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New comment by skylurk in "Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)"

skylurk — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:29:13 +0000

Hmm. You doth protest too much, methinks :)

New comment by skylurk in "Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)"

skylurk — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:19:59 +0000

How does this deleted fix_everything.sh fit in to your story?

https://github.com/whispem/minikv/commit/6e01d29365f345283ec...

New comment by skylurk in "List animals until failure"

skylurk — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 07:13:24 +0000

Yep, but importantly "pigeon" and "dove" are not exactly interchangeable words, there is just no consensus for which is which.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbidae

New comment by skylurk in "Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next?"

skylurk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:35:08 +0000

Also, many tunnels. Less fumes makes a difference.

New comment by skylurk in "OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again"

skylurk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:42:37 +0000

Is it now officially "eternal sloptember"?

New comment by skylurk in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

skylurk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:39:03 +0000

I like how it fluently replies in Spanish to another bot that replied in Spanish.

New comment by skylurk in "Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images"

skylurk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:58:46 +0000

Try Windy.com, it's got ECMWF data, among others.

New comment by skylurk in "Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k"

skylurk — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:51:57 +0000

> The stated goal is that the money will help people do better in the Olympics.

Are you sure? It's not contingent on metals or anything.

https://www.usopc.org/news/2025/march/04/united-states-olymp...

New comment by skylurk in "Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k"

skylurk — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:07:15 +0000

I don't think you should think of it as a paycheck.

Delaying a normal career to compete in the olympics will set your career and earning potential back by a few years. This money tries to balance it out a bit.

New comment by skylurk in "Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k"

skylurk — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:51:14 +0000

People absolutely do give up their athletic career to start a normal career for better financial security.

New comment by skylurk in "Pandas 3.0"

skylurk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:02:17 +0000

This is one of the reasons I use polars.

New comment by skylurk in "Pandas 3.0"

skylurk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:00:44 +0000

You are not wrong, but for this example you can do something like this to run in threads:

  import polars as pl
  
  pl.DataFrame({"a": [1, 2, 3]}).write_parquet("test.parquet")
  
  
  def print_shape(df: pl.DataFrame) -> pl.DataFrame:
      print(df.shape)
      return df
  
  
  lazy_frames = [
      pl.scan_parquet("test.parquet")
      .map_batches(print_shape)
      for _ in range(100)
  ]
  pl.collect_all(lazy_frames, comm_subplan_elim=False)

(comm_subplan_elim is important)

New comment by skylurk in "Pandas 3.0"

skylurk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:35:45 +0000

Luckily, polars has .to_pandas() so you can still pass pandas dataframes to the libraries that really are still stuck on that interface.

I maintain one of those libraries and everything is polars internally.

New comment by skylurk in "Some notes on starting to use Django"

skylurk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:15:31 +0000

If you know what you are doing, you can hibernate other kinds of tortoises by placing them in a fridge (as opposed to a freezer). One of my friends does this with their Russian tortoise.

If you need to travel, make sure you have someone reliable who can check on them, in case of a power outage.

New comment by skylurk in "Apple, What Have You Done?"

skylurk — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:37:24 +0000

You can remove Apple Intelligence offline models. Assuming you already have Apple Intelligence disabled:

Enable Siri, change Siri's language to Chinese, wait an hour, disable Siri again.

At least, it worked for me yesterday.

New comment by skylurk in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

skylurk — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 04:21:54 +0000

BMW has hardware and software bloat for sure, I hate driving them. But sedans, even the heavy ones, don't really hurt roads much compared to a lorry.

As your wikipedia link indicates, any road that is designed for lorry use should be able to take heavy sedans all day and not be worse for wear:

> Therefore, the resulting stress difference between truck and car is 15,000 to 1.

New comment by skylurk in "Can you slim macOS down?"

skylurk — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:03:31 +0000

They should have to advertise the usable space. Right now it is like opening a can of beans and finding it half water.

New comment by skylurk in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

skylurk — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:05:04 +0000

Trademarks differentiate products. App Store is full of shady clones with near identical icons, screenshots and names that differ from the original by a few letters.

New comment by skylurk in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

skylurk — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:56:12 +0000

Sorry, I should clarify, I mean battery weight and battery performance. The other components won't be a major differentiator. They can be cheap and still be reliable enough.

The specs that we compare when EV shopping are mostly just how well the battery works (range, charge time, peak output, lifespan, power to weight, cold weather performance).

New comment by skylurk in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

skylurk — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 04:05:45 +0000

Yep. EVs are a once in a lifetime chance for EU and Chinese manufacturers to catch up again or even leapfrog Toyota. Until recently Toyota was 20 years ahead wrt reliability and upkeep.

Soon, battery weight and performance will be the main differentiator of vehicles.