Hacker News: rapsey

New comment by rapsey in "Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs"

rapsey — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:19:22 +0000

As if simply entering the market is trivial.

New comment by rapsey in "European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low"

rapsey — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:30:08 +0000

Yes all russia's fault. It has nothing to do with european governments and the EU caring more about climate change than the economy. More about third worlders than local population. More about policing racism than violent crime. More about extending the war instead of ending it.

New comment by rapsey in "Xiaomi MiMo Token Plan is Now Globally Available"

rapsey — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:56:10 +0000

As if the west does not use tariffs and subsidies. China is simply much smarter about it and has much more functional institutions.

New comment by rapsey in "SpaceX S-1"

rapsey — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:00:21 +0000

> I do not like founder controlled publicly traded companies.

These companies outperform the market though.

New comment by rapsey in "India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark"

rapsey — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:30:41 +0000

And then watch your industry collapse due to high energy prices like germany.

New comment by rapsey in "India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark"

rapsey — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:10:37 +0000

You are right I was mistaken. However Germany is still a basket case. If you want to move to a low carbon economy, you can not do it with renewables only and must be able to maintain equal power generation levels. Germany is producing less power than before and thus shooting their economy in the foot. Nuclear is the only practical solution.

New comment by rapsey in "India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark"

rapsey — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:42:31 +0000

The thread is about the world moving off fossil fuels.

New comment by rapsey in "India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark"

rapsey — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:41:16 +0000

Not only that, that nuclear waste is still incredibly energy dense and could be used in the future, if we actually invested more into developing nuclear technologies.

New comment by rapsey in "India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark"

rapsey — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:37:46 +0000

Nuclear waste is a hilariously small amount of mass. It takes decades to build because of permitting and excessive regulations, the current UK plant build being one public insanity after another. Mining uranium is not an issue, it is all over the place and so on.

Every one of your points is a non issue, made into a big deal because of ideology.

New comment by rapsey in "India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark"

rapsey — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:27:36 +0000

If the green movement had any sense they would be promoting nuclear and lobbying to get plants built asap. Instead most of the green movement is against nuclear and only make things worse, i.e. germany now using huge amounts of coal.

New comment by rapsey in "7 in 10 Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities"

rapsey — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:07:13 +0000

Bring your own power means natural gas turbines or diesel generators. Both of which produce incredible noise pollution.

New comment by rapsey in "7 in 10 Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities"

rapsey — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:03:21 +0000

One of the biggest arguments against is the incredible noise pollution. If it uses a natural gas turbine it is like being next to a jet engine.

New comment by rapsey in "Pentagon asks for $200bn for Iran War"

rapsey — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:56:59 +0000

ConocoPhillips and Exxon just announced a 20 billion hit due to attacks. No one will leave this thing unscathed.

New comment by rapsey in "Pentagon asks for $200bn for Iran War"

rapsey — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:48:26 +0000

Whatever israel wants.

New comment by rapsey in "The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws"

rapsey — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:14:20 +0000

There is an entire industry in europe built to take EU money and produce nothing but a stack of papers. This would just set up some OVH/Hetzner instances of open source software. It is all a very expensive joke.

New comment by rapsey in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

rapsey — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:25:17 +0000

> Going full open source and pushing updates & openness, user control and freedom, you will gobble up a good chunk of market share.

Of the enthusiast market. The absolutely worst customers to be dependent on.

New comment by rapsey in "Process-Based Concurrency: Why Beam and OTP Keep Being Right"

rapsey — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:28:07 +0000

> Backpressure is built in. If a process receives messages faster than it can handle them, the mailbox grows. This is visible and monitorable. You can inspect any process’s mailbox length, set up alerts, and make architectural decisions about it. Contrast this with thread-based systems where overload manifests as increasing latency, deadlocks, or OOM crashes — symptoms that are harder to diagnose and attribute.

Sorry but this is wrong. This is no kind of backpressure as any experienced erlang developer will tell you: properly doing backpressure is a massive pain in erlang. By default your system is almost guaranteed to break in random places under pressure that you are surprised by.

New comment by rapsey in "Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?"

rapsey — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:31:15 +0000

As a European absolutely yes and I wish we had the fortitude to do it. It would literally save the EU. We never will, so right wing populism and the struggle to suppress it will probably destroy Europe.

New comment by rapsey in "QuitGPT – OpenAI Execs Are Trump's Biggest Donors"

rapsey — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:55:30 +0000

Who said it was complicated? The biden administration also had plans for the AI industry which would kill them. They also had zero interest in any new tech (smr, vtol). The democrats turned against big tech and new tech.

New comment by rapsey in "QuitGPT – OpenAI Execs Are Trump's Biggest Donors"

rapsey — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:44:30 +0000

Democrats turned on Elon during covid, as he was against lockdowns. This spread into wide distrust and complete sidelining and antagonism towards tech during the Biden administration. You can hear about it from Ben and Marc on their a16z podcast, when they explained why they are endorsing Trump.

This was despite the tech community being predominantly democrats. They turned to Trump, because the democrats shut them out completely and in some cases were highly antagonistic (crypto and elon companies).