and the glossed over "filters"

This immediately creates an economic structure where only the wealthy would be able to freely drive while ushering everyone else into something of a forced utopia.

There are plenty of organic "15-minute neighborhoods" all over Europe (and even in the USA) where people voluntarily surrender cars (I'm one of those people) but forcing people to do this only fuels weird culture wars. Build truly car free infrastructure first and residents will ditch cars freely.