<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: 878654Tom</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=878654Tom</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:36:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=878654Tom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 878654Tom in "Iran war sparks renewables boom as Europeans rush to buy solar, heat pumps, EVs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To understand your use-case you gladly presented to a public forum.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:01:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661076</link><dc:creator>878654Tom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661076</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 878654Tom in "Iran war sparks renewables boom as Europeans rush to buy solar, heat pumps, EVs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Once a month you embark on a 10 hour drive to spend a weekend skiing/boating and then returning with another 10 hour drive?<p>So for 2 days of doing such activity you'll spent 20 hours in a car?</p>
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<p>It also just doesn't make sense. Like, we train a human and that takes 20 years of food.<p>To train an LLM it needed a collection of 800TiB of data (The Pile). To generate that pile, you needed millions to billions of humans. So did training the LLM now suddenly take 20.000.000 billion years of food or are we not allowed to make the same shitty comparison.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:17:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114769</link><dc:creator>878654Tom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114769</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 878654Tom in "Anna's Archive 'Releases' Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why not educate us oh wise one?<p>Are you saying that two audio files each watermarked for a specific different user will not show a difference? Because then I am genuinely interested in how they achieved that feat</p>
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<p>Most access blocking is through ISP DNS servers. Just set your DNS to an open one, no need for a VPN.</p>
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<p>If it is inaudible then I can just remove the diff from both or overlap them or...</p>
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<p>Diff two copies and remove the diff.</p>
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<p>And I love that requirement. I do banking on my desktop and to confirm the transfers I get a push notification from a third-party application (ItsMe, so not  a banking mobile app) with all the information I have entered.<p>I can confirm the transaction from a complete separate device while doing a second check if all details are correct.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 20:25:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43977302</link><dc:creator>878654Tom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43977302</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43977302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 878654Tom in "Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We have multiple separate environments per application. For environment specific inputs we use variables.<p>The distinction is very clear in our team. Locals are used as const (like an application name), variables are for more dynamic user/environment inputs and data is to fetch dynamic information from other resources.<p>Zero problems. If a local becomes more environment specific a quick refactor fixes that. You can also have locals that use variable or data values if necessary.<p>One big win we also have is that we stopped using modules except for one big main module. We noticed from previous projects that as soon as we implemented modules everything became a big problem. Modules that are version pinned still required a lot of maintenance to upgrade. Modules that weren't version pinned caused more destruction than we planned. Modules outputs and inputs caused a lot of cycle problems,... Modules always seem too deep or too shallow.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 08:13:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42085191</link><dc:creator>878654Tom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42085191</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42085191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 878654Tom in "Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same, locals are in my head like consts. You define it and it stays that way. A shortcut for a repeated value.<p>Data resources are you requesting a dynamic value of your environment.<p>Variables are dynamic values that a user can change.</p>
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<p>In the Netherlands around 30% of people cycle to their work. [1]<p>In Belgium around 32% cycle to their work. [2]<p>I would think that is a significant amount no?<p>I cycle to my work every day. It is around 9 KM and takes me around 20 minutes. For rain you have a rain suite, for winter you have a jacket. The amount of times I took the car in rainy Belgium is 4 times in 2023 because of storm conditions.<p>As more and more people are starting to see the hassle free transportation method of cycling, they also start taking the bike and infrastructure keeps improving.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/visualisaties/verkeer-en-vervoer/personen/van-en-naar-werk" rel="nofollow">https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/visualisaties/verkeer-en-vervoer/pe...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024/04/15/ongeveer-32-procent-van-belgen-gaat-met-fiets-naar-het-werk/" rel="nofollow">https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024/04/15/ongeveer-32-procent-...</a></p>
