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Re:Deutsche Bahn "joke" is no longer funny on Monday September 28, 2026 @08:58PM (#49886627)
They can't just add 20 min to the arrival time on the schedule, so I do it in my mind. I just assume a bit of delay, like any reasonable adult when doing any trip and just don't have that negative vibe, where you say "not on time, again". For me DB is still the best way to cover long distances in Germany.
Coincidence that I saw the Veritasium Story about Enigma just yesterday?? Nice
How many agents smell the honey pot??
I believe this to actually be the silent majority. But of course our job is object to a lot of changes right now and people are nervous what the "next job" will look like. You can hold position like me and just take the the new tools when they are well tested and integrated, be pragmatic about it. Fingers crossed!
Re:Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:05PM (#48314661)
Just show me the pelican, ah wait we are past pelicans. Can we get something like that ever again?
Re:You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs on Monday May 11, 2026 @02:39PM (#48098921)
First Agent I used: Do a proper code review of the changeset, it adds comments in my merge requests. Then the junior devs paste these into their IDEs and loop forever :-P
It was OK, just needed to memorize the commands, they are all reachable via a combination of number keys :-)
XORing just feels more like xxxxing out the register. SUB feels like a calculation or mistaken use of a register.
Re:Antimatter has been transported for the first time on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @01:33PM (#47520574)
One cannot image what would happen if antipasti and pasti collide!
I'd say the chance of me one shotting C++ is veeeery low. Same for bash scripts etc. This is where the LLM really shines for me.
Re:Tell HN: Merry Christmas on Thursday December 25, 2025 @03:58AM (#46383142)
I moved from Hamburg (north) to close to Munic (south) and the difference is huge. I can see the blue sky, for example! So much better here.
We use this in production and it's very stable. It also supports background gradients which we wanted to use so badly :-) Can recommend
How do you come up with this? I feel it is quite hard to formulate exactly what you want from the LLM in general. Is this something you exercised? So good. Or just output from another AI, who knows haha
Re:"AI" on a Calculator: Part 1 on Saturday January 04, 2025 @06:36PM (#42598477)
Cool project! And what a suitable domain name you got there Kerm :)
Re:The State of the TI Community (1999) on Friday October 11, 2024 @05:41PM (#41814054)
It's because a lot of us used to use a calculator in school and some (like me) learned to code with it. Actually, I used dwedit.inc a lot in the beginning and loved dragon warrior monsters as much as you! What a great time. Thank you.
Re:Curl native support for –aws-sigv4 (2023) on Saturday July 06, 2024 @04:19AM (#40888971)
I had fun recently to make such a request in C#. In the end I ported the code from the aws typescript implementation to C# which was surprisingly easy: https://gist.github.com/NanoWar/788860d74c49f337f4c3dab6dd24...
Off topic, but hey is that you, Dan from the old Ti83 World? Thanks for the huge include file and I loved your work on DQM ;-)
Re:Show HN: htmldocs - Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @04:45PM (#39033947)
I have used Gotenberg [1] in a production environment. Dockerized in a Kubernetes Cluster. It just works! I can absolutely recommend it. Uses Chromium under the hood and was able to render gradients and text shadow, nice! [1] https://gotenberg.dev/
Re:At what age should a teenager be given a cell phone? on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @10:01AM (#38177521)
10
The best confidence boost is when someone uses your software and talks about it! Happened to me when I was young and programmed a game at school on a calculator and everyone wanted it, sent via link cable :)
Missed opportunity to call it METABYTE!
Re:Ask HN: How to generate PDFs from the back end? on Saturday May 06, 2023 @02:48PM (#35844206)
I can absolutely recommend "gotenberg" in a docker and some react web app to render the actual web app!
Re:TIWiFiModem: Take your TI-83 Plus online [video] on Sunday April 09, 2023 @01:17PM (#35504609)
You should also check out his blog post about it: http://benryves.com/journal/3763186
I think maptiler might be what you are looking for: https://www.maptiler.com/server/
Re:Signal Introduces Stories on Monday November 07, 2022 @02:19PM (#33510877)
I am a happy user of WhatsApp's Status and am actually really looking forward to Signals take!
Re:Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @03:33AM (#32561629)
You can spin up an own instance in a docker container easily (if you self host everything anyways).
Re:Ask HN: How do you stop time wasting on the internet? on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @12:50PM (#32485450)
Best way for me is to move the browser app icon to a different position (on mobile) so that I don't find it immediately. That way I hesitate a moment and sometimes don't start wasting time.

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