Hacker News: poloniculmov

New comment by poloniculmov in "Ferrari Luce"

poloniculmov — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:40:49 +0000

It looks like the UI of one of the good NFS games from that time period. I love it!

New comment by poloniculmov in "Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew"

poloniculmov — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:45:00 +0000

There's forced labour and child labour in tea growing, it's mostly grown in countries that have different definitions for human rights. And unless you're buying specialty tea, those farmers are paid pennies while doing hard work.

I don't think there's any ethical consumption of industrial scale agriculture that cannot be mechanized, because we don't want to pay the real costs.

New comment by poloniculmov in "$800 Monthly Car Payments Are Hurting Car Sales"

poloniculmov — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:49:01 +0000

The same Toyota Corolla spec is 6000 euro more expensive now.

New comment by poloniculmov in "AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations"

poloniculmov — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:56:50 +0000

The civ subreddit talks too much about Gandhi, no wonder that LLMs trained on that data are biased.

New comment by poloniculmov in "The Problem with LLMs"

poloniculmov — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:33:40 +0000

The industry is sick because everyone is looking for the lowest prices, but translators don't like machine translation. They don't want to just review the output, because actually doing the translation leads to better understanding of what they have to do.

New comment by poloniculmov in "Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business"

poloniculmov — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:03:41 +0000

They can spin it back up once the bubble pops.

New comment by poloniculmov in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

poloniculmov — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:18:10 +0000

But who wants that? And you're going to say that's exactly what a travel agent does, selling me stuff so he can get a kickback. But when stuff goes wrong, I'll yell at the travel agent so he has some incentive to curate his ads.

New comment by poloniculmov in "Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste"

poloniculmov — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:03:07 +0000

Cheap electric guitars are much better now since the parts are CNC'd, even if they don't come properly setup from the factory. As long as the fretwork is good, you can easily upgrade everything else if you have problems with it.

New comment by poloniculmov in "Canada Set to Side with China on EVs"

poloniculmov — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:25:49 +0000

An X3 (1930kg) is 100kg heavier than a Tesla (1822kg) in the EU (according to the manufacturers websites) and nobody here would think of an X3 as a small car.

New comment by poloniculmov in "Peter Thiel Essay on the Antichrist, One Piece, and More"

poloniculmov — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:41:35 +0000

It would have too much power so all the psychos in the world would do everything to get elected.

New comment by poloniculmov in "Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app"

poloniculmov — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:20:22 +0000

Try lichess' beta app, it's much more user friendly, even if it's missing a couple of features.

New comment by poloniculmov in "Fandom sells gaming media brand Giant Bomb to long-term staff"

poloniculmov — Mon, 12 May 2025 14:38:05 +0000

Jeff Gerstmann, one of the founders, also goes into details about this, Giantbomb was always making money, but had issues scaling up because corporate wouldn't invest in them. He says that it was very hard for them to monetize the podcast, which was one of the biggest podcasts before the boom, because they wouldn't allow him to sign a deal with a ad network, nor would they provide a sales team so they could get those ad deals.

CBS also owning Gamespot was a big issue, because it wasn't making money but it had the potential of bringing much more if they could fix it. It got even worse with the last 2 rounds of buyouts, because the buyers never wanted Giantbomb, it was a package deal.

New comment by poloniculmov in "Beer on Board in the Age of Sail (2017)"

poloniculmov — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:20:38 +0000

While yeast will consume most of the nutrients, there's still residual sugar in beer. Hops will inhibit microbial and bacterial growth, but they will not stop it completely.

New comment by poloniculmov in "Beer on Board in the Age of Sail (2017)"

poloniculmov — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:18:03 +0000

Brewed beer can get yeast or bacterial infections, especially if you cannot refrigerate it and don't have the means to sanitize recipients.

New comment by poloniculmov in "It Was an Ambush"

poloniculmov — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 07:07:13 +0000

Shouldn't the people of Ukraine decide this?

New comment by poloniculmov in "How to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta"

poloniculmov — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 08:42:51 +0000

Same, I love it because it will stop me from mindlessly scrolling. My only complaint is that if I actually wait, the next ad doesn't come soon enough.

New comment by poloniculmov in "Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round"

poloniculmov — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 17:36:16 +0000

His campaign messages weren't outright extremist, just your casual populism, impossible promises and a dash of dogwhistles. Once he won the first round of elections, people really started to look into his past and it's pretty insane.

New comment by poloniculmov in "Sony announces PS5 Pro, a $700 graphics workhorse available Nov. 7"

poloniculmov — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:23:53 +0000

Did you forget about the 32x and the Mega CD? We're back in the golden age of the Sega Genesis.

New comment by poloniculmov in "OnlyFans' porn juggernaut fueled by a deception"

poloniculmov — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 15:37:24 +0000

They're selling a fake relationship and taking advantage of lonely people. Sellling porno flicks is much more honest.

New comment by poloniculmov in "Online Dating"

poloniculmov — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:47:37 +0000

what data? I've only heard this from the "manosphere".