<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: Pet_Ant</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Pet_Ant</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:52:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Pet_Ant" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pet_Ant in "Getting Ziggy with It – Re: Factor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’d love to see Factor ported to bare metal so we could write a modern Forth operating system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:25:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47454990</link><dc:creator>Pet_Ant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47454990</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47454990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Pet_Ant in "WFH is becoming a benefit again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I work remotely following a divorce because my children live here. It's not something I would choose for myself and will be looking to move once they graduate.</p>
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<p>That's because everyone else has access to the same tools. If you don't become more productive then you will be replaced with someone who will.<p>They only way it'd help you is if you controlled access to AI and it was a competitive advantage for you over a fellow developer. A rising tide lifts all boats... but you are only paid for how much taller you are than the other boats.<p>It's important to understand that AI is capital, and it's to the owner of the capital go the spoils. Your capital is in your skills, but they are a commodity and thus you have limited leverage.<p>Who benefits from AI is smaller businesses who could not afford custom application development at previous development costs. It's like faster laptops and better IDEs didn't boost developer salaries.</p>
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<p>What about if they added “wings” to trains? That could generate some lift reducing the effective weight is my shower thought.<p>No idea how much the wings would add versus the lift help.</p>
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<p>> New port to the RISC-V processor architecture. NetBSD 11.0 is the first stable release to include support for 64-bit RISC-V<p>This is very exciting!</p>
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<p>After my dates of employment I will parethetically add (bankrupt) or (shutdown) to indicate that it wasn't related to me personally. My best job was 18 months.</p>
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<p>Checking for updates and pulling in plug-ins. Both are valid.</p>
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<p>My personal favourite work of his is "Happy People: A Year in the Taiga". Most of the people are doing immediate purposeful work and are much more present. There is so much resilience (the bear destroyed hut), and there is also tragedy in it as well (the fire).<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_People:_A_Year_in_the_Taiga" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_People:_A_Year_in_the_Ta...</a></p>
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<p>I’m assuming they think that rich people spend more so they pay more. This is a fallacy, because poor people spend a higher portion of their income (over a 100% a lot of the time).</p>
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<p>> all but one member of NATO share the same values currently<p>Turkey? Hungary? Slovakia?</p>
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<p>It's worth mentioning that David Frum is Canadian and a Republican (the author of "Axis of Evil")<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Frum" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Frum</a></p>
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<p>Can you expand on this? I’m guessing that it’s something to do with preservation of mass & energy? Like mass doesn’t have to be preserved over a spatial dimension (eg rotating an object) but does over time.</p>
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<p>This is a non-sequitor.<p>Google has no constitutional right to exist or have accurate search results either. However, it's value depends on the quality of their search results.<p>People outside the US don't care about the particulars of the US constitution like it's a holy document, but rather the US governance as a whole and whether it's well-ordered, lawful, and predictable.</p>
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<p><a href="https://youtu.be/s1DyDRn4_Fw?si=hFcWL0wzKeoisBCh" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/s1DyDRn4_Fw?si=hFcWL0wzKeoisBCh</a><p>That would give you a sample of the language. Watching it seems pretty definitive that it is. A more eclectic member of the Arabic family, but it’s definitely Arab.</p>
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<p>They want to have rigorous well-indexed system for the people in a country, when the system of the country isn't rigorous.<p>When your constitution is ad hoc, it seems only fair that everything else is. Start with the foundation before formalising everything else.</p>
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<p>Quick research, but it appears that the population are descendents of the Emirate of Sicily from 1000 AD, which was colonised by people from Tunisia, who would be considered Arabs generally. So a splinter group cut off from the main body for a thousand years (if my reading is correct).<p>Are they still Arabs? That's subjective.<p>I'd consider America and England two capitals of the Anglo empire much like Roman and Constantinople, but there is lots of room for nuance. (Romans & Byzantines saw themselves as the same, whereas Americans and English see themselves as different... but I chalk that up to the tyranny of small differences, just look at how the elites jump back and forth across the pond and how their politics harmonise, Trump/Farage, Reagan/Thatcher, Clinton/Blair).<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_people#History" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_people#History</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Relationship" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Relationship</a></p>
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<p>All this rigor for a country without an actual formalised constitution. I mean, maybe the government should work on that first and make sure it has a right to work there first?<p>> Unlike in most countries, no official attempt has been made to codify ... thus it is known as an uncodified constitution.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kingdom" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin...</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_language" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_language</a><p>> Maltese is a Central Semitic language derived from late medieval Sicilian Arabic with Romance superstrata. It is the only Semitic language officially written in the Latin script. It is spoken by the Maltese people and is a national language of Malta, and is the only official Semitic and Afroasiatic language of the European Union<p>Maltese is the official language of Malta and 77% of people in Malta are Maltese. Now, what's the definition of Arab is debateable, but I think it's reasonable. I think they are sort of like Romanians where they are surrounded by Slavs, but their bretheren are on the other side of the continent. This is a simplification and as primer, I'm sure people have more nuanced takes.</p>
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<p>Haven't read because of paywall, but for anyone who might not know:<p>Ira_n_ is not Arab. They are Persian and speak an Indo-European language.<p>Ira_q_, is Arab. Neighbors, some of the same religion^, similar name, same-ish alphabet, similar skin tones... very different language. Arabic is semitic language, think Hebrew.<p>Most Muslim middle-east countries are Arab... Iran is an exception (as is Turkey who come from Central Asia, eg Turkmenistan)<p>Most Arab countries are predominantly Muslim. Malta is the exception, Lebanon is complicated.<p>^ The biggest split amongst Muslims is Sunni vs Shia (think protestants vs catholics), Saudi Arabia is Sunni, Ira_n_ is Shia, Iraq is mixed.</p>
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<p>I wish more resources were available legitimately. There is a dataset I need for legitimate research that I cannot even find a way to contact the repo owners.<p>Mind you I take effort to not be burdensome by downloading only what I need and taking time between each request of a couple seconds, and the total data usage is low.<p>Ironically, I supposed you could call it "AI" what I'm using it for, but really it's just data analytics.</p>
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