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New comment by andrepd in "Israel Destroys Villages in Lebanon"

andrepd — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:03:54 +0000

Took so long to get flagged? I'm surprised...

If the US–Iran front of the war is relevant for hn I don't see why the Israel–Lebanon one wouldn't.

New comment by andrepd in "Israel Destroys Villages in Lebanon"

andrepd — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:02:07 +0000

"We have democracy for some of our citizens" is not the flex they think it is.

New comment by andrepd in "Israel Destroys Villages in Lebanon"

andrepd — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:41:54 +0000

The West at large continuing to be complicit in Israel's aggression and genocide is a source of great shame to me. Unlike many other atrocities of the past 75 years, this could not have been done without our help.

New comment by andrepd in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

andrepd — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:33:04 +0000

A global view is probably not the right way to look at things, encouraging as it may be. Of course globally hunger rates fell and so did child mortality. If nothing else, by the inexorable progress of science and technology.

But what about comparing the same country/region? After all that's a better sense of how things are progressing locally to you, and when people are asked "are things better or worse" they probably compare the way they live with the way their parents lived.

Would you rather be born in 1980 or 2020 in China? In Poland? No question. Same question but in the USA? In the UK? The West in general? I'm really not so sure.

New comment by andrepd in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

andrepd — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:35:21 +0000

The money governments sink into Microsoft could have funded a sovereign OSS ecosystem many times over.

New comment by andrepd in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

andrepd — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:33:24 +0000

It works better lol.

That being said CS2 runs substantially worse than CSGO. It at least kicked my addiction when it released, since it no longer ran at acceptable framerates on my laptop ahaha

New comment by andrepd in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

andrepd — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:31:25 +0000

Lutris recipes often work out of the box as well. It's as simple as hitting "install" on the Lutris app.

New comment by andrepd in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

andrepd — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:35:48 +0000

> Though I’ve seen some astonishingly misinformed politicians offering big tax incentives for data centers

My national government is currently giving massive tax breaks for one of these. It's going to be, after all, "the biggest foreign investment in the country ever"...

New comment by andrepd in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

andrepd — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:28:41 +0000

Also, "você" is actually not originally a proper formal second person. Grammatically, "você" is a third person singular. It comes from "Vossa Mercê" (something like "Your Mercy" or "Your Grace"), shortened to "vossemeçê", to "você". The origin, and still today a common gramatical construction in Portuguese in any formal or semi-formal register, is to use a periphrase in the third person to increase politeness. I guess in English it also exists, but only on the most fully formal contexts ("Does that right honourable gentleman agree...").

New comment by andrepd in "US carmakers say proposed EU rules could block large pickup trucks from Europe"

andrepd — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:16:15 +0000

It's disgusting that they were ever allowed in the first place. Cars have extremely high externalities, the bare minimum is that people pay for them.

An EU directive implementing vehicle tax proportional to weight is urgent. Heavier cars pollute more, damage the road more, are much more dangerous for pedestrians and bicycles.

Iran Ceasefire: Israel intensifies Lebanon strikes and Iran closes the strait

andrepd — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:14:44 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-trump-lebanon-april-8-2026-38d75d5e4f1c7339a1456fc99415bb2a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695686

Points: 17

# Comments: 3

New comment by andrepd in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

andrepd — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:39:58 +0000

Agreed. Make bike paths and people cycle on bike paths. Crazy stuff I know!

New comment by andrepd in "Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]"

andrepd — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:48:23 +0000

My first time hearing the name RAZOR1911 was on the cracktro for GTA IV, which had this banger of a music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy4-9PsZHqI

New comment by andrepd in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

andrepd — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:52:10 +0000

> Iran is a shell of the threat it was a month ago.

That's why it is crippling the entire world's economy and demanding concessions bigger than the status quo ante bellum, with the US powerless to stop it. Because it's no threat.

New comment by andrepd in "Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode"

andrepd — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:48:02 +0000

There was actually no "thought" being put into the IEEE spec as such. It was merely a codification of the design of the Intel FPU (only one of many, very different implementations of FP units pre-standardisation). There was thought put into that implementation, but the "standard" is merely a codification of that design.

It has many many warts, and many design choices were made given the constraints of hardware of that time, not by considerations in terms of a standard.

What historical evidence do we have of Jesus' crucifixion and its aftermath

andrepd — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:11:09 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1se0vrh/what_historical_evidence_do_we_have_of_jesus/oemjox9/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675677

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by andrepd in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

andrepd — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:10:09 +0000

Neat example of cognitive bias, the brain perceives the Nope as being much more prevalent than it actually is!

New comment by andrepd in "Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas"

andrepd — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:32:23 +0000

Absolutely! IEEE floats are ubiquitous in software and hardware. I bet good money they will still be around 40 more years into the future :) and any alternative has to fight their ubiquity.

Better alternatives have been proposed for a long time though. Posits are very nice, and even they are almost 10 years old now :p

New comment by andrepd in "Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai"

andrepd — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:26:56 +0000

Indeed, but sprawling lead-smoke infested freeways is the stuff of the 1950s; bike lanes and playgrounds and grassy tram tracks is what some cities are starting to do just now! So actually more futuristic, objectively speaking :)

New comment by andrepd in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

andrepd — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:20:01 +0000

There's a fine line between prohibition and all-out attack, everywhere all at once, from TV internet and sports, trying to get everyone addicted to gambling, from 9 to 99 years old.

Like... cigarretes aren't prohibited. But you're hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't agree that we're MUCH better off now with full advertising bans, indoor smoking bans, bans on sales to minors, steep tax, etc, than what we were in the 70s with disgusting cigarrete smoke everywhere.