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New comment by aarroyoc in "Better Batteries"

aarroyoc — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:40:43 +0000

Yes! I've never been against languages with batteries included. In fact nowadays I prefer them. It's one of my biggest issues with Rust, but the problem also exists in Haskell. Funnily enough, in Node.js, which gave birth to npm, you can now do many stuff without external dependencies (last one I've seen are the sqlite functions).

But yes, in languages with batteries included sometimes they feel like an afterthought. It's not just Python. Java also used to have a big standard library, with many useful things including GUI programming which has been neglected a little bit.

New comment by aarroyoc in "The Zilog Z80 has turned 50"

aarroyoc — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:17:04 +0000

It depends on the country I guess. In Spain I never saw a person using Texas Instruments calculators. Casio and HP are way more popular.

New comment by aarroyoc in "RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues"

aarroyoc — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:16:26 +0000

There are several RISC-V machines. In the microcontroller world it's becoming more and more usual, but those won't have RVV. SpacemiT K3 based machines are probably your best bet when it comes to RISC-V processors with SIMD support. There are several manufacturers: Milk-V with the Jupiter II, Sipeed, Banana Pi, ...

New comment by aarroyoc in "GnuCash is right. It's also why I built my own finance app"

aarroyoc — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:37:03 +0000

Big fan of hedger! It's not easy to start but I think it's one of the best ways to keep track of accounting, PTA files are very convenient.

They leave you with lots of options though, which could be a problem if you're starting into accounting

New comment by aarroyoc in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

aarroyoc — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:03:47 +0000

They need a JavaScript runtime to execute some challenges that certain pages present (like YouTube)

New comment by aarroyoc in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

aarroyoc — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:58:39 +0000

This is written from a French perspective as if southern countries joined later because they were not as developed. Quite the opposite. Spain, Italy and Portugal were in the first years of EPI, but they went there own ways because of the lack of progress that was being made by other members like France and Germany. Bizum in Spain is quite popular (I would say that more than Wero in France) and now is starting to manage payments in physical stores, after being a popular solution to transfer money between friends and in online payments (and in the physical black market).

New comment by aarroyoc in "Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms"

aarroyoc — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:06:35 +0000

As someone who lives in Spain, a country that also has a tradition of siestas (that's where that name comes from after all), I have a lot of doubts and I think people romanticize the idea too much. First of all I have no doubts about the health benefit of siestas, but in the current society they have some issues.

When I was younger I hated siestas because I had energy and everything was closed, you couldn't do anything in those hours. It felt like a waste. In fact I think that sports clubs, book clubs and similar things are not as important here as in other countries of Europe (at least from my perspective, no data) because people don't have time. After siesta, stores open and you have to do your chores, giving you no time to have a leisure activity (other than going to the bar and drink, that is).

And if you work keep in mind the shift is 8 hours, so how do you fit siesta in it? A way is to start working early and having lunch very late, working like 7-15. Some government offices and factories work this way. Some people like this schedule but waking up so early, specially during winter I think defeats the point of siesta, as you're probably damaging your body in the morning. Other like me have a split schedule with lunch in the middle, more similar to Europe but the problem is that you leave later. Because at some jobs the mandatory stop is 2 hours.

Now, schools have also different schedules to fit better into their parents schedules and there's been an infinite discussion about which one is better for children. The reality is that is a mess. If we could work less than 8 hours, it would be much better but 8 hours plus siesta is difficult to put up with.

New comment by aarroyoc in "Every single board computer I tested in 2025"

aarroyoc — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:37:21 +0000

RK3588 is well supported right now and is present in many SBCs

New comment by aarroyoc in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

aarroyoc — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:08:27 +0000

The last time I attended a mass (Spain) it was about some people in the village that were not helping the church enough (with an activity they had to do but also I think there was some money involved) but it was a bit cryptic, so only the ones that were directed the message to could fully understand it.

New comment by aarroyoc in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

aarroyoc — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:01:01 +0000

In Spain many parts of the Internet are shut down when there's a LaLiga match to "prevent piracy". They usually block Cloudflare as a whole but also Vercel, GitHub,... had issues. For example last Sunday I couldn't access some of the stories submitted here. I could also not access the documentation of hledger, a FOSS contability tool.

New comment by aarroyoc in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

aarroyoc — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:41:06 +0000

I'm on O2 in Spain and loads fine for me. That's interesting

Spring-bouncing: an early review of Aeris Swopper (2021)

aarroyoc — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:38:00 +0000

Article URL: https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/spring-bouncing-an-early-review-of-aeris-swopper/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46836579

Points: 1

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New comment by aarroyoc in "The state of Linux music players in 2026"

aarroyoc — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:25:14 +0000

It is still GPL, it is still free software, the source code is there. Only the Windows and macOS binaries are behind a paywall, but you can build yourself the binaries, or use it on Linux. RedHat does this and is "an example of free software monetization", Strawberry does it "and it should no longer be called free software".

New comment by aarroyoc in "High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 39"

aarroyoc — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:29:55 +0000

Updated to 39 people now, but probably the number can still go up

New comment by aarroyoc in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

aarroyoc — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:59:39 +0000

https://adrianistan.eu

New comment by aarroyoc in "What happened to all the gold Spain got from the New World? (1985)"

aarroyoc — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:33:42 +0000

Yes, I often say that the gold from America was a poisonous gift. It made the country so rich that they stopped caring about other stuff, they could just buy them from elsewhere. So there was little incentive to manufacture first, and industrialize later. Which is ironic because some of first steam engines you can find in Europe were invented in Spain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jer%C3%B3nimo_de_Ayanz_y_Beaum...). It also enabled the funding of numerous stupid wars, with the human cost they bring. The name of this process is called the Dutch Disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease

Arab states could get into the same trap

New comment by aarroyoc in "Are We Loong Yet?"

aarroyoc — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:20:35 +0000

Loongson started with MIPS CPUs but current CPUs are not MIPS-compatible. LoongArch, while being very similar to MIPS, uses a different encoding. And some other details have changed. Better to say, MIPS-inspired.

New comment by aarroyoc in "Are We Loong Yet?"

aarroyoc — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:13:24 +0000

It's not. Before LoongArch, Loongson made MIPS64 CPUs. But this is about LoongArch which is similar but incompatible with MIPS64.

New comment by aarroyoc in "No Graphics API"

aarroyoc — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:26:17 +0000

Impressive post, so many details. I could only understand some parts of it, but I think this article will probably be a reference for future graphics API.

I think it's fair to say that for most gamers, Vulkan/DX12 hasn't really been a net positive, the PSO problem affected many popular games and while Vulkan has been trying to improve, WebGPU is tricky as it has is roots on the first versions of Vulkan.

Perhaps it was a bad idea to go all in to a low level API that exposes many details when the hardware underneath is evolving so fast. Maybe CUDA, as the post says in some places, with its more generic computing support is the right way after all.

New comment by aarroyoc in "Scala 3 slowed us down?"

aarroyoc — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:29:20 +0000

At least where I work, writing new Java code is discouraged and you should instead use Kotlin for backend services. Spring Boot which is the framework we use, supports Kotlin just fine, at the same level as Java. And if you use Jetbrains tools, Kotlin tooling is also pretty good (outside Jetbrains I will admit it is worse than Java). Now, even in new Java projects you can still be using Kotlin because it is the default language for Gradle (previously it was Groovy).