Hacker News: dragosmocrii

New comment by dragosmocrii in "Mazda’s rotary engine in the age of the electric car"

dragosmocrii — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:22:33 +0000

have a look at the new Mitsubishi outlander EV, it kinda works like the volt

New comment by dragosmocrii in "Why Elixir (2014)"

dragosmocrii — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:25:35 +0000

Elixir is amazing. Had a stab at it back in 2018, then shifted to work with other traditional langs/stacks, but Elixir has always stayed in the back of my head teasing me. It's an elegant language, that you can see that the authors have put effort in keeping it lean, powerful, expressive. Phoenix (which is the goto web framework) may seem magical in the beginning, but once you dive in you realize that there is no magic, it's all there explicitly in modules (well maybe for macros which do feel magical). What I was missing back in 2018 is IDE support which was iffy. I wonder how that changed recently, if anyone who knows cares to share?

New comment by dragosmocrii in "FastUI: Build Better UIs Faster"

dragosmocrii — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 17:42:09 +0000

I don't think a tool is doing its job well when you make it work for your app. By contrary, it should make your app work

New comment by dragosmocrii in "Tesla owner created a folding solar array capable of charging 20-60mi per day"

dragosmocrii — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:57:46 +0000

Probably reduces aerodynamics and range more than it's helping

New comment by dragosmocrii in "How I stay motivated as a solo creator"

dragosmocrii — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 04:50:49 +0000

Congrats! That's a nice project and great effort that I'm sure taught you plenty of stuff while doing it.

New comment by dragosmocrii in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

dragosmocrii — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:22:58 +0000

https://dragoshmocrii.com/blog/ - writing about new things I discovered or issues I was able to solve that might help others.

New comment by dragosmocrii in "When Did Hospitality Get So Hostile?"

dragosmocrii — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 23:46:24 +0000

https://archive.is/dPA5n

New comment by dragosmocrii in "Most Americans think NASA’s $10B space telescope is a good investment"

dragosmocrii — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 15:44:19 +0000

Now imagine a world where every taxpayer can vote where their money goes, and there are institutions making sure that this money is spent where it's meant for, like: education, healthcare, local infrastructure, research, military, military operations, etc I wonder if things would be different..

New comment by dragosmocrii in "Ask HN: Are you cutting back on subscription services?"

dragosmocrii — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 21:43:32 +0000

Replacing it with the seat cooling subscription?

New comment by dragosmocrii in "MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts (2018)"

dragosmocrii — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 16:31:08 +0000

Thank you, this definitely goes on my reading list!

New comment by dragosmocrii in "Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard"

dragosmocrii — Tue, 24 May 2022 13:36:59 +0000

Had one for 3 years, and then it started chattering unfortunately

New comment by dragosmocrii in "I'm Too Risk-Averse for Index Investing"

dragosmocrii — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:15:58 +0000

If you have 1000$ to invest and it appreciated 7%, that made you a 70$ profit, which is not much from a coat of living perspective. If you had 1,000,000$ to invest, that gives you 70,000$ profit, which is pretty good at covering living expenses, bit not leaving you much else. Now if you have 10,000,000$ to invest that yields 700,000$ in profit, that is marginally way more and covers living expenses, plus gives you room to invest in other actives, thus improving your chance to grow your wealth.

New comment by dragosmocrii in "Cryptocurrency off-ramps, and the shift towards centralization"

dragosmocrii — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:48:22 +0000

I've noticed so many ads on Crypto "investing" recently, that makes me think we might be in the last stage of this bubble. I've had a discussion with a family member and their friend, and they were talking to me about investing in crypto, and how XRP is backed by gold, and how they have cold storage with their phone to hold their "assets" in case the Internet is taked down, and how the stock market will crash and big companies will disappear (like Google, Amazon, etc). And I'm like what the heck.. If the Internet is taken down, why do you even need to have your crypto on cold storage, it's just bits.. you've got bigger problems at that time. But nope, they're adamant crypto is the future, even if they have bo idea how it works. Fascinating, and terrifying when thigs go South.

New comment by dragosmocrii in "Laravel 9"

dragosmocrii — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 18:07:11 +0000

yes, that's basically what a framework is for. but you have to follow the framework's way of doing things. most of the time that works well. few times, you may be fighting the framework to achieve some special cases.

you call libraries. framework calls you.

New comment by dragosmocrii in "The complicated futility of WordPress"

dragosmocrii — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 06:03:15 +0000

Sarcasm? Because the opposite is true

New comment by dragosmocrii in "On Leaving Facebook"

dragosmocrii — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 17:14:08 +0000

hmm, those emails are cringey

New comment by dragosmocrii in "Ask HN: What do you snack on while coding?"

dragosmocrii — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 17:32:36 +0000

Ever since I started wearing my Invisalign trays, I do zero snacking. I feel great though, since my eating habits are better

New comment by dragosmocrii in "Firefox 95 might be the most secure web browser on the market"

dragosmocrii — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 12:58:37 +0000

Wow, didn't know this was available! They should add a message when the dev tools is opened to let developers know avout this developer edition. Thanks, will give it a try!

New comment by dragosmocrii in "Firefox 95 might be the most secure web browser on the market"

dragosmocrii — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 11:44:11 +0000

I wish Firefox had close to feature parity with Chrome for the developer tools. Would replace Chrome for Firefox in a jiffy

New comment by dragosmocrii in "PHP is worth learning and using"

dragosmocrii — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:01:33 +0000

I'm aware of Hack, but I don't have full control over the stack, so having all these features included in core PHP would be the only way in my case.