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Re:Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @11:44AM (#50275585)
that's not how averages work
Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:22AM (#45965469)
Friendly fire is when you shoot someone from your own team.
Re:Garmin's –$40B Pivot on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @08:25AM (#42779831)
Sure it's mangled, but it's clearly a dash (–) and not a minus (-).
Re:Ask HN: What are your most regretted tech purchases? on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @04:09AM (#42254348)
> A passing car (...) is enough to not hear anything that comes out of them.

Isn't this part kind of the point?

Re:Traveling with Apple Vision Pro on Thursday October 17, 2024 @07:29AM (#41868582)
Slang evolves.
Re:Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters? on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @03:53AM (#39011027)
My espresso machine would like a word. It's pretty compact yet weighs 17 kgs / 37.5 lbs due to essentially being a dense block of stainless steel, copper and brass.
Re:How Gyms Make Money (2015) on Saturday January 06, 2024 @10:23AM (#38892145)
> rigid class start times

This one doesn't count. Can't have a class without a fixed start time.

Re:Men's Shed on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:53AM (#38160565)
Would this argument hold up in reverse for a women's shelter?
Re:The world’s most liveable cities in 2023 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @05:22AM (#36429735)
Finding an expensive apartment vs. not finding an apartment at all, really?

Say you are single, have some experience and get low-balled into a CHF 100k contract. Not counting 13th salary this translates to CHF 7.7k per month gross / CHF 6k net (before health insurance). I.e. at up to 1/3 of your monthly net you can spend up to 2k per month on an apartment. There are plenty of those to choose from inside Zurich city, even if some might be small for the price or have other drawbacks. You can find cheaper/bigger/nicer easily by expanding your search radius to the (extremely well-connected) suburbs.

Re:The world’s most liveable cities in 2023 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @03:33AM (#36429063)
I would describe my personal experience in Zurich (and having lived in Berlin before) a bit differently.

Everyone loves whining about finding a place to rent in both places, but in Berlin it's about finding anything at all whereas in Zurich it's usually about finding something cheap and ideally in a desirable Kreis 3 or Kreis 4 neighborhood. Yes it's competitive, but you will find something with realistic expectations + budget.

NB: I don't earn a big tech salary either. If you land a Google/Meta/IBM/Disney/adjacent job, the (rental) housing market should not give you any headaches.

Re:Tokyo Became an Anti-Car Paradise on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:00AM (#35948248)
One of these is not like the others.
Re:Bicycle on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @03:23AM (#35353782)
As a rower myself I wanted to type the same correction initially, but then realized that the parent comment is probably referring to a rowboat rather than a racing shell. No sliding seat, no leg drive.
Survivorship bias.
Re:“I’m not that smart” on Monday October 17, 2022 @03:41AM (#33230766)
> Not to brag, but

> brags

Won’t accept non-US phone numbers?
> Apple MacOS 12 (Monteray)

Monterey fyi

The Audi A2 has been out of production since 2005. Maybe a Q2?
Re:The Best iPhone on Friday July 29, 2022 @05:03AM (#32274631)
The design of the first iPhone SE (which came out it 2016) is that of the iPhone 5 (which came out in 2012).
Re:How Many Tracks Do Train Stations Need? on Friday June 17, 2022 @06:04AM (#31776112)
Swiss trains.
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? on Sunday February 06, 2022 @04:23PM (#30237143)
Do you ever take your bike off any sweet jumps?
Re:Shirt Without Stripes on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @03:25AM (#30069534)
How about

shirt -stripes

That should work on eBay at least.

> This seems a very strange observation to make about London.

It was an observation about the UK.

I think cars have an advantage over horses now that they are not in widespread use, because their true infrastructure cost will only appear once everyone wants to get gas at once, and this is certainly not the case right now.
Spiderbot, spiderbot..
Re:How and why I stopped buying new laptops on Monday December 21, 2020 @01:30AM (#25492600)
Like an X62 or X210 from 51nb?

https://www.facebook.com/lcdfans/

Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @04:33AM (#25274827)
If they learned their lesson, shouldn't they be pretty much predestined for the job?
Re:The Best Place to Build a Subway on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @02:42AM (#23984031)
For the context of this thread, a better representation of the Moscow Metro would probably be this one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Metro#/media/File:Mosco...

Re:How to play board games online with your friends on Friday April 24, 2020 @09:58AM (#22967981)
Tried last Saturday, and it was completely unplayable.

I guess they were under too much load. It took us an hour to just start a session of Wizard, and then we never managed to actually play because it keep throwing us out and showing error messages.

> (...) doctors at the hospital said they first suggested she be tested for the coronavirus, as she had a high fever. Instead, the woman went to a buffet lunch (...)
Where/how else would you get that experience if your current job does not involve ML?

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