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New comment by Pepe1vo in "Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc"

Pepe1vo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:52:06 +0000

Not sure if it's the domain you're interested in, but there are quite a few HFT firms with offices in Australia.

The one I know of (IMC trading) does a lot of low level stuff like this and is currently hiring.

New comment by Pepe1vo in "Rendezvous with Rama"

Pepe1vo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:59:56 +0000

I'll admit I'm quite anxious for Children of Strife. Children of Time is an all-time favorite, but each subsequent book in the series was a bit of a disappointment. Fingers crossed this one turns the tide

New comment by Pepe1vo in "Rendezvous with Rama"

Pepe1vo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:55:27 +0000

I liked shroud a lot, but the ending felt very ungratifying. It's like Tchaikovsky wrote himself into a corner and didn't really know how to wrap it up nicely. I find this to be true of some of his other books as well.

New comment by Pepe1vo in "GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search"

Pepe1vo — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:35:59 +0000

A counter example to this is that I asked it about NovaMin® 5 minutes ago and it essentially told me to not bother and buy whatever toothpaste has >1450 ppm fluoride.

Physics-Based Indicators for the Onset of an AMOC Collapse Under Climate Change

Pepe1vo — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:43:06 +0000

Article URL: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JC022651

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45022685

Points: 7

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New comment by Pepe1vo in "We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you)"

Pepe1vo — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:10:21 +0000

I've just spent past week building a medium complex web app for editing configs at $work, so I can chime on this.

Having worked with earlier versions of sveltekit in the past, I have to say the new reactivity system is not that bad and pretty easy to wrap your head around. Once you're used to the runes (there's like 4 you have to remember) you can just focus on building stuff and it's really quite a pleasant and productive dev experience. I've gotten multiple compliments from people about the speed and quality I was able to deliver this with and that's in large part due to sveltekit.

I do have to give a shout out to good ol' bootstrap for allowing me to build something that looks good, works on mobile and is just easy.

New comment by Pepe1vo in "Programmer in Berlin: Culture"

Pepe1vo — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 08:29:09 +0000

While the factors you mention may (or may not) cause Germany to dip into a recession in the near future, calling it a "collapse of the economy" is of course gross hyperbole. Boom and bust cycles are an expected and well studied feature of developed economies.

New comment by Pepe1vo in "Speeding up Electron apps by using V8 snapshots in the main process"

Pepe1vo — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 08:49:48 +0000

Is there an advantage to doing this versus using something like ncc to just package everything into a single js file with zero dependencies?

New comment by Pepe1vo in "Modern Luddites: On Being a Digital Minimalist Family in a Tech-Saturated World"

Pepe1vo — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:27:00 +0000

> Can i deactivate them? no..

Sure you can, just click the "x" on the top right of the shorts row and they will be gone. Though, you might have to re-hide them every x days, but still if you don't want to watch them you really don't have to.

New comment by Pepe1vo in "[dead]"

Pepe1vo — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:04:44 +0000

This is just AI generated blogspam. The real meat appears to be on [0], but it's behind a paywall which none of the archivers appear to have circumvented. Really unfortunate, because the content looked highly interesting!

[0] https://library.techinsights.com/public/introducing-tsmc-n3e...

New comment by Pepe1vo in "Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go"

Pepe1vo — Sat, 18 May 2024 10:15:30 +0000

What's your definition of decent performance?

My company has built quite a few complex capacitor + Angular + Ionic apps and the performance on iOS is fine. Some even got featured by Apple, so that should be some indication that quality and performance was alright.

New comment by Pepe1vo in "Asian American women are getting lung cancer despite never smoking"

Pepe1vo — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:18:23 +0000

> Traditional old Asian men are possibly the worst humans ever.

That's, uh, quite a strong statement. What makes them worse than all the other humans?

New comment by Pepe1vo in "The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists"

Pepe1vo — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 22:43:41 +0000

That was a rhyme from a simpler time. Now the boss makes a grand and I make a buck. So, let's steal the catalytic converter from the company truck.

New comment by Pepe1vo in "Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub"

Pepe1vo — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 09:57:41 +0000

We use Semgrep Supply Chain at work and are reasonably satisfied with it. It splits the supply chain vulnerabilities it found into the categories: reachable, unreachable and undetermined. This makes triaging much easier and it has reduced the time we spent on assessing new vulnerabilities by quite a lot.

New comment by Pepe1vo in "World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year"

Pepe1vo — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 14:01:13 +0000

You know what's even less promising than a bunker on Earth? A bunker literally anywhere else in the observable universe. In fact, we could nuke the entire surface of the earth and it would probably still be easier to establish a self-sustaining colony on the resulting radioactive wasteland then on the Moon/Mars/Venus.

There is a very good reason why Earth is, and will continue to, sustain a great diversity of life and the rest of space is sterile.

New comment by Pepe1vo in "The failure of self-checkout technology"

Pepe1vo — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:22:24 +0000

Every time I read one of these articles the naivety and tone-deafness from supermarkets over these self-checkouts amazes me.

"In order to make more money we made customers self-report their purchases during a cost-of-living crisis while we were booking record high profits and now these customers are _under reporting_ their purchases, how dare they!!"

They should've seen this coming from miles away.

New comment by Pepe1vo in "Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer"

Pepe1vo — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:42:36 +0000

No, your actual gain in capital would not be taxed. The only thing that is being taxed is the "fictitious" gain on the monetary value of your capital at a certain date (peildatum).

Everyone agrees that this system is dumb as shit, but our tax department is too incompetent to implement a sane capital gain tax like they have in, for example. Australia.

New comment by Pepe1vo in "A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant"

Pepe1vo — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:13:02 +0000

It is in fact possible to benefit from pumped hydro even if you have no significant height differences in a certain area. How? By creating a basin inside of an existing body of water and emptying/filling when there's over/under supply of electricity.

I remember reading a couple of years ago that there were plans to construct such a "valmeer" inside of the Ijsselmeer, but I can't find much about it now so no idea whether it's been canned or not.

New comment by Pepe1vo in "IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023"

Pepe1vo — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:14:23 +0000

The cognitive dissonance I'm getting from reading the comments here is pretty staggering. Where I live (The Netherlands) me and every IT person I know is getting absolutely hounded by recruiters. As an additional anecdote I'll add that I've just switched jobs to a start-up on very favorable terms and the recruitment process basically amounted to being cold called and asked "hey you wanna work here?".

Can anyone here comment on whether this horrible job market is a US specific situation or whether I'm living in some kind of weird bubble?

New comment by Pepe1vo in "Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit"

Pepe1vo — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 16:22:48 +0000

You're absolutely right, everyone living there would be living in what's essentially a really terrible company town. One where your boss has direct control over your oxygen supply.

I'm really not sure why anyone thinks space colonies are a good idea