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New comment by poilcn in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

poilcn — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:46:30 +0000

Gas.It is needed in lots of processes. It's very difficult and extremely expensive to transport gas. So the best solution is to use it at the place it's extracted.

New comment by poilcn in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

poilcn — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:09:46 +0000

They are not supposed to intercept ballistic missiles anyway,it's THAAD's job

New comment by poilcn in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

poilcn — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:25:31 +0000

What are you talking about, 92% of Russian population has access to internet via landlines, the government subsidised building all the infustructre. The internet access is one of the cheapest in the world($5-10 per month for 100-500mbit/s), starlink with its $50-120 price tag is not affordable at all, ignoring the fact it doesn't even work here

New comment by poilcn in "Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday"

poilcn — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:56:34 +0000

While I personally use Ubuntu on my laptop for several years now, when I helped my relative with a brand new laptop (huawei) with Windows 11 I was suprised how fast it was despite being very cheap, I don't remember any version of Windows that had such a performance, at least visually. Out of curiosity, what model does your father have?

New comment by poilcn in "iPhone Pocket"

poilcn — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:54:57 +0000

My mom knitted a bag for my niece's iphone in 2024, so there already was a trend.

New comment by poilcn in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

poilcn — Fri, 16 May 2025 06:03:29 +0000

It only affects some cells, not the whole body.

New comment by poilcn in "Show HN: I made a Doom-like game fit inside a QR code"

poilcn — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 07:52:28 +0000

I kinda see that too. Basically, the way some authors use to increase content size with redundant words is the default behavior for Ai chats plus all the disclaimers to avoid possible litigations or negative public image.

New comment by poilcn in ".NET library MassTransit going commercial with V9"

poilcn — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 07:54:36 +0000

Damn. Hope there would be a viable open-source fork as there are non-financial reasons to exclude commercial licenses.

New comment by poilcn in "Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s"

poilcn — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 07:23:31 +0000

Is it? You can see the actual harm caused by web sites.

Doomscrolling in all age groups. Going to bed very late at night.

Girls having body dysmorphia cause of instagram.

Young men having porn addition and having no ambition to interact with real women

New comment by poilcn in "Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022)"

poilcn — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:01:39 +0000

>and the fact it's so tied to windows

Dotnet Core is not tied to windows except for certain frameworks like wpf (and there are alternatives for it that work everywhere), credential store.

And it's actually really good to use these days.

New comment by poilcn in "Tiny World Map"

poilcn — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 07:28:58 +0000

Love it! Wonder what is the logic behind having some lines ending with ";" in some cases and not having them in others. Is it just editor artefacts? i.e. the author had no intentions to put them, but the editor in some cases inserted them automatically.

New comment by poilcn in "Egypt announces $35B deal with UAE to buy premium Mediterranean area"

poilcn — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 19:18:40 +0000

Alaska was sold cause Russian Empire couldn't hold the land and eventually would've lost it.

The islands north to Japan are important cause the access from sea ports to the ocean in winter. Plus, if they were Japanese, they'd have American bases there and there wouldn't be a way for the submarines to leave ports without being tracked.

New comment by poilcn in "State of Mozilla"

poilcn — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:21:11 +0000

I closed my eyes on the ceo story and the politics and continued using it as "the only alternative" to Chrome until I got a pop up on my phone basically suggesting who I should vote for in some American election. I've never even been in that country.

New comment by poilcn in "You Win or You Learn"

poilcn — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 18:37:02 +0000

Youtube web version for desktop has the same problem if I get what you mean right.

New comment by poilcn in "High prices will outlast the war"

poilcn — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 07:32:54 +0000

California is supposed to be fifth economy in the world. You can use software produced in California under sanctions by ignoring intellectual rights. This wouldn't work with physical goods. You can't replace oil from one source with oil from another. Deficit of some resource chokes production of things that depend on this resource. And it's a chain reaction.

New comment by poilcn in "Russia sends troops to Kazakhstan to put down deadly uprising"

poilcn — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 17:12:28 +0000

If the government is "bad" it doesn't make everyone who stands against it "good". It doesn't make everyone who is against the government unified body with one positive goal.

You don't need all the "protesters" to be thugs. 1% is enough to make cities dangerous place for everyone, including other protesters.

You know nothing about the country or the people who live there or what exactly going on right now, but automatically side with one of the part of the conflict based on your feelings.

New comment by poilcn in "Russia sends troops to Kazakhstan to put down deadly uprising"

poilcn — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 15:37:54 +0000

They don't ask to bring troops to fight on the streets. The help could be in the form of putting security checkpoints and guarding critical infrastructure, constructions. Which would release military and police forces currently occupied by these tasks to fight the marauders and other criminals. There is no "protest" at this point.

New comment by poilcn in "Soviets Once Denied a Deadly Anthrax Lab Leak. U.S. Scientists Backed the Story"

poilcn — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 17:37:49 +0000

I mean write "debugger" in console, press f5, then before it's fully loadded press enter (while in console)

New comment by poilcn in "Soviets Once Denied a Deadly Anthrax Lab Leak. U.S. Scientists Backed the Story"

poilcn — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 17:28:22 +0000

The paywall could be bypassed with simple "debugger" in console :)

New comment by poilcn in "FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder"

poilcn — Sat, 08 May 2021 15:08:19 +0000

Sounds offensive that one's compatriots could be given to another country to be put on trial.