<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: greyw</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=greyw</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:47:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=greyw" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by greyw in "LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ironically, any SoTA LLM would be able to make a better analogy than you. Sometimes the average human is the slop generator</p>
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<p>If you ask me to repeat the contents of a novel I read line by line I can do it too. Is this fair use? Do I have to pay someone?</p>
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<p>In Switzerland this fictional imputed rent is actually extremly real. We have to pay taxes as if it was earned income.<p>So you live in your fully owned flat, pretend to rent it to yourself and then pay income taxes on that amount. The point is your government can make this "fake" value very real.<p>Luckily we recently voted to abolish this tax so it will be gone in some years. This tax was introduced as an emergency measure in ww1.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:24:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943595</link><dc:creator>greyw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943595</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by greyw in "So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have this incredible strong urge to try to understand how our world works. I keep finding new topics in physics I just need to understand to calm this urge. Back to grinding differential geometry for me. Im long past college</p>
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<p>Credit Cards improve your working capital position, interest free. Most people do not understand finance which is why debit cards are the "safer" choice.</p>
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<p>Oh wow you are right, thats really bad. Terrible look for the author.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:59:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573219</link><dc:creator>greyw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by greyw in "Why stdx is not on crates.io"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How is code being "stolen" here? It's FOSS code that is being copied.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:26:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572737</link><dc:creator>greyw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572737</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by greyw in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I want the quitest fans and whether they are 10 or 20 bucks is irrelevant. We are talking about tiny amounts of money here for something thats gonna run for 5y+</p>
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<p>That doesnt matter for the 10-k report. Its a fully consolidated financial statement. They have absolutely trash operating margins. If you look at their customers (artists and visitors) you see why</p>
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<p>Such are reductive and superficial way of thinking on how investments works. Makes me confident you dont really are able to make a good prediction</p>
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<p>I wont really miss taxi drivers. I guess that says a lot about them.</p>
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<p>I vaguely remember that Appimage-based programs would fail for me because of fuse and glibc symbol version incompatibilties.<p>Gave up them afterwards. If I need to tweak dependencies might as well deal with the packet manager of my distro.</p>
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<p>What exactly is broken in your tax jursidiction? My income is taxed progressivly and so is my net wealth.<p>Or do you mean taxes need to be even higher in general.</p>
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<p>Credit cards are strictly better in all aspects (rewards, protection, free working capital, etc) UNLESS you are bad with money/finances.<p>So there is actually no good reason to use debit cards. I say this as a former user. Makes no sense at all once you think everything through.</p>
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<p>So you are saying VC bros are defrauding Capital One shareholders?</p>
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<p>IIRC a huge chunk of the returns comes from roughly 4% of all stocks while the rest is basically (very simplified) just earning their cost of capital.</p>
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<p>Look you keep putting words in my mouth in a quite rude fashion.<p>You make this situation confusing by basically arguing against a strawman. Where did I say lenders are a homogeneous group? Where did I say that lenders dont understand risks and interest rates? Im pushing back against the prevalent notion that PEs are somehow hoodwinking lenders into constantly taking losses. Its not happening. Thats it. Feel free to show me data that proves otherwise.<p>If you just want to do a monologue about PEs and their shenanigans then please by all means do so but dont do it as a reply to my comment. Thank you.</p>
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<p>PE do LBOs. Yeah. And?<p>I only contest the claim that lenders are the dumbasses that keep on taking losses. It's nonsense.<p>Despite having been a tax advisors apparently you don't understand that. That is suprising. Kinda shows that your role doesn't necessarily translate into knowledge about how companies operate.</p>
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<p>Banks are not taking huge losses because a huge fraction of loans to PE work out.<p>Imagine believing PEs are just constantly scamming banks out of their money. Yeah sure.<p>Its just that people have this carricature of PE in their head plus we are on HN where there are a huge fraction of Dunning-Krugers when it comes to topics about economy. Thats why you get these internally inconsistent arguments</p>
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<p>Vivado has a native linux build. Windows is the port not the other way around. The whole EDA suites from Cadence and Synopsys is native linux.<p>EDA tools are all historically UNIX tools and still to this day</p>
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