<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: justsid</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=justsid</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:23:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=justsid" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justsid in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn’t that the same bet that famously profitable companies like Uber did in the ride share market?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:37:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025326</link><dc:creator>justsid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025326</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justsid in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This thread was similarly eye opening to me. But it explains why that store is always packed, apparently people just do weekend trips to Costco.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:12:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787483</link><dc:creator>justsid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787483</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justsid in "Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When you get up from a seat and walk a few steps you are already doing that on something that is hurtling down space. We don’t notice that our planet moves a lot, because we can’t really see the movement in our reference frame. If you were on a plane without any windows, no turbulence and no sound cues from the engine, you wouldn’t know when getting up from your plane seat that you are in a moving object either.<p>Acceleration is a real force that we can feel. But once moving at a constant speed, physics dictates that it’s all the same. That’s also why you can throw a tennis ball up on a plane and not have it fly backwards immediately smacking into the person behind you.<p>In the reference frame of you and the aircraft, you are not moving at all and neither is the plane. In the reference frame of the ground you and the plane are moving.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:46:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698755</link><dc:creator>justsid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justsid in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Semiconducting materials have relatively small band gaps, they are insulators that take very little additional energy to become conductors. In contrast good insulators incinerate before they start conducting (or turn into plasma).<p>Energy being energy means that high enough ambient heat can kick electrons into the higher orbitals because the band gap is so small. This also happens at normal ambient temperatures, but those electrons don’t make it very far and there aren’t that many. At 200c a closed gate is not stopping enough electrons from moving through it anymore.<p>At least this is the slightly hand waved technical explanation. Project in Flight on Youtube has an excellent video on how semiconductors work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:28:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673971</link><dc:creator>justsid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justsid in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That shouldn’t be a problem then given that we don’t care about environmental impacts anymore.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:17:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673797</link><dc:creator>justsid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673797</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justsid in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The fissile elements and the oxygen that makes up water already came from stars.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:21:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48590978</link><dc:creator>justsid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48590978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48590978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justsid in "Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I assume if the people willingly wanting all these extras were enough, their business wasn’t an exercise in adding as many dark patterns as possible. But you are right, I don’t have direct evidence or numbers, but the behaviour doesn’t track with a company that isn’t trying to exploit its customers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:27:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586876</link><dc:creator>justsid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586876</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justsid in "The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How else would the OS know your read/write 16 pages away from the current stack pointer is in fact an attempt to increase the stack and not just really bad pointer arithmetic and a bug? How many pages should the runtime let you skip before its just a segfault?</p>
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<p>“Ad” supported? It’s other people holding the bag for falling for these.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:32:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510976</link><dc:creator>justsid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510976</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justsid in "Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think they meant state sponsored censorship. Which definitely does exist, but it seems companies are quite creative in circumnavigating a lot of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:28:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510958</link><dc:creator>justsid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510958</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justsid in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t agree with the arrest and definitely not every law either, but this has got to be rage bait. I’m quite happy to live in a society with laws</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 05:40:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254737</link><dc:creator>justsid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254737</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justsid in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Doesn’t that just move the problem 7 days down the road? I always assumed these kinds of things just burn themselves because someone gets infected and realizes, not that there is an army of people auditing the changes. If everyone cooldowns for 7 days, it just happens later?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 06:28:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157399</link><dc:creator>justsid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157399</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justsid in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ReactOS does not have the features that the parent specifically asked for (and that you quoted). It’s also far from being usable as a production OS.<p>What the parent wants doesn’t exist, it’s interesting to see people give suggestions for alternatives. It’s clear that their priority are these underlying features and they wish it had a boxy grey UI, not that the boxy grey UI is the only requirement and everything else is optional.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 15:25:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109701</link><dc:creator>justsid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109701</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justsid in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not everyone not conforming to your preferred style of communication is autistic. What is up with the internet trying to diagnose people?!<p>The parent is right. The reason society as a whole is way too comfortable with overstepping social boundaries, is because people think it’s somehow rude to confront others. It makes no sense. Sometimes you gotta say it how it is, because quite frankly the real rude person is the one copy and pasting a ton of AI output into your communication so you have to parse that and then try and figure out the original intent between the lines. How is that acceptable but saying “don’t do that to me?” is not?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 15:12:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084633</link><dc:creator>justsid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084633</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justsid in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s hardly Banksy’s fault for getting famous. Was Banksy supposed to stop creating art once it was no longer being washed off and seen as a nuisance?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 15:30:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009938</link><dc:creator>justsid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009938</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justsid in "LittleSnitch for Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is such a naive view on computer security. It’s not just about spyware, which is also not exclusive to commercial vendors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:58:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700200</link><dc:creator>justsid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justsid in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s a company that turns plants into meat like substance. There is no plant that grows like this, of course it has to be processed to get from its original form to the new form.<p>Likewise, not all processing is bad. Cooking food is a form of processing and just makes the nutrients much more easy to digest.</p>
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<p>Missiles are a lot more expensive and much less reusable than goons though. If the nation state can’t afford the goons, it can’t afford to missile you either</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:30:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365804</link><dc:creator>justsid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365804</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by justsid in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I definitely assumed they were encrypted separately in 2048 vote chunks and that one such chunk failed to decrypt.</p>
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<p>The coat asymmetry with drones is crazy, they are stupid cheap to deploy on a nation state level. I feel like it’s going to be years until we fully learn the lessons from the Ukraine Russia war.</p>
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