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thi2··on Writing by hand is good for your brain
I started doing this in cookbooks, less of this, this needs longer time in the oven, etc.

The first time it felt like a crime.

thi2··on Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links
There is a code freeze coming up at may job, I'll probably browse through some of the links in the spare time. So thanks for curating this.
thi2··on Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links
And yet the search on mobile opens half cut, the dark mode icon isn't centered like the search icon and in the resurfaced section are overlapping texts. And thats just from glancing through the page on my phone.

Maybe I'm too picky but it gives a sloppy, unpersonal feeling.

thi2··on Filmgrab: Films A-Z
Can't seem to change the cookie preferences to avoid sharing personal data with 1175 partners to see a list of movies (?). Real modern web experience.
thi2··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
More than once did my lane assistant try to run me into the barrier in a construction zone. You can turn it off, however its on again after on the next start...

And all this comes with insanely high priced repairs that you cant really DIY anymore.

thi2··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
Your first sentence is a bold claim considering the current state of the housing market
thi2··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
Germans tend to differentiate between getting takeout (something like kebab/pizza/asia box to go or delivered home) or eating out (going to a restaurant and eating there).

But I'd argue for most people getting into the car to get takeout is not very common.

thi2··on Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
> It’s incredibly rare you have the luxury of even trying to deliver bug free code, let alone achieve it.

What? Every company I worked for wished for bug free code. Mistakes happen but there was no acceptance for yolo-ship features.

thi2··on Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
> This is a prime example of why programmers are not seriously considered engineers.

Jumping to a pretty general conclusion there. Incentive packages like the parent described are not the norm.

thi2··on GitFut – Your GitHub stats turned into a World-Cup-style player card
Scrolling on mobile seems to cause sizing changes in the image. No idea what the stats are supposed to represent. I wouldnt call it World cup style, this mimics fifa ultimate team cards?
thi2··on Beer CSS – Build material design in record time
The site is a terrible experience on mobile, not good for a first impression
thi2··on Automating myself out of development
There are tons of people, those are just not as vocal.
thi2··on "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
I wonder when this is posted about your or my profession.
thi2··on "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
I recently saw a video showing the french to german translation of a french McDonald's terminal. The translations were hilarious bad, like old school google translate bad.

Maybe McDonalds is big enough to not care about their reputation, maybe they are happy about the free clout from people making fun of them but they certainly chose to cheap out on translations.

https://www.tiktok.com/@denneshow/video/7522160205501566230

thi2··on AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
Calling a 6k bill "bankrupting" is a bit of a stretch.

e: Still a good read tho, not mad about being clickbaited

thi2··on If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
Not my experience and especially for juniors reviews were an excellent tool to learn and get mentored.
thi2··on Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health
I can understand that being isolated is a real issue. But if your only joy and socialization happens in a corporate office you still have a problem.
thi2··on Roadside Attraction
The article is missing images. I used this dataset some time: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/headsortails/us-roadside-att...

highly recommend going through it a bit, lots of fun pictures in there.

thi2··on Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)
Or having to work, I'm not sure my boss would understand me missing half the morning because I was free running my sleep.
thi2··on Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom
And then they handed out free beer in the Paulaner Garten
thi2··on Am I German or Autistic?
60% german, 40% autistic. Seems fair since I'm german and work in IT. The rules question did not have an answer I liked tho.
thi2··on Git commands I run before reading any code
Why are those commits ending in the PR? Just unprofessional to work like that.
thi2··on Git commands I run before reading any code
Because I might want to go back to this current messy state but I don't want to commit it like this (hardcoded test strings, debug logs, cutted corners to see if something works, you name it).

I simply commit something like "WIP: testing xy" and if its working and properly implemented i can squash/rebase/edit the commit message and force push it to my feature branch. Using a Git client like Gitkraken makes this incredibly easy, takes seconds.

This way I can leverage version control without committing bogus states to the final PR.

thi2··on Automatically generate all 3D print files for organizing a drawer
Broken on mobile, cant scroll the results and the top is cut off.

This seems to be a common phenomenom with all those vibe coded apps. Bit weird since most traffic is mobile nowadays.

thi2··on Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated
It is the same as adding dependencies or hosting on Azure/Aws, choosing a nosql db isn't it?
thi2··on Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft
Any tipps on finding interesting and valuable papers?
thi2··on Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft
Thats my experience as well. Of course not ten paper a day but some learning is always encouraged.

One company had a +1 day. You worked 4 days, had 1 day for learning - everything relevant for the job was fine.

thi2··on Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier
Investors want to see growth, chugging along is not the return they expect. It would be nice tho.
thi2··on Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
Its rare that devs are on standby, waiting for a pr to review. Usually they are working on their own pr, are in meetings, have focus time.

We talked a lot about the costs of context switches so its reasonable to finish your work before switching to the review.

thi2··on Launching the Claude Partner Network
Honestly I kind of envy the energy of these people.
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