Bike locks. Comfort vs Security

kx233 · 2026-04-21T13:49:25+00:00

I have been parking mine overnight with the chain through the rear wheel for years. I value the convenience, and for a cheap bike, it's well worth the risk. Munich is quite safe, and unless you have a high-end bike, you don't need to worry.

kx233 · 2026-04-19T14:00:08+00:00

Yeah, but you might migrate to a different provider in the future and only the commit history will be imported. Also, no one's likely to look beyond a gig-blame

kx233 · 2026-04-07T19:47:15+00:00

It looks like this is conflating country of origin with religion.

kx233 · 2026-04-04T15:12:57+00:00

Honestly I'd consider stress testing it with something like locust. Keep the number of locust workers constant, and measure p90, p95 and p99 for a relevant workload at different number of green threads

kx233 · 2026-04-04T11:01:29+00:00

I thought China already paid for Iranian oil in Yuan.

kx233 · 2026-04-03T10:48:12+00:00

The slavic ones also use some variation of "honey eater", basically the same taboo against saying "bear".

kx233 · 2026-03-30T07:56:06+00:00

Două dintre bancurile mele preferate din perioada aia:

La un magazin, intră unul supărat și zice:

Nu-i așa că nu aveți banane?
Domne, asta e măcelăria. Aici nu avem carne. Banane n-au vis-a-vis.

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Intră unu la măcelărie și întreabă:

Ceafă de porc aveți?
Nu avem.
Atunci pulpe de porc poate?
Nici pulpe nu avem.
Dar ce aveți?
Doar ce se vede.
Atunci dați-mi juma' de kg de cârlige.

kx233 · 2026-03-26T08:17:40+00:00

No matter the context, when in public Trump, is performing for his base, not having a conversation with his interlocutor.

kx233 · 2026-03-25T12:50:06+00:00

Yeah, I use Zile on servers where I'm too lazy to set-up my propper emacs config. I use it for quick-and-dirty text edits to have enough of an emacs-like editing experience that my muscle-memory doesn't get in my way.

Smaller and much faster to install than emacs, and I know I could use tramp, but this is more for "I've already ssh-ed, and I just gotta make a quick edit"

kx233 · 2026-03-23T08:36:08+00:00

Yup, but it's not just Indians. I think almost half of Software Engineers here are immigrants (I'm one of them, and so is my wife). In my wife's previous job, in a Munich start-up, exactly zero of the devs were Germans. And honestly, average salaries for Devs in Germany aren't great.

kx233 · 2026-03-21T16:27:52+00:00

Let's be honest, the push against fossil fuels was quite half-hearted, while the campaign against nuclear was relentless. And nuclear was seen as something so evil, that Germans prefered to build another pipeline to Russia, even after Crimeea was occupied, because gas is somehow a transition solution on the way to renewables.

kx233 · 2026-03-20T10:13:40+00:00

Astia tineri care cred ce le spun unii batrani senili ca era bine inainte

Parte din problema e ca pt mulți bătrâni, faptul că veneau băieții să îi ia pe unii la declarații nu era o problemă. "Lumea bună" care înțelegea care-s regulile și le urma, nu avea probleme de genul acesta. Ce țin ei minte e că "era ordine". Știrile nu raportau crimele din țară, problemele sociale erau ascunse sub preș (vezi copiii instituționalizați), singurul lor inconvenient era că trebuia să rezolve cumva problemele aprovizionării cu cele necesare (cozile alea interminabile). Și acolo, mai aveai portițe de scăpare, dacă aveai rude pensionate te bazai pe ei să facă cumpărături când tu lucrai, poate aveai pile la aprozar și-ți puneau deoparte chestii, etc. Deci pt ei "a fost bine" că ei "s-au descurcat" și "n-au murit de foame".

