Hacker News: omellet

New comment by omellet in "AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software"

omellet — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:02:04 +0000

They've updated it for the agentic code era, and have found basically the same thing. Code can be created faster but that has moved the bottleneck to review.

New comment by omellet in "Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system"

omellet — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:18:19 +0000

You seem to be ignoring the most important factor, which is cost.

New comment by omellet in "SpaceX, T-Mobile to connect satellites to cellphones in remote areas"

omellet — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 14:34:39 +0000

If it's TCP then there's an uplink implied.

New comment by omellet in "Crypto Wash Trading"

omellet — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 16:55:13 +0000

It's a way to fraudulently pump the price (or lower the price) of a security. One person with two accounts can keep trading back and forth with themselves, and since crypto exchange know-your-customer measures are trivial or nonexistent, it's very easy to get away with.

New comment by omellet in "American Entrepreneurs Who Flocked to China Are Heading Home, Disillusioned"

omellet — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 18:38:50 +0000

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/11/china-legalise...

New comment by omellet in "Bitcoin Futures Start with a Bang as Rally Trips Circuit Breaker"

omellet — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:19:36 +0000

It is a huge premium. In reality it should only be the future value of the current spot, given the current interest rate. For other types of futures (oil, grains) that have storage costs or seasonality there are other factors that affect the difference between the spot and future price, but for financial futures (especially cash-settled) it should be nearly no difference for a one-month expiry.

New comment by omellet in "Mike Novogratz Is Set for Comeback With Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund"

omellet — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:28:44 +0000

Most people think it's a bubble, and nobody thinks they're the greater fool.

New comment by omellet in "Water Found Deep Inside the Moon"

omellet — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:39:55 +0000

It's tidally locked, so you couldn't you put the settlement on the Earth-facing side and not have to worry as much about meteors?

New comment by omellet in "Used GPUs flood the market as Ethereum's price drops below $150"

omellet — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 12:19:10 +0000

Don't cryptocurrency transactions take a lot more time & energy than, say, a credit card transaction?

New comment by omellet in "Antarctica’s potential collapse could damage coastal cities across the globe"

omellet — Mon, 22 May 2017 10:54:17 +0000

Or you can thank the English for figuring out how to measure longitude.

New comment by omellet in "VIM Pays Excellent Dividends: Learn it early, if you can"

omellet — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:41:47 +0000

I use VsVim in Visual Studio, highly recommended.

New comment by omellet in "The .NET Language Strategy"

omellet — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 13:57:40 +0000

I guess C++/CLI doesn't count as a .NET language? Shame it gets so little attention, it's a fantastic interop language.

New comment by omellet in "Nielsen estimates ESPN lost 555,000 subscribers during the last month"

omellet — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:57:38 +0000

Local tv channels have the broadcast rights for the home team area - like SNY in New York has the rights for the Mets. Their contracts specify that they have exclusive rights to the broadcast for their coverage area, so internet coverage must be blacked out.

New comment by omellet in "Google and LinkedIn announce massive land swap"

omellet — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 19:30:12 +0000

Why don't they just build taller buildings?

New comment by omellet in "Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack?"

omellet — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 12:08:44 +0000

The problem isn't locking so much, it's that you have to dispatch to a kernel thread when you're requesting and sending data, paying the cost of that context switch every time. In userspace you can spin a polling thread on its own core and DMA data up and down to the hardware all day long without yielding your thread to another one.

New comment by omellet in "Electric cars are no longer held back by crappy, expensive batteries"

omellet — Mon, 23 May 2016 00:13:03 +0000

Now they'll just be held back by lack of a widespread charging infrastructure.

New comment by omellet in "How to Clock a Glacier"

omellet — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 13:48:59 +0000

Do glaciers move continuously, such that they can be measured like this?

New comment by omellet in "MI5 'secretly collected phone data' for decade"

omellet — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 10:49:13 +0000

Welcome to the surveillance state in your head: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-surveill...

New comment by omellet in "The FDA's notes from its visit to Theranos' labs don't look good"

omellet — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:29:40 +0000

He's not a fan of two's complement, I guess.

New comment by omellet in "How the 'hoverboards' took off in spite of laws against them"

omellet — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:08:22 +0000

Bicycles aren't allowed on the sidewalk, either.