Hacker News: mathverse

New comment by mathverse in "Cisco workforce reductions"

mathverse — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:09:09 +0000

Yeah but when you get old enough you get sacked and cant get employed anywhere and have to start frying chicken. So..

New comment by mathverse in "Swift 6.3"

mathverse — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:48:47 +0000

Yea there is no incentive. Why use Swift on the server or in k8s when you have gazillion other languages that are performant and have the ecosystems.

New comment by mathverse in "Swift 6.3"

mathverse — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:47:10 +0000

If Swift was paired with smh like QT/GTK (could have replaced Vala) it would've been interesting.

New comment by mathverse in "Swift 6.3"

mathverse — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:44:26 +0000

You can use swift on the server but what for? You have a gigantic ecosystems in languages X,Y,Z.

Even Apple does not use Swift on the server (AFAIK) so why would you?

New comment by mathverse in "Swift 6.3"

mathverse — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:41:02 +0000

Swift lives only for macOS,iOS and besides those ecosystems does not have a solid and robust ecosystem to be used for anything else.

It's a shame but it for sure needs BigTech for it to be used anywhere else.

New comment by mathverse in "Swift 6.3"

mathverse — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:39:17 +0000

I think it's not about that but about dogfooding Swift on the server. Apple uses Go, Java etc for a lot of its server components and refused to invest in hiring people that would extend the ecosystem for server Swift.

Thats the problem.

New comment by mathverse in "Swift 6.3"

mathverse — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:37:27 +0000

ARC is a form of garbage collection. Swift does not fare better than Go usually.

New comment by mathverse in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

mathverse — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:39:05 +0000

Nano-texture is worth the upgrade if you are on a macbookpro whatever M and dont have it.

For those of us with astigmatism it's really night and day experience.

New comment by mathverse in "European Tech Alternatives"

mathverse — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:41:15 +0000

There are no european alternatives. These are all european companies but they dont benefit the whole union.

If a germany company gets big it will eat other european markets leaving nothing in those markets and then beg Merz for more immigrants to Germany instead of hiring other europeans.

New comment by mathverse in "Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like"

mathverse — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:54:44 +0000

Yes it does. Japan has a top down culture which does not see change as something useful.

New comment by mathverse in "Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like"

mathverse — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:54:16 +0000

I am eastern european and yes we do too but not to such extent.

New comment by mathverse in "Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like"

mathverse — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:40:18 +0000

Japan's decline is not a result of late stage capitalism but their inability to adapt and change cultural expectations and norms.

It's decline stems from favoring bullshit work over efficiency, change and adaptation.

New comment by mathverse in "The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself"

mathverse — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:07:19 +0000

This is not true. It's just "dodgy security/spyware" startups are more open coming from Israel that they exist than the myriad of hidden companies that you never heard about because they focus on tailored exploits.

New comment by mathverse in "EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline"

mathverse — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:38:41 +0000

Of course. Where else?

New comment by mathverse in "EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline"

mathverse — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:30:13 +0000

Doubt this. Europeans are "euroracist", protectionist and unable to see the bigger picture.

As a european I have exited the continent, sold all my properties and will never return to this place ever again.

New comment by mathverse in "EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay"

mathverse — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 12:35:50 +0000

Thailand is definitely not an affluent country.

New comment by mathverse in "EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay"

mathverse — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 12:35:30 +0000

Poorly worded on my part. Europeans typically get debit cards and not credit cards anyway

New comment by mathverse in "EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay"

mathverse — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:26:12 +0000

Exactly. I dont understand how many europeans dont see this at all.

New comment by mathverse in "EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay"

mathverse — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:25:07 +0000

>SEPA is instant and no fees outside the EU too, like Norway and UK. This is not the point. They need to be in SEPA for it to work.

>It's great Thailand has this, but I still fail to see how EU trying to copy Thailand (for a definition of copying) makes you lose faith in the EU. You would rather not have this no-fee payment system in the EU? How is this at all a negative thing?

The point is Thailand managed this due to economic, capitalist needs across different countries and cultures.

The EU is a union and did not even manage to do that as well as Thailand.

New comment by mathverse in "EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay"

mathverse — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:20:59 +0000

PromptPay use is different from SEPA. My comment was meant that QR payments are already possible with SEPA in EU it's just there exist different systems built on top of SEPA which are not cross compatible and available across the member states.