<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: crznp</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=crznp</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 08:47:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=crznp" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crznp in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would go further: this is the end of the US. The pieces haven't hit the ground yet, but they are falling. NATO cannot last when Europe doesn't trust the US. Nations cannot trust that trade agreements will last beyond the whims of the moment. Federal workers are being sacked indiscriminately. The executive branch has openly stated that they will not obey the rule of law if it is against them, even after packing the courts. What is left?<p>There is something left: the land, the people. But not the country, that is something new.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 04:51:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43216048</link><dc:creator>crznp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43216048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43216048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crznp in "The Leaning Tower of New York"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you not counting the Surfside (Miami) condo collapse?<p>Also since it talked about the leaning tower of Pisa: the Civic tower in Pavia (1989) and original Campanile in Venice (1902), probably more examples like that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:42:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983658</link><dc:creator>crznp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crznp in "We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I largely agree, but it is odd to write that column and not mention Mastodon/ActivityPub.<p>On one hand, it is another alternative if Bluesky falls, but on the other hand I feel like the algorithm makes it a different sort of community.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 02:25:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753075</link><dc:creator>crznp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crznp in "The story of Rogue"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice! Crossing avalanche terrain (eg: backcountry skiing) is a low chance/high consequence activity. It is easy to learn the wrong thing: I did this before and it was fine, therefore it is safe.<p>You counter that with observations, forecasts and incident reports, but intuition based on personal experience leads you astray.<p>A game is much better because you can fail and you just have to restart the game. Make an RDR2 mod.<p>(edit: more intuitive anyway. It might not be easy to accurately show different snow conditions while also being fun to play)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:45:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330471</link><dc:creator>crznp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330471</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crznp in "Mill: A fast JVM build tool for Java and Scala"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One option is `bld`. They added IntelliJ support since I looked at it last, so that's nice.<p><a href="https://github.com/rife2/bld">https://github.com/rife2/bld</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:19:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974328</link><dc:creator>crznp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974328</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crznp in "Why ghosts wear clothes or white sheets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Of course ghosts wouldn't appear naked, we can't see beyond the veil</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 14:28:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41945618</link><dc:creator>crznp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41945618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41945618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crznp in "The EU regulates that by 2027, all phones be equipped with replaceable batteries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/07/10/council-adopts-new-regulation-on-batteries-and-waste-batteries/" rel="nofollow">https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023...</a><p>User replaceable batteries by 2027 is old news. The new news seems to be how Apple plans to accomplish it.</p>
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<p>It doesn't seem wildly unlikely: there is a fundamental shift in how office spaces work.<p>But the other side is possible too: even if the loans had a guaranteed long term value (like SVB's bonds), they could be an issue in the short term. More so if getting the value out of the loan requires both time and effort (eg: legal costs).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 01:05:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40783121</link><dc:creator>crznp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40783121</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40783121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crznp in "NASA again delays Boeing Starliner's return home"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> [Helium helps to] maintain pressure so that the propellant remains liquid.<p>IANA rocket scientist, but this doesn't ring true to me. Vaporization of LH2 is related to the partial pressure of Hydrogen, not the absolute pressure of the gaseous phase. You're going to lose ≈PV/RT of hydrogen molecules to the gas phase regardless (P being the vapor pressure of Hydrogen at the tank's temperature and V the volume of the tank).<p>You still need the absolute pressure for structural stability. He has ≈twice the molar mass of H2, so H2 is better for the dry mass in the rocket equation anyway: what is left in the tank isn't wasted, but used for rigidity.<p>You just need Helium because it won't have phase transitions: it's always a gas so it is easier to regulate pressure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:22:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40709919</link><dc:creator>crznp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40709919</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40709919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crznp in "Battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just to add the terms: a "grid following" matches the grid's voltage/frequency, so it only works when connected to the grid. A "grid forming" system can set its voltage/frequency independently and can only work off-grid<p>It sounds like mauvehaus is talking about a hybrid system that has both grid following and grid forming capabilities: switching to grid-forming as it disconnects. But that means that you can't power your neighbors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:35:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40648349</link><dc:creator>crznp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40648349</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40648349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crznp in "Interactive Sky Map"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AFAIK, nobody has added the weather to Stellarium, but it does show sky at various times and places on Earth, with toggles for the ground and atmosphere. Web version:<p><a href="https://stellarium-web.org/" rel="nofollow">https://stellarium-web.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:08:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40580185</link><dc:creator>crznp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40580185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40580185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crznp in "The Moral Economy of the Shire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FWIW, I interpreted that backwards: There needed to be a flying car, so Harry had to hang out of a window in need of a flying car.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:24:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40573762</link><dc:creator>crznp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40573762</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40573762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crznp in "Lucid Boss Says Tesla Has Lost Its "Sense of Purpose""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Companies don't have a fixed amount of media coverage. Rawlinson saying that Tesla has lost its way is a headline. Him saying that Lucid makes great cars is not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2024 14:58:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40536044</link><dc:creator>crznp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40536044</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40536044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crznp in "Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If this isn't the thing that makes your blood boil, that's fine. The world could probably do with less boiling blood, and it is still early, more evidence may come out. However, she indicated in her statement that Altman asked her, not OpenAI. It seems credible that he would want to be involved.<p>Both sides of the story feel like we're slowly being brought to a boil: Sutskever's leaving feels like it was just a matter of time. His leaving causing a mess seems predictable. Perhaps I am numb to that story.<p>But stealing a large part of someone's identity after being explicitly told not to? This one act is not the end of the world, but feels like an acceleration down a path that I would rather avoid.</p>
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<p>It really doesn't sound like a "mid-level exceeding their mandate".<p>It sounds like Altman was personally involved in recruiting her. She said no and they took what they wanted anyway.</p>
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<p>Or: they had an accurate estimate for the importance of brand trust and reputation over the short term, and they've had that short term outlook for a long time. Perhaps since 1997.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 18:38:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40370700</link><dc:creator>crznp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40370700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40370700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crznp in "The world has probably passed peak pollution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LtG summary from the intro:<p>> 1. If the present growth trends... continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years...<p>> 2. It is possible to alter these growth trends...<p>> 3. If the world's people decide to strive for this second outcome rather than the first, the sooner they begin working to attain it, the greater will be their chances of success<p>Far from "missing the negative feedback loops", I think that amplifying that feedback was the whole point.<p>Also, we're only halfway through the original period, so it seems premature to declare victory.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 19:47:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40323121</link><dc:creator>crznp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40323121</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40323121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crznp in "Show HN: Dillo 3.1.0 released after 9 years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You could if the host domain acted as a VPN/proxy</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40261295</link><dc:creator>crznp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40261295</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40261295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crznp in "What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is strange that they would claim that "non" is not a prefix but a Latin word with the same meaning as the prefix that is stuck on the front of the word.<p>It can still be a seperate word, but Latin "persona non grata" has the same basic meaning in English. The Latin "non plus" doesn't mean perplexed or unconcerned (e: or unimpressed), so it would be even more confusing to write it that way.</p>
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<p>I think that the DoE's interest in this is more about energy consumption than energy generation.</p>
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