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New comment by rmetzler in "Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes"

rmetzler — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:53:19 +0000

https://www.heise.de/news/20-Jahre-unbemerkt-1440-Lehrerstel...

New comment by rmetzler in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

rmetzler — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:21:10 +0000

I misread this a little bit, as KI is the German equivalent of AI (Artificial Intelligence = Künstliche Intelligenz).

New comment by rmetzler in "Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site"

rmetzler — Sat, 24 May 2025 15:35:14 +0000

A while ago I saw that acme.sh now uses ZeroSSL by default.

https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/blob/42bbd1b44af4...

New comment by rmetzler in "Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs"

rmetzler — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 04:59:41 +0000

In my book this is an incompetent PM who doesn’t test anything by himself. If he would have to sit through the JSON parsing a few times every day it would have been fixed in a matter of days.

New comment by rmetzler in "Rost – Rust Programming in German"

rmetzler — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 07:23:02 +0000

What does „änd“ mean in the example?

New comment by rmetzler in "A vending machine, on the internet"

rmetzler — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:00:52 +0000

Hey is the blogpost reloading every second (on mobile safari)?

New comment by rmetzler in "Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport"

rmetzler — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:32:13 +0000

Thieves stole mine in 2020. It was a Mitsubishi Carisma from 1996. They steal them because it’s fast and they contain expensive metals.

There are videos of thieves stealing them on YouTube, but we don’t have any footage.

New comment by rmetzler in "Open Riak – open, modern Riak fork"

rmetzler — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 14:31:41 +0000

I would imagine that most of that is probably due to latency. Which might already be worth the extra effort, depending on the usecase.

New comment by rmetzler in "Open Riak – open, modern Riak fork"

rmetzler — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:15:23 +0000

> I've never met an engineering team that used Riak

I was part of a recent cloud migration. Part of on-prem (though unfortunately not migrated by my team) were this very first Riak Cluster I saw in production.

The engineering team used it as "kind of S3" for images, with 3 to 5 PHP scripts providing an interface to Riak and imageMagic. It seemed to me like a good abstraction and I think the migration to S3 was mostly painless.

Other than that I only had contact with Riak at university around 15 years ago, when we tested cluster setups of several NoSQL databases and tried to manually introduce faults to see if they could heal. Riak passed our test at that time, MongoDB didn't.

New comment by rmetzler in "You Can Gaslight Yourself into Loving Someone"

rmetzler — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 15:43:41 +0000

> a common feeling is that might be making us more judgmental and more picky in our partners. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. I love perfection as much as the next person and knowing what's out there helps you narrow down the ideal human being you want to spend your life with.

I kind of disagree with this. I‘m pretty sure love is something where the 80/20 rule applies as much as everywhere else. Looking for perfection doesn’t make much sense to me, when you can be 80% happy for 20% of the invested time. Try to find someone you can argue with and talk it out without being so angry that one of you walks away forever. Searching for the perfect partner who’s not in a relationship with someone else sounds like a nightmare to me.

And I’m with the same person for > 20 years, non-married, with a 12yo daughter.

New comment by rmetzler in "Show HN: NetSour, CLI Based Wireshark"

rmetzler — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 06:51:29 +0000

termshark is a TUI for tshark. So termshark looks a lot like wireshark but in a terminal.

New comment by rmetzler in "Show HN: JSON-Threat-Protection Rust High-Performance Crate"

rmetzler — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 06:05:20 +0000

For security researchers it’s also interesting which implementations parse with first-win strategy and which allow comments (I think Ruby does this).

New comment by rmetzler in "Show HN: NetSour, CLI Based Wireshark"

rmetzler — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 06:27:41 +0000

How would you compare this to termshark / tshark?

New comment by rmetzler in "Quartz: A Deterministic Time Testing Library for Go"

rmetzler — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 07:31:43 +0000

Thank you for clarifying.

New comment by rmetzler in "Quartz: A Deterministic Time Testing Library for Go"

rmetzler — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 07:03:28 +0000

For linux, there is faketime, which will set a specific date and time for all child processes. This enables you to test software you don't even compile for time-based problems, e.g. logic around Feb 29th or daylight saving time.

New comment by rmetzler in "CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux"

rmetzler — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 13:47:53 +0000

> The new pod will have a different IP.

Usually clients would connect to a Kubernetes svc to not have the problem with changing IPs. Even for just a single pod I would do that.

New comment by rmetzler in "Show HN: Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe"

rmetzler — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:22:12 +0000

I'm not 100% sure, but I think it didn't display the outcome of the dice in this case. And it would be nice to have some hint that shows that this game ends in a Tie.

New comment by rmetzler in "Show HN: Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe"

rmetzler — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:48:57 +0000

I was wondering if I maybe experienced a bug. Do you shortcut drawn games when neither player can win?)

New comment by rmetzler in "What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code"

rmetzler — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 03:19:09 +0000

Is it intentional that the variable is named “place_f_older” and not “place_h_older”?

New comment by rmetzler in "Beekeeper furious over destruction of $2M honey crop"

rmetzler — Fri, 17 May 2024 15:12:04 +0000

I just read about this on [0].

This method is a little bit more complicated than you describe it. I’m also not sure how easy it is to scale.

You still need to destroy parts of the beehive, let all the bees hunger for a few days and disinfectant the parts of the beehive you want to reuse. I don’t know if all of this is possible with that many beehives mentioned in the post.

[0] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunstschwarmverfahren