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New comment by thi2 in "Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom"

thi2 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:11:46 +0000

And then they handed out free beer in the Paulaner Garten

New comment by thi2 in "Am I German or Autistic?"

thi2 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:46:55 +0000

60% german, 40% autistic. Seems fair since I'm german and work in IT. The rules question did not have an answer I liked tho.

New comment by thi2 in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

thi2 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:06:51 +0000

Why are those commits ending in the PR? Just unprofessional to work like that.

New comment by thi2 in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

thi2 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:04:19 +0000

Because I might want to go back to this current messy state but I don't want to commit it like this (hardcoded test strings, debug logs, cutted corners to see if something works, you name it).

I simply commit something like "WIP: testing xy" and if its working and properly implemented i can squash/rebase/edit the commit message and force push it to my feature branch. Using a Git client like Gitkraken makes this incredibly easy, takes seconds.

This way I can leverage version control without committing bogus states to the final PR.

New comment by thi2 in "Automatically generate all 3D print files for organizing a drawer"

thi2 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:21:15 +0000

Broken on mobile, cant scroll the results and the top is cut off.

This seems to be a common phenomenom with all those vibe coded apps. Bit weird since most traffic is mobile nowadays.

New comment by thi2 in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

thi2 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:50:19 +0000

It is the same as adding dependencies or hosting on Azure/Aws, choosing a nosql db isn't it?

New comment by thi2 in "Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft"

thi2 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:29:46 +0000

Any tipps on finding interesting and valuable papers?

New comment by thi2 in "Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft"

thi2 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:28:41 +0000

Thats my experience as well. Of course not ten paper a day but some learning is always encouraged.

One company had a +1 day. You worked 4 days, had 1 day for learning - everything relevant for the job was fine.

New comment by thi2 in "Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier"

thi2 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:30:15 +0000

Investors want to see growth, chugging along is not the return they expect. It would be nice tho.

New comment by thi2 in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

thi2 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:55:17 +0000

Its rare that devs are on standby, waiting for a pr to review. Usually they are working on their own pr, are in meetings, have focus time.

We talked a lot about the costs of context switches so its reasonable to finish your work before switching to the review.

New comment by thi2 in "Launching the Claude Partner Network"

thi2 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:06:42 +0000

Honestly I kind of envy the energy of these people.

New comment by thi2 in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

thi2 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:44:22 +0000

Maybe deploying was a bad choice of wording, I'm talking about setting up a new pipeline, for my repository with an internal tool. I need to speak to two different teams to ensure my CI/CD jumps through all the necessary hoops.

New comment by thi2 in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

thi2 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:05:59 +0000

I've mostly worked in smaller companies (max 250 employees) and recently joined one of the larger corporations (not automotive related).

The main issue I notice is how bad the communication is and how little can be done & decided. Before deploying a new Jenkins pipeline I need to speak to two different teams. It's insane how much time is lost doing meetings and syncs.

New comment by thi2 in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

thi2 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:58:27 +0000

Kurzarbeit is only available for a limited time and has the target to avoid layoffs resulting in much higher costs in unemployment payments.

New comment by thi2 in "Doomscroll 14,333 cat pictures"

thi2 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:46:13 +0000

> scroll

Yet the navigation on mobile through swiping is non existant

New comment by thi2 in "Good EU regulations"

thi2 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 03:30:59 +0000

What kind of strawman are you trying here?

New comment by thi2 in "Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot"

thi2 — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 03:04:14 +0000

The hardest challenge is not using your phone when sitting on the toilet

New comment by thi2 in "Claude Code feels like magic because it is iterative"

thi2 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 17:21:31 +0000

Would you mind sharing good and bad examples of prompts? I always read comments like yours and miss examples.

New comment by thi2 in "I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits"

thi2 — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 02:59:16 +0000

There is no real definition of a senior engineer. Just looking at years served seems is wrong imho.

New comment by thi2 in "Digital Dinosaurs Supervising Medtech: Getting Audited by the Berlin Authorities"

thi2 — Sat, 10 May 2025 07:08:39 +0000

I worked for two years on a medical app. From my limited experience with audits it was more focused on everything being compliant with the ISO 9001 & ISO 13485. Actual tech audits never happend and stuff like Emailing scanned letters never occured. However this was in Hessen and not Berlin.

My point being I guess its ok-ish to not know what software libs are, the paper workflow is still horrible.