Hacker News: gatvol

New comment by gatvol in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

gatvol — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:34:28 +0000

Lovely. What does their power cost? How much power hungry industry do these countries have?

New comment by gatvol in "PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program"

gatvol — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:34:53 +0000

"The world doesn't run on merit. " Critical systems do.

New comment by gatvol in "PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program"

gatvol — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:32:02 +0000

What is your evidence for this: "... because of structural problems that push them out, be that systemic misogyny in our educational systems ..." , "the toxicity present in the industry that pushes them out ... "?

What alternative reasons have you explored?

New comment by gatvol in "Uv overtakes pip in CI"

gatvol — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:43:31 +0000

UV is super fast and great for environment management, however it's not at all well suited to a containerised environment, unless I'm missing something fundamental (unless you like using an env in your container that is).

New comment by gatvol in "Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris"

gatvol — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 21:15:54 +0000

I would argue that endorsement while currently normalised, is not normal.

New comment by gatvol in "Start calculating digital carbon emissions in 5 minutes with CO2.js (2022)"

gatvol — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 21:59:26 +0000

I am extremely skeptical about this sort of thing - I suspect that it's extremely challenging to reliably make assertions about the carbon cost of running a given website given that there are so many unaccountable-for variables; at best the very "edge" of any carbon usage is being guessed at.

Added to that the opportunities for charging the various parties for "certification" are simply too good to pass up it seems.

New comment by gatvol in "After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL"

gatvol — Thu, 30 May 2024 10:37:18 +0000

If you're writing you're REST API by hand I'd suggest that you may not be doing it optimally.

New comment by gatvol in "British Library cyber incident review [pdf]"

gatvol — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 20:12:54 +0000

Herein lies the kicker:

> In common with other on-premise servers, this terminal server was protected by firewalls and virus software, but access was not subject to Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

New comment by gatvol in "Post-Serverless Era Trends"

gatvol — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 22:08:15 +0000

Not on board with this, other than the advantages that solutions like Pulumi have over 2nd gen IaC tooling like TF. Pulumi is far more extensible and composable than anything else I've seen out there.

New comment by gatvol in "Starship will attempt a launch this Friday"

gatvol — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:26:37 +0000

Most impressive; 3 x launches by SpaceX scheduled on a single day.

New comment by gatvol in "Three NorCal Tribes Announce Nation’s First Indigenous Ocean Protection Area"

gatvol — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 05:02:25 +0000

Those events occurred a long time ago to people that no longer exist.

New comment by gatvol in "Three NorCal Tribes Announce Nation’s First Indigenous Ocean Protection Area"

gatvol — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 23:22:56 +0000

Sovereignty only exists for those that recognise it.

New comment by gatvol in "Three NorCal Tribes Announce Nation’s First Indigenous Ocean Protection Area"

gatvol — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 23:19:29 +0000

For how many generations back do these claims remain valid? As someone of European ancestry do I have claims in Europe?

New comment by gatvol in "Three NorCal Tribes Announce Nation’s First Indigenous Ocean Protection Area"

gatvol — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 21:49:10 +0000

Agree with the ecological preservation objectives, hard disagree with handing over of sovereignty, whatever that actually means,to a group based on their ethnicity / ancestry.

New comment by gatvol in "‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any profit"

gatvol — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 21:25:40 +0000

From TA: "Those increases, the report says, were driven by costs of fertiliser (up 60 per cent worldwide), construction (+48 per cent), fuel and gas (+41 per cent), shipping rates (+40 per cent), and electricity (+40 percent)." All of the drivers are energy related - I'd hypothesise this is the result of climate policies impacting energy costs.

New comment by gatvol in "What differentiates front-end frameworks"

gatvol — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:15:24 +0000

Not a single mention of URLs, statefulness ...

New comment by gatvol in "SQL:2023 has been released"

gatvol — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 19:08:59 +0000

Not a standard if access requires payment.

New comment by gatvol in "Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement"

gatvol — Thu, 18 May 2023 19:28:38 +0000

Agreed - to an extent. IMO the current term of copyright is the primary issue - and the balance has tipped too far in favour of copyright holders; This case is a good example of the ridiculousness of that state - the artist has expired and is no longer able to enjoy the benefits of his work - yet he descendants expect to continue to profit from his work - which seems unreasonable and detrimental to society.

New comment by gatvol in "AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds'"

gatvol — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:10:17 +0000

No doubt by pushing the clients to use inappropriate vendor-locky-in serverless tech stacks that are inappropriate for the workloads.

New comment by gatvol in "Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default"

gatvol — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 18:03:22 +0000

This feels like .deb vs .rpm all over again.

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New comment by gatvol in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

New comment by gatvol in "PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program"

New comment by gatvol in "PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program"

New comment by gatvol in "Uv overtakes pip in CI"

New comment by gatvol in "Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris"

New comment by gatvol in "Start calculating digital carbon emissions in 5 minutes with CO2.js (2022)"

New comment by gatvol in "After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL"

New comment by gatvol in "British Library cyber incident review [pdf]"

New comment by gatvol in "Post-Serverless Era Trends"

New comment by gatvol in "Starship will attempt a launch this Friday"

New comment by gatvol in "Three NorCal Tribes Announce Nation’s First Indigenous Ocean Protection Area"

New comment by gatvol in "Three NorCal Tribes Announce Nation’s First Indigenous Ocean Protection Area"

New comment by gatvol in "Three NorCal Tribes Announce Nation’s First Indigenous Ocean Protection Area"

New comment by gatvol in "Three NorCal Tribes Announce Nation’s First Indigenous Ocean Protection Area"

New comment by gatvol in "‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any profit"

New comment by gatvol in "What dif­fer­enti­ates front-end frame­works"

New comment by gatvol in "SQL:2023 has been released"

New comment by gatvol in "Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement"

New comment by gatvol in "AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds'"

New comment by gatvol in "Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default"

New comment by gatvol in "What differentiates front-end frameworks"