Hacker News: mvc

New comment by mvc in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"

mvc — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:58:35 +0000

What would an uninsured person do if the tests suggested they needed an medical intervention?

New comment by mvc in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

mvc — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:37:56 +0000

I think you gotta be pretty lucky or disciplined with a high income from an early age to be in a position to start unloading risk at 45.

Most folks don't have disposable income after rent and bills until they're 30.

New comment by mvc in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

mvc — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:05:46 +0000

Citation needed for the proposition that an economy is a closed loop.

New comment by mvc in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

mvc — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:40:08 +0000

Yeah, none to the African, South American, or Asian nations who contribute many of the best players though. And they don't share it around their own countries that well either with all the revenue going to the big 5 and the rest can just go sing.

New comment by mvc in "London’s most equidistant pub"

mvc — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:31:13 +0000

Hehe, grass is always greener on the other side.

New comment by mvc in "Superlogical"

mvc — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:53:31 +0000

Something like emacs?

New comment by mvc in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

mvc — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:13:01 +0000

I've got one of these and I love it. Much lighter than my previous watches (I've used garmin and polar before).

New comment by mvc in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

mvc — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:15:48 +0000

> the cost of distributing it has been increasing at a far higher rate than the rate of increasing surplus.

Is it? Or is it that an increasing proportion of total income ends up going to the people who find ways of hiding it such that it does not get distributed.

New comment by mvc in "An agent in 100 lines of Lisp"

mvc — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:29:26 +0000

Lately I've been adding a repl service to my docker compose configs so the agent can easily send fragments of code for execution in the project context without incurring the clojure startup costs each time.

So cool to watch the AI get into a tight learning loop when it has access to all the internal data structures.

New comment by mvc in "An agent in 100 lines of Lisp"

mvc — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:23:29 +0000

Does eval in these other languages evaluate ASTs or strings? It makes a difference.

New comment by mvc in "In Emacs, everything looks like a service"

mvc — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:24:06 +0000

> You could add lisp to mspaint and mspaint suddenly becomes awesome somehow? I don't follow the logic

Yes exactly! https://docs.gimp.org/3.2/en/gimp-using-script-fu-tutorial.h...

New comment by mvc in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

mvc — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:28:50 +0000

I love ghostel. Thanks for making it.

New comment by mvc in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

mvc — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:17:20 +0000

self-interested hate is it not?

Maybe I'm more attuned to this type of thing having grown up as a national of a smaller state living in the shadow of a bigger state but you constantly see actors from the bigger state belittling and condescending anything contributed socially or economically from the smaller state.

And I see this sort of dynamic here in this forum where Americans very frequently talk condescendingly like this about Europe generally and European tech especially (they did it to China too but China smartly ignored this self-interested nonsense and carried on anyway which is what Europeans should do).

It really grates on me and presumably many others. But it serves an agenda too of a lot of the founders and financiers that hang out here that have big fat customers in Europe they'd like to keep sweet and competitors they'd like to keep down.

New comment by mvc in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

mvc — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:07:51 +0000

Isn't it up to Europeans to define the purpose of the EU? What's your claim to having the right to define it?

New comment by mvc in "How to earn a billion dollars"

mvc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:58:45 +0000

> The reason her startup was growing so fast was that she and her cofounder had been working their asses off

Just the co-founders eh? Fuck off Paul.

New comment by mvc in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

mvc — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:28:59 +0000

"show me the diff in emacs"

and claude opens up a new emacs frame (aka "window" if you're not an emacs doc writer) with a magit diff buffer of whatever we've been working on. This happens instantly because the emacs server is already running since startup and this is just popping up a little client window

New comment by mvc in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

mvc — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:46:09 +0000

> Reminded me of when I had to be extra wordy to meet the 1000 minimum word limit for my high school essays.

At my uni, dissertations were supposed to be 10k words.

I handed in 7.5 and got a distinction because it met the brief.

Never pad.

New comment by mvc in "The Traveling Salesdog Problem"

mvc — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:32:27 +0000

Hello fellow sighthound owner. I have thought about it. But never done it.

Whenever I sit down with a few spare minutes to try it, my lurcher appears and wants a walk :-)

New comment by mvc in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

mvc — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:20:11 +0000

That'll sure teach them not to abuse their power over their fellow humans with less physical strength.

New comment by mvc in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

mvc — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:19:39 +0000

zoom literally makes a summary of meetings available now if you enable it.

unfortunately you still have to show up to the meeting and engage with your friends and colleagues for half an hour.