Hacker News: lencastre

New comment by lencastre in "US Utilities Plan $1.4T for AI Data Centers"

lencastre — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:46:05 +0000

great stuff, full speed ahead, great op for contractors

New comment by lencastre in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

lencastre — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:29:30 +0000

and yet everybody is one discoord channel away from everybody else hundreds if not thousands of km away, eager to talk, voice their opinions etc… crossing the street, meet your neighbor, too much hassle

New comment by lencastre in "The simple geometry behind any road"

lencastre — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:02:19 +0000

vehicular speed is very important as a consideration in any road curvature, as well as “pitch and yaw” when changing slope and direction at speed, so… simple it is not, and if we are mostly “offsetting” straight lines and arcs, we are doing it wrong

New comment by lencastre in "How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU"

lencastre — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:44:05 +0000

the most profitable pizza, pizza base + one (literally one) piece of minced tomato, yes you read that right, one “nico” of tomato

that pizza will set you back 0 USD because rounding error, the dough is free (if I remember well) and a bit of minced tomato is less than a rounding error, so effectively zero

then you sell the pizza for the lowest price

customers will hate it, but the price is so good

you don’t even need ice cream anymore

New comment by lencastre in "Haunting Photos Show the Aftermath of the Kursk Submarine Disaster in 2000"

lencastre — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:54:02 +0000

nothing but respect for water

New comment by lencastre in "Japan to require language proficiency proof for engineer, specialist visa"

lencastre — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:27:24 +0000

yes but maybe it’s still cheaper in DE than the time cost of learning JP

it’s cray cray that in non Schengen foreigners can drive 90 days im Germany with their foreign issued driving license, but natives are subject to insane whims of the driving Schule…

New comment by lencastre in "Departure Mono Font"

lencastre — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:23:56 +0000

I use this font with notepad++ It’s great great stuff

New comment by lencastre in "Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game"

lencastre — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:29:01 +0000

nice! that project shadowglass is really neat, as an engine, hopefully the dev will have support from good artists to fully exploit the engine’s capabilities, as is it has great potential!!!

New comment by lencastre in "OpenRocket"

lencastre — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:46:13 +0000

uau uau uau uau… uau

obrigado!

New comment by lencastre in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"

lencastre — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:53:34 +0000

man, what a nice novella, llm warts and all

New comment by lencastre in "North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim"

lencastre — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:36:34 +0000

needs moar meta…

cause it‘s a bitter sweet symphony that‘s life…

New comment by lencastre in "Kona EV Hacking"

lencastre — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:30:43 +0000

nope, some places in Belgium and Austria are per minute. I guessimate that the charge speed is frickin’ fast, no way to be sure and I would rather see kW number go up in the dasboard

New comment by lencastre in "Grandparents are glued to their phones [video]"

lencastre — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:50:56 +0000

Sunday, passable weather but still sunny, wonderful river view, restaurant at 50% capacity, outside tables full. In comes grandma and grandpa with granddaughter on a stroller. They sit, he starts smoking, gives a tablet to the granddaughter who goes through the entire meal with that in front, and grandma spends every pause scrolling whatever on her phone. Grandpa switches smoking and feeding himself through the whole time they were there. Not a word spoken at that table. Unreal.

New comment by lencastre in "Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro"

lencastre — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:34:22 +0000

Fantastico!

New comment by lencastre in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)"

lencastre — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:49:21 +0000

perhaps is doing a lot of massaging there

New comment by lencastre in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)"

lencastre — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:44:25 +0000

you might need to reread his thesis again

New comment by lencastre in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)"

lencastre — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:41:37 +0000

TIL

New comment by lencastre in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

lencastre — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:08:09 +0000

Bhopal disaster comes to mind.

New comment by lencastre in "Bet on German Train Delays"

lencastre — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:11:49 +0000

Meine Güte…

New comment by lencastre in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

lencastre — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:47:17 +0000

needs angry birds version

or not, it’s great as is BTW