1. niuzeta 2 days ago parent

   I got my first Bose headphone in 2008 or so. It was a treat for myself as a poor university student after a paycheque. I loved the headphone and one day it broke down after several years of heavy abuse. I called their customer service for repairs and how much it would cost. Rather than recommending me to just buy a new one, the customer support agent asked questions about the model, what the issue was, and offered a replacement.

   I've loved their product and support ever since. Glad to see this happening as well. Kudos.

2. niuzeta Jul 12, 2025 parent

   Made a switch to FF/Brave. I did try to embrace ads for a bit but that attempt expired within minutes.
3. niuzeta Jul 7, 2025 parent

   That's also how I initially read the first sentence and I'm glad I'm not the only weirdo.

   I'm going to take a walk now...

4. niuzeta Jul 5, 2025 parent

   I've been struggling to explain the principle behind the "stupid questions" and your example illustrates the point perfectly. Thank you. I'll be shamelessly stealing this point from now on :)
5. niuzeta Jul 5, 2025 parent

   Absolutely. As I get more and more senior, I found myself prefacing a lot of questions with "let me ask some stupid questions" to ask some broad questions or context of the meeting. It can be something seemingly obvious, what's important is it somehow breaks the barrier for others to ask questions. I used to say "I'm going to play my 'new guy' card one more time" when I'm new at a company, but this seems to work more generically, and tends to work in the team's benefit.
6. niuzeta Jun 30, 2025 parent

   It's kind of boring but I'm learning k8s and argo-cd to figure out if I can do feature-branch deployment to a cluster.

   like, it would be very cool to do something like have your feature branch be deployed to a separate pod in dev cluster, and have an ingress rule set up so that it points to that pod only.

   So if your dev environment usually points to <some-app>.dev.example.com,

   Deploy your feature branch to a dev cluster, but on a different pod. Then have it reachable to <some-app>.feature-branch-1.dev.example.com without touching main.

   I think it's a neat idea and I'm sure it should be possible if I configure some istio settings.

   It's all new thing and it's fun to have a direction towards learning

7. niuzeta Jun 28, 2025 parent

   Just out of curiosity, what were the reactions like from what you saw? I had the opposite take from Reddit, which proved to be incorrect. So I'm just curious how you read(more correctly than me) the reactions vis-a-vis Reddit.
8. niuzeta May 31, 2025 parent

   FRED continues to amaze me with the kind of data they have availab.e
9. niuzeta May 27, 2025 parent

   LMN, Signal, Internet Archive, and I _think_ wikipedia.
10. niuzeta May 10, 2025 parent

    So we didn't need a philosopher's stone, after all!

    jokes aside, how wonderful that the stories we heard when we were growing up are happening(albeit not exactly as was told). Science is cool.

11. niuzeta May 3, 2025 parent

    I did laugh, so there is that.
12. niuzeta May 3, 2025 parent

    Absolutely love it. Thanks a lot. A fancy hit me yesterday and I've been looking through JDK's String commit history to see little tidbits that I could grab.

    Shipilev's website looks like a fascinating resource. I appreciate the pointer!

13. niuzeta May 3, 2025 parent

    I appreciate it! I will take a look this weekend,
14. niuzeta May 2, 2025 parent

    Ah, I certainly remember these anecdotes! What other resources would you recommend(even the tidbits) could there be for more modern Java? The original article like this one should be treasured.
15. niuzeta May 2, 2025 parent

    I love hearing more about this, especially the historical context, but don't have a good java writeups/articles on this. Would you mind sharing some suggestions/pointers? I'd very much appreciate it.
16. niuzeta Apr 29, 2025 parent

    I've been using Kagi since they first appeared here on hackernews, and I cannot be more impressed with them. The value proposition is crystal clear, and I know what I am getting. I love the customability, and I like that I'm paying for _search_. I'm getting the 2005-2007 Google vibes from them.

    I'm wearing my Kagi shirts to tech meetups and I do recommend it to my friends. I wish there would be a better way for me to "refer" a friend, but I like how straightforward they are.

    I do recommend Kago. It's a good service and you get what you pay for.

17. niuzeta Apr 22, 2025 parent

    I'm in exactly same situation myself.
18. niuzeta Apr 22, 2025 parent

    I've been very happy with my Synology NAS that has served me so well, but forcing this sort of vender lock-in is simply unacceptable. I suppose this means I'll have to look for some other solution.

    The problem is - I've formatted my drives with SHR(Synology Hybrid RAID - essentially another exclusive lock-in) and this would mean a rather painful transition to the new drive, since this now involves getting a whole new drives to format and move data to, rather than a simple lift-and-drop.

    Ugh.

19. 1 point Mar 10, 2025

    Vavr 0.10.6 Released

    0 comments niuzeta github.com
20. niuzeta Feb 17, 2025 parent

    When I was posting, `document.title ` said "US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers". I didn't want to introduce my editorialization.
21. 490 points Feb 16, 2025

    US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

    789 comments niuzeta bbc.com
22. niuzeta Jan 26, 2025 parent

    Semi-related, but is there any repository(ies?) that comprise of these technical white papers? I'm fascinated by these papers whenever they show up in my feed and I gorge on them, and I'd love more. I can't be the only one thinking this way.
23. niuzeta Nov 6, 2024 parent

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24. niuzeta May 23, 2024 parent

    This is perfectly fine. S3 is simple and stable, and that's their selling point. There's no competition to the history and the proven stability rather than chasing shiny features.
25. niuzeta Apr 6, 2024 parent

    For me it's the games. Granted, I've been glancing more and more at the compatibility chart lately...
26. niuzeta Feb 1, 2024 parent

    > I ended up having to go through a local regulator to bludgeon them into submission

    I would love to hear more in details on this. I feel like I am going to have to do something like this but not sure where to begin the research.

27. niuzeta Dec 31, 2023 parent

    Oh! That's very curious. Yep, tried to access using http and voila, it worked!

    > Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

    Ah! I remember this saying. Now I get it.

    Thank you!

28. niuzeta Dec 31, 2023 parent

    What does the famous saying in the first paragraph actually say? The phrase is hyperlinked, and it 404s for me: https://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247

    It's quite odd to see a dead link from a post made literally today.

29. niuzeta Dec 2, 2023 parent

    I wonder how many of these stories it would take before it starts affecting Google's bottom line. I've tinkered with GCP on small side projects, sure - but after exposure of these stories for over a decade in HN, I can never recommend GCP as a serious cloud alternative. I can't imagine I'm the only one in this boat.
30. niuzeta Nov 16, 2023 parent

    Me too! Set it up once and forget. I love their work and Unlike any other charity/nonprofit that I've donated to, they never bother me any further.

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