Hacker News: actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=actionfromafarHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:18:18 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "People are worried about America's solvency"]]>He's the Dear Leader!

]]>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:13:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338975actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338975https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338975<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "People are worried about America's solvency"]]>It's just that I think that it ever come to servicing debts by printing money instead of borrowing, "shock therapy" would result. Not from the UBI proposal, but from the world order crumbling. And when chaos comes, there's always a small number of people on top taking advantage. Exactly who gets to run Gas Town may not possible to know in advance, but someone will.

]]>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:48:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330802actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330802https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330802<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "People are worried about America's solvency"]]>Sounds vaguely like the dissolution of the Soviet Union. There too, assets of the State were distributed to the People. Somehow it all ended with oligarchs in the end.

]]>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:14:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330317actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330317https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330317<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "People are worried about America's solvency"]]>

    President                    Change pp
    Eisenhower                   -1.8
    Nixon                        +0.8
    Ford                         +0.8
    Carter                        0
    Reagan                       +0.5
    GHW Bush                     +1.8
    Clinton                      -6.1
    GW Bush                      +4.3
    Obama                        -6.6
    Trump                        +11
    Biden                        -5.8
But Trump 2 will definitely lower it, more than anyone has ever seen before.

]]>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:01:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330141actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330141https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330141<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "GIMP Development Update"]]>Maybe this is the way forward? :)

]]>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:18:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328271actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328271https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328271<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "GIMP Development Update"]]>JSON made me not hate XML. YAML made me not hate JSON.

]]>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:52:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328041actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328041https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328041<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "GIMP Development Update"]]>Could you be very specific about what's sloppy? It would be very interesting to hear. I think I'm too numb from years of exposure.

]]>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:50:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328031actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328031https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328031<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga"]]>Maybe lisp is considered a basic language. :)

]]>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:14:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327788actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327788https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327788<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts"]]>And here of course.

]]>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:06:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315136actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315136https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315136<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness"]]>Explain

]]>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:30:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306295actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306295https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306295<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"]]>Such is especially the power of first-past-the-post.

]]>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:07:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302480actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302480https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302480<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"]]>Isn't it because the US has a more entrenched "clean beuatiful coal" class of people?

]]>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:58:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301440actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301440https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301440<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"]]>And they are right to push back.

]]>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:23:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297811actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297811https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297811<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes"]]>LevelDB was released in 2011, so it existed but was very new.

]]>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:17:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296364actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296364https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296364<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes"]]>https://www.devuan.org/

]]>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:05:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296276actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296276https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296276<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "Mojo 1.0"]]>Python to C++ compiler: https://shedskin.github.io/

]]>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:34:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285686actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285686https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285686<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"]]>It's more like explicitly building infra for criminals.

]]>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:53:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274398actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274398https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274398<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide"]]>Just let private companies do the papier bitte I guess, we're half way there.

]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:16:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265235actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265235https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265235<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "Woman Pulled over at Gunpoint Twice After Flock Camera Glitch"]]>Community policing, it aint.

]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:32:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262551actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262551https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262551<![CDATA[New comment by actionfromafar in "Woman Pulled over at Gunpoint Twice After Flock Camera Glitch"]]>Perfekt enforcement never existed and our current laws were written for a reality where that was an impossibility. Not considering second order effects is reckless IMHO.

]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:29:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262485actionfromafarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262485https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262485