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New comment by ugiox in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

ugiox — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:05:21 +0000

And everyone has the same 24h. And it is just their choice and will to either dedicate 30min to their well being or not. It is not about having less time. Just prioritizing the same 24h that everyone has differently. Everything else is just finding excuses which of course is much easier than changing your life.

New comment by ugiox in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

ugiox — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:01:26 +0000

Don’t know. But I am in the top 1% of this country regarding income as an engineer (staff/fellow level). I don’t work more than 32h-35h per week - actually I never have and was never expected to. Living and working in a sane society and country. I fanatically turn off work email or work msgs when not working. I am not available for no one. Not even the C-levels or any clients. I concentrate on me and my family. No need to be a slave to “commitments” that don’t mean a thing in the long run.

New comment by ugiox in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

ugiox — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:02:42 +0000

Less doomscrolling, less bing watching of dumb Netflix series. Sensible working hours. And a society that doesn’t demand constant reachability when being off work.

It is not a luxury. It is living with common sense.

New comment by ugiox in "12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit"

ugiox — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:59:22 +0000

Now we know why GitHub has a hard time with stability and reliability. Because of this AI slop BS inflicted on us by the Silicon Valley tech bros and all their followers.

New comment by ugiox in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

ugiox — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:11:26 +0000

Literally :rofl: here. About all the people panicking that they suddenly can’t work anymore. Come on, how did you work and develop three years ago without AI? If you can’t program or understand code without an LLM you should maybe switch careers and not call yourself engineers. In the meantime, I have never touched Claude, Copilot, or what not, and continue to write my low level code used in real engineering and manufacturing plants as well as science labs. And since most/all of this isn’t really working through/with AI (as some colleagues in the field have tried and miserably failed) I can increase my rates and have started to charge a good amount more from clients. As they can’t find people anymore that are willing to understand the problems and deliver working code. The people are busy trying to get AI work in the my field instead of doing the real work that is asked. Literally :rofl: on how AI makes me more money without having to use and touch it. If this continues as it does, I might be able to retire soon (40s) and go back to study physics as I did and maybe engage in some theoretical physics PHD (self financed).

New comment by ugiox in "I dropped our production database and now pay 10% more for AWS"

ugiox — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:58:40 +0000

First let the agent do everything and wrong. But why then continue to use the agent to analyze the problem? That would have been the time to stop using Claude.

And why use an agent at all? For some IaC terraform runs?

What is the problem nowadays that people rather prefer to use non-deterministic actions from an agent instead of the very deterministic cli invocations needed?

I guess these people don’t deserve better. Darwin Award winners.

New comment by ugiox in "Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run"

ugiox — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 05:47:21 +0000

From their repo:

“A reactive notebook for Python — run reproducible experiments, query with SQL, execute as a script, deploy as an app, and version with git. *All in a modern, AI-native editor.*

Why does it need to be in a “modern, AI-native editor”?

(Closing tab, flashing marimo out of brain)

New comment by ugiox in "Der Spiegel Proclaims the End of the West"

ugiox — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 06:29:25 +0000

“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” (from a postapocalyptic novel by the author G. Michael Hopf)

New comment by ugiox in "UK to replace physical biometric immigration cards with e-visas"

ugiox — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 14:35:08 +0000

Ha, best part is in the first paragraph:

> in a bid to make its borders digital, which is in-line with developed countries like Australia.

lol. So England is not developed and compared to developed Australia. lol.

New comment by ugiox in "FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s"

ugiox — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 20:06:51 +0000

How to avoid the 737 Max? Fly only airlines that don’t have it. Luckily there are still a few around in Europe. Since the two fatal crashes I have avoided doing flights with 737s.

New comment by ugiox in "With 1 Sentence, Patagonia Just Gave a Masterclass on How to Treat Your People"

ugiox — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 18:37:40 +0000

Good for them. And great of the Patagonia mgmt to give them off.

I am myself off - the company I work for gives us paid time off (not deducted from our paid vacation) from Dec 22 to January 8. Each year. Apart from our 35 days of PTO. Plus 4 days to attend school events. Apart from German public holidays. Oh, and we work less during the spring and summer months. We go down from 38 hours per week to 35. German engineering manufacturing company - 250 employees. Family owned - 5 generations.

New comment by ugiox in "Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms"

ugiox — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 15:57:25 +0000

Most senior software engineers don’t have servers in their rooms neither.

New comment by ugiox in "Lessons from building GitHub code search [video]"

ugiox — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 08:05:15 +0000

Everyone has 36 minutes to watch a video. Just skip bing watching Netflix.

Poor society we are part of, if everything needs to be consumed in 5 minute chunks.

One should also think and reflect about the content being presented. Grasp the ideas.

It is also about honoring the time the speaker put into the presentation preparing it.

New comment by ugiox in "Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%"

ugiox — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:20:37 +0000

Now everyone sees just layoffs again. But there are so many companies thriving and keeping their workforce. As they are in balance. And are also happy to grow at a smaller pace.

New comment by ugiox in "Heated yoga may reduce depression in adults"

ugiox — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 05:31:08 +0000

Not the heat, not the yoga, but “doing sports and moving” reduces depression.

So it could have been “bouldering may reduce depression” or even “squash may reduce depression”.

Why? 1) You move. 2) You can’t do social media at the same time.

tl;dr get out, move, stop sitting on the couch and stop social media.

New comment by ugiox in "Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years"

ugiox — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 05:56:01 +0000

Swimming in the Rhine river in Basel (Switzerland) has been possible for a long time and is even officially sanctioned by the city https://www.basel.com/en/activities-excursions/swimming-rhin...

New comment by ugiox in "Command line functions around OpenAI"

ugiox — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:06:20 +0000

One can also decide to just be a https://1x.engineer

New comment by ugiox in "SpaceX firings likely violate US labor law, experts say"

ugiox — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 12:16:14 +0000

And I thought this was about static test firings of their rocket engines…