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New comment by geoka9 in "The startup's Postgres survival guide"

geoka9 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:03:15 +0000

If you already run k8s, why not just use cnpg?

https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg

New comment by geoka9 in "Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family"

geoka9 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:21:26 +0000

> serfs became indebted to the landowners in a form of financial bondage that pretty much lasted until the Russian revolution, where...well things didn't get much better for them.

Exactly. Bolsheviks just changed the name from "serfdom" to "collective farms". Mandatory membership where members were not allowed an ID that enabled them to move inside the country and therefore were bound to the farm. The practice continued until the late 1970s.

New comment by geoka9 in "Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices"

geoka9 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:40:57 +0000

Removable cushions in a couch are pretty rare. As a counter example, both of my couches still have perfect cushions. One bought for C$800 15 years ago and another for C$1500 5 years ago.

New comment by geoka9 in "Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices"

geoka9 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:33:12 +0000

Natuzzi (an Italian brand) has its "Editions" line that's cheaper because it's made in China. From my experience, the quality is good.

Also, brands like CB2 and Crate & Barrel are American and popular in Canada - especially CB2 because of its good designs and quality at cheaper prices (which are even cheaper in the US).

New comment by geoka9 in "I think I have LLM burnout"

geoka9 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:59:09 +0000

We end up having to review the copious tests. In addition to the code (we still review it, right)?

New comment by geoka9 in "Africans Are Turning to Starlink"

geoka9 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:44:02 +0000

Nice!

New comment by geoka9 in "Africans Are Turning to Starlink"

geoka9 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:17:56 +0000

Yes, for a while Starlink was available to the invading Russian troops killing Ukrainians, but this is over now, thanks god.

New comment by geoka9 in "Africans Are Turning to Starlink"

geoka9 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:02:51 +0000

They are Russian-linked:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfD_pro-Russia_movement

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-germany-far-right-forum/33544...

New comment by geoka9 in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

geoka9 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:15:25 +0000

This is so cool. Thank you!

New comment by geoka9 in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

geoka9 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:01:00 +0000

> Emacs cursor movement keystrokes are quite widely supported elsewhere too

Yes, even in Codex and Claude Code.

> Those work well also besides shells with Chromium/Chrome/Safari... My only gripe is that Firefox and its derivatives it doesn't work any more

Interesting, my experience is exactly the opposite: I had to finally bite the bullet and migrate to Firefox because Chrome/ium switched to GTK4 which removed key themes support.

(That's OK though, I should've moved off Chrome a long time ago.)

New comment by geoka9 in "Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog"

geoka9 — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:42:27 +0000

So delicious noise though!

New comment by geoka9 in "Trump says US will blockade Strait of Hormuz"

geoka9 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:54:00 +0000

"She laughed funny" is a dog whistle for "a non-white woman".

New comment by geoka9 in "Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays"

geoka9 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:10:23 +0000

Some would say Russia is very much inside the US and somewhat inside the EU through its proxies (currently govts of Hungary and Slovakia, quite possibly in the future - France and Germany).

New comment by geoka9 in "Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU"

geoka9 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:17:31 +0000

> The EU is right now talking about becoming a great military force _to fight Russia_ (emphasis mine)

Correction: to not have to fight Russia. The EU falling apart is Putin's wet dream because he's very afraid of a confrontation with the whole bloc, and wants to subjugate the small European countries piecemeal (and yes, on their own, they would have to submit or face missiles/drones or, even worse, human meatwave attacks by a foe that has been whipping its populace into a death cult for decades for exactly that eventuality).

New comment by geoka9 in "Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU"

geoka9 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:00:51 +0000

> Ironically, young Canadians are looking to move elsewhere.

Are they still, considering they were mostly moving to the US before and now the idea is kind of scary?

A war foretold:how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin's Ukraine plans and why

geoka9 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:01:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/feb/20/a-war-foretold-cia-mi6-putin-ukraine-plans-russia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096704

Points: 10

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New comment by geoka9 in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

geoka9 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:27:15 +0000

Why do angry people tend to lean conservative?

New comment by geoka9 in "Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds"

geoka9 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:59:12 +0000

There's KILO if you're cool with your bullion stored at the Royal Canadian Mint.

New comment by geoka9 in "Canada Announces Divorce from America"

geoka9 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:14:49 +0000

> Trump is a symptom, not the cause.

For sure, but there's something to be said about nobody else being able to amass so much power with the right and losing to a saner candidate (Haley, Romney, basically anybody else).

New comment by geoka9 in "US Places Arctic Airborne Troops on Standby as Greenland Dispute Escalates"

geoka9 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:53:26 +0000

Reserve currency status makes increasing money supply easier (the US has run large deficits and monetary expansions with less inflation than peers). "Petrodollars" create persistent demand for USD, independent of US domestic conditions - countries that import oil must earn USD (via exports, borrowing, or reserves) or hold US reserves in advance. Oil exporters, on the other hand, invest surplus dollars into US treasuries. This process absorbs US money creation and lowers US borrowing costs. This is an enormous advantage that the US is likely to lose if it continues on its isolationist course.