Hacker News: keltex

New comment by keltex in "Java 25 officially released"

keltex — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:09:33 +0000

C# supports the "using alias" like this:

  using Project = PC.MyCompany.Project;

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...

Elon Musk's Self-Driving Tesla Lies Are Finally Catching Up to Him

keltex — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:46:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/08/20/elon-musks-self-driving-tesla-lies-are-finally-catching-up-to-him/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961439

Points: 26

# Comments: 4

New comment by keltex in "Gold pops above $3k/oz for first time in historic safe-haven rally"

keltex — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:09:29 +0000

When you say "VAT" I assume your are in Europe? Aren't there ETFs in Europe that allow you to own gold that wouldn't required VAT payments?

In the US we have GLD and others that let you do this.

Also apparently in Europe and the UK there are "investment gold" coins that are exempt from VAT:

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/932...

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/investment-gold-coins-and-vat-no...

New comment by keltex in "Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong"

keltex — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 02:08:47 +0000

They are trying to close the de minimis exception which is a, "100-year-old tariff loophole that Trump wants to close."

https://www.theverge.com/news/605483/shein-temu-amazon-trump...

New comment by keltex in "Changes to Google Maps Platform"

keltex — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:48:54 +0000

For example, you used to receive 100,000 static map embeds per month for free. Now it's 10,000.

Changes to Google Maps Platform

keltex — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:48:54 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/faq

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42370410

Points: 9

# Comments: 3

The next great leap for Django

keltex — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 19:41:57 +0000

Article URL: https://kodare.net/2024/10/01/django-next-leap.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724336

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by keltex in "Asynchronous Programming in C#"

keltex — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:06:36 +0000

The biggest one I've run into is GDI support (Graphics Device Interface). This covers things like two-dimensional vector graphics, imaging, and typography. So simple things like transforming or drawing images are no longer supported.

There are decent third party open-source libaries like SixLabors/ImageSharp that have stared to fill the gap.

New comment by keltex in "A frozen lake and several Lamborghinis provide lessons on traction control"

keltex — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:53:17 +0000

In case you're curious what this costs: "In Canada, participants get invited through a local dealer and pay about half of the $20,000 cost to attend but the trip includes a plus one. Dealers often pick up the other half of the cost as a reward to a client for years of business or as a way to firm up future business. In the U.S., the cost is $14,500. It includes the full day of ice driving, two-night accommodations at Hotel Sacacomie, all airport transfers and meals. "

https://driving.ca/car-culture/speed-performance/lamborghini...

New comment by keltex in "Anatomy of a credit card rewards program"

keltex — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:40:02 +0000

You used to be able to deduct any consumer debt. But that stopped in 1986. The reason was "Congress believed deductions for personal interest encouraged people to consume and stifle savings."

https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/worcester/2007/03/...

New comment by keltex in "Speeding up Azure development by not using Terraform"

keltex — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 23:24:48 +0000

Well written ORMs let you express queries without the operations happening in the business logic. For example C# and Linq. You can express pretty much any query using the linq language and that's then converted into SQL automatically.

New comment by keltex in "IRS Free File is now available for the 2024 filing season"

keltex — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:54:00 +0000

If you just have W2 income, there's no reason you can't fill out the regular 1040 form yourself. Sure might take you an hour or so, but no software to purchase. Just costs a stamp to mail it in!

New comment by keltex in ".NET 8's Best Blazor is not Blazor as we know it"

keltex — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 13:41:12 +0000

There are new operating modes for Blazor in .Net 8 that don't require Web Assembly. There's the new "Static server" and "interactive server" that don't require WASM.

New comment by keltex in "Minimum 15% global corporate tax has too many loopholes"

keltex — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 13:59:19 +0000

There's also Social Security, Medicare and SDI (State Disability Insurance)

New comment by keltex in "Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB"

keltex — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:13:43 +0000

Perfect example of this is google analytics. The depreciated Universal Analytics on 7/1/2023:

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/11583528?hl=en

But the API to access the replacement GA4 data is still in Beta: (for dotnet / go / python and node):

New comment by keltex in "How async/await works internally in Swift"

keltex — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 03:53:08 +0000

I've been playing around with Swift and SwiftUI for the past few months and the thing that baffles me is why are certain features only available with a minimum iOS version.

For example async required iOS 15.0. Why is this tied to the OS? Why can't they include newer runtimes be downloadable like Node / Java / .NET etc?

Other examples are from SwiftUI. For example the NavigationStack appears much more useful than the older NavigationView but that requires iOS 16. Which means that you can't support anything older than an iPhone X.

New comment by keltex in "Why scalpers can get tickets"

keltex — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 01:03:20 +0000

Related article: The reason why Billy Joel refuses to sell front row seats at his concerts

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/reason-why-billy-joel-refuses-s...

New comment by keltex in "Why isn’t dotnet core popular among startups?"

keltex — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:10:10 +0000

I think the indended link was: https://old.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/16fu7o0/why_isnt_do...

Leaked Data Show China’s Population Is Shrinking Fast

keltex — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 23:18:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/chinese-population-smaller-than-stated-and-shrinking-fast-by-yi-fuxian-2022-07

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37461070

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

Tesla breaks down mid-turn and causes more than nine hours of travel chaos

keltex — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 12:08:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/01/tesla-model-3-breaks-down-salisbury-elon-musk-electric-cars/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37360760

Points: 48

# Comments: 79