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akabalanza··on Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar
Big up for the unions!
akabalanza··on New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome
Roman here. We have a joke that we cannot dig a hole in the ground without finding a piece of our past, and that makes us hard to progress. Now we are also finding pieces of someone else's past. We are doomed.
akabalanza··on Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
If my kids cannot change a boolean into a json, they do not deserve the [redacted]
akabalanza··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
They will stop bombing as soon as Iran comes back to the situation for which it was bombed.
akabalanza··on The Cognitive Dark Forest
Big up for the reference
akabalanza··on Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?
That's peter principle 101
akabalanza··on Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?
Indeed, with a big BUT: you don't want to overvalue loyalty in respect of competence. You don't want to have a boss that is not good but "is here since forever".

Instead, reward them economically. Everytime the company takes a leap forward, make clear to them that they were important for the process, and share some profit.

And make clear that being important in a moment doesn't automatically mean they will be important in the future: they will have to compete on results, like everyone else.

akabalanza··on AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
2025: I wonder if I can be in the industry in the future

2026: I wonder if I want to be in the industry in the future

akabalanza··on Thought-Terminating Cliché
A thesaurus for gaslighting
akabalanza··on 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet
I'm sure there is at least one security-claiming act that can be used to override that sentence
akabalanza··on Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017)
I'm glad LLMs will make these conversations obsolete, just like linters did to tab-vs-spaces
akabalanza··on AI-generated videos showing young and attractive women promote Poland's EU exit
How come such kind of content is never promoting equality, fair salary, worker rights, wealth redistribution?
akabalanza··on Overconsumption is a spiritual problem
I kinda feel it's victim blaming.

You have an entire system built around laws, companies and education that consistently targets your attention (and your wallet).

But hey, if you fall in the trap it's because you lack values.

akabalanza··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
AI is not replacing workers. Companies are. Thus what about taxing company profits?
akabalanza··on Controversies on DHH's new open source initiative (which is not open source)
Thanks!
akabalanza··on Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)
Maybe "best ever" is too bold, but both proven efficacy and mainstream popularity for over 15 years, without being a bulky thing everybody just accept (like vscode), I don't see many other software examples.

Anyway, sorry for triggering you with the first bold statement! I actually wanted to emphasize the curiosity over jj.

akabalanza··on Show HN: Lockenv – Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git
That looks amazing, thanks for sharing!

I have a git-based sync tool for my dotenv files. Maybe I can store my ssh keys, too

akabalanza··on Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)
I consider git the best software ever written. I used to work with some other SVCs, and I cannot thinking on leaving git now. Somehow, I feel it like a limitation for my mind.

I'm following this Jujutsu project, I'm genuinely curious to see what it can bring to the SVC scene.

akabalanza··on Catala – Law to Code
Can't wait for lawmakers to get a red CI before merging ;)

Jokes aside, I'm trying to imagine what a pull request workflow would be for law making.

For example, there might be a test that checks that a law has adequate budget before applying it; or to get an error if it conflicts with another law.

Also (Italian here), I would be very happy to do "git blame" and discover who actually introduced a modification.

akabalanza··on Copenhagenize Index 2025: The Global Ranking of Bicycle-Friendly Cities
Taipei? Are they ever bene there?