<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: fgonzag</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fgonzag</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:09:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fgonzag" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fgonzag in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is some cross pollination. Women can play vs men, just usually don't. I'm fairly certain singles UTR is universal across players, it only distinguishes between doubles and singles UTR.<p>UTR can also include unranked games if one of the players submits a score and the other approves it.</p>
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<p>The whole text feels like a conversation with an LLM. Even the title.<p>And the content feels fluffed up, the core idea is: "I'm furious that Bitwarden doubled the yearly price and did not disclose it properly".  Which is valid, but does not require an extensive article, much less one written by an LLM.<p>As an aside, I found out from this post about the increase, and I don't mind the increase, especially after 10 years, but I really don't like the fact that it seems they actively hid it. But I also don't think it's aa big of a deal as OP is making it out to be.</p>
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<p>It doesn't.In tennis a 14 UTR whatever wins against a 13 UTR whatever. UTR is your effectiveness rating against every other player. Same in chess with ELO.<p>The issue is woman would disappear from profesional sports. Sinners 16.27 rating means that he double bagels Sabalenkas 13.29 essentially 100% of the time. The 500th ATP player has a UTR of 13.81, half a point is quite a bit stronger, do he's still very much stronger than Sabalenka. You probably have to start looking well into the thousand somethings for something that is consisently beaten by her.<p>Only the top 200 players make money, the top 100 good money, and the top 50 ridiculous money.</p>
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<p>Silver lining, at least your triggered by a color that basically doesn't exist and is no longer in wide spread use. (As in you won't find it as much in daily civilian life)</p>
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<p>From an r/ArchLinux moderator responding to a censored user:<p>"I got a DM from much higher up the chain asking me to remove it. Whilst I technically don't answer to them, I do respect their wishes. They don't like someone they consider as part of the core dev teams being called out like that. What you did broke the Arch Linux CoC."<p>Wait so is this part not true?</p>
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<p>I might not have asked for it (because it never occurred to me) but I'm actually interested in trying it.</p>
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<p>You're right it was WordPad he tried.<p>A super basic text editor is available anywhere. He's comfortable with many of them when editing other things (like vim/nano/ed on Linux)<p>He just likes Notepad for his personal use. Now that you mention it I do believe he used Notepad++ at some point (only 3rd party editor he's tried). I don't remember at what point he dropped it but he didn't use it long.<p>Like you said, with Windows 11 replacing Notepad with a rewritten version, he's probably going to have to switch to Notepad++.<p>I was hoping he'd just switch to Linux. Even tried baiting him by giving a pre Linux installed fully configured laptop with a beautiful OLED panel and great keyboard. He loved the hardware and reinstalled Windows.</p>
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<p>I mean Notepad the original.<p>He tried textpad (the other included text editor ) at some point and hated it</p>
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<p>It's honestly short and pretty unique.<p>He wrote a programming language for his master thesis, so obviously he used it to write all his software. His first project was the POS/management system for his father's music store (Now famous as the Mexican company that acquired Sam Ash). I believe they didn't switch until around 2005 or so (so about 30 years maintaining it or training a software developer on it as a side thought)<p>He then started a large sized customs software company with i that ended up getting acquired.. Everytime the language required a new feature the devs would just ask him (like when he had to write a graphical toolkit for it because it started as a text only runtime). There is no record of this language anywhere as far as I know.<p>I believe around the 2000s as part of the sale of the company he rewrote the whole stack in C#. And he's been using it ever since,  including the company we started together in 2013 (together doing a lot of work here). Still with good old Notepad and CSC.exe just like year 1.He curses everytime the ecosystem has big required changes (async, nuget) though I've managed to coerce him into keeping up with the times, dragging and screaming.</p>
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<p>Change is hard.<p>My father is a 70-year-old software engineer who programs .NET Core in Notepad and builds using custom BAT files that build the project using csc (the outright compiler). He browses and copies files in the Windows Terminal. He is also accustomed to Linux since we deploy to it in our business, and he can do everything comfortably in the Linux terminal.<p>He trusts me almost blindly, yet I can’t convince him to swap to Linux even though every time he keeps fighting Windows. I'm actually fairly surprised since I'm certain he'd find himself at home almost immediately( he already is when managing servers)<p>I’m fairly sure it’s Notepad keeping him there, but I’ve told him there is also a Linux clone or Wine.
