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New comment by seeekr in "Why the weak nuclear force is short range"

seeekr — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:52:43 +0000

To me it seems like it's depicting a situation where the string hasn't been pulled fully, so some of its slack hasn't straightened out into the otherwise resulting triangle yet.

New comment by seeekr in "I've Acquired a New Superpower"

seeekr — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:57:18 +0000

Is that true? It seems that our eyes are mechanically capable of looking in divergent directions, what's the reason that we're not able to "uncross" them beyond looking straight ahead? (Edit: Anecdotally I can confirm for myself that I'm not able to do it, so wondering if there's anyone that can.)

New comment by seeekr in "Teenage Engineering OP–XY"

seeekr — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:00:54 +0000

probably a riff on "das Auto" (Volkswagen ad)

New comment by seeekr in "Varlink – IPC to replace D-Bus gradually in systemd"

seeekr — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:41:07 +0000

To save others the click: Their issues were simply that Swift has no fast JSON impl, and in Rust, when using serde (most popular library handling JSON marshalling), it leads to binaries getting a bunch bigger. That's it. So yeah, same perspective -- unless either of the above matter in your case (in 90%+ of cases they don't), JSON is just fine from a perf perspective.

New comment by seeekr in "Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane"

seeekr — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 22:41:42 +0000

super cool, and if this works you'll bring a big part of what we dreamed of as "the future" into the present!

New comment by seeekr in "Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead"

seeekr — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 21:49:43 +0000

Not true, not sure why GP said that. Been writing Rust for many years and code does not just break on compiler upgrades. Super stable overall, including the wonderfully evolving ecosystem!

New comment by seeekr in "Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo"

seeekr — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 08:50:21 +0000

They just changed the assignments of what tapping the right stalk once vs twice does -- before, once brought you into cruise control and twice into autopilot. After the change, that order is reversed by default, but you can change that from the settings.

New comment by seeekr in "Tesla Recalls 2M Vehicles over Autopilot Software Issue"

seeekr — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:16:10 +0000

I think at some point the absurdity of the numbers (now it's 2M, soon it'll be 10M, 50M, ...) will become so great that NHTSA will stop calling this a "recall", and then this term will no longer be usable for clickbait article titles. Absurdity because it'll get harder and harder to imagine how a company might bring in millions and millions of vehicles in for service repeatedly, from a logistics and cost perspective, and still be able to grow and make a good profit.

New comment by seeekr in "Normal Operating Sounds"

seeekr — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 11:29:50 +0000

cheeky one: "Cabin Noise during Acceleration with Ludicrous Enabled" (https://service.tesla.com/docs/Public/om_media/plaid_reactio...) :D

New comment by seeekr in "Git-appraise – Distributed Code Review for Git"

seeekr — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 08:09:16 +0000

You're not alone, I do that too sometimes! But I've also found that most people have a hard time doing or following along with something like that. Possibly because in the end it does require a whole lot of skill in using git, because you will usually want to rewrite history in some ways, and large numbers of developers are very uncomfortable with that.

Flexible I/O Tester

seeekr — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 08:56:42 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/axboe/fio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37073663

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by seeekr in "TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, NXP to jointly build semiconductor fab in Europe"

seeekr — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 14:19:17 +0000

minor nitpick: "e.V." in Germany is "eingetragener Verein", "registered association" and is a form of association that's extremely common and use for all kinds of things, e.g. local sports groups, interest groups, etc, so "e.V." in and of itself doesn't have anything to do with industry, though as in the above case it can be used that way!

New comment by seeekr in "Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?"

seeekr — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 08:26:52 +0000

In this context "TC" probably means "Total Compensation", and "TC 0" meaning "currently not earning anything at all".

New comment by seeekr in "Witch – macOS window switcher replacement"

seeekr — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 21:23:10 +0000

Have been using Moom for ages, and still sticking with it for now! Works well!

New comment by seeekr in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)"

seeekr — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:51:43 +0000

Location: Europe, close to Vienna

Remote: Yes, preferred

Willing to relocate: probably not, open to being on-site as needed

Technologies: current focus mostly Rust, Elixir/Phoenix, JS, Svelte, GraphQL, but have done + am open to many others (Java, PHP, C#, C, ...)

Résumé/CV: N/A (not maintaining any such thing)

Email: denis, plus the usual thingy, and ends with productioneer.io

I'm patient, curious, I like thinking + planning. I like understanding systems and problems. I like running things in production. I like making things efficient. I really like inspiring + supporting others. I love coaching, mentoring, guiding humans.

I aspire to be the best engineer I can be. And the best human being, too. I believe in kindness, imagination, communication & co-creation.

New comment by seeekr in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)"

seeekr — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:33:32 +0000

  Location: Vienna
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Rust, JS/TS, Elixir
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisandrejew/ | https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/denisandrejew
  Email: denis /at/ productioneer /dot/ io

New comment by seeekr in "From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience"

seeekr — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 20:34:17 +0000

How does something like this happen? Shopify should be absolutely on top of its game here, seeing as user experience seems to be one of their main priorities?

Nowadays it's not that hard to get UX/DX right if you are actually committed to it.

New comment by seeekr in "From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience"

seeekr — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 20:32:19 +0000

Rust is amazing for CLIs (Go potentially as well, too little experience with that personally!), but if you're already quite comfortable with JS & have existing investment in it for CLI or related code, then ´npx ...` while asking the user to install Node (or Bun) is an acceptable tradeoff in most cases. Updating via npm is also easy enough for users, though it's not self-updating of course, but basically no CLI will do that fully automatically for you. Not even Cloud SDK CLIs. And for good reason.

New comment by seeekr in "Tesla Vehicle Safety Report"

seeekr — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 21:01:23 +0000

I don't disagree that it's not the best of comparisons (and I wonder if a better one could be imagined + implemented...). But still, it's not like we turn on Autopilot/FSD only "on empty highways", far from it! Certainly it's a tool where the user needs to learn its strengths and weaknesses and use it accordingly, but it is useful in so many more situations than not, that it's also not a terrible or meaningless comparison to make!

Anecdata: Almost all (95%?) of my highway driving (Europe) is on Autopilot. I don't even enjoy doing the driving myself any more in those situations where I know that Autopilot is doing a pretty good job. In particular, Autopilot does a better job than I can in conditions of heavy snow / rain / otherwise poor visibility conditions. I feel a lot safer being the operator than the driver in those instances! (The alternative would often be to slow down by a significant amount, and/or use up more of my focus/attention, leading to either less safe driving or forced breaks.)

New comment by seeekr in "Handling 100k consumers with one pulsar topic"

seeekr — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:36:20 +0000

This looks like a blog post, but it's actually a writeup by a user/customer (aka case study or similar). Would recommend putting that into the post header somewhere, so as not to confuse readers who didn't navigate there by hand.