Hacker News: pitaj

New comment by pitaj in "The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)"

pitaj — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:44:44 +0000

And yet, as the DEA and other agencies tighten distribution of opioids, deaths continue to increase.

New comment by pitaj in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

pitaj — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:04:07 +0000

The US has done everything but defund public education lol.

New comment by pitaj in "Life During Class Wartime"

pitaj — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:14:35 +0000

My hot take is that wealth inequality is the least bad problem we could have, if it is even a problem at all.

What people are actually experiencing is not wealth inequality, but cost disease. Vital things (housing, healthcare, education) are more expensive - and that's mostly the fault of state action.

New comment by pitaj in "Life During Class Wartime"

pitaj — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:11:23 +0000

Wow this is nuts.

New comment by pitaj in "Life During Class Wartime"

pitaj — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:10:14 +0000

History shows that the "fundamental change to power relations" is just a shift from moneyed interests to political/bureaucratic interests. Which is worse because while moneyed interests have power money can buy, political/bureaucratic interests have the power of state coercion.

"They will go as far as to kill people for this" is rich coming from someone preaching Marxism, for which millions have been murdered.

New comment by pitaj in "What killed the Florida orange?"

pitaj — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:42:37 +0000

this made my day

New comment by pitaj in "All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)"

pitaj — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:30:52 +0000

Isn't mercury tidally locked? Day is always day, night is always night.

New comment by pitaj in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

pitaj — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:10:43 +0000

Nuclear restrictions were instituted by beurocratic means, not democratic means.

New comment by pitaj in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

pitaj — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:12:35 +0000

That's heat shrink tubing, but we're talking about one of these:

[1]: https://www.holley.com/products/engine/engine_dress_up/hoses... [2]: https://www.oreillyauto.com/detail/c/dorman-conduct-tite/lig...

New comment by pitaj in "Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers"

pitaj — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:59:17 +0000

Nobody has suggested using this for addition tasks in production. It's an academic exercise. What are you on about?

New comment by pitaj in "Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B"

pitaj — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:13:25 +0000

You can pay bills from your savings account with ACH in the US.

New comment by pitaj in "Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?"

pitaj — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:10:49 +0000

Electrician

New comment by pitaj in "The state of the kernel Rust experiment"

pitaj — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:30:46 +0000

I'm not more "in the know" but it makes sense that new drivers could require it. New drivers, after all, are pretty much always written for newer platforms that Rust has support for. The main issue with enabling Rust (let alone requiring it) is that Linux still supports platforms which Rust does not.

New comment by pitaj in "Zmij: Faster floating point double-to-string conversion"

pitaj — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:30:58 +0000

I think code size is one notable reason

New comment by pitaj in "Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide"

pitaj — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:15:20 +0000

While saying "it's an herbicide, not a pesticide" is categorically incorrect, I still think it would be better if the journalist used the more specific and less confusing term here.

New comment by pitaj in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

pitaj — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:51:14 +0000

Off topic, but I'm curious. Why are you typing spaces before every period and comma?

New comment by pitaj in "Using secondary school maths to demystify AI"

pitaj — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:14:56 +0000

Similarity of the hardware is absolutely irrelevant when we're talking about emergent behavior like "thought".

New comment by pitaj in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

pitaj — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 04:14:32 +0000

Creators say that premium is a huge chunk of their YouTube revenue. I'm inclined to believe them over some random like you.

New comment by pitaj in "Google is killing the open web, part 2"

pitaj — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:23:54 +0000

JavaScript is backwards compatible. You can use an older standard supported by everything if you wish.

New comment by pitaj in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"

pitaj — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:58:06 +0000

No. The powder he's promoting in the video (which performs better than pods) actually costs more per wash than the most effective pods on the market (Cascade Platinum Plus).