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<p>People are sticking to Chrome and clones as they got an advertising budget that is higher than the whole Mozilla foundation cash flow and are installed as default browser on the OS.<p>Combine that with aggressive approaches that try to persuade users from switching when trying to change the default browser on an OS.<p>The features most people on HN are complaining about are very gimmicky and not even widely used in the developer market.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 07:03:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39394082</link><dc:creator>878654Tom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39394082</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39394082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 878654Tom in "Give Us Something to Look At: Why ornament matters in architecture"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The current trend in Belgium is to build houses like cubes and drap a variation of white plaster on it [1]. While this looks great the first couple of years, the outside gets dirty and not a lot of people pay for it to get cleaned/repainted.<p>The houses are also always... the same. The variations in it are where the rectangle windows are and the length / width / height. But that is it.<p>I predict that in 20-30 years these houses will be seen as one of the ugly architectural trends of my time.<p>While houses that were built a century or even more ago (and that still stand) are lush with these ornaments and still retain a sort of beauty. [2]<p>I've lived in one of these type of houses and while they have some impracticalities because they have been built in a different century the outside stays a thing of beauty and you could guide people to your house purely because of how it looks.<p>Currently my wife and I are looking to build a new house and one of the requirements that we have for our architect is to build it with small details on the outside and a bit more classical than the current trend is.<p>[1] <a href="https://sibomat.be/media/f0xf52fy/moderne-bouwstijl-realisatie_7.jpg?width=1920" rel="nofollow">https://sibomat.be/media/f0xf52fy/moderne-bouwstijl-realisat...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oude_Markt#/media/File:Old_market_Leuven_-_panoramio.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oude_Markt#/media/File:Old_mar...</a></p>
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<p>I took a glance at Can I Use what the difference between the last public release of Firefox and Chrome is [1] and they don't really have that big of a difference in the eyes of normal use-cases? Some of these aren't implemented purely because of privacy reasons, the proposals aren't finished yet or complexity [2].<p>Why would Firefox need to change to Chromium engine? The only websites I notice that don't work with Firefox is because of user-agent targetting or just putting 5-second time-outs in Youtube code on non-chrome webbrowsers [3].<p>Can you give some examples of websites not working on Firefox?<p>[1] <a href="https://caniuse.com/?compare=chrome+120%2Cfirefox+121&compareCats=all" rel="nofollow">https://caniuse.com/?compare=chrome+120%2Cfirefox+121&compar...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/" rel="nofollow">https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.neowin.net/news/youtube-seemingly-intentionally-crippled-and-slow-on-firefox-while-google-chrome-works-fine/" rel="nofollow">https://www.neowin.net/news/youtube-seemingly-intentionally-...</a></p>
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<p>In Europe heat-pump-dryers are the normal way dryers work and the clothes coming out of them are also crisp and dry. Are you sure there is nothing defective with your dryer?</p>
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<p>Gas-stoves are easier to scale that is mostly the reason why most restaurants still use them. 15 fires on full throttle is much easier to achieve than on induction purely of how our current electricity network has been built.<p>But for a normal household? It really doesn't matter. My father had his own restaurant and at home he used induction because it was much faster for one family dishes.</p>
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<p>> Tesla makes more cars in a quarter than BMW in a year,<p>BMW Group produced 2,399,632 vehicles in 2022 (a decrease of 4,5% from 2021) with 2,100,689 being BMW's themselves.<p>Tesla produced 1,369,611 vehicles in 2022.<p>Not even sure where you heard that Tesla produced more cars than BMW.</p>
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<p>Yes, this is called Small Beer or Table Beer in Belgium. It goes as low as 1% and was very normal in schools and at homes before clean water was a common thing.<p>It still is a very popular beer to drink while you eat but children don't consume it anymore. My father did tell me that when he was younger (1970-1980) they still drank it at the table in his school.</p>
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<p>This isn't a tiny change, if GCloud says "we quit in a year". That is a huge change. Applications using GCloud SDK for services suddenly need to be reworked and redrawn. That alone is a huge change for non-tech companies.<p>Some companies even need to check with the laws they reside in if the new cloud vendor can even be used.<p>Just work in any financial, medical, pharmaceutical, government-related... company and you'll understand that a year is nothing for these companies.</p>
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<p>12 months notice is too short for big non-tech enterprises. They plan their infrastructure needs in 5-year terms. Changing to a new environment takes re-educating a lot of people, going through a lot of legal and audit meetings, finding enough manpower to do the transfer, putting things on hold purely for the migration,...<p>12 months is the time for the contracts to settle between these enterprises and cloud-vendors.</p>
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