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New comment by vldmrs in "Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants"

vldmrs — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 07:47:01 +0000

I haven’t noticed such thing, but maybe you are right. I think that Switzerland is completely different than other parts of Europe and it is hard to compare with.

New comment by vldmrs in "Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants"

vldmrs — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 06:49:13 +0000

As a European, I can safely say that tipping in American restaurants is one of the most unusual things I remember about America. The amount of tips is huge and they are demanded of you everywhere

New comment by vldmrs in "Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone"

vldmrs — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 19:00:55 +0000

This is funny how bad UI is on some of websites which are considered the best. Today I tried to find prices for Mistral models but I couldn’t. Their prices page leads to 404…

New comment by vldmrs in "US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a 'clean slate'"

vldmrs — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 21:02:05 +0000

I have a good story related to the topic of discussion :)

I am the author of one site - a dictionary of the English language, which, in addition to the definition of a word from several dictionaries, shows the use of words in different contexts. One of the contexts is news - so for example for the word "window" it shows several news headlines containing the word "window".

So, about 10 years ago, I received a very rudely written email demanding that I remove a reference to a certain person from the text of a news story. The news story was about a misdemeanor that a certain person had committed. Since the email was very rudely written and since I hadn't broken any law, I just ignored it and forgot about it. Over the course of about six months, this person bombarded me with dire threats and also wrote complaints to my hosting provider. The hosting company forwarded these letters to me and asked me to look into it, but did not demand anything because no law had been broken.

One day, after many e-mails with threats of legal action, and about 6 months, I received the first normal message, in which the person asked what he should do to make me delete the information he wanted.

Here I need to mention that for all this time this person has parroted me quite a lot with his threats and I had no desire to meet him halfway.

I wrote that I would delete the necessary information as soon as I received a request from him, written in the form of a short (!) verse.

Another month or so passed, during which this person argued and tried to change my mind (instead of sending a short verse)

…

As soon as he did, I connected to the database with a smile, deleted the entry he asked for and wrote him an email wishing him good luck. I hope he is doing well now :)

New comment by vldmrs in "Moon"

vldmrs — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 19:19:51 +0000

His blog posts are always amazing, very detailed and exceptionally visual

New comment by vldmrs in "Premature Graying of Hair: Review with Updates"

vldmrs — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 05:25:05 +0000

Does it help you with grey hair ?

New comment by vldmrs in "The Practical Guide to Scaling Django"

vldmrs — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 21:33:05 +0000

At first I wanted to criticize the post, buuut after finishing reading it I actually liked it. Very concise and practical

ps - I didn’t know about template “cache” directive

New comment by vldmrs in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)"

vldmrs — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:12:29 +0000

I'll think about it.

But I've noticed that if I print out some coloring books for my son, they stay on his desk for a long time and he rarely colors them.

But if I print him one coloring page, he almost always finishes it.

New comment by vldmrs in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)"

vldmrs — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:08:21 +0000

Some people love doing that but your idea doesn’t resonate with me personally - I prefer holding my pen and drawing or coloring on paper

New comment by vldmrs in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)"

vldmrs — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:08:43 +0000

Thank you, dinosaurs are in my TODO list

p.s. - my son is an expert at dinos, not sure why I haven’t added them

New comment by vldmrs in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)"

vldmrs — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 07:40:02 +0000

I’ll be sure to add unicorns, thank you!

New comment by vldmrs in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)"

vldmrs — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 06:28:35 +0000

I've noticed that my son spends way too much time on YouTube or playing Minecraft and one of the few offline activities he enjoys doing on his own is coloring. And since he comes to me every time he wants a new coloring book and we spend about 10 minutes together searching for each picture, I made a website with a collection of coloring books for him. The site is very simple, but to be honest, I haven't had so much fun with the process of creation for a long time.

https://colorango.com/

New comment by vldmrs in "Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with"

vldmrs — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:41:42 +0000

Great news ! It would be interesting to see performance comparison for IO-bound tasks like http requests between single-threaded asyncio code and multi-threaded asyncio

New comment by vldmrs in "MSFT's WizardLM2 models have been taken down"

vldmrs — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 05:12:29 +0000

Why have they been removed ?

New comment by vldmrs in "My free side project: 600+ UI Components with Code Editor"

vldmrs — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:24:22 +0000

I think that your project is amazing, thank you. Will definitely use it!

p.s. - I think that your project deserves much more attention from HN

New comment by vldmrs in "Ask HN: How did you get yourself out of a rut?"

vldmrs — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 10:54:39 +0000

Doing sport 2 times a week helps me a lot. I also enjoy spending time with my friends on weekends and with my family during work days. All this helps a bit but still sometimes I feel exactly like you do.

New comment by vldmrs in "Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source"

vldmrs — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:43:23 +0000

Question needs to be asked - how is it compared to Nginx ?

New comment by vldmrs in "Valetudo – Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation"

vldmrs — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 09:33:34 +0000

I couldn’t find how to run Valetudo on iOS which is sad since my native app is too slow sometimes.

New comment by vldmrs in "Show HN: Easily train AlphaZero-like agents on any environment you want"

vldmrs — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 19:47:55 +0000

Are there any sample game descriptions for some games ? I have checked all the links but couldn’t find a single example.

New comment by vldmrs in "Created a free website that simplifies stock analysis"

vldmrs — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:43:42 +0000

Awesome and beautiful website !