Hacker News: juntoalaluna

New comment by juntoalaluna in "In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults"

juntoalaluna — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:37:02 +0000

decentralising your fuel production and to a lesser extent distribution is not easy either though.

New comment by juntoalaluna in "Apple Watch Series 12"

juntoalaluna — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:38:20 +0000

Battery life on Garmin’s is genuinely terrible as soon as you have music running though. Less than the apple watch.

New comment by juntoalaluna in "Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements"

juntoalaluna — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:08:01 +0000

Ah, ok, but so does the official government website. I'd never heard of Scores on the Doors until yesterday.

New comment by juntoalaluna in "Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements"

juntoalaluna — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:57:19 +0000

I think the food hygiene ratings are a regulatory thing - https://ratings.food.gov.uk - places are required to show their stickers by law.

I'm not sure how the Scores on the Doors website, which is at least related to TripAdvisor, fits into all of this...

New comment by juntoalaluna in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

juntoalaluna — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:39:39 +0000

No one is confused if you can the UK a country, or if you call England, Wales, or Scotland a country.

You might get a tedious person saying something like "actually, Wales is a principality".

New comment by juntoalaluna in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

juntoalaluna — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:58:58 +0000

Insane.

Over the last year, wind - mostly offshore - has generated more than 35% of electricity here. Gas is down to 27%. It's really, really good. And it looks cool.

New comment by juntoalaluna in "Can you see three trees?"

juntoalaluna — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:13:36 +0000

The article links to the Tree Equity Project (https://uk.treeequityscore.org/map) which has pretty detailed measures for London. Some very central areas do go as low as 2-3%, but they are probably the exception rather than the rule.

New comment by juntoalaluna in "HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund"

juntoalaluna — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:34:40 +0000

because they want people to trust them and continue to use their services. being a shitty business to deal with will eventually bite them, its not like they are the only choice.

New comment by juntoalaluna in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

juntoalaluna — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:26:52 +0000

Apologies should never have if attached to them.

You see it a lot with politicians "I apologies if I offended anyone" etc. Its not an apology at that point, the if makes it clear you are not actually apologetic.

New comment by juntoalaluna in "Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon"

juntoalaluna — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:00:23 +0000

I can’t reply to zugzug underneath (is there a maximum comment depth), but it feels pretty obvious that the US President is a very legitimate target in any war with the US. Maybe the most legitimate target.

Good luck trying to get them though.

New comment by juntoalaluna in "Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network"

juntoalaluna — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:42:53 +0000

This is not why imgur have left though, they didn't want to comply with Data Protection laws.

New comment by juntoalaluna in "Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads"

juntoalaluna — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:48:26 +0000

I confirm I will never buy a Samsung fridge.

New comment by juntoalaluna in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

juntoalaluna — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:15:15 +0000

Its also not true.

New comment by juntoalaluna in "Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]"

juntoalaluna — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 06:42:56 +0000

I don’t think you can judge the final battery implications or whether it runs smoothly from the Developer Preview, they often have significant bugs.

New comment by juntoalaluna in "Waymos crash less than human drivers"

juntoalaluna — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:37:24 +0000

My impression from the internet is that the US is particularly weak on this - people talk about tickets for DUIs like it's not a big deal.

In the UK you get a minimum 12 month ban, an unlimited fine (which are based on income and have been quite big in the past (Dec of Ant and Dec got an £86000 fine). I don't think this approach is uncommon in Europe.

New comment by juntoalaluna in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

juntoalaluna — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 07:59:09 +0000

I really like my HomePods and have had zero issues.

Siri is not smart, but plays music, sets timers and turns off lights just fine, and that’s all I want.

New comment by juntoalaluna in "My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation"

juntoalaluna — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:08:49 +0000

It's not a machine, it's just a new drill bit that cuts a hole.

New comment by juntoalaluna in "DOGE 'Audits': A Mask for Corruption, Not Efficiency"

juntoalaluna — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:25:55 +0000

Soft power is an undervalued thing that is hard to build.

It's hard to quantify how much the US benefits from promoting (what was previously) its values in other countries.

I bet its more than the $40m (or, to put it in perspective, 12 cents per citizen) that this list adds to.

New comment by juntoalaluna in "DOGE 'Audits': A Mask for Corruption, Not Efficiency"

juntoalaluna — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:09:50 +0000

Randomly destroying things without actually understanding why they are important is a very short term view on reducing waste. Fixing things if/when they go wrong is going to be expensive.

New comment by juntoalaluna in "Chinese researchers break RSA encryption with a quantum computer"

juntoalaluna — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 11:04:09 +0000

The interesting thing isn't that they've factored a 22-bit number, the interesting part is that they've done it with quantum annealing - obviously factoring 22-bits is easy!

I've got no idea of what is actually said in the paper (it is in Chinese) - there was a little bit of discussion on it a couple of days of days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41810563