Hacker News: suslik

New comment by suslik in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

suslik — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:18:03 +0000

AI might write a report in 30 seconds, but the suggestion box will be emptied at the same speed as in 1960s.

New comment by suslik in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

suslik — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:19:36 +0000

I see this as a balance between effort and impact. I don't know anything about politics - maybe this is how it should work - but I do know corporate IT bureaucracy. In many cases, the activation energy required to move the needle on rather trivial things just isn't worth the effor; so you look for workarounds, forgotten corners of the infra, or other rogue ways to actually do stuff. When an IT department says to me - great idea, formalize these 20 pages of requirements, death by powerpoint style, and put it in our suggestion box - I just pass on that. I suspect politics is even worse than the run of the mill corporate IT, and many people feel the same in regards to politics.

New comment by suslik in "Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time"

suslik — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:17:22 +0000

Honestly, given how much claude-based prose I was recently reading, I am worried I will soon begin to write in this style naturally.

New comment by suslik in "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism"

suslik — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:49:06 +0000

Healthier - perhaps, although I do prefer when my dealers use the same product they sell to me.

New comment by suslik in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

suslik — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:58:46 +0000

I was a manager of 12 for several months and that was really difficult. I got a severe burnout, even though I had no IC responsibilities. I cannot imagine how could I dedicate enough time to my team if I did.

New comment by suslik in "Is my blue your blue? (2024)"

suslik — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:06:49 +0000

> Other languages draw those boundaries in different places. For example, in Russian, light blue and dark blue are separate basic color terms (goluboy vs. siniy), so asking a Russian speaker to collapse those into a single category would feel just as wrong as collapsing orange into red or yellow does to us.

I don't know. I am a russian speaker and for me light blue (goluboy) is simply a type of blue.

New comment by suslik in "Claude Opus 4.7"

suslik — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:01:24 +0000

Scandinavian cultures are not uniform also. Danes can be very direct; Swedes - not so much.

New comment by suslik in "Claude Code Routines"

suslik — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:18:38 +0000

What is reasonable hardware in your case? Doesn’t this model require 50+ Gb vram?

New comment by suslik in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

suslik — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:10:54 +0000

I probably wasn’t clear in the above comment - but what I tried to say is that the thread disincentivizes pro-Israel comments; I am pro-Israel as well and prefer not to engage.

New comment by suslik in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

suslik — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:01:14 +0000

Getting downvoted by all the emotional people here is not worth it; this thread does not welcome a polite discussion especially from the pro-Israel side. Like in any social media with a voting system (terrible idea, I might add), the vocal and active majority wants to disentivise the disagreement.

New comment by suslik in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

suslik — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:07:51 +0000

In Belgium you get 500/100 for 65 euro, which is even worse.

New comment by suslik in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

suslik — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:06:28 +0000

Gitea also, I think.

New comment by suslik in "I rebooted my social life"

suslik — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 10:09:25 +0000

For some of us, there’s no uncertainty about other’s judgement - it’s just the op experience all the way down.

New comment by suslik in "How getting richer made teenagers less free"

suslik — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:56:54 +0000

The link is: the first part was 'then', the second is 'now'.

New comment by suslik in "SoundCloud has banned VPN access"

suslik — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 06:55:09 +0000

Indeed - sloppy reading on my part.

New comment by suslik in "SoundCloud has banned VPN access"

suslik — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 06:48:15 +0000

Might be you're logged in? I often hit a block when using (proton) vpn if I'm logged out but not otherwise.

New comment by suslik in "Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business"

suslik — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:54:41 +0000

A couple of years ago, one rainy Saturday morning, I woke up with a devastating hangover and nothing else to do - so I decided to build myself a PC, like in good old days. Turned out it wasn't at all difficult to find a local store; only two-three hours later I was already driving home with all these sexy looking boxes filled with hardware. That was in Sweden.

New comment by suslik in "UK Government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as 'subversion'"

suslik — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:26:01 +0000

This comment has been marked as subversive; your social consensus alignment score has been corrected. Thank you!

New comment by suslik in "Lawmakers want to ban VPNs"

suslik — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 07:06:06 +0000

Using this tech, all the CP traffic would detectably flow towards my ip, right? I’m sure I’m not the only one who would find this worrisome.

New comment by suslik in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

suslik — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:17:41 +0000

The main difference between mise and pixi is an ability to subscribe to conda channels and build (in an extremely fast way) conda environments, bypassing or eliminating most of the conda frustration (regular conda users know what I mean). mise allows to install asdf tools primarily (last I checked).

On the python front, however, I am somehow still an old faithful - poetry works just fine as far as I was every concerned. I do trust the collective wisdom that uv is great, but I just never found a good reason to try it.