Hacker News: bullfightonmars

New comment by bullfightonmars in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

bullfightonmars — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:22:37 +0000

I use rails because it makes thousands of good choices that I never have to make. If build apps the rails way I don't have to deal with a mountain of tech debt (in the form bad or ever changing choices).

New comment by bullfightonmars in "Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid"

bullfightonmars — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:14:14 +0000

"dad's" is possessive not plural

New comment by bullfightonmars in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

bullfightonmars — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:38:12 +0000

yes! I want the opposite. Packed screenings. There are some movies, especially summer blockbusters, that I want to see in a full room.

New comment by bullfightonmars in "Another Day Has Come"

bullfightonmars — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:00:11 +0000

You can't throw money at software and get better software on the other side, see Meta(verse). Better software requires focus, which may mean spending less money instead of more.

New comment by bullfightonmars in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

bullfightonmars — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:43:22 +0000

Are you saying that they don’t let rate payers take advantage of low rates to advantage load shift?

That seems counterproductive and exploitative.

New comment by bullfightonmars in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

bullfightonmars — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:00:34 +0000

Have you read about _where_ the budget is going? You are complaining about accountability without offering a diagnosis or showing any understanding for what is actually happening.

The budget expansion is almost entirely by medicaide.

Looking at 2019-2023

* Human Services: +~50% nominal → ~+22% real — biggest absolute dollar growth, driven almost entirely by Medicaid expansion and COVID enrollment

* K-12: +23% nominal → ~0% real — flat in purchasing power

* Higher Education: +~20% nominal → ~-2% real — slight real decline

* Government Operations: +~30% nominal → ~+6% real — modest real growth, headcount/compensation driven

* Natural Resources: +~25% nominal → ~+2% real — roughly flat

* Total Budget: +43.5% nominal → ~+17% real

New comment by bullfightonmars in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

bullfightonmars — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:25:51 +0000

This is ahistoric. No-one ever said we had to "just vote for Obama" to close Guantanamo Bay.

Frankly, Obama _tried_ to close Guantanamo Bay. He significantly shrunk the population of inmates, but it was ultimately Congress, and the courts that prevented the closure

Obama spent a huge amount of time and political capital trying to clean up Bush's messes.

New comment by bullfightonmars in "Bugs Apple loves"

bullfightonmars — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:56:33 +0000

Ugh this is the worst. It’s topped by password fields that don’t work with a password manager.

New comment by bullfightonmars in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

bullfightonmars — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:33:07 +0000

You have MAGA friends outside the United States?

New comment by bullfightonmars in "'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay"

bullfightonmars — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:47:23 +0000

In the case of Fizzy, the app that 37signals has made “source available”, the real motivation for publishing is form of advertising for Ruby on Rails.

DHH is on a mission to show that you can write great software with way less bullshit than is in vogue.

This code base is sparkling in its design. No build frontend, server side rendered templates, minimal js used primarily to drive interactivity, extremely simple models, jobs, and controllers.

It has < 3000 lines of js with incredibly rich interaction design, when was the last time you saw that?

New comment by bullfightonmars in "PyTorch Monarch"

bullfightonmars — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:31:19 +0000

You might be looking for elixir/nx and axon

https://github.com/elixir-nx/axon

New comment by bullfightonmars in "Rivian's TM-B electric bike"

bullfightonmars — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:08:23 +0000

Putting the motor into the wheel makes for an excellent riding experience, I have a Bionx rear wheel (out of business) that is connected to the chain ring and pedals in the traditional way. The wheel detects torque from pedaling and applies it's own torque to drive the wheel. It can be used with and without power and feels almost seamless and is silent.

Unfortunately it seems to be difficult to engineer and build these wheel motors for reliability and longevity. They significanly increase the unsprung mass of the wheel which leads to increased wear on the hub components.

New comment by bullfightonmars in "The road that killed Legend Jenkins was working as designed"

bullfightonmars — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:26:30 +0000

It would be a very angry rant, after living in NL for a few years and absorbing how good infrastructure can be, he can barely stand this stuff.

New comment by bullfightonmars in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

bullfightonmars — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:03:09 +0000

What else could it be? Elected institutions are made up of people who agree to a laws, rules, and norms that everyone else agrees on. It's all a farce built up on agreements to keep things running smoothly.

There is no system you could structure rigidly enough that it would not be vulnerable to bad actors. You can insulate yourself by distributing authority as we have, but if those authorities stop playing following the laws, rules, and norms well you end up where we are at, devolving into facisim.

New comment by bullfightonmars in "The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong"

bullfightonmars — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:52:57 +0000

You are right of course. I was being flip. There are multiple reasons it is no longer profitable for car companies to make small trucks. CAFE regs are part of that.

New comment by bullfightonmars in "The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong"

bullfightonmars — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:39:03 +0000

The same reason housing isn't being built, it was regulated out of existence.

New comment by bullfightonmars in "Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion"

bullfightonmars — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 22:01:28 +0000

Stimulus-response is not consciousness. There is nothing subjective about this mechanical and chemical response to injury.

New comment by bullfightonmars in "Coffee for people who don't like coffee"

bullfightonmars — Wed, 14 May 2025 01:29:36 +0000

It's a shame okra has such a poor shelf life. Fresh it is sweet, crunchy, and delicious with no sliminess.

New comment by bullfightonmars in "Apple needs a Snow Sequoia"

bullfightonmars — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 04:38:52 +0000

Oh wow. I am realizing I have just been living with these bugs as tiny frustrations all day long not understanding how pervasive they are!

This issue with spotlight is so bad. I use the switcher to pull up my Downloads or Documents directories and half the time it can’t even find them!

New comment by bullfightonmars in "How to create value objects in Ruby – the idiomatic way"

bullfightonmars — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 15:43:51 +0000

The article is demonstrating the API, not suggesting you define Data objects dynamically. Notice the objects are assigned to constants.