<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: serallak</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=serallak</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:30:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=serallak" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by serallak in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I did buy one of those for 155eur on 9 November 2025.<p>Very lucky me!</p>
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<p>I've just finished playing Metro Exodus, which is another example.<p>The "good ending" depends on your behavior in the three open areas of the game.<p>You can still kill "monsters" (mutated humans, animals, cannibals, bandits) without impact, but you should minimize killing other humans, such as slaves, or even hostile but "misguided" NPCs (people that just want you to stay out of their settlement, that you are required to traverse, and who will shoot you on sight).<p>This is something you can actually achieve pretty easily, just by using stealth.<p>But reading older posts on this game, many people found this difficult, as the game made easy and satisfying to kill from the shadows.</p>
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<p>But that it's not really the case in the example above.<p>It's not the software engineer duty to know about how a given product is legal in what regulatory environment. That is something that must be hashed out upstream, well before tasking somebody to write a program.<p>Granted, an expert engineer with strong domain knowledge could be aware of those kind of pitfalls, and offer insights during the product development phase. But again, that should be done before committing to a schedule or making implementation decisions.</p>
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<p>Ukraine government also issued a statement saying that the US forces used 800 Patriot interceptors against Iran in three days at the start of the current war.<p>While Ukraine used just 600 interceptors in 4 years of war.</p>
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<p>He wanted seven perpendicular lines ?</p>
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<p>I still got it. Has been in storage for a long time.<p>My child did build it some years ago, now it's in his room.</p>
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<p>If they plan to put this things in a low orbit their useful life before reentry is low anyway.<p>A quick search gave me a lifespan of around 5 years for a starlink satellite.<p>If you put in orbit a steady stream of new satellites every year maintenance is not an issue, you just stop using worn out or broken ones.</p>
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<p>Well about that ...<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case</a><p>This is well know case of a "person of interest" kidnapped by the CIA in Milano, Italy. While the CIA was assisted by the Italian Intelligence, it was a completely illegal operation, without any due process or judiciary oversight.</p>
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<p>For what is worth, I read the book this year, after reading about it in the blog Bits about Money by patio11.</p>
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<p>The part where it gave you access to a thread you were not a part of seems scary to me..<p>In this case your absence from the thread was probably an oversight, but in general there could be a very good reason for it</p>
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<p>A friend that was going to deliver a child told us about a dad-to-be that was going around the maternity ward making videos ...</p>
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<p>> JavaScript / Ruby / Python: All provide JSON-style literals ([1,2,[3,4]], {"x":1,"y":[2,3]})<p>The Perl syntax for this is pretty similar:<p>[1,2,[3,4]], {"x", 1,"y", [2,3]}<p>that can also be written, with a bit of syntactic sugar:<p>[1,2,[3,4]], {x => 1, y => [2,3]}<p>For many, if not most, cases, given a Perl data structure, the round trip "Perl -> JSON -> Perl" is transparent.</p>
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<p>Also here in Italy, of all places.</p>
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<p>Geothermal energy is also a thing.<p>Is the heat produced inside a planet, mostly from the radioactive decay of natural isotopes.<p>Volcanoes are not powered by the Sun. Of course this production will cease when all isotopes will be depleted, but that will take a very long time.</p>
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<p>The difference between the clarity of Dijkstra writing and the text at this link is astounding.</p>
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<p>I'm not doubting that Washington was very very rich.<p>I'm doubting the different and very specific claim that "George Washington could have financed the entire Revolutionary War" with just a third of his wealth.<p>To me, the math simply does not add up. I suppose it can be chalked up to hyperbole ?<p>I also don't see how a discussion of the Iraq war could be relevant to that claim ...</p>
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<p>> George Washington could have financed the entire Revolutionary War out of his own pocket and he still would have retained two thirds of his wealth<p>Is that true ?<p>As far as I am aware, the money the French Government alone loaned to the US during the revolutionary war (at least two million dollars[0]) far exceeded the value of Washington personal wealth (estimated at $780,000 in 1799 [1], so at the time of his death, not during the war).<p>And this is not counting all the loans made from other foreign sources (the Spanish Government and private Dutch investors), and the money raised directly by the Continental Congress.<p>Also, as others have said, it would have been almost impossible to liquidate his assets (his lands and his slaves) during the war - the problem was availability of cash, not wealth.<p>[0] <a href="https://history.state.gov/milestones/1784-1800/loans" rel="nofollow">https://history.state.gov/milestones/1784-1800/loans</a>
[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finances_of_George_Washington#Economic_interactions" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finances_of_George_Washington#...</a></p>
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<p>In 200 years we will spread at most up to 200 light years from Earth.<p>This is way way less than the observable universe.</p>
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<p>Read the text, he transferred the money to Kraken, presumably to buy cryptocurrency that he then sent to the scammers.</p>
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<p>Wasn't the steam survey heavily skewed towards the multitude of PCs in the internet shops in China?<p>I doubt those are regularly updated.</p>
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