I had been dabbling in Linux for 30 years, and it’s been about 7 or 8 years since I switched full-time and couldn’t be happier. But honestly, we're going to get there because it’s inevitable. It’s the only OS that's currently not wholly incentivized to "enshittify" itself and is actually improving at a pretty good pace due to Wayland's novelty fostering a plethora of alternative window managers.</p>
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<p>Same here. I'd definitely drop the subscription immediately, unless the assistant was super cheap, like $1 or $2 more which is the most I'd pay for kagi personally.</p>
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<p>It absolutely is a different and more insidious type of dynamic pricing.<p>First, you can use the airline's strategy to your advantage by planning early. It doesn't feel as unfair because everyone gets the same terms and the system is transparent and equal<p>WaPos daynamic pricing is simply maximizing value capture, without any way of a consumer benefitting. It's 100% lose-lose for the consumer. You always pay the maximum you are willing to pay. No discounts!<p>I was just answering OPs question about how airlines were transparent about their system and decided to answer it factually.</p>
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<p>Mexican cartels absolutely use OF to launder massive quantities of money. They use OF because it's the one thats actually used by people. It's a lot easier and less suspicious to declare ridiculous high subscriber counts in OF that other platforms.</p>
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<p>Have you ever noticed that the tickets for a nearly empty flight is a lot cheaper than a nearly full one? Thats dynamic pricing.<p>The price changes according dynamically according to demand.</p>
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<p>This is gossip veiled as journalism.</p>
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<p>Qudelix 5k (portable dac/amp) has weak anc / passthrough mode, only in Bluetooth mode.</p>
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<p>wine is probably better for backwards compatibility than modern windows / microsoft.</p>
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<p>In theory the docker container should only have the projects directory mounted, open access to the internet, and thats it. No access to anything else on the host or the local network.<p>Internet to connect with the provider, install packages, and search.<p>It's not perfect but it's a start.</p>
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<p>I see a ton of my peers driving around in 80k cars. I drive a 20k used one.<p>I'm planning a writing a ROCM inference engine anyways, or at least contributing to the rocm vllm or sglang implementations for my cards since I'm interested in the field. Funnily enough, I wouldn't consider myself bullish on AI, I just want to really learn the field so I can evaluate where it's heading.<p>I spent about 10k on the cards, though the upgrades were piece meal as I found them cheap. I still have to get custom water blocks for them since the original W7900s (which are cheap) are triple slot, so you can't fit 4 of them in any sort of workstation setup (I even looked at rack mount options).<p>Bought a used thread ripper pro wrx80 motherboard ($600), I bought the cheapest TR Pro CPU for the MB (3945wx, $150), I bought 3 128Gb DDR4-3200 sticks at 230 each before the craze, was planning on populating all 8 channels if prices went down a bit. Each stick is now 900, more than I paid for all 3 combined (730 with S&H and taxes). So the system is staying as is until prices come down a bit.<p>For AI assisted programming, the best value prop by far is Gemini (free) as the orchestrator + open code using either free models or grok / minimax / glm through their very cheap plans (for minimax or glm) or open router which is very cheap. You can also find some interest providers like Cerebras, who get <i>silly</i> fast token generation, which enables interesting cases.</p>
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<p>My first switch was to open code + open router. I used it to try mixing models for different tasks and to try open weights models before committing to the hardware.<p>Even paying API pricing it was significantly cheaper than the nearly $500 I was paying monthly (I was spending about $100 month combined between Claude pro, chat gpt plus, and open router credits).<p>Only when I knew exactly the setup I wanted locally did I start looking at hardware. That part has been a PITA since I went with AMD for budget reasons and it looks like I'll be writing my own inference engine soon, but I could have gone with Nvidia and had much less issues (for double the cost, dual Blackwell's vs quad Radeon W7900s for 192GB of VRAM).<p>If you spend twice what I did and go Nvidia you should have nearly no issues running any models. But using open router is super easy, there are always free models (grok famously was free for a while), and there are very cheap and decent models.<p>All of this doesn't matter if you aren't paying for your AI usage out of pocket. I was so Anthropics and OpenAIs value proposition vs basically free Gemini + open router or local models is just not there for me.</p>
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