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New comment by lazyjones in "The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph"

lazyjones — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:06:39 +0000

These large trucks must go. While the mentioned numbers make some economic sense (cost per tonne transported etc.), the road wear is excessive due to the fourth power law. Most cargo can be split into smaller chunks.

New comment by lazyjones in "Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation"

lazyjones — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:14:46 +0000

Haters will say a major factor in still using Perl is the difficulty to replace up to 25+ years old Perl code written at startup pace AND the difficulty to teach old Perl devs a new language.

New comment by lazyjones in "Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation"

lazyjones — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:54:34 +0000

The domain was a gift by the founders of inode (former Austrian ISP) and the website grew pretty fast after the brand change in 1999.

But it curiously turned out that while Austrians mostly like the name (notable exeptions were delusional marketing people of "premium brands" considering advertising on the site), Germans are really not so fond of it. Cultural differences, I suppose.

New comment by lazyjones in "On Mr. Beast and being alone in a circle for 100 days"

lazyjones — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 12:31:24 +0000

I won't complain about this new world of "algorithmic desire" because my desires provide me with interesting and enjoyable content (none of Mr. Beast).

Perhaps the problem isn't the algorithms of yt and Tik Tok, but rather the people who decide to watch these things instead of moving on?

New comment by lazyjones in "DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist"

lazyjones — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:41:53 +0000

It's pretty evil to troll people into giving them e-mail and name and then have the audacity to ask for a phone number. Without giving people who don't want that the possibility to delete the previously entered personal data...

New comment by lazyjones in "Estonia’s inflation hit 25% year-on-year in August, energy prices to blame"

lazyjones — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 20:39:55 +0000

Tactical nuclear weapons for example.

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/02/russia-has-a-massive-sto...

New comment by lazyjones in "Estonia’s inflation hit 25% year-on-year in August, energy prices to blame"

lazyjones — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:14:37 +0000

> That is very far from the truth - please check the recent events

You are forgetting or ignoring Russia's bigger guns. If Russia wanted to use NATO methods, it would be over in one day with hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties.

> For multiple decades Russia was using energy as a way to corrupt EU.

"Interesting" narrative.

> If Ukraine falls, Russia will invade Europe in a decade with Ukrainian military on its side.

If Russia wanted to attack NATO and start WW3, it would already have done so. Why would it need to attack Ukraine first?

Please try to think logically.

> Europe need to remove its dependence on the Russian gas completely for its own safety.

The same as above applies. If Russia wanted to conquer Europe as you seem to believe, independence from Russia's gas isn't going to help in any way to prevent that.

New comment by lazyjones in "Estonia’s inflation hit 25% year-on-year in August, energy prices to blame"

lazyjones — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:28:57 +0000

Putting NATO soldiers on the ground is equivalent to declaring WW3, few are willing to do that.

Therefore, Ukraine's fate is sealed and the outcome is dictated by Russia's desires.

The open question is how long it will take and at what cost, to Ukraine, its allies and Russia. And it seems that there are vested interests in prolonging the conflict as much as possible.

New comment by lazyjones in "Ask HN: Will AI-generated images flooding the web pollute future training data?"

lazyjones — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:25:30 +0000

AI-generated media in general will likely plunge us into a new dark age. Every report you see on the news, every "secret recording" of a politician doing something dodgy, will be either an AI generated fake or considered as such by many viewers. Nothing will be certain anymore and MSM have already lost their credibility for many viewers.

New comment by lazyjones in "EV shipping is set to blow internal combustion engines out of the water"

lazyjones — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 05:49:40 +0000

Someone should build stackable, pluggable shipping containers with a battery in the floor, to power both container ships and trucks.

Tesla?

New comment by lazyjones in "If everyone bicycled like the Danes, we’d avoid a UK’s worth of emissions"

lazyjones — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 10:43:39 +0000

> I bet if you correct for the effect of GDP per capita, they will rank near the bottom among European countries too.

If you start correcting for other variables, you'll have to look at demographics, size and flatness of the country, prices, public transport availability, population distribution between rural and urban areas etc. etc.

