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New comment by tstenner in "Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)"

tstenner — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:57:47 +0000

Stores are required by law to provide the price per unit/weight/volume alongside the price, so you can directly compare the price of a pint of beer to the 0.33 liter bottle without calculating anything.

New comment by tstenner in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

tstenner — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:47:43 +0000

I use it all the time, but almost always sarcastically (as in "load-bearing tinyproxy instance").

New comment by tstenner in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

tstenner — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:59:55 +0000

Buy a steam deck. It sends a strong signal to Valve to continue supporting Wine and you get a Steam Deck

New comment by tstenner in "Books of the Century by Le Monde"

tstenner — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:36:19 +0000

That makes it sound like 50 shades of grey would have had a 50/50 chance of getting into the top 100 if it only was included in the wider selection

New comment by tstenner in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

tstenner — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:18:54 +0000

The architect should have required Hindu numbers. Same result, but even more confusion.

New comment by tstenner in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

tstenner — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:19:15 +0000

The "small ones" do. The larger P models require a beefy 220W proprietary power supply.

New comment by tstenner in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

tstenner — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:33:13 +0000

That's what I use a 2014 Sony tablet for. The battery last surprisingly long, but heavy websites are an exercise (well, the other form of exercise) in frustration

New comment by tstenner in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

tstenner — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:33:11 +0000

If you were using everything in the toolboxes, it would be absolutely worth it. As it is, you often need an additional toolbox for basic functionality and pay for everything in it.

New comment by tstenner in "OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading"

tstenner — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:17:48 +0000

Your taxi crashes because the driver skipped brake maintenance and his insurance doesn't reimburse you for your hospital costs because commercial transportation isn't covered. Sure would be nice to have some minimum requirements for taxis.

New comment by tstenner in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

tstenner — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:02:25 +0000

Which often means that e.g. loading an image for displaying it increases cost by a few thousands

New comment by tstenner in "Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study"

tstenner — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:51:20 +0000

I assume that was meant to be "session"

New comment by tstenner in "Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig"

tstenner — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 06:46:43 +0000

Unless you needed a SATA driver not included in the installer because you wanted to avoid a legacy IDE emulation for your disks.

New comment by tstenner in "Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title"

tstenner — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:47:13 +0000

Even better: grades range from 1.0 (best) to 5.0 (failed) with partial grades (.3, .7) in-between. Caused a few problems when a 1.3 got interpreted as the first May and converted to the number of days between the epoch and the first ofay of that year.

New comment by tstenner in "Rust's Block Pattern"

tstenner — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 07:59:39 +0000

I have been using this in a web application that acquires a lock, retrieves and returns a few variables to the outer scope an then immediately unlocks the mutex again

New comment by tstenner in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

tstenner — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 07:27:12 +0000

Go.

New comment by tstenner in "Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany"

tstenner — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 17:37:57 +0000

You can't pay for blood, only an expense reimbursement. Which is coincidentally 25 euros almost everywhere.

New comment by tstenner in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

tstenner — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:23:19 +0000

Even k9s would profit enormously from detachable dialogs. Just let me do something without losing my current log view.

New comment by tstenner in "Financing My Klarna Doritos Locos Taco"

tstenner — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 05:52:11 +0000

Europe just nixed the general €100K limit on SEPA instant transfers. Before that, you had to split it up or wait 1-2 days for the regular transfer to go through.

New comment by tstenner in "Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?"

tstenner — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:47:54 +0000

FYI Idealo is part of Springer (Bild), Geizhals belongs to Heise (c't, iX)

New comment by tstenner in "General strike against 13-hour work day brings Greece to a halt"

tstenner — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:41:52 +0000

Are these the kind of statistics that omit stay-at-home parents but have the average pulled down by people working part time that wouldn't work otherwise?