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New comment by fatuna in "ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine"

fatuna — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:38:55 +0000

Any fps measurements you can share? I'm also interested if you see a significant difference between CachyOS and Bazzite.

New comment by fatuna in "Silent speech with ultrasound"

fatuna — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:43:40 +0000

I remember reading about something like this tech in one of Asimov's Robot novels. Thought about trying to build something like this, but don't really have the skills. Awesome they did build this! I guess if they make it easy to train on your speech (just combine it with speech to text), it's a product waiting to happen!

New comment by fatuna in "Fatherhood Dramatically Rewires Your Brain"

fatuna — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:07:12 +0000

Reading this as my wife's contractions are getting stronger and more frequent. I'll put a reminder to reread this and the previous comments in a year or so. Wish me luck :)

New comment by fatuna in "Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'"

fatuna — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:26:46 +0000

Compared to what I have heard about the US, I'd say it is actually easier to find jobs in (at least Western) Europe. Plenty of jobs, and a way easier interview process. Not 8 rounds of interviews and months of waiting (that I've heard of). But maybe two rounds in the same week and start the next month (if you want).

New comment by fatuna in "Git Is Not Fine"

fatuna — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:12:49 +0000

Thanks for sharing this pearl of knowledge! This is brilliant. I found this page which explains using this function well: https://andrewlock.net/working-with-stacked-branches-in-git-...

New comment by fatuna in "Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down"

fatuna — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:06:40 +0000

Who then should inject their feelings? Journalists don't care because it's too abstract, politicians don't care because it won't happen in their term, business doesn't care because there's no money to be made, and the people don't care because of all of the above people telling them to ignore it.

New comment by fatuna in "Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down"

fatuna — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:00:53 +0000

While there is definitely a big consequence for the EU (and surrounding countries), the article mentions big impacts for the whole world. When it comes to climate, nobody is left untouched...

New comment by fatuna in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

fatuna — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:19:17 +0000

Not OP, but I think they meant Timberborn. It just hit 1.0 release . I tried it a while back, definitely a fun premise for a game.

New comment by fatuna in "Why 'Margin Call' remains Wall Street's favorite movie"

fatuna — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 06:58:23 +0000

I think greed is good for society in the same way that nuclear reactions bring lots of energy. That is to say, it does, but left unchecked it brings destruction.

New comment by fatuna in "Ask HN: Why some languages use 1 byte for boolean type"

fatuna — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:15:15 +0000

Because engineering is all about making choices. Making a boolean 1 bit would be space efficient. However, memory is being read at least 1 byte at a time. If you want 1 bit of that byte, that's an extra instruction.

So storing a boolean in one byte is more speed efficient!

(In C you can store a boolean in one bit. If, for example, you need to store a great number of booleans and memory size is more important than speed. )

New comment by fatuna in "Why Does Integer Addition Approximate Float Multiplication?"

fatuna — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:29:54 +0000

Would subtraction also approximate division?

New comment by fatuna in "The Path to American Authoritarianism"

fatuna — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 09:33:17 +0000

Some quick googling tells me the US gov spends between 35 and 40% of the US GDP. Also, the article says 'relatively'. Compared to other nations, especially other developed nations, the US government can definitely be called 'relatively small'.

New comment by fatuna in "Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest"

fatuna — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 08:51:14 +0000

Nobody wants to shut down all the farming, just reduce it. For example, the Netherlands produces 250% of its own meat consumption. Since it's subsidized, the net financial gain is very low. You could say reducing the production to 125/150% of consumption would leave enough for local consumption plus a little export in good times or a buffer in bad times.

Unfortunately, big agricultural companies hired a marketing company to start a political party which claims to be pro local/small farmers, but is actually just pro big agriculture.

New comment by fatuna in "The end of Britain's weeks-long general elections"

fatuna — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 18:34:54 +0000

Very interesting indeed. Here in the Netherlands, we've had ID requirements for voting since forever. And even though we don't vote on Sundays (I think it's always a working day), our turnout rate is similar (slightly higher even) compared to Germany. I guess there's more at play here.

New comment by fatuna in "Dutch designer drives his car on the plastic waste he collects"

fatuna — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 20:35:30 +0000

Fair question! Carbon had an atomic weight of ~12, oxygen has an atomic weight of ~16. So carbon is responsible for 12/44 part of the weight of CO2. If we assume plastic to be 80% carbon, then 1kg of plastic would produce (0,8*44)/12~= 2,9 kg of plastic. So probably plastic is less than 80% plastic :). But then number makes sense, similarly for diesel.

New comment by fatuna in "Americas richest 10% is responsible for 40% of its planet heating pollution"

fatuna — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 11:12:55 +0000

But every country on Earth can say the same, right? Everybody is 'only responsible for a fraction of the total polution'. It's a tragedy of the commons kind of situation.

New comment by fatuna in "Diamond prices are in free fall in one key corner of the market"

fatuna — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:31:32 +0000

"Be smart and" don't get an expensive ring! Spend that money on your honeymoon, wedding, just save it, or donate it to a charity. Doing anything else makes more sense really.

New comment by fatuna in "Young people are flocking to astrology"

fatuna — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:50:04 +0000

Nope, any scientist should be agnostic ;). Since the existence of a god can not be proven nor disproven. Do I have an elephant in my living room? Chances are incredibly low, but can you prove it?

New comment by fatuna in "Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (2008)"

fatuna — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 08:54:00 +0000

As a Dutch person I was very suprised about this. This was because La Hague is not in The Netherlands, but in France. Thanks for the wiki though.

I think you confused it for The Hague, which is in The Netherlands.

New comment by fatuna in "By 2028 there must be fast chargers every 60 km on the EU’s key motorways"

fatuna — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:42:33 +0000

Looking at the number of h2 cars on the road, I'd say it's a complete waste...