Hacker News: mono442

New comment by mono442 in "Clojure Hosted on Go"

mono442 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:28:07 +0000

since this is tree walking interpretator, won't it be quite slow?

New comment by mono442 in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

mono442 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:23:29 +0000

> You're confusing money supply and price levels.

They're closely related.

> And since most money is privately created, controlling how much money is and isn't created "out of thin air" is actually quite challenging.

It's the central bank which controls the interest rates, the reserve requirement and other stuff which affects it.

New comment by mono442 in "Social Security Now Expects Shortfall Earlier, in Late 2032"

mono442 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:20:43 +0000

Every investment is somewhat of a ponzi scheme. With stocks or real estate you also rely on the fact that the economy will function in the future and future generations will buy them back from you.

New comment by mono442 in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

mono442 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:10:21 +0000

> Powell cured the resulting inflation without causing a recession. He did that without adding anything to our national debt.

That doesn't actually seem like a huge achievement. Inflation is the rate of change so if you stop creating as much money out of thin air, then it's not really a surprise that prices don't increase as much.

New comment by mono442 in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

mono442 — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:55:51 +0000

The car I drove from 2025 didn't have it.

New comment by mono442 in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

mono442 — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:52:03 +0000

It doesn't work on macbook neo.

New comment by mono442 in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

mono442 — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:06:46 +0000

Modern cars are horrible. I recently discovered that all new cars sold in the EU constantly beep at you for supposedly speeding, even though the system doesn’t work well, and it has to be turned off every time you start the car.

New comment by mono442 in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

mono442 — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:09:20 +0000

Studying at MIT in the AI age is a complete waste of time and money. I'm surprised it's only 20%.

New comment by mono442 in "Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets"

mono442 — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:37:29 +0000

The reality is that expensive electricity in the EU is by design. The EU ETS imposes heavy taxes on fossil fuels (and they are set to increase even more), which in turn causes the price of electricity to rise. Fully renewable electricity generation is still a long way off, so this will continue for a long time. But it is entirely a self-imposed political problem and could easily be fixed by getting rid of the EU ETS or capping the price of emissions at a more reasonable level.

New comment by mono442 in "Fedora is now the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself"

mono442 — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:24:19 +0000

there's a third party repo called rpmfusion for that

New comment by mono442 in "Heat pump sales rise across Europe"

mono442 — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:11:11 +0000

It's usually so much more expensive than an air source heat pump that makes it completely not worth it.

New comment by mono442 in "98% of all recent environmental claims can be categorized as "greenwashing""

mono442 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:31:15 +0000

a cap-and-trade system is just a tax but more complicated and less predictable

New comment by mono442 in "Fusion Power Plant Simulator"

mono442 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:54:45 +0000

I think it's impossible to calculate at this stage since there're no fusion power plants which actually produce net power.

New comment by mono442 in "The RAM shortage could last years"

mono442 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:45:00 +0000

China is building a lot of coal power plants

New comment by mono442 in "Why Japan has such good railways"

mono442 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:05:12 +0000

tokyo is cheaper than most cities relatively to the average income but you have to consider the fact that many apartments are like 20 - 30 m^2

New comment by mono442 in "Brussels pushes remote working to ease energy crisis"

mono442 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:53:17 +0000

I doubt recommendations will change anything unless it's an actual law that forces companies to offer remote work.

New comment by mono442 in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

mono442 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:31:51 +0000

Can batteries store enough energy for dunkelflaute in winter? I don't think it's possible with the current technology.

New comment by mono442 in "BYD to open 20 car dealerships in Canada this year"

mono442 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:24:17 +0000

I see an increasing number of chinese cars where I live in Europe. Though almost none of them are fully electric ones (BEVs here have different licence plates), they're plug-in hybrids at best.

New comment by mono442 in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

mono442 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:51:55 +0000

Then why the EU is hell bent on the ETS since it's clearly not working the best?

New comment by mono442 in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

mono442 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:24:38 +0000

I don't support it because it doesn't work (at least for me, I guess there's some middleman in the grand scheme of things who is profiting off of this). E.g. Texas has a high share of renewables too without carbon taxes and with much cheaper electricity.