Hacker News: rdevsrex

New comment by rdevsrex in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

rdevsrex — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:09:26 +0000

This is a good move. I hope Switzerland doesn't become like the UK.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

rdevsrex — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:28:05 +0000

This won't cause any confusion with the jai language :)

New comment by rdevsrex in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

rdevsrex — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:51:36 +0000

The problem with riding the bus in the US is that you end up around a lot of undesirable people.

New comment by rdevsrex in "The Post-American Internet"

rdevsrex — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:43:02 +0000

Why not go all the way and establish your own publicly owned central bank and establish an alternative to the dollar?

Oh, yeah, the US will send the CIA or the military in and take you out and make you take on IMF debt to ensure your future compliance.

Clearly, there are limits to what tech alone can accomplish.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Why I chose Lua for this blog"

rdevsrex — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:14:10 +0000

Why would anyone today leave port 80 open? I do https by default even for my blog.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

rdevsrex — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 23:04:27 +0000

Thankfully I'm employed, but from what I've heard there pro diversity bias against hiring straight white males.

Does that have any basis in anybody's personal experience?

New comment by rdevsrex in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

rdevsrex — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:19:31 +0000

I'm sorry, I don't care who you are or what the history between your country and the US is, you don't come and be disrespectful like that and get away with it.

All he had to do was was smile and wave, but Zelensky made it into a dick measuring contest which he was always going to lose.

He is a terrible leader and this is just more proof of it.

New comment by rdevsrex in "China to Build Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor in 2025"

rdevsrex — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 02:11:59 +0000

One day they might be able to sell ready made thorium reactors. That would be big business.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Australian coal plant in 'extraordinary' survival experiment"

rdevsrex — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 01:09:35 +0000

I don't know why, from the start, we haven't used nuclear power more for baseload.

China is already building between 6 to 8 nuclear power plants a year and plans to expand that number to 10 a year.

It's nothing compared to all the other sources of power they are creating, but it seems to me that rather than investing in mass battery storage, a few dozen modern nuclear power plants would be a good idea.

Assuming, of course, you can actually get costs down and cut through red tape like China can.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Learning to Reason with LLMs"

rdevsrex — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:17:19 +0000

Just because we have machines that can lift much more than any human ever could, it doesn't mean that working out is useless.

In the same way, training your mind is not useless. Perhaps as things develop, we will get back to the idea that the purpose of education is not just to get a job, but to help you become a better and more virtuous person.

New comment by rdevsrex in "United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency"

rdevsrex — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:19:48 +0000

That's simply not going to happen. The West isn't sending enough military aid to tip the scales, and this is an existential war for Russia and they are managing it well enough.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Terence Tao on proof checkers and AI programs"

rdevsrex — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 21:39:32 +0000

Ramanujan attributed his success in no small part to divine assistance. I wonder if sentient AI would do the same :)

New comment by rdevsrex in "The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing"

rdevsrex — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 21:15:42 +0000

This was a great writeup. I've never heard of the GJK algorithm before.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Starlink as a means to win at nuclear war"

rdevsrex — Thu, 30 May 2024 16:55:33 +0000

Can you actually "win" a nuclear war? I thought we all understood that as foolish. Yet presently the governments of the West think such a thing is possible, otherwise they would not be poking the bear like they are.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]"

rdevsrex — Wed, 08 May 2024 04:12:23 +0000

Schaffe, Schaffe, highway baue?

New comment by rdevsrex in "Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant"

rdevsrex — Thu, 02 May 2024 17:05:19 +0000

That's pretty cool! Perhaps genetic or innate memory is how he knew what to do? Sort of like dogs eating grass when they are sick?

New comment by rdevsrex in "Printing Music with CSS Grid"

rdevsrex — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 23:25:38 +0000

This is pretty cool!

New comment by rdevsrex in "Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go"

rdevsrex — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:30:39 +0000

It looks pretty interesting! Definitely something to play around with, but honestly, I'd rather just use Rust (or Gleam if GC is ok).

New comment by rdevsrex in "America is divided over major efforts to rewrite child labor laws"

rdevsrex — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:50:29 +0000

Or maybe they just believe in teaching their kids the value of hard work and discipline and don't want them on their phones all day.

New comment by rdevsrex in "As much as you ever wanted to know about 155M artillery shell production"

rdevsrex — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 04:38:07 +0000

I would say that the US also belongs in the agressor camp.