Hacker News: samuelec

New comment by samuelec in "Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso"

samuelec — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:05:41 +0000

Well, eventually it worked and astronauts can enjoy a good coffee :)

New comment by samuelec in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

samuelec — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:02:44 +0000

In my experience you need exactly what you said, and I would add that he probably would have spent half day to do the refactoring himself and it would be sure he did right.

New comment by samuelec in "Raspberry Pi 500+"

samuelec — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:26:30 +0000

From 5$ to 200$

New comment by samuelec in "KDE launches its own distribution"

samuelec — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:49:45 +0000

It seems that they are going to divert development effort from KDE. If so, it's really a bad move

New comment by samuelec in "Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs"

samuelec — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:08:11 +0000

Naah! it would ended up like Glassdoors which keeps deleting posts that don't serve the company narrative..

New comment by samuelec in "Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now"

samuelec — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 08:47:21 +0000

Cool! now windoz users got both a corporate spyware and a new ads tool in any possible place

New comment by samuelec in "Cheating alleged after men's world conker champion found with steel chestnut"

samuelec — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:30:18 +0000

I'm puzzled as well, what the heck the article is talking about and why it's posted here?

New comment by samuelec in "Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public"

samuelec — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 08:50:31 +0000

Today the world is a better place.

Thank you!

New comment by samuelec in "A Little History of the Anchovy"

samuelec — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:51:23 +0000

I love them! just by reading the title I've imagined them in a jar in olive oil and I felt I want them like Dr.Zoidberg from Futurama :)

New comment by samuelec in "LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool"

samuelec — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:27:44 +0000

I'm EU based, I don't see this option under my settings. Maybe it is currently tested only on US entities or hopefully our legal framework about privacy prevents such disgraceful practices

New comment by samuelec in "Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail"

samuelec — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 13:31:12 +0000

New comment by samuelec in "Mechanical computer relies on kirigami cubes, not electronics"

samuelec — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 10:28:20 +0000

Maybe a silly question, are those computers suitable for harsh environments such as in a rover on Venus?

New comment by samuelec in "Ultrasonic Coffee"

samuelec — Thu, 30 May 2024 08:14:28 +0000

As an Italian, if it manages to break into our market, it means that it's good stuff. Yes, we are still very strict to our food related traditions and coffee is definitely one of them

New comment by samuelec in "Sorry, iPads"

samuelec — Thu, 23 May 2024 09:57:01 +0000

an ad in disguise, I guess

New comment by samuelec in "The construction of the mafioso social capital and the Sack of Palermo (2023)"

samuelec — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:38:18 +0000

Without having to go that far in the past, there are many evidences that Berlusconi had deep connection with mafia. Instead for Andreotti there are no evidence nor proofs, Andreotti was a very intelligent man and if he did or not something nobody was ever able to prove it.

New comment by samuelec in "Rust 101"

samuelec — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:57:32 +0000

Still that you can't just avoid to explain lifetimes. There is a lot of code out there witch uses lifetimes

New comment by samuelec in "Rust 101"

samuelec — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:22:39 +0000

What about lifetimes?

New comment by samuelec in "The curse of the senior software engineer"

samuelec — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:40:22 +0000

While I was thinking he had rediscovered how to make "hot water" aka not a big secret, he's also sharing a truth that maybe not everyone knows especially juniors devs.

New comment by samuelec in "DBeaver – open-source database client"

samuelec — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 08:52:24 +0000

I have been using it for 3 years with Postgresql and it still buggy. When the db is throwing out an error dbeaver just say that there was an error on line xx followed by java exception stactrace forcing me to login into the db via command line and figure out what is wrong myself. If you want to write and debug a stored procedure then good luck! The ui had many issues and only recently seems to be just usable. At least with Postgresql, I can't really recommend for anything too complex.

New comment by samuelec in "Signs you're about to be acquired (2020)"

samuelec — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 13:41:54 +0000

Hahaha :D