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pjio — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:45:36 +0000

Yes

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pjio — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:45:31 +0000

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pjio — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:45:26 +0000

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New comment by pjio in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

pjio — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:40:30 +0000

This hurts more than it should.

New comment by pjio in "The last Romans are still around"

pjio — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:38:34 +0000

In the Latin phrasing, which they likely used, the word "Imperium" appears. Good point. Still, the original meaning of "Imperium" was slightly different than what it is today. So my point goes more like this: The Germans didn't claim to found an empire in the modern sense, so it's not that surprising that Voltaire pointed out, it isn't one.

New comment by pjio in "The last Romans are still around"

pjio — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:16:23 +0000

Fair point, the original sentence is French and not English. Both are closer to Latin than German, so the mistranslation might be more on the German side.

New comment by pjio in "The last Romans are still around"

pjio — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:52:02 +0000

It's true that the "Heiliges Römisches Reich" (literal translation "Holy Roman Realm") considered itself the successor of the Roman Republic. The English referred to the Roman Republic by what it was in the modern sense: an empire. Therefore its self-proclaimed successor got translated as "Holy Roman Empire", which, unlike the original, it is not.

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pjio — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:09:10 +0000

Voltaire gets quoted so often without ever mentioning that the German word "Reich" has a different meaning than the loose translation "empire". A "Reich" is not necessarily an empire, so no news here.

New comment by pjio in "The last Romans are still around"

pjio — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:02:26 +0000

"We don't need their culture. We have culture at home. Culture at home: ..."

New comment by pjio in "The last Romans are still around"

pjio — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:59:40 +0000

After refusing to be conquered, the Germanic tribes took it very serious to pretend otherwise.

New comment by pjio in "Show HN: Brain Frog – Can you be random enough for 11 lines of JavaScript?"

pjio — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:37:03 +0000

In the first round I struggled to notice if I missed. The frog punching back would be a good indicator. And I wouldn't feel so guilty for punching a pacifist frog.

New comment by pjio in "Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia"

pjio — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:01:48 +0000

As an outsider the accusation "Canvassing" seems like a double edged sword. Similar to Reddits "Brigading" but without the hostile intention. It's not clear to me, how Wikipedia prevents this rule from being used inappropriately to silence people.

New comment by pjio in "AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost"

pjio — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:12:52 +0000

For a limited amount of time I appreciated the level of detail in the article, hoping it would give me more insight, until it exhausted me. I think those two ideas are real takeaways: "Knowing is not doing" and "What can we trust AI to do?". Still, could have been said with a more concise text and maybe a follow up about the details.

New comment by pjio in "Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)"

pjio — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:41:48 +0000

You forgot the fourth place.

New comment by pjio in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

pjio — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:33:03 +0000

Oh stop it.

New comment by pjio in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

pjio — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:13:03 +0000

I like this rule and hopefully adhere to it myself often enough.

New comment by pjio in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

pjio — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:59:02 +0000

> So for that entire class of packages this change makes them safe.

This is misleading. The change addresses one important attack vector. But if one runs the application directly on the host for development, if the package is imported like pointed out in the other comments or the package intends to steal user credentials from production, it is far from "being safe". Safer, but still needs scrutiny.

New comment by pjio in "The vi family"

pjio — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:11:37 +0000

Being able to choose is a good thing. Use what works for you. I prefer the terminal, but not as hard core as switching to a TTY and never see a GUI again...

New comment by pjio in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

pjio — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:29:53 +0000

I meant the separation of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial branches. Maybe this is more of a thing in Europe, even if not perfect here.

New comment by pjio in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

pjio — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:31:23 +0000

In theory the separation of powers should prevent this.