Hacker News: bartvk

New comment by bartvk in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

bartvk — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:45:46 +0000

Not increasing but cancelling plans on phasing out. Here in The Netherlands, an absolutely minuscule country of ~18 million people, two coal plants will remain online that previously would've been phased out.

New comment by bartvk in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

bartvk — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:28:50 +0000

"Look behind you! Remember that you are a man."

New comment by bartvk in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

bartvk — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:02:20 +0000

I think that's pretty great, actually. You can look that up to see more info about the commit.

New comment by bartvk in "Binary obfuscation used in AAA Games"

bartvk — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:33:49 +0000

Oh, of course… thanks for clarifying.

New comment by bartvk in "Veracrypt project update"

bartvk — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:46:35 +0000

But think about it, if they were on Github now, which is owned by Microsoft, would there be even further consequences?

New comment by bartvk in "Binary obfuscation used in AAA Games"

bartvk — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:36:18 +0000

The reduction of Frames Per Second.

New comment by bartvk in "A new Postcrossing stamp from the USA"

bartvk — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:08:13 +0000

I received a round Global Forever 2018 stamp, which I found pretty cool. But the most extraordinary stamp I received, was from Belarus. It had a strawberry smell.

New comment by bartvk in "France pulls last gold held in US"

bartvk — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:55:54 +0000

Your dislike aside, is it part of your investment portfolio? If not, what did you replace it with?

New comment by bartvk in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

bartvk — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:32:21 +0000

That's what I didn't get either. And you don't even need to configure a VPS, there's Fastmail, Protonmail, Zoho, Kolabnow, Purely mail, Migadu and so much more.

New comment by bartvk in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

bartvk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:17:34 +0000

I'm not saying you're wrong, but a blanket "untold damage" statement won't carry an argument here, you need to be specific.

New comment by bartvk in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

bartvk — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:21:34 +0000

We once got a cat bed with a soft canopy. It held up due to the stiffness of the fabric. The cat found out that it’s possible to make the canopy sag by putting her full weight on it. She never actually slept inside it, only on top of it. When she died of old age, the bed looked old and disheveled, but the inside was pristine…

New comment by bartvk in "FreeCAD v1.1"

bartvk — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:14:35 +0000

Yup, mine too. He has a course on Udemy as well.

New comment by bartvk in "FreeCAD v1.1"

bartvk — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:40:43 +0000

To add to this. MangoJelly offers very good tutorials, as well as a full course on Udemy. He released a 4 minute overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSwvnZ1jsXg

DeltaHedra, another great YouTube channel, also released a good video that shows the previous and this version next to each other: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYdobpjTypg

New comment by bartvk in "“Collaboration” is bullshit"

bartvk — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:51:53 +0000

I've never cared about this, actually. For me, the camaderie of the team is most important, and next comes the money. Acknowledgement from people who barely know what I do: I couldn't care less.

New comment by bartvk in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

bartvk — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:06:25 +0000

I'm not sure what you mean by account handling, but you can long-press the new tab, and you can choose a different profile (for example "work") which has a differently-colored tab. It's pretty great.

New comment by bartvk in "Honda is killing its EVs"

bartvk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:36:31 +0000

Well, they just launched the Honda WN-7. It seems to be a commuter and fun bike. It has a limited range, so it's not a touring motorcycle but it does have fast-charging.

I watched the reviews on YouTube, and they're all quite favorable.

New comment by bartvk in "Docs directories are doomed"

bartvk — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:39:01 +0000

That's not the only thing clearly generated. "Some looming issues", "some thorny issues", it's full of these weird AI sayings. The whole thing feels weirdly written.

New comment by bartvk in "Fatbikes are wreaking havoc in Sydney's wealthy beach suburbs"

bartvk — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:53:13 +0000

You probably joke but I'm an avid motorcycle rider and when I ride in the 30 km/h (20 mph) zones in my city, these kids race past me. No matter it scares the shit out of me, when an accident occurs then the injuries will be horrific.

I'm not against them, to be sure. I don't know the solution, really. Maybe campaign for helmets, but how effective is that going to be?

New comment by bartvk in "To the Polypropylene Makers"

bartvk — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:46:21 +0000

Knowing what you knew at that specific time, you did the right thing with your donation. Kudos.

New comment by bartvk in "MacBook Neo"

bartvk — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:53:07 +0000

I wonder if there's actually something else with your OS. Have you tried wiping it, and starting again by clean?

Yes, it's the Windows solution. But I haven't experienced this at all.