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New comment by hvb2 in "A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)"

hvb2 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:09:34 +0000

> Where you can get nearby fairly easy like base Las Torres, you'll have plenty of people doing just that.

Are you sure it's the accessibility or the fact that Torres del Paine, which is very famous, is next door?

I get what you're saying though, maybe you just picked a bad example

New comment by hvb2 in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

hvb2 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:53:09 +0000

Just saying, anyone calling themselves an example is someone I'll ignore (but I'll reply to explain the rationale)

This is the mentality that says that if your company goes bust, you didn't work hard enough. Sometimes effort might be the problem..

No, not everyone can make it from nowhere to staff software engineer. That doesn't mean they're not trying hard enough.

New comment by hvb2 in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

hvb2 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:23:08 +0000

And you pay for this, how? Because typically that would mean taxing something more.

I've seen those kind of proposals as ballot measures that get voted down.

New comment by hvb2 in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

hvb2 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:19:17 +0000

You can't add more trains if the schedule is full to the brink. You would need to add train tracks, and that requires big projects

New comment by hvb2 in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

hvb2 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:34:10 +0000

Related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405718

New comment by hvb2 in "Dear Microsoft, enough is enough"

hvb2 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:09:31 +0000

Aren't those other browsers still required to use the safari rendering engine?

I might be years out of the loop if I missed that changing lol

New comment by hvb2 in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

hvb2 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:15:39 +0000

Your analysis of the whole rise of AI is that people with access to capital will lose relevance???

So the most capital intensive industry we've ever created will put less power in the hands of those with capital?

I'm sorry, I have no idea how you came to that conclusion...

New comment by hvb2 in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

hvb2 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:27:56 +0000

So in the first 5 years, no reason not to buy it. Basically proving the point I was making

New comment by hvb2 in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

hvb2 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:25:43 +0000

That's also a bit 'you get what you pay for'? Especially with large electronics/cars typically it pays off to go for the more expensive ones. Miele here as well and well past a decade

And there are still parts too

New comment by hvb2 in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

hvb2 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:46:17 +0000

Cars only show if they're well made after like a decade? These are not washing machines or something.

Sadly that's also why it's hard to buy a new car, you only know what's a quality car years down the line.

First impression matters though.

New comment by hvb2 in "Why Custom Attributes in .NET Give Me Nightmares"

hvb2 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:14:19 +0000

Assuming you have all the code in your solution, you could do this with a source generator instead and have no need of reflection and are AOT compatible

New comment by hvb2 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

hvb2 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:20:58 +0000

> If there exists sufficient demand for the product of space launches then it's probably reasonable to expect their to be a near-peer competitor soon

Space is not that easy. Even with unlimited money, it'll probably take 10 years to build a rocket like starship. Going from nothing to orbit needs a lot of money but more money doesn't make that faster.

New comment by hvb2 in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

hvb2 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:54:05 +0000

That's also how you get to little disposable income. It's choices people make and that's their right but it does look odd occasionally.

New comment by hvb2 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

hvb2 — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:36:51 +0000

No, that's because in the US they're handling the international flights separately. It's also the reason why even when you have a layover, you need to clear customs.

Domestic flights in the US are like busses/trains elsewhere. Most people fly without a checked bag

New comment by hvb2 in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

hvb2 — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:21:38 +0000

Which is fine, if and only if that's your actual business

New comment by hvb2 in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

hvb2 — Sun, 31 May 2026 05:16:24 +0000

For calculus maybe, but in medical/biology fields you might want to see how different people may react differently to the same treatment.

New comment by hvb2 in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

hvb2 — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:35:09 +0000

Government, and taxation/subsidies in general, have and always will be a tool to encourage one thing and discourage the other.

A lot of research won't be profitable for years to come or is even unlikely to be profitable at all, so you funding sources are limited. The government, having no profit motive, can encourage this kind of research by funding it. Typically the hope is that it'll lead to increased productivity or innovation down the line.

You don't have to be a statistician to see that not all groups of the populace are represented equally among scholars. If you want all viewpoints covered from you populace, wouldn't that mean you want to try and push for inclusion there? That doesn't mean everything has to be inclusive but you sure can incentivize it

New comment by hvb2 in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

hvb2 — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:20:52 +0000

> I don't know why no one else can produce a laptop with decent battery life with an near silent fan and good display and overall great production quality.

Isn't that the whole reason why Apple is the company it is? Steve Jobs wanted to control the software AND the hardware. That hasn't changed, they're still the only one really. That does get you some benefits

New comment by hvb2 in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

hvb2 — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:56:08 +0000

The engines are seeing significant development. These engines are the most complex of their kind, they inject the fuel and oxidizer as hot gases. Google full flow staged combustion cycle

What you refer to as the rocket, meaning the tube itself isn't failing. It's just that a big explosion will treat it apart

New comment by hvb2 in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

hvb2 — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:50:57 +0000

You don't need to fill it all the way up for that. If in flight your engines burn for 2 minutes, but your static fire is only a few seconds you can see why.