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thi2··on The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future
Maybe deploying was a bad choice of wording, I'm talking about setting up a new pipeline, for my repository with an internal tool. I need to speak to two different teams to ensure my CI/CD jumps through all the necessary hoops.
thi2··on The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future
I've mostly worked in smaller companies (max 250 employees) and recently joined one of the larger corporations (not automotive related).

The main issue I notice is how bad the communication is and how little can be done & decided. Before deploying a new Jenkins pipeline I need to speak to two different teams. It's insane how much time is lost doing meetings and syncs.

thi2··on The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future
Kurzarbeit is only available for a limited time and has the target to avoid layoffs resulting in much higher costs in unemployment payments.
thi2··on Doomscroll 14,333 cat pictures
> scroll

Yet the navigation on mobile through swiping is non existant

thi2··on Good EU regulations
What kind of strawman are you trying here?
thi2··on Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot
The hardest challenge is not using your phone when sitting on the toilet
thi2··on Claude Code feels like magic because it is iterative
Would you mind sharing good and bad examples of prompts? I always read comments like yours and miss examples.
thi2··on I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits
There is no real definition of a senior engineer. Just looking at years served seems is wrong imho.
thi2··on Digital Dinosaurs Supervising Medtech: Getting Audited by the Berlin Authorities
I worked for two years on a medical app. From my limited experience with audits it was more focused on everything being compliant with the ISO 9001 & ISO 13485. Actual tech audits never happend and stuff like Emailing scanned letters never occured. However this was in Hessen and not Berlin.

My point being I guess its ok-ish to not know what software libs are, the paper workflow is still horrible.

thi2··on Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire
That has to be about a different Angela Merkel, the one I know had one priority: preserving status quo.
thi2··on O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data
> I’m confident it didn’t cheat and look at the EXIF data on the photograph, because if it had cheated it wouldn’t have guessed Cambria first.

Hm no way to be sure though, would be nice to do another run without Exif information

thi2··on Try Switching to Kagi
For german it works fine, how is duckduckgo doing with catalan?
thi2··on Try Switching to Kagi
My initial feeling with kagi is that it feels like google used to before it went downhill. So far I'm testing my first premium month and will continue to use it. It would be nice to have a unlimited search tier without AI thats a bit cheaper tho.
thi2··on The hidden cost of AI coding
> You are just bad with prompting or working with very obscure language/framework or bad coding pattern or all of it

You just described every existing legacy project^^

thi2··on The hidden cost of AI coding
My employer gives me access to Jetbrains AI, I work on a Vue Frontend with a Kotlin Spring Boot backend.

The codebase is not too old and has grown without too much technical debt, with complex prompts I never had decent success. Its usefull for quick "what does this do" checks but any real functionality seems to be lacking.

Maybe I'm not refining my prompts good enough but doing so would take longer than implementing it myself.

Recently I tried Jetbrains Junie, which acts like Claude if I understand it correctly.

I had a really refined prompt, ran it three times with adjustments and fine tuning but the result was still lacking. So I tossed it and wrote it myself. But watching the machine nearly getting it right was still impressive.

thi2··on Crows can recognize geometric regularity
Everyone questioning animals inteligence should live a while with a cat and be suprised
thi2··on What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?
Since when is LoC some kind of measurement?
thi2··on Open source and self hostable/private file converter
I'll hijack this to plug Stirling PDF[0], I have it running on a Raspberry Pi with docker compose and from time to time it's incredible helpfull to edit PDFs without sending them to a third party.

- [0] https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

thi2··on Ask HN: What's a surprisingly useful tech skill that's underrated today?
I'd say carefully reading and understanding an error message before turning to google/ai
thi2··on The Story Behind “100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them”
I must compliment your ability to keep the reader hooked, I had to see what chapters they saw, stalked your website and ended up reading the whole post about your pre sale.

This is pretty off topic but did you test how your book works on an E-Reader? I check a sample chapter and there where a lot of pictures and colors to distinguish information, this will probably not work very well on my Kindle.

thi2··on A Supermarket Bag and a Truckload of FOMO
So instead of managing your versions in one package.json and installing your dependencies with one npm i command you manage several different docker container that produce builds you then consume?

What kind of horrors did you encounter that led to this abstraction?

thi2··on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
I want to line thinkpads, I really do. But trying a touchpad of a macbook and going back to a thinkpad is a truly horrible experience.

I'm forever gratefull for the ancient 100€ T400 thinkpad that carried me through my CS degree when I had no money but spending 700+ on something that feels inprecise and jiggery when using is painfull.

thi2··on Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database
I'll check it later to give more constructive feedback, also it seems like you are hammering a backend request with each keystroke (?), cant verify it on mobile but you might consider debouncing the user input a bit to ease off the load
thi2··on Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database
Tried it with unsweetened oat milk and the info was off in nearly every col.

Not representable because I dont have US food but since its AI enhanced I cant compare my stuff with the stuff in the "dataset" and be sure thats an Us vs germany thing..

thi2··on Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?
The buisnessmodel is speculating that your average Joe does not have the energy or knowledge to go after the shobby work. I notice this trend a lot and while I can push back I feel sorry for the people that are not able to do so or do not know their rights.
thi2··on Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?
> At Fred Meyer, our local Kroger-owned grocery store, a bagger in his 70s put all my frozen items in a normal bag, and my chips in the cold storage bag I’d brought from home.

A) Having to work a job (obviously not done out of passion) 70+ is really disheartening B) I don´t understand why this even is something that has to be done by a worker. I bought the groceries. I know where I want my stuff in my bags. Or I just toss them back in the cart and load it properly at the car.

thi2··on Is it safe to travel to the United States with your phone?
As a straight white male I also believe racial profiling does not exist because it never happened to me.
thi2··on How I got 100% off my train travel
Does it work that way where you are from? Here in Germany it is entirely the workers responsibility to arrive on time, being repeatedly late can lead to being fired. Usually everyone knows how bad the trains are and it's not enforced strictly but thats just the employers good will.
thi2··on “Normal” engineers are the key to great teams
> Comforting yet false assertions. Great engineers tire of working with “normal” engineers, they want to work with others who they respect

What a great environment to train juniors. Does not sound toxic at all.

thi2··on A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily
I keep this list bookmarked: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis Sadly they are missing health checks.
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