Hacker News: step21

New comment by step21 in "Intellectuals urge Germany to keep nuclear plants online"

step21 — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 19:33:24 +0000

"did not cause any harm" - for a very loose defintion of harm. Sure it could have been much worse. But enough ground and water was contaminated, and much more will be in the future when they run out of storage.

New comment by step21 in "Geizhals – Tech Product Price Comparison and Tracking"

step21 — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 13:22:42 +0000

You can also use them via heise.de/preisvergleich and thus also supporting good tech journalism.

New comment by step21 in "Trying to extract Widewine key: A journey to failure"

step21 — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:57:21 +0000

What's L1? web-dls I have seen are always relatively low resolution, so at least it protects fullhd or 4k.

New comment by step21 in "Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium"

step21 — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:31:05 +0000

It is still improved. The actually also want to add this kind of check-in (almost done) but it might be blocked by apple/google as the terms of use of the contact tracing API forbids use of additional data.

New comment by step21 in "Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium"

step21 — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:29:37 +0000

Neither is right. CCC also has security experts as members, which sometimes comment publicly. In general however, it is the parent organization for local hacker spaces (though it is possible to be member on only local or only CCC level). And many local spaces are also called ccc-xy. Wnd their interests.

New comment by step21 in "IBM acquires Red Hat"

step21 — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 04:02:42 +0000

This so much.

New comment by step21 in "Why is a Java guy so excited about Node.js and JavaScript?"

step21 — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 07:37:41 +0000

> the terrible chaos that is npm

I don't get how anyone can call it beautiful and productive. Ever take over/inherit some 'older' node code and try to update it or even get to work... it is hell. Even worse if it is from the time when there were competing forks of nodejs, so you have to try to figure out which it prefers. And maybe even then it won't run. (probably because npm's version notation can be unpredictable, so npm install still installs a version that breaks something even though it shouldn't)

New comment by step21 in "Berlin-Munich high-speed train services carry 2M passengers in first six months"

step21 — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 13:55:59 +0000

Ah, so you are one of those who voted to keep Tegel open I guess?

New comment by step21 in "Berlin-Munich high-speed train services carry 2M passengers in first six months"

step21 — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 13:53:18 +0000

Except they don't fluctuate, there is just a certain amount of lower fares (going up in stages, the closer you get to the travel date and depending if all tickets of that category were booked already). This is know in advance, and the maximum price is always fixed. So quite different.