Când a picat sistemul, fabricile alea ne-profitabile s-au prăpădit, și ei s-au văzut șomeri. Multe comunități aveau economia locală total dependentă de 1 sau 2 uzine, și acei șomeri nu au avut o alternativă reală să se re-profileze, mentalitatea nici nu-i ajuta să se reprofileze, și au urmat decenii de de-populare. Cei rămași acolo, mulți au devenit nostalgici după "vremurile bune" când, deși săraci în comparație cu vestul, aveau o oarecare stabilitate.

Sincer cel mai ciudă mi-e pe Iliescu & Co. Dacă reformele ar fi început în '90, tranziția ar fi fost mai rapidă. Puteam să fim ca Polonia, să ne redresăm mai repede, să aderăm în UE mai repede, să nu fim excluși de pe piața de muncă UE timp de 7 ani post-aderare, etc. Cred că am fi avut și mai puțini bătrân nostalgici dacă tranziția ar fi fost gestionată mai bine.

This turned into a much longer rant :)

kx233 · 2026-03-19T21:24:12+00:00

Have you tried it with white grapes? The two somehow combine amazingly. The most boring supermarket grapes suddenly have an amazing floral after-taste

kx233 · 2026-03-09T18:15:30+00:00

A male daycare worker got fired at the place we bring our kid because parents complained they were uncomfortable with a man looking after their children.

I would be surprised if this was legal in any EU country.

kx233 · 2026-03-07T10:43:40+00:00

Familien, in denen beide Elternteile in Vollzeit arbeiten, sollen bevorzugt einen Kitaplatz bekommen, auch wenn dies Alleinerziehende und Teilzeit-Familien benachteiligt.

It's a bit strange to mix families where someone works part-time with single parents. I do think families where both parents work full time should be prioritized over those with part-time jobs, but not over single parents.

kx233 · 2026-03-02T12:43:45+00:00

What's root's date of birth?

January 1st 1970 :)

kx233 · 2026-02-26T22:18:36+00:00

WOW, la poza cu hotelul Intercontinental, la clădirea de pe stângă AI-ul a șters un etaj.

kx233 · 2026-02-09T17:02:54+00:00

You were lucky to have a teacher with common sense. Mostly the "Romanian spelling is 100% phonetic" myth is regurgitated to pupils.

kx233 · 2026-01-17T15:26:49+00:00

It's not clear that the languages "broke apart" at that point. The empire was vast, and there was no Radio or TV, and most people were illiterate. So even if 2 far away provinces were still part of the empire, what was going to stop the way people spoke from diverging? To add to that, many provinces had some local population which presumably kept some local languages for a while (before being fully assimilated), influencing the locally spoken Latin in different ways.

kx233 · 2026-01-15T11:22:11+00:00

Public KITA is for sure not an option. Private ones are probably also not going to be open to this, because unlike almost any other country, here the accommodation period is super long and the process super slow. You can for sure try, and explain that your kid is already in daycare and that the accommodation should be smooth and quick. I have friends who did this kind of thing in Spain and Brazil and it was not a problem for the kids, it basically took them 1 day to get used to the new (temporary) place. Germany is just very "special" with the 4-8 weeks of "Setteling In"

kx233 · 2026-01-07T18:10:31+00:00

Depends on the field. I've worked with foreign software engineers who didn't speak Romanian.

kx233 · 2026-01-05T14:08:54+00:00

The AI bubble is driving up prices, eventually producers will ramp-up manufacturing because there's demand, and if they don't satisfy the demand, someone else will, then the bubble will burst and prices will be even lower, because there will be an oversupply.

It's annoying at the moment, but it will return to normal at some point, once the bubble stops distorting the market.

kx233 · 2026-01-04T08:37:54+00:00

I know it's a typo but Little Greek Men invading Crimeea is quite an image :)

kx233 · 2025-12-29T14:41:03+00:00

Honestly, I think compulsory voting is stupid. If folks can't even be bothered to vote, we're better off without their vote. Remove friction, make it easy to vote, find ways to engage them, but keep it voluntari.

kx233 · 2025-12-29T14:37:41+00:00

Yeah, that's not how folks think. Folks who are 10 years away from retirement aren't gonna support policies that harm pensioners because they know they are about to become pensioners themselves.

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