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New comment by happyraul in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

happyraul — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:25:07 +0000

I don't think it's useful to account for time spent outside of work by the same hourly income as a way to measure how much something costs. By that logic, spending an hour listening would also "cost" $300.

New comment by happyraul in "Have a fucking website"

happyraul — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:17:33 +0000

I accept that as a software developer, I have a myopic view on it, but it doesn't have to be hard.

- Get a domain name

- Get a VPS with an nginx image pre-installed

- Write a plain text file with the info you want shown (hours, contact info, etc...)

Yeah it's not sexy, but it's a start and it can be changed when time and interest allows.

New comment by happyraul in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

happyraul — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:23:31 +0000

FEIE is only one of the options for avoiding federal income tax. The other is the Foreign Tax Credit, which has no such limit: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1116.pdf. If the place an American lives and works has a higher income tax rate than the US one, in practice he will not face any tax liability, regardless of income level.

New comment by happyraul in "Claude Opus 4.6"

happyraul — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:38:22 +0000

No, the point is that you can set up the testing exercise without using an LLM to do a simple find and replace.

Everything I read, watched, and played in 2025

happyraul — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 10:05:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.taranusaur.us/media

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452818

Points: 1

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New comment by happyraul in "Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing"

happyraul — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 11:57:33 +0000

What sucked about it? I've been considering it for a long time as an alternative to flying across the Atlantic.

New comment by happyraul in "Nobody’s buying homes, nobody’s switching jobs, America’s mobility is stalling"

happyraul — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:14:04 +0000

The reason there will never be enough lanes is not population growth. It's that we generally don't provide people with alternatives to driving, and adding more lanes just makes even more people have to drive, since things get even farther apart.

New comment by happyraul in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

happyraul — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 05:28:05 +0000

Are you saying on iOS there is no way to browse the Internet without an ad blocker? Maybe I should get an iPhone to stop spending time on my phone...

New comment by happyraul in "Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system"

happyraul — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:39:18 +0000

That's simply good writing practice. I find it more taxing to read digits than prose.

New comment by happyraul in "108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring"

happyraul — Thu, 01 May 2025 06:45:43 +0000

I can recommend The Story of Art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Art

New comment by happyraul in "An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip"

happyraul — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 08:58:38 +0000

To me the question of what activity/method is more "valuable" in the context of art is kind of missing the point of art.

New comment by happyraul in "Why I'm leaving Elm (2020)"

happyraul — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:19:31 +0000

This may be a good summary of the blog post, but in my opinion it is an uninformed understanding of Elm and Elm's history. JavaScript FFI isn't and never has been a "critical language feature". Rather, people discovered an implementation detail that allowed them to create thin Elm wrappers around JS libs (think Elm interface for d3, leaflet, moment, etc...). This was (rightly IMO) seen as undesirable for multiple reasons and 0.19 closed off the loophole at the compiler level.

As for being banned from the community, I keep seeing this claim but have never seen or heard of such things happening. Sure, there may be a negative reception to folks who keep wanting to re-litigate a decision that was made over and over, but nobody has been banned from anything.

New comment by happyraul in "Things Apple Maps Does Better Than Google Maps"

happyraul — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:29:20 +0000

But do either of them manage to show a legible street name at a convenient zoom level?

New comment by happyraul in "Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit"

happyraul — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:05:23 +0000

Imagine a parent today driving to work and dropping off their two kids at school on the way. Instead of one car making three stops, you're suggesting three robo taxis would accomplish the same thing. What do you think already clogged roads would look like in this future? The only scalable solution is public transit, walking, and cycling.

New comment by happyraul in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

happyraul — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 13:49:50 +0000

I think doctors' incentives are more aligned with patients than the incentives of insurance companies. I agree that incentives aren't perfectly aligned, but I'd rather a doctor decide whether I should get a treatment than an insurance company, given the system we have.

New comment by happyraul in "From where I left"

happyraul — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:31:38 +0000

I'm no fan of FAANGs, but what is "their fair share"? The entire point of OSS is that they don't have a fair share to pay. It's entirely voluntary.

New comment by happyraul in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

happyraul — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:50:19 +0000

Doctors should make that determination, not insurance companies.

New comment by happyraul in "ChatGPT Pro"

happyraul — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 23:18:07 +0000

"the signal-to-noise ratio has grown too low" is a bit odd for me. The ratio would not have grown at all.

New comment by happyraul in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

happyraul — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:41:17 +0000

If one handyman or one farmer or one trucker stopped working, no one would really care. If all CS researchers stopped working, I'd wager people would care, just as they would if handymen/farmers/truckers stopped working.

New comment by happyraul in "Using an 8K TV as a Monitor"

happyraul — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 22:20:03 +0000

For me, the best monitors by far for programming are LG's 28in DualUp, due to the aspect ratio. I have a pair side by side, and it's effectively four 1440p screens in a 2x2 layout, giving lots of vertical space without a bezel as well as horizonal on each screen.