<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: jonasdegendt</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jonasdegendt</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:54:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jonasdegendt" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonasdegendt in "Honda is killing its EVs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This would be true but you're not accounting for OPEC and other groups (e.g. historically the Texas Railroad Commission in the United States, not sure how relevant they still are) to balance production and price per barrel to what they think is agreeable.<p>Oil hasn't been supply constrained since the 50's, it's price is largely based on what producing countries agree on, as well as geopolitics.<p>Additionally, governments levy a decent amount of taxes on certain end products such as gasoline. They might very well, as they have in the past, decide to simply up their tax revenue as prices of crude and derivatives go down.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:47:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422794</link><dc:creator>jonasdegendt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422794</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonasdegendt in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The whole game is basically one giant random number generator, so there was a lot to gamble on.<p>E.g., two players put one million gold pieces in their inventory, equip no equipment (so no attack bonuses), every hit on each other is now an RNG roll with identical odds for each player. Battle to the death and voila.<p>That one's quite basic but there were more elaborate games such as flower poker. The game had a flower seeds item which when planted would spawn a flower on the floor. The flower would be of a random color (e.g. red, blue, white, ...). People would bet on which color flower would pop up, or plant plant five flowers sequentially and try and get something akin to a poker hand (e.g. three of a kind, full house).<p>Quite silly, in retrospect, as I'm typing this out.</p>
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<p>They did run a dicing clan as well, FWIW, although I doubt they were the first to do it.</p>
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<p>There were dozens of ways to make money off of RuneScape back in the day. Selling bot scripts, running bot farms (this is still very lucrative to this day), running gambling rings, bulk buying gold and reselling, the list goes on.<p>The ecosystem was incredible and it was basically a crash course in Anarcho-capitalism, I'm pretty immune to any kind of scam because of having been in that environment.<p>I made close to 20 grand <i>as a 16 year old</i> through some bug abuse, over the course of 2 weeks if I recall. But alas, I blew it pretty quickly because easy come, easy go.</p>
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<p>It’s a fun Vegas vending machine gimmick, but if I go to nice pizzeria I'd prefer my pizza be made by a human. Am I missing other use cases?</p>
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<p>Didn’t Apple themselves at some point release an ad with a teenager using an iPad going “what’s a computer”?<p>They’re pretty aware they’d be cannibalizing their lower-end laptop lineup.</p>
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<p>I worked at a bring your own distro place before, ISO certified. I don’t exactly recall what we had to install for compliance but one of them was Clam AV. So it’s possible.<p>I recall Arch, Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora being used. Relatively small shop though, like 40 devs.<p>Ironically we were contracting with ASML at the time and ended up having to work on Windows machines using Remote Desktop 99% of the time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:29:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208147</link><dc:creator>jonasdegendt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jonasdegendt in "Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Took a winter trip to Norway once with friends, which included a Norwegian that'd immigrated away to the much milder climate the rest of us were all used to. We got a meter of overnight snow and I'd never seen a person so eager to get shoveling, it took her right back to her childhood. What a machine too, once she got going.<p>We were dealing with -10C to -20C , but as someone else pointed out my takeaway was that it's really your extremities that you need to think about, there rest of my body was easy to keep warm in comparison. I ended up taking a pair of winter motorcycle gloves I had laying around on the trip, water and wind proof and those worked like a charm with an additional pair of thin, inner gloves, so there's a tip!<p>I didn't quite nail keeping my feet warm though, but I was wearing regular hiking boots with very thick wool socks. Still felt like I was draining heat to the ground at a rapid rate though.</p>
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<p>The watch face can change, repurposing the hands for a stopwatch and compass mode.<p>See the multigraph section: <a href="https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce" rel="nofollow">https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce</a></p>
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<p>There's a more in-depth page on the Ferrari website:<p><a href="https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce" rel="nofollow">https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce</a></p>
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<p>Those fall into the category of defeatism, perhaps?</p>
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<p>> I had a very similar experience, except it killed my libido<p>Did you, as well as the other people seconding this, have any libido left in the first place? I got on Sertraline because I was depressed, and it actually brought my libido back, by virtue of just bringing me back to a better emotional baseline.<p>All to say, if it had affected my libido, it'd have been a NOOP anyway in my case.</p>
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<p>I feel like we do generally brush, a little too easily, over the fact that economics is still a theoretical science, of which finance is subsequently the practical and technical implementation. Much like psychology, sometimes we turn out to be right about theories, sometimes we're not.</p>
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<p>Most Zoomers around me that pirate use some application that obfuscates the torrenting part away, they just have to know how to use a search box and hit play.</p>
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<p>About 20% of sites, and there’s some big services behind Cloudflare so that percentage doesn’t even tell the full story.</p>
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<p>You should look into different tires perhaps.</p>
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<p><a href="https://archive.is/NhyjE" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/NhyjE</a></p>
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<p>I’m interested, please link!</p>
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<p>Makes a lot of sense, thanks for the insight!</p>
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<p>Hah nope! Even as a Belgian I find the naming of the Brussels train stations maddening. Brussels-Midi is the south station, so Brussel-Zuid. Midi allegedly means south in French, but I've never actually heard it being used over "sud", also south.<p>In conversation, midi also means noon (e.g. used as "meet me at noon"), which for my brain correlates more with central than south, given the context of a day.<p>Not a linguist, so what do I know, maybe someone else can chime in.</p>
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