Relatively poor Romania has a lower number of cars per capita and if you live in Bucharest like me, you'd believe everyone owns a car (half being Dacias), nobody rides a bicycle.

New comment by lazyjones in "If everyone bicycled like the Danes, we’d avoid a UK’s worth of emissions"

lazyjones — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 09:09:45 +0000

Danes still own as many cars as everyone else, it's not really an outlier and the number of cars per capita is growing.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/road_eqs_carh...

New comment by lazyjones in "If everyone bicycled like the Danes, we’d avoid a UK’s worth of emissions"

lazyjones — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 08:59:18 +0000

Bicycles compete with public transport, not cars.

Also: > The Vehicles per 1000 people of Denmark is similar to that of United Kingdom, Qatar, Czech Republic, Estonia, Ireland, Dominica, Barbados, Bermuda, Bulgaria, Slovak Republic with a respective Vehicles per 1000 people of 516, 514, 495, 494, 491, 470, 439, 422, 417, 382 (per 1,000 people) and a global rank of 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43.

http://mecometer.com/whats/denmark/vehicles-per-thousand-peo...

Therefore, this article is just the usual activism without substance.

New comment by lazyjones in "Why were medieval monks so susceptible to intestinal worms?"

lazyjones — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 07:34:50 +0000

I'm actually surprised that parasitic infection rate with native parasites (where humans aren't an accidental host) was so low at 30% or less. That would mean the existing treatments were rather effective. Just for comparison, https://www.africaontheblog.org/one-billion-1000000000-negle... claims that half the world's population hosts at least one species of worms.

New comment by lazyjones in "Programming breakthroughs we need"

lazyjones — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 21:10:53 +0000

And still you're typing repetitive text. My dad was punching cards and able to read code from punched tape. I grew up writing code on a home computer's display. And now, 35 years later, it's long overdue that some visual NoCode tool should be the default for mostly repetitive programming jobs. If I want to build a Finder Quick Action to resize an image, for example, I certainly won't open a C editor, I'll just use Automator.

New comment by lazyjones in "Ask HN: Anyone else feels the commoditization of real estate is unethical?"

lazyjones — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:55:32 +0000

This will just make rents more expensive.

New comment by lazyjones in "Dark Matter Doesn't Exist"

lazyjones — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 06:05:40 +0000

The whole idea of a "scientific consensus" is flawed as it's being used. Here, DM is the dominant theory in the scientific community at this time, but there are strong arguments against it, how can one call that a "consensus"? It's just the dominant theory.

New comment by lazyjones in "Seven megatrends that will shape the next 20 years"

lazyjones — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:16:25 +0000

As GDP includes earnings from investments in foreign countries (which at least Germany does plenty of), this is a somewhat moot point.

New comment by lazyjones in "Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries"

lazyjones — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 08:14:14 +0000

> Can we get that below 10 for regular highway driving, say at 130km/h?

Probably not with normal-sized cars.

For the Model 3, the theoretical minimum is 13.8 kW. This increases linearly with drag coefficient and area (as seen from the front). You would have to build a significantly smaller (flatter, narrower) car and improve the drag coefficient (0.2 has been achieved) to get there.

Here's a calculator in German (sorry) for experiments: http://spare-benzin.de/Fahrphysik/Luftwiderstand/Luftwiderst...

New comment by lazyjones in "Are forum platforms dead?"

lazyjones — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 21:39:51 +0000

From my perspective as someone who wrote and moderated his own NIH forum in 2000 - still in use today - the main reasons for the slow decline in usage both by users and publishers were:

- the move to media-heavy content (images and video) and the problems integrating this seamlessly into discussion forums and moderating it (as a non Big Tech publisher)

- the increased politicisation of online discussions and more complex legislation regarding "hate speech", privacy etc., all of which make hosting and moderation of user-content platforms unattractive for all but the biggest publishers, so most moved to FB groups or similar platforms to reduce the effort required to moderate.

- non-threaded forums suck and threaded forums don't work well on mobile phones

- I suspect, but don't claim to know, that the bad quality of popular forum software and consequently many forums getting "owned" regularly with all dire consequences for users played some role in this.