Hacker News: Heliosmaster

New comment by Heliosmaster in "Mathematics of Geothermal Energy"

Heliosmaster — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:09:30 +0000

Would you be open to do one yourself and share it? (Not sarcastic, just asking)

New comment by Heliosmaster in "Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants"

Heliosmaster — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:01:06 +0000

It doesn't come preloaded with fuel.

New comment by Heliosmaster in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"

Heliosmaster — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:12:37 +0000

outside physics/math a lot of published research isn't reproducible at all. There's been several studies that show this.

New comment by Heliosmaster in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

Heliosmaster — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:00:27 +0000

I just shout "dreen dreen".. which more or less is the sound a bike bell makes, works anywhere

New comment by Heliosmaster in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

Heliosmaster — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:25:02 +0000

Yes, it's a different definition.

Enthusiast in this contest more or less means you are excited enough about something to get a level above what normal people should get and just below professional pricing. An enthusiast camera body can be 2000 euros.

I would say an enthusiast computer is 2-4k.

It really depends what you meant with minimum salary (yearly?) because paying 3 months of salary for a computer like that isn't far fetched. You're not using this to generate recipes for cookies. An enthusiast level car is expensive as well.

New comment by Heliosmaster in "European Tech Alternatives"

Heliosmaster — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:36:42 +0000

Zoom in Veldhoven and then try to see the equivalent of ASML anywhere else.

New comment by Heliosmaster in "3D printing my laptop ergonomic setup"

Heliosmaster — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:01:55 +0000

That's basically what I'm telling folks. My MBP16 is fantastic in that regard. I use the integrated touchpad only

New comment by Heliosmaster in "Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees"

Heliosmaster — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:36:02 +0000

I think the alternative was to contract it out to an IT company rather than push it to the holder. Same as company phones in corporate environments

New comment by Heliosmaster in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

Heliosmaster — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:36:07 +0000

Apart from cities with crazy density, you underestimate how much solar we could put in the city outskirts, and it would be fine. We have already the power lines anyway to bring electricity from power plants that are far from those apartments you mention.

New comment by Heliosmaster in "Ask HN: Cloud vs. Edge Computing–Why Choose a Local NAS?"

Heliosmaster — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:11:08 +0000

## Cloud vs Edge:

- 100% guarantee that the data I care about will still be there.

- Costs. Scaling to a few TB is already quite expensive. Some stuff i still back to the cloud, but only the most important of data (pictures of my son)

## Use Case

- Storage

- VMs/Docker/Apps: Home Assistant, Photos app (Immich, Synology Photos, etc.), and some other small stuff like that

## Performance

Running a few VMs/Docker image requires some power, but not a lot. I like that I can choose how much.

## Storage

I had for a long time a 2-bay NAS and upgraded the drives. I just built a DYI NAS and I got a Massive ATX case which supports 11-bay. Why? Because buying a drive is cheaper than replacing drives. Having an ATX case I can still run it with 2 bays, and I still have a computer case If i change my mind.

Ideal storage is a mix of HDD (WD RED, so optimized to run 24/7), SSD and NVME. Each of them is useful for something (HDD for longer term storage, as they are cheaper per gb), SSD and NVME for apps usage and caches

## OS

I was using Synology DSM, and now I went for Unraid. I'm curious to see where HexOS goes in the next few years.

## Design

I only care about noise.

## Budget

~1000 Eur

New comment by Heliosmaster in "Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move"

Heliosmaster — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 09:52:10 +0000

but that's the proposed change, that their Plus lineup which is generally targeted for SMB/SOHO/enthusiast market, will be working only with their drives

New comment by Heliosmaster in "Moving away from US cloud services"

Heliosmaster — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:01:32 +0000

nextdns seems to be a US company, by French founders https://help.nextdns.io/t/y4hmv0n/who-is-behind-nextdns

Spacetime Maps

Heliosmaster — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:11:54 +0000

Article URL: https://maps.vvolhejn.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42588019

Points: 1

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New comment by Heliosmaster in "The Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun"

Heliosmaster — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 05:07:14 +0000

Scrum standup, not comedy...

New comment by Heliosmaster in "Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees"

Heliosmaster — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:22:35 +0000

Yep, completely agree. After having our kid both me and my wife work 80% so we have one extra day at home. Huge.

New comment by Heliosmaster in "Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees"

Heliosmaster — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:21:11 +0000

Do you really think that being remote is "staying home with the kids"? You're physically in the same building as them, but either you're not really working, or your kids don't actually need an adult to be there because they are grown up anyway, so no childcare is needed because they go to school.

New comment by Heliosmaster in "Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails"

Heliosmaster — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:59:04 +0000

And it's forked frontend https://bikerouter.de

New comment by Heliosmaster in "Swift – A great language strangled by governance?"

Heliosmaster — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 05:20:50 +0000

A honest question here from outside of the Swift world: why does it matter?

I'm a Clojure developer, have been exclusively one for the last 10 years and have no intention of changing anytime soon (in other words, I don't care/follow closely what the majority of development world is and what the trends are). A few years ago we had "Open Source is Not About You" [1] by Rich Hickey, basically pushing back that the creator(s) of Open Source don't owe anything back to the community. That piece has aged well for me: now I understand that something is what it is, not what I wish it was. And more importantly, the goal of open source isn't to be liked or used by everybody. It's a thing put out by its creator for others to use, and that includes Apple.

So really, why does the governance matter so much? If you don't agree with something, why not fork it and make it like you want it?

[1]: https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...

New comment by Heliosmaster in "Starlink direct-to-cell enabled for hurricane helene emergency messaging"

Heliosmaster — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 19:41:49 +0000

Energetic collisions can send debris on higher orbits with significant longer time to decays. It all depends on kinetic energy added

New comment by Heliosmaster in "Why the Wisconsin pizza farm movement is an idea whose time has come"

Heliosmaster — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 07:04:55 +0000

yes, any time you're burning wood you're climate unfriendly. But a lot of other things are climate unfriendly: where do you live what's the energy source breakdown? It's all renewable? Your computer was manufactured and furnaces were involved at some point: what about their emission? It's CO2 all the way down.

You should look at all of this relatively: from an absolute standpoint, humanity isn't good for the planet