Hacker News: tacker2000

New comment by tacker2000 in "I said no and Apple said yes"

tacker2000 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:36:11 +0000

Why does anyone who seems to be working in the software industry even think that immediately updating to the latest major release is ever a good idea?

New comment by tacker2000 in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

tacker2000 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:36:34 +0000

Lots of faux outrage, rambling and hyperbole here from Gruber.

“Absurdly and insultingly”? Come on…

New comment by tacker2000 in "The Indo-European Family Tree"

tacker2000 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:30:10 +0000

Yes, why include Bavarian explicitly?

You could have included Tyrolean, Viennese, or whatever which are all local dialects on par with "Bavarian".

These all belong to the Upper German dialects, as seen here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_dialects

Looks like this is just some Vibecoded app, with no real science behind it.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

tacker2000 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:19:31 +0000

This is not about python packages, this is about python itself.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

tacker2000 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:17:43 +0000

Exactly. Same with PHP, MySQL etc… Also they just block old versions and dont let you install them, you have to jump through a lot of hoops to use an old PHP version for example, so in no way developer friendly.

In the end I realized that Brew is a package manager for consumers, and as a professional i should’nt keep fighting it.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

tacker2000 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:19:14 +0000

Please consider adding MacPorts support.

Brew is notoriously developer-unfriendly.

New comment by tacker2000 in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

tacker2000 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:36:35 +0000

Unfortunately people all over are starting to not do anything.

On a recent plane ride some old guys were watching movies on their phones on full volume. I complained and they stopped, but another guy in another row started doing it again. It gets tiring.

Last week I was on a NYC subway train to JFK Airport and there was a guy blasting some loud hip-hop/trap and a small kid playing some loud game, totally oblivious to the people on the train. After they left some older guy stepped in talking on full speaker to someone for 10 minutes.

It was quite crazy tbh, and I guess people here have already given up and start accepting it since it is tiring to police somebody new every 5 minutes and could also end in violence.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Let's all meet up in the Y2K"

tacker2000 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:05:57 +0000

"High prices shame Britain" made me chuckle

New comment by tacker2000 in "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"

tacker2000 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:48:29 +0000

I always use Paypal because they have buyers protection, and this has already saved me countless of times.

Would like to see if this is also offered in the Wero ecosystem?

New comment by tacker2000 in "I got into YC Startup School by hacking it"

tacker2000 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:15:10 +0000

Why does the author keep mentioning that a one line bash command that downloads a bunch of crap is “great UX”?

New comment by tacker2000 in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

tacker2000 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:56:14 +0000

Bertha von Suttner on the 200 EUR is Austrian

New comment by tacker2000 in "Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity"

tacker2000 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:14:05 +0000

Unfortunately he has too much cash since he owns some of the largest social networks and thus receives insane amounts of ad spend… this will not end soon

New comment by tacker2000 in "The AirPods Effect"

tacker2000 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:33:16 +0000

The author is a "Firm believer that humankind took a wrong turn with the invention of the smartphone." and has a new book coming out, so naturally he is trying to push some anti-tech narrative.

No, headphones don't make people antisocial. If someone is wearing headphones, respect their privacy and just leave them alone. Some people just don't like to chat to random people on the subway or at the supermarket. Some people just don't see the value of mundane conversations with strangers.

It depends on the culture and personality. Some people like it, some don't. In the US, people are more inclined to chat to strangers, and in Germany for example they aren't. These differences are actually what make us "human", so it's not a binary decision of: talking to strangers == good, and headphones == bad.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

tacker2000 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:33:03 +0000

Thanks for the tip, instead of enduring any longer, i decided to downgrade, which was easier than I expected, and this old version works, doesn't have this bug.

Just delete the Outlook app from the Applications folder, and run the Outlook installer from version 16.109.3 (June 02, 2026) [1]. All data is there, no need for any backups or anything.

Then, delete (or rename) the Microsoft AutoUpdate App, which lives in: /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/update-histo...

New comment by tacker2000 in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

tacker2000 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:43:10 +0000

The latest version of "Legacy Outlook" on Mac has a huge bug now: "Replying to or forwarding an email does not include the original message in the email body in legacy Outlook for Mac" [1]

So now i am forced to use this New Outlook crapware at last. And it is crap. Its slow as a dog, every action takes 1s. Why do they rearrange all the buttons, change all the fonts... why don't they just copy the old interface 1:1 ? Who knows...

If I have to use this new version for longer than 2 weeks I am switching to some other client.

And also, who knows, maybe they are purposefully inserting these show-stopping bugs to get people to switch.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/replying-to-or-for...

New comment by tacker2000 in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

tacker2000 — Sun, 24 May 2026 10:30:28 +0000

I've now moved to an Android eReader (Boox Note 7, for example [1]).

I can just get the Ebook or PDF files and transfer them via Calibre, simple as that, and I can also download any Android app i want. There are tons of apps out there that support eInk screens.

[1] https://shop.boox.com/products/go7

New comment by tacker2000 in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

tacker2000 — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:17:36 +0000

To be fair marketing vibing content pages is different from managers vibing code that powers a trading app for example.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"

tacker2000 — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:16:08 +0000

Yes of course, im running a few production projects with it.

Granted, its B2B Saas with not many users, maybe 100 concurrent.

80% of workloads dont need the complexity of Kubernetes and run fine with compose.

New comment by tacker2000 in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"

tacker2000 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:13:41 +0000

Hofer

New comment by tacker2000 in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

tacker2000 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:23:03 +0000

I would say most people are complaining about the $20 plan, which is now actually indistinguishable from the free one. I tested it and ran into limits immediately. With Max, i can work properly again.