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New comment by rstarast in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

rstarast — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:54:18 +0000

This seems to be the source article (Reuters, March 24): https://www.reuters.com/business/french-central-bank-books-1...

New comment by rstarast in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

rstarast — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:51:50 +0000

First sell the gold, then buy same amount at a slightly lower price a bit later (on average)

New comment by rstarast in "The history of Casio watches"

rstarast — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 22:28:47 +0000

SDB-300W family is still the best running watch I've ever had. I still have 1.5 copies of the WS-110H around on their last legs.

The key features that I've missed from any watch since is 1. good buttons and 2. "immediate" reaction time.

New comment by rstarast in "Python Software Foundation gets a donor surge after rejecting federal grant"

rstarast — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:27:34 +0000

> But admitting in public that you are giving preferential treatment to anyone other than white men is an instant rage-boner for the Trump administration.

And for half the hn readership, it appears

New comment by rstarast in "Movie posters from Ghana in the 1980s and 90s"

rstarast — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 18:31:02 +0000

Elaborate? I'm not

New comment by rstarast in "Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks"

rstarast — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:51:42 +0000

Add musicbrainz to the list. It was weirdly comforting to rediscover it 15 years later with nothing really having changed (for better and worse)

New comment by rstarast in "Show HN: Corral – A Visual Logic Puzzle About Enclosing Numbers"

rstarast — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 11:05:47 +0000

The interface makes it almost impossible to solve a puzzle in logical steps.

You might find some inspiration here: https://puzz.link/p?cave/10/10/i44t4g3r3g3j2h2h3zp3q5g32k4 http://pzv.jp/p.html?bag/10/10/i44t4g3r3g3j2h2h3zp3q5g32k4 (from http://blog.livedoor.jp/bachelor_seal-puzzle/archives/901448...)

New comment by rstarast in "Bikes in the age of tariffs"

rstarast — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 20:21:57 +0000

With the huge differences in per-country tariff, there seems to be a large incentive to reroute and relabel imports. E.g., build a bike frame in China, export it to a sister company in Japan, and export it to the US from there, claiming production in Japan. How effective are existing controls against that? (And what are they even, I'm ignorant.)

New comment by rstarast in "I've acquired a new superpower"

rstarast — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:58:50 +0000

that's why they mirror one of the images in "find the differences" in puzzle competitions, e.g. USPC https://wpc.puzzles.com/uspc2024/

New comment by rstarast in "US airlines transported passengers over two light-years since the last crash"

rstarast — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:24:47 +0000

I'd prefer to count deaths per hour of travel time.

New comment by rstarast in "One Square Minesweeper"

rstarast — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 08:36:08 +0000

xbomb? https://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/xbomb/

New comment by rstarast in "Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation"

rstarast — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:13:31 +0000

Thanks, that one seems likely.

Hmm, though this seems to affect the case-hack thingy only, which seems like a macos-specific feature...

New comment by rstarast in "Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation"

rstarast — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:52:27 +0000

This is fixed in 2.24.6: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/releases/tag/2.24.6

Can someone link to the actual fix? It's a bit hard to navigate the git history for me...

New comment by rstarast in "For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default"

rstarast — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:13:31 +0000

Who's to say this "my bad, we'll do better next time" isn't part of the playbook?

Nix Constitutional Assembly Applications Open

rstarast — Sat, 11 May 2024 21:20:00 +0000

Article URL: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-constitutional-assembly-applications-open/45186

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40330710

Points: 2

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New comment by rstarast in "Cybertruck Owner Breaks His Finger Trying to Show Vehicle Is Safe"

rstarast — Tue, 07 May 2024 13:54:11 +0000

What I'd like to know is how the YouTube ad income compares to medical expenses.

New comment by rstarast in "The dire state of NixOS's moderation culture"

rstarast — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 02:33:05 +0000

Last time I tried it was unusably slow

New comment by rstarast in ""Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages"

rstarast — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:42:45 +0000

I mean it's basically just Rambo 3 in space innit?

New comment by rstarast in "Instagram's Toxic Video Mix for Adults Who Follow Children"

rstarast — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 22:49:32 +0000

https://archive.is/gwtwO

New comment by rstarast in "I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla"

rstarast — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 21:56:00 +0000

I want to say bitbucket started out as this, at least my first repos there were hg.