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New comment by quantum_magpie in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

quantum_magpie — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:04:37 +0000

Oh, so it's also your fault when you plan, and get approved a vacation, and then in the middle of it (lets's say on week 2 out of 4) you're notified that in two days you must be in the office, or, according to you, you should get canned?

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

quantum_magpie — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:33:50 +0000

Jeez, just imagine a ballistic missile hitting your neighbour's house, with no indication or alert coming ahead. I would bet a good 50€ that you'd be freaking the shit out.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Ban the sale of precise geolocation"

quantum_magpie — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:54:23 +0000

You are describing opt-in policies — you’re out by default and you have to opt-in to be tracked.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

quantum_magpie — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:48:30 +0000

I think most checkouts do that, to prevent duplicate payments. Dunno about epic, but I often encounter that mitigated by a dedicated ‘go back to store’ button post-checkout

New comment by quantum_magpie in "WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution"

quantum_magpie — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:41:23 +0000

MS has a history of fucking up LibreOffice installs.

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/General/General_Inst...

Ask HN: Improving as mid-level dev with forced use of LLMs

quantum_magpie — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:02:42 +0000

I’m interested in how do you grow as a developer when the usage of LLMs is basically forced on you?

Background: 8-ish years of computational physics & chemistry research (scipy) and switched over to industry backend dev (.Net) 2 years ago. Goal is to grow in backend dev.

So far I’ve been resisting them as much as possible in favor of old school rtfm, docs, and ddg/so, so I’d actually learn, but the org is insisting on us doing as much as possible copilot stuff (with tracking usage metrics), disregarding any learning of how stuff works angle.

Asking around, it seems that the interviews for other jobs (and jobs themselves) are also inreasingly LLM use focused.

Any suggestions?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720942

Points: 2

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New comment by quantum_magpie in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

quantum_magpie — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:47:10 +0000

An alternative reply, with analogy, if you like them:

You own a restaurant, where you sell poisoned (intentionally and knowingly) food. A group of people band up for class action lawsuit for poisoning them, and have the lawyers post a sign at your restaurant, that everyone poisoned there should reach out and get some compensation.

Should you be allowed to take the sign down?

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

quantum_magpie — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:42:11 +0000

It’s not a rival store, or speech against them.

It’s a lawsuit, with the users of the platform as the damaged party, against the platform. Removing the possibility to reach the users should result in a default judgement with maximum damages immediately.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

quantum_magpie — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:48:49 +0000

Could you point to where you found the details of the exploit? It’s not in the linked page. Really interested. Especially the part about modifying it and the other users propagating it?

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

quantum_magpie — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:43:48 +0000

Well, google doesn’t sell pixels in eu that can use graphene, and samsung installed the israeli spyware on all their devices. So apple is kinda the best solution.

Unless you count xiaomi and huawei as the proper android devices?

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy"

quantum_magpie — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:36:42 +0000

In the German site I get free shipping over 60 Eur, but only by stuff shipped by amazon. And other vendors somehow manage to always screw up shipping, so now I have had all orders for used books that had no/invalid tracking number, not arrive and I have/had to negotiate a refund for all of these refunds with the vendors themselves instead of amazon. So all-in-all, amazon is actually good, makes stuff available that’s impossible to find locally (books in English), and does shipping well.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

quantum_magpie — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:55:06 +0000

No, it’s more like you have 10k km to drive in this car.

And then, after you actually drive it for 10k km on “unauthorized” highways, they ban you.

That’s why analogies are for fucking idiots. There is a true example — you bought access to use your account for n tokens, and google got pissy that you didn’t use the tokens in their spyware ecosystem.

For you analogy loving fucks, it’s like the arcades selling their proprietary 50 cent worth token coins, that only works on their machines, when they could just accept 50 cent coins.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

quantum_magpie — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:33:05 +0000

If I pay for a subscription that guarantees 1000 tokens, I am paying for guaranteed 1000 tokens.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

quantum_magpie — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:37:14 +0000

Regarding the calculator, I get the same -4 in Android, just checked. So they all suck..

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

quantum_magpie — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:52:41 +0000

I have a 2020 Fiat 500 Abarth, and it is absolutely perfect: There is a screen (I think 7") for Android Auto/CarPlay/radio/nav, and every single other function in the car has a physical button. It is also absolutely gorgeous - pinnacle of design, IMO

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"

quantum_magpie — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:06:36 +0000

I ran Teams calls in Firefox on Linux for years, it worked as well as Zoom, I'd say. Other integrations, like the online office files had some issues. Didn't do chats there, though, only the meetings.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"

quantum_magpie — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:46:26 +0000

I would be very cautious advising SSRIs for anyone, especially developing children, considering my own experience (on sertralin), which was complete disappearance of a libido, and massive weight gain, +40kg (70 -> 110) in ~10 months. 5 years later I still have not undone the damage from it.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "iPhone Air"

quantum_magpie — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:40:33 +0000

I consider myself a hobby photographer, and I love having a phone camera. I can then have the tele glass on for entire hike/session, and do landscapes on the phone. Currently, 2 weeks in, I didn't even touch the landscape glass in it's case.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "I drank every cocktail"

quantum_magpie — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:26:14 +0000

Finlandia and Absolut

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole"

quantum_magpie — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 09:51:22 +0000

>They should. If your research is publicly funded you should make it as available to be public as possible. Academics should be able to communicate, and I very much doubt they are unable to acquire the skills

So in addition to being:

-professional researchers

-professional teachers

-professional project managers

-professional budget specialists

-professional scientific writers

-a failed idea away from losing it all

They should also become:

-professional PR managers

-professional popular writers

While still being paid (poorly) for a single job of all of these.