Hacker News: MikeCapone

New comment by MikeCapone in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

MikeCapone — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:59:43 +0000

He still owns over 40% of Oracle, that's a much bigger equity stake than most founders, and most of these other trillion-dollar companies don't have founders in charge anymore.

New comment by MikeCapone in "JPEG XL and the Pareto Front"

MikeCapone — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:35:56 +0000

I really hope this can become a new standard and be available everywhere (image tools, browsers, etc).

While in practice it won't change my life much, I like the elegance of using a modern standard with this level of performance an efficiency.

New comment by MikeCapone in "Lithium “shortage” bubble implodes again"

MikeCapone — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:00:12 +0000

Why is the low of 2020 the right level to benchmark from?

New comment by MikeCapone in "Request: Re-open JPEG XL issue"

MikeCapone — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 14:53:54 +0000

JPEG XL looks like a great format, I hope it takes over.

I get that most bandwidth goes to video, but it would still be nice to have a great modern standard for images.

New comment by MikeCapone in "Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes"

MikeCapone — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 20:27:04 +0000

France has been mismanaging its fleet and signally for years that they want to move away from it, under-investing in it, etc. It's not the technology's fault.

Germany had some of the best managed plants in the world -- until they decided to shut them down, leading to more coal being burned and more dependence on other countries like Russia...

New comment by MikeCapone in "Nuclear power is too slow"

MikeCapone — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 15:15:19 +0000

It's because the US Navy can just decide to do it without years of red tape and mountains of paperwork. National security cuts through the red tape.

I don't think the government owning civilian reactors would help if they don't reform the process that means it takes 10+ years and millions of pages of documentation to get anything done.

New comment by MikeCapone in "Nuclear power is too slow"

MikeCapone — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:12:34 +0000

The US Navy could be quite quick building reactors and innovating, because it didn't have to go through the same amount of regulation. They've operated lots and lots of reactors with very little problems for decades.

New comment by MikeCapone in "Largest EU economy can reach 100% ‘clean energy’ by 2035"

MikeCapone — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 18:54:26 +0000

How do they deal with variability of all these renewables? Where is all that storage going to come from?

Only realistic path is nuclear, but it'll take longer than 2035.

New comment by MikeCapone in "Vogtle Unit 3 starts nuclear fuel load"

MikeCapone — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:53:01 +0000

Agreed if what is taking so long makes a difference.

I suspect a lot of it is red tape without a real benefit...

New comment by MikeCapone in "Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points"

MikeCapone — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 14:54:04 +0000

That's why we're also electrifying transportation, should push for heat pumps in buildings, etc, but yeah, there's a lot to do. Not dealing with electricity doesn't help the rest, though.

New comment by MikeCapone in "Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points"

MikeCapone — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 14:52:59 +0000

Wind & solar are great for what they are, but they aren't dispatchable, and we're better using battery capacity for EVs rather than the grid.

New comment by MikeCapone in "Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points"

MikeCapone — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:41:40 +0000

And we're shutting down nuclear power plants? How about we do what France did in the 70s-80s and solve this problem once and for all.

New comment by MikeCapone in "Nobody optimizes happiness"

MikeCapone — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 23:41:45 +0000

The book 'Stumbling on Happiness' by Dan Gilbert is great on this topic.

People are very bad at predicting what will make them happy. Much better to see what people who are happy now actually did, rather than imagine what will make you happy.

New comment by MikeCapone in "Apple Unveils M2"

MikeCapone — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 19:03:50 +0000

In similar size/weight laptop class?

New comment by MikeCapone in "What good cash-strapped hiring looks like"

MikeCapone — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 13:50:26 +0000

There's a podcast interview with the author, Cedric Chin, here:

https://www.libertyrpf.com/p/cedric-chin-what-operators-can-...

Covers the study of expertise and a bunch of different topics (operators vs investors, etc). It doesn't cover hiring specifically.

New comment by MikeCapone in "1 TW of solar to be deployed annually by 2030"

MikeCapone — Thu, 19 May 2022 00:47:32 +0000

The problem with battery supply is that it would be better to use that supply on EVs to displace oil rather than on massive stationary grid storage for intermittent sources.

Instead, for the maximum cleaning up of energy, we should build nuclear for the grid and use batteries on transportation.

New comment by MikeCapone in "My essential Firefox fixes in 2022"

MikeCapone — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 19:47:00 +0000

The primary reason why I don't use Firefox on the Mac is because there's a bug that makes keyboard text-replacement-shortcuts not work (ie. you write some pre-defined keyword and it gets replaced by something else, like replacing ":shrug:" with "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" )

New comment by MikeCapone in "I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app"

MikeCapone — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 16:42:35 +0000

I think the Stripe app is like 20 megs, Overcast even smaller than that.

New comment by MikeCapone in "Bitcoin mining is being banned in countries across the globe"

MikeCapone — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 14:07:50 +0000

They help fight seasonal depression, very very useful.

New comment by MikeCapone in "Why are German numbers backwards?"

MikeCapone — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 18:29:32 +0000

Not that it matters too much, but what you speller out is 98, not 99