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New comment by gred in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

gred — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:45:18 +0000

> this obviously doesn't make any sense

That's debatable, but it's a moot point; it's pastiche, so it doesn't have the same goals or motivations as the original.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastiche

New comment by gred in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

gred — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:16:26 +0000

Three years too late, in my case. I've moved on.

New comment by gred in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

gred — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:16:37 +0000

Madrid, Spain. It's theoretically very EV-friendly. These days I tend to rent hybrids. I don't even care if the battery actually works. They check the "green" legal checkbox which allows you to go downtown without getting a ticket, and you can rely on the ICE engine to get you where you need to go.

New comment by gred in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

gred — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:16:51 +0000

> Practicality beats enthusiasm for 95% of car use.

About two years ago I rented an electric car for a few days. I felt like I wasted a ton of time finding a charging station, jumping through phone app hoops to get the charging process started, and then waiting for the car to charge. I've stayed away from electric rentals since, even though they're often cheaper.

New comment by gred in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

gred — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:09:38 +0000

> It's the Supreme Court that has expanded the powers of the President

Sort of, but Congress also wrote a bunch of pretty broad, vague laws, delegating a significant amount of power to the executive via agency rulemaking, and it turns out the agencies are part of the executive branch and have to do what the head of the executive branch says they have to do (within the limits of those broad, vague laws). If Congress can't get back to smaller, simpler, more specific laws, and they continue to pass the burden of this complexity over to the executive branch to figure out, the executive branch will continue to wield outsize power.

New comment by gred in "2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal?"

gred — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:33:30 +0000

> AbstractCommandlineParserFactoryBeanServicePatternFactory

...Locator

New comment by gred in "The Legacy of Nicaea"

gred — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:31:24 +0000

Thanks for the links.

Regarding "real presence", and speaking only for myself as a Christian who doesn't believe this -- my attitude to this is similar to my attitude to disagreements on creation in 6 days vs 6 eras, disagreements over where the end-of-times millennium will fall in the overall sequence of events of Christ's return, and disagreements on how or whether to celebrate Christmas.

For all of these topics I have a belief, and I'll argue it happily, but I also know that none of these are central to salvation. I'm not so sure about Mariology, which seems to veer dangerously close to idolatry and appears to cloud Jesus' central (and exclusive) role in salvation.

New comment by gred in "The Legacy of Nicaea"

gred — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:14:49 +0000

It's a little ironic to label a call to "stop adding new things" as a "new thing" itself, no?

New comment by gred in "The Legacy of Nicaea"

gred — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:25:39 +0000

Many Catholics believe that Mary was born without sin (immaculate conception), never died (assumption into heaven), can advocate to Jesus for believers (intercession) and has been crowned the Queen of Heaven. This goes well beyond "admiring" or "honoring". To complicate matters, many of these dogmas were only formalized by the Catholic church in the past 200 years. Quite a hard sell for the "sola scriptura" contingent.

New comment by gred in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

gred — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:21:22 +0000

> I have a few really good hardware ideas, but I don't believe I could ever market them fast enough and far enough to make it worth spending the R&D to make them happen.

Isn't this why patents exist?

New comment by gred in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

gred — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:40:43 +0000

If the telephone replaces errand boys, should it also pay taxes?

New comment by gred in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

gred — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:57:37 +0000

> Linux's DRM Panic "Screen of Death"

> "There is no particular reason to do it in rust, I just wanted to learn rust, and see if it can work in the kernel."

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-Panic-QR-Codes

New comment by gred in "The most male and female reasons to end up hospital"

gred — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:51:01 +0000

Women: surgery to extract eggs

Men: wanking into a tube

New comment by gred in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

gred — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:02:01 +0000

I assume you're talking about malware uploaded to new artifact coordinates (possibly named so as to try to confuse users), not hijacking of existing artifact coordinates (group ID, artifact ID)?

New comment by gred in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

gred — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:28:27 +0000

NPM has about 4 million packages, Maven Central has about 3 million packages.

If this were true, wouldn't there have been at least one Maven attack by now, considering the number of NPM attacks that we've seen?

New comment by gred in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

gred — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:49:34 +0000

Anecdotally, I know of one child who was homeschooled recently. The mother is a single mother, of modest middle-class means. There was a homeschooling group nearby with a few volunteer mothers handling most of the logistics and teaching. This particular mother did not have to give up her job. It does stretch the definition of "homeschooling" a bit when it's a neighbor teaching in a neighbor's home, but they made it work.

New comment by gred in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

gred — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:44:03 +0000

> I learned that the BS American value of "popularity" doesn't translate into successful futures.

Popularity is not an exclusively American concept. Just as public school broadened your horizons, so will traveling (or living) abroad.

New comment by gred in "Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report"

gred — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 11:16:03 +0000

> they'll tell me the same thing the annoying guy said, for years, but because they're outside consultants, I'll listen to them when they say it

A tale as old as time:

> Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. [...] Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home." He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. He was amazed at their lack of faith. (Mark 6:1-6)

New comment by gred in "Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54%"

gred — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:30:32 +0000

See sibling comment. Seguimos siendo un país de gitanos que no se ha adaptado a las necesidades infraestructurales, organizacionales, legales o sociales de las renovables. I'm bullish on solar in the long-term, but I expect further problems here (including outages) in the short- to mid-term. I'd love to be wrong on this, though.

BTW, with a name like "lentil_soup" how could you not live in Spain? ;-)

New comment by gred in "Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe's richest man"

gred — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:18:43 +0000

> let them take their money with them

The image of taxman as thief has never been clearer.