Hacker News: lucidguppy

New comment by lucidguppy in "Chipotle stock craters: young people without jobs cannot afford their food"

lucidguppy — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:11:47 +0000

They make them that big because they try to justify the price.

New comment by lucidguppy in "Ford Aims for Revolution with $30k Electric Truck"

lucidguppy — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:34:27 +0000

I'm all for it - I want it to happen, but I'm driving a used EV right now living the good life. The age of EV hype is gone, now we need real products.

New comment by lucidguppy in "Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S."

lucidguppy — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:48:59 +0000

Oh look at this nuclear power ... no stop looking at solar and batteries! That would actually solve the problem!

New comment by lucidguppy in "Heat stress mitigation by trees and shelters at bus stops"

lucidguppy — Thu, 08 May 2025 10:45:24 +0000

You can have a pretty good simulacrum of a forest using only two tennis courts worth of land (a pittance in most US cities that have 30% reserved for parking).

Look up Miyawaki method.

New comment by lucidguppy in "The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting"

lucidguppy — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 12:33:18 +0000

1. People have lower tolerance for jerks.

2. A few bad apples can spoil a group.

3. Maintaining a group is a thankless job.

4. Third places are money making establishments now rather than community focused. So people save up to go to the ones that they'll remember. So there's competing money for these attractions, and the experience undergoes enshitification.

Solutions?

- lower the cost of community space so more people can enjoy them.

- social etiquette needs be enforced through culture. Conformity has its benefits. We don't need planes to land because Johnny had too much to drink.

New comment by lucidguppy in "Electric Propulsion's Dirty Secret: Why Lithium Can't Fly (Or Float) Profitably"

lucidguppy — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 20:28:35 +0000

Flight is a luxury of the current times that will likely not last another 100 years except for the very rich.

New comment by lucidguppy in "Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans"

lucidguppy — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:16:39 +0000

1) You have to walk in Europe. 2) People eat better.

New comment by lucidguppy in "The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Wars"

lucidguppy — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:25:54 +0000

I wonder if there's a D&D setting like this.

New comment by lucidguppy in "How the U.K. broke its own economy"

lucidguppy — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:47:12 +0000

The Normans strike again!

New comment by lucidguppy in "Natrium 'advanced nuclear' power plant wins Wyoming permit"

lucidguppy — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:51:34 +0000

I'm quite ambivalent about nuclear power. On the one hand it's been proven that nuclear power isn't the answer to the energy transition question (https://sppga.ubc.ca/nuclear-is-not-the-solution/) - on the other hand - it makes up waaay more of my current carbon free energy.

For southern states, or states that get a lot of solar power, they shouldn't have nukes.

For areas that have plenty of wind, they shouldn't have nukes.

For areas with lots of people, they shouldn't have nukes.

Areas of seismic activity, they shouldn't have nukes.

Research needs to be done on how to lower the cost of interconnect and installation of solar power... like billions of dollars of research rivaling nuke research.

New comment by lucidguppy in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

lucidguppy — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:15:30 +0000

I hope they fix the issues with the controllers dying.

New comment by lucidguppy in "How Boston City Hall was born"

lucidguppy — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:14:28 +0000

Older structures cost more because they lasted longer and were more maintainable. Growth was given priority over tradition - and we've had to deal with the tradeoffs.

New comment by lucidguppy in "Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre"

lucidguppy — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 17:37:03 +0000

support pick your own orchards

New comment by lucidguppy in "How Honeycrisp Apples Went from Marvel to Mediocre"

lucidguppy — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 17:34:11 +0000

I wonder if you could test for crispness using ultrasonic tech.

Just make sauce out of the mealy ones.

New comment by lucidguppy in "When the U.S. Forest Service's budget shrinks, who pumps campground toilets?"

lucidguppy — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 02:12:43 +0000

Duh - sell the parks to a golf resort developer!

New comment by lucidguppy in "Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation"

lucidguppy — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:17:08 +0000

Right here - network is expensive. Another issue is cost estimation.

Servers have prices, rack space has prices, engineers have salaries.

You now literally have people hired now to work on how to calculate infra costs on aws (finops). Spot prices fluctuate. So what are the real savings in FTEs?

New comment by lucidguppy in "What's New in F# 9"

lucidguppy — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:02:39 +0000

Its weird they didn't switch to C# - that would have been a much smoother transition to a memory managed brackety language.

New comment by lucidguppy in "Get me out of data hell"

lucidguppy — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 03:06:13 +0000

> I could build something superior to this with an ancient laptop, an internet connection, and spreadsheets. It would take me a month tops.

^^^ Then do it... and then strangler fig the original.

New comment by lucidguppy in "Get me out of data hell"

lucidguppy — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 03:01:00 +0000

> because we don't have any tests,...

Right there ^^^

New comment by lucidguppy in "Character amnesia in China"

lucidguppy — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:47:54 +0000

Yeah - that was my mistake.