Hacker News: SJC_Hacker

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

SJC_Hacker — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:52:33 +0000

China is their biggest customer

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

SJC_Hacker — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:34:03 +0000

But they won’t make the connection

Flashy beats functional nine times out of ten

Just look at the automotive industry

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone"

SJC_Hacker — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:51:22 +0000

You could do it but there would be no point, The only advantage over would be power consumption. And it would be quite expensive.

At the rate models are improving, it would be obsolete in six months.

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

SJC_Hacker — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:35:53 +0000

Use VS Code and download the git plugin. Tasks like that become super easy

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

SJC_Hacker — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:50:28 +0000

Which is why you use git command line for such tasks

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data"

SJC_Hacker — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:13:29 +0000

It can be if necessary. It’s just the US refineries can deal with the crappy oil produced by places like the tar sands in Canada, where few other countries currently can

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

SJC_Hacker — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:14:30 +0000

With a crane and a good pulley system, a human should be able to pull that off inside of hour. Not all that impressive to me.

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "Fintech Engineering Handbook"

SJC_Hacker — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:15:39 +0000

When the bank owes you money, they round down.

When you owe the bank money, they round up.

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "Fintech Engineering Handbook"

SJC_Hacker — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:14:13 +0000

The only one who has to “agree” is the exchange. And it should be covered by the TOS

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "Fintech Engineering Handbook"

SJC_Hacker — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:02:47 +0000

Charge $0.995

Charge Actual $1.00

Refund $1.000

Alternately

Charge $0.995

ERROR CHARGE AMOUNT MUST BE ROUNDED TO NEAREST CENT

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "Fintech Engineering Handbook"

SJC_Hacker — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:36:44 +0000

Basically whenever you are acting as a custodian e.g., a bank. Then you have to be super careful.

No one cares if you’re mortgage calculator is off by a penny

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?"

SJC_Hacker — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:25:15 +0000

It is for coding interviews

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

SJC_Hacker — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:15:08 +0000

Only for fair skinned individuals

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

SJC_Hacker — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:14:17 +0000

Exactly at the equator the sun is directly overhead (90 degrees) at a single time point (close to 12 on depending on where you are within the time zone) every single day

The only thing that varies over the year is the path it takes to get there. At the solstices (summer/winter) the path curvature is maximal while t the equinoxes (spring/fall) it is a straight line.

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading"

SJC_Hacker — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:52:33 +0000

More like cats enslaved humans

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center"

SJC_Hacker — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:19:04 +0000

Does that graph take into account capacity factor ?

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

SJC_Hacker — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:28:39 +0000

How do you know the actor is merely pretending ? Maybe they actually it?

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "Alan Greenspan has died"

SJC_Hacker — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:49:28 +0000

The argument is that on a hard money standard, the US government would simply not be able to spend as much as it has, because it would not ne able to print money as it has been doing.

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "Alan Greenspan has died"

SJC_Hacker — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:38:03 +0000

This was a wartime measure. The US went back to a hard money system soon after the civil war ended

New comment by SJC_Hacker in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

SJC_Hacker — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:28:42 +0000

Yeah my bd, the capacity factor was mor like 15% for solar PV (utility scale), according to their own data

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/china-bui...