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New comment by Pooge in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

Pooge — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:43:28 +0000

Yeah, and the price of rice has increased way more than that. Heat is making me too lazy to look it up so I wonder if it's gotten better in the past year. But Japanese people are very used to price increases.

Granted, accommodation is not one of them. Especially if you compare Tokyo to London, Paris or even Geneva.

New comment by Pooge in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Pooge — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:33:30 +0000

Lol, no

New comment by Pooge in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Pooge — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:32:45 +0000

I can't wait to see the impact this will have on game prices due to the monopoly Sony is creating on selling PlayStation games.

Thanks for the fish but enshittification is only getting started.

New comment by Pooge in "Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards"

Pooge — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:16:04 +0000

Isn't the Euro digital already? I don't understand...

Is the buzzword just flying over my head?

New comment by Pooge in "The brain was not designed for this much bad news"

Pooge — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:33:56 +0000

But if it's a subject that interests you, you should participate.

New comment by Pooge in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"

Pooge — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:32:04 +0000

Most people I know do not travel Tokyo - Nara and back. They enjoy taking more time in a place while keeping the door open to day trips of course. If you spend more than 1 night in each place and want to do small distances (think Fukuoka to Hiroshima) it really is impossible for it to become a bargain.

Again that's my POV, but since the price hike I've never met someone who got a good deal with the JR Pass.

New comment by Pooge in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

Pooge — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:48:05 +0000

I don't have any metrics in mimd but with GraalVM it's probably a much closer race. It's made by Oracle though...

New comment by Pooge in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

Pooge — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:19:41 +0000

Software engineering is an important skill to recruit for. Too many times I see "Java Developer"... Like, do they only know Java and are absolutely incompetent when it comes to something else?

I don't even want to recruit or be recruited with such a title.

New comment by Pooge in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

Pooge — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:07:38 +0000

Yes, but that doesn't determine the technical stack. It only narrows it down. You could just as well use C, C++, Rust or even Go depending on the device the program needs to run on. The device may have constraints as well but those are technical limitations and still not the responsibility of the product owner.

New comment by Pooge in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

Pooge — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:04:00 +0000

Specs are business requirements. Choosing a programming language is not a business requirement; it's a technical one.

New comment by Pooge in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"

Pooge — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:01:22 +0000

From what I calculated, you need to use the Shinkansen every day and for long distances which is not how many tourists spend time in Japan IME.

This is not a blanket statement as my first sentence is recommending people to make calculations based on their planned trip.

New comment by Pooge in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

Pooge — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 05:57:46 +0000

I disagree. Engineers choose the technical stack based on the specs.

With LLMs, it's faster to ship even in a more verbose language like Go or Rust.

New comment by Pooge in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"

Pooge — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:23:43 +0000

From what I see[1], that is an umbrella term that encompasses a few passes, including the Wide Pass. Maybe some do include attractions; I didn't know that!

I also looked up Tohoku JR passes for an upcoming trip and it wasn't affordable at all. I'm better served using single tickets even when riding the Shinkansen.

[1]: https://www.westjr.co.jp/travel-information/en/tickets-passe...

New comment by Pooge in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"

Pooge — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:40:13 +0000

The Kansai Wide area pass that I'm talking about doesn't include access to museums. But some of the smaller passes (like the one of Osaka that you mentioned) do. Those passes don't include Shinkansen, though.

New comment by Pooge in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"

Pooge — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:35:30 +0000

Yes, I was talking about tourists. Regional passes are available for locals as well but are more expensive.

New comment by Pooge in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"

Pooge — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:27:53 +0000

I just realized I interpreted your comment the opposite way you intended... Apologies

New comment by Pooge in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"

Pooge — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:03:43 +0000

Trains can use renewable energy.

New comment by Pooge in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"

Pooge — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 05:27:35 +0000

For those of you planning to go to Japan, please make sure you actually calculate how much JR train trips would cost you. They upped the price a few years ago and, since then, it's basically impossible for the JR Pass to be more affordable than single tickets.

For one of my recent trips, I was actually more better served with a local pass (Kansai Wide Pass) than the JR Pass.

Too bad because it used to be a really good deal...

New comment by Pooge in "The SpaceX IPO will be the theft of the century"

Pooge — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:41:57 +0000

> The rules were changed in the mid-90s because of a significant amount of big IPOs which did not have a reasonable path to profitability.

Could you give me a link to read up on that?

> Both OpenAI and Anthropic are clearly solid businesses

Maybe you're an insider so you have more information than me; I'm not so I don't know.

> How many more weeks should I wait before $TSLA will stabilize?

TSLA is mature enough since their IPO to be included in an index.

> Or maybe deranged Americans just turned this non-political issue into a political one, and S&P global thought this was not a hill worth literally getting shot in their office for?

No, it's probably because major fund providers and other market participants (including retail) saw through the subterfuge. Indexes and providers and retail investors have nothing to gain from the former proposed changes. It was very obviously a play by SpaceX to force passive investors to buy into the stock, therefore pumping the price up.

New comment by Pooge in "The SpaceX IPO will be the theft of the century"

Pooge — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:16:06 +0000

I'm sorry but you're very naive. The rules were changed because it was advantageous to SpaceX and the richest man on Earth.

Those rules were implemented to protect the index from being skewed when an IPO happens because the IPO is exactly the moment where the stock may be overvalued and very volatile (compared to all the other stocks that are in the index). We especially don't know at IPO time if the company is changing the structure of the market because it's too soon. And in fact, we won't know for a couple more weeks or even years; but by that time the price will have stabilized.

The index is supposed to be slow at rebalancing to minimize costs and make it practical for providers as well.

And as I write this comment, I've just read that they cancelled the changes[1]. Which completely proves your last sentence wrong.

[1]: https://press.spglobal.com/2026-06-04-S-P-Dow-Jones-Indices-...