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runeks commented on Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock wsj.com/opinion/uncle-sam... · Posted by u/aspenmayer

jimt1234 · 2 days ago

> If capitalism is so great, then why does it need to be rescued by socialism every ten years?

Not sure where I read that (I think it was some dude's Tweet), but it seems relevant here.

runeks · 2 days ago

So the logic here is that if I take a strawberry cake and sprinkle some chocolate on it then that's proof that a chocolate cake is better than a strawberry cake?

runeks commented on Tesla used car prices keep plumetting, dips below average used car electrek.co/2025/08/08/te... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute

chii · 18 days ago

ICE used cars are often in relative good working condition.

EV used cars are basically dead batteries. It makes a lot of sense to see used EVs price plummet. The index being used to make this comparison doesn't seem to disclose the car category, so it's hard to draw any conclusions.

If tesla car specifically drops in value, compared to other electric car brands for similar vintage/model vehicles, then you can draw a conclusion. Otherwise, it'd be merely confirmation bias.

runeks · 18 days ago

> EV used cars are basically dead batteries.

Source please.

runeks commented on Attention is your scarcest resource (2020) benkuhn.net/attention/... · Posted by u/jxmorris12

ratelimitsteve · a month ago

Hear me out: it's your scarcest resources and also a certain amount of waste is not just expected but necessary. This article starts with the phrase "Like many people, I have most of my best ideas in the shower." What's happening when you have shower ideas is something called the default mode network (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network) is activated. It's basically "What you're thinking about when you're not thinking about anything" and it's how your brain builds relationships between facts. It's usually where you do your thinking about yourself, about other people and the past and future, as opposed to what is called the task-positive network which is when your thinking is focused on concrete things in the here and now. What's interesting about the default mode network is that it's the source of those "a-ha!" moments because, unconsciously, its actually been analyzing the problem, building potentially insightful connections between ideas and integrating those ideas into what you already know.

runeks · a month ago

> Hear me out: it's your scarcest resources and also a certain amount of waste is not just expected but necessary.

Where's the waste in what you're describing?

If all this stuff is going on then it doesn't sound wasteful at all to me.

runeks commented on URL-Driven State in HTMX lorenstew.art/blog/bookma... · Posted by u/lorenstewart

Twey · a month ago

The example URL here, though, is still not (helpfully) bookmarkable because the contents of page 2 will change as new items are added. To get truly bookmarkable list URLs, the best approach I've seen is ‘page starting from item X’, where X is an effectively-unique ID for the item (e.g. a primary key, or a timestamp to avoid exposing IDs).

runeks · a month ago

> The example URL here, though, is still not (helpfully) bookmarkable because the contents of page 2 will change as new items are added.

Why is the content changing between refreshes not "(helpfully) bookmarkable"?

The HN front page (ie. "page 1") does that but it's a very useful bookmark.

runeks commented on URL-Driven State in HTMX lorenstew.art/blog/bookma... · Posted by u/lorenstewart

gloosx · a month ago

It's just how web works – storing data in URL params to restore the same state later. With React or whatever library you do the exactly same thing. In this case HTMX doesn't particularly stand out or enable anything new here.

runeks · a month ago

> With React or whatever library you do the exactly same thing.

There are many React SPAs where the address bar URL rarely changes, and I have to find some "share" button on the page itself to get the page's URL.

runeks commented on Show HN: FFmpeg in plain English – LLM-assisted FFmpeg in the browser vidmix.app/ffmpeg-in-plai... · Posted by u/bjano

p0w3n3d · a month ago

  I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I cannot do that

runeks · a month ago

How do you know my name?!

runeks commented on Zig's New Async I/O kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-... · Posted by u/afirium

rastignack · a month ago

I wrote a simple ssh server in zig to learn the language in my spare time.

The new design makes the event loop / io much easier to reason about. Thanks Andy

runeks · a month ago

> The new design makes the event loop / io much easier to reason about.

Interesting. How so?

runeks commented on Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful florian-kraemer.net//soft... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac

sublinear · 2 months ago

Because HTTP is a lot more sophisticated than anyone cares to acknowledge. The entire premise of "REST", as it is academically defined, is an oversimplification of how any non-trivial API would actually work. The only good part is the notion of "state transfer".

runeks · a month ago

What does that have to do with query parameters in non-GET requests?

runeks commented on Zig's New Async I/O kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-... · Posted by u/afirium

wucke13 · a month ago

Is this in effect introducing algebraic effects by concept? E.g. the io passed in is an effect handler, and it is the effect handler's choice whether to perform stack switching (or other means of non-blocking waiting) to enable asynchronicity?

runