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6,032 karma · joined May 7, 2015

Programmer. Likes: Haskell, Elm, Nix, Vim.

Contact: jezen@jezenthomas.com

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yakshaving_jgt··on MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
It comes from working in kitchens. It means to remove something from the menu, or otherwise make it unavailable.
yakshaving_jgt··on Gdynia and the Dream of a Maritime Poland
Fun fact: Bond villain Ernst Blofeld is from Gdynia!

As is half of my family, incidentally. In fact, the names of some of my relatives are written on the wall inside the museum pictured in the article. I lived there for 10 years. Lovely place to live.

yakshaving_jgt··on Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland
If you're interested in the logic behind this war, you might be interested in learning from Anders Puck Nielsen, author of The Logic of War.

- https://youtu.be/z61ZuZ08jRA?si=_GChfuUptluluave&t=602

- https://youtu.be/NCEKsF9w8uQ?si=WkguFDu0vSdm1dbR&t=405

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opa3s2VuD0s

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQmxNTloGmw

yakshaving_jgt··on Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland
> why would it start by attacking random EU countries instead of Ukraine itself?

Because it would force NATO to divert resources away from Ukraine.

yakshaving_jgt··on Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack
I'm not necessarily referring to fringe organisations.

The best example of this that I can think of is the recent Die Linke electoral victory in Berlin. They have the same policy on European security as AfD.

It's a clear example of Horseshoe Theory. Pseudo-intellectuals in Germany may argue that the position is not the same because the motivations are not the same, but if you're sitting in Ukraine, feeling the walls shake, and seeing your pets tremble in terror, you really couldn't give a shit what some leftie in Germany thinks — the result is the same as the openly pro-Kremlin German far-right.

> stellen uns auch gegen die Waffenlieferungen an die Ukraine.

https://www.dielinkebt.de/themen/a-z/detailansicht/ukraine/

yakshaving_jgt··on Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack
Try telling this to the far-left.
yakshaving_jgt··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
What are you talking about?
yakshaving_jgt··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
That would probably need to come from domestic public pressure.

Different countries work differently. What would work for russia would not necessarily work for the USA.

yakshaving_jgt··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
Ukraine’s most powerful ally?

Who are you talking about? Surely not Trump.

If you are… what planet are you living on?

yakshaving_jgt··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
We should forcibly remove russian occupying forces from Ukraine.

That would be enforcing international law, not pushing for war.

yakshaving_jgt··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
Thousands of the first Shahed drones fired by russia at civilians in Ukraine were made in Iran.

Ukraine has not attacked Iran.

So you might be “pretty sure”, but to me it looks like you’re just wrong.

yakshaving_jgt··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
> You either step up and hit back, or look weak and invite further problems.

The latter is exactly what the western world did in 2014, and its why we have this much larger war now.

yakshaving_jgt··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
Indeed, maybe it depends on the country.

In many countries, russia’s psyop tactics do work frighteningly well, and we see this resulting in a renaissance of the far-right, who are explicitly against supporting Ukraine, and explicitly seek the rehabilitation of russia.

yakshaving_jgt··on Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew) Recipe Builder
Excellent presentation by Święty Mikołaj.
yakshaving_jgt··on Show HN: DocCharm – The help center that keeps itself up to date
Thanks for the feedback.

I hadn’t considered that someone would want to see screenshots of the application on the landing page since they can just log in and interact with it themselves. But clearly, this was a gap.

> I've got links to my help center. You're asking me to throw out everything to start fresh on a platform with almost no information.

It is possible to automatically import a help center from Zendesk or Mintlify. Content is re-hosted and links are rewritten so everything links internally the way it does on your existing help center. As you’ve pointed out, this should be communicated more clearly.

> Don't build your own, update your users' existing sites.

I had considered this initially but it didn’t fit my initial use case at the time. But I think it’s worth me reviewing this because I can see how this would be less friction when getting started, and also less perceived risk when choosing whether or not to adopt a new tool.

Again, genuinely appreciate the feedback :)

yakshaving_jgt··on How to hide from killer drones
> The only thing Odessa is known for under the Ukrainian rule is burning 42 pro-Russian Ukrainian citizens[1] by Ukrainian nationalists.

Another complete lie, constantly perpetuated by Z-patriot zombies. And if you actually read the source you linked to, you would see that most of the antagonists of the clashes on this day were russians. They came from russia, or from russian-occupied Moldova, specifically to try to destabilise southern Ukraine.

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Here, I have something for you.

https://imgur.com/nuAM1sy

This is the first medal I received from the Ukrainian military for volunteering and supporting them as they destroy the terrorists that you support.

https://imgur.com/7wILMO1

This is the second medal I received from the Ukrainian military for volunteering and supporting them as they destroy the terrorists that you support.

https://imgur.com/6bboPxH

This is the third medal I received from the Ukrainian military for volunteering and supporting them as they destroy the terrorists that you support.

The lies you continue to spread on this website are the best inspiration for me to go for my fourth medal. So, in a way, thank you. Thank you for encouraging myself and others to continue helping russian invaders to meet their fate, blown to pieces, left rotting on a Ukrainian field under the harsh sun, their corpses feasted on by wild dogs. Surely you've seen enough videos of exactly this happening. Ah, the miracle of modern technology.

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Rest assured — as I do — that nothing you say here actually changes the trajectory of this war that your country launched against Ukraine. You will never reach the Ukrainian city of Odesa. And you will be forcibly removed from Crimea.

yakshaving_jgt··on How to hide from killer drones
Your terrorists have been launching missiles and drones at me and my neighbours for years.

I see it with my own eyes.

Your attacks on the people I care about dearly are routine. Every fucking day, you scum try and kill us.

Seeds in your pocket. Go to the front.

I’ll tell you what. Give me your address and I’ll send you a postcard from the Ukrainian city of Odesa, where the Ukrainian flag flies proudly on every street, and where your terrorists will never reach. Because Odesa is Ukraine forever. Kherson is Ukraine. Kharkiv is Ukraine. Kyiv is Ukraine. Donbas is Ukraine. Crimea is Ukraine.

Go to the front.

yakshaving_jgt··on How to hide from killer drones
You are a russian propagandist.

We’ve seen you here before, and we’ve called out your bullshit before.

Go to the front Ivan. Put seeds in your pockets.

Anyone can look at your comment history and see that you are here to antagonise, and to spread disinformation in service of the russian regime and its leading war criminal.

This forum is meant to be for substantive discussion primarily about the intersection of technology and things that people in STEM would be intellectually curious about.

This forum is not for spreading lies as you have been doing for so long.

yakshaving_jgt··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
I'm building DocCharm — the help center for your software product that keeps itself up to date.

https://doccharm.com/

If you want to give it a try, email me and I'll comp your first two months and help you get started.

yakshaving_jgt··on How to hide from killer drones
Please assume that the people you are talking to you are not ignorant.

In this case, I believe I am substantially more up to date with both Ukrainian and Polish politics than you are. From your comments, it appears your knowledge on the topic is superficial at best.

yakshaving_jgt··on How to hide from killer drones
> Similarly, Russia was saving Poles from WW2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...

yakshaving_jgt··on How to hide from killer drones
Nobody is pretending this didn’t happen. Least of all the Ukrainians.
yakshaving_jgt··on How to hide from killer drones
You’re not a Konfederacja voter by any chance?

I’m so fucking embarrassed to be Polish and hear this populism bullshit from Nawrocki and any other compromised russian shill.

You know who killed our people? The fucking russians. Remember when the bad guys came from Berlin? The other bad guys came from Moscow. Don’t forget that.

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For anyone unsure what this throwaway account is talking about: when he says “not too long ago” in a discussion about a war that is happening literally today, he’s talking about 1943. If this isn’t a bad faith argument from an antagonist, then I don’t know what is.

yakshaving_jgt··on How to hide from killer drones
Only the russians are targeting civilians.
yakshaving_jgt··on Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch
I had a similar suspicion, though I thought the source material was from DAS.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog

yakshaving_jgt··on After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
I’ve been running my company on Haskell for a similar length of time.

Long compile times can be an issue, but it’s an issue that can be managed.

Would I scrap Haskell in favour of Python, now in the age of agentic coding?

No. No I would not.

yakshaving_jgt··on After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
Long compile times can be a problem. It’s also a problem that can be managed. I think this is overstated in the article.
yakshaving_jgt··on After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
I run my company on Haskell purely for economic reasons. Aesthetics doesn’t come into it.
yakshaving_jgt··on Learning to code is still worthwhile
No. And if it could, I sure as hell never would have become a programmer.
yakshaving_jgt··on Learning to code is still worthwhile
The demo scene — as cool as it is — is an obscure hobby for a particular kind of nerd.

The business side of programming puts food on the table for tens of millions of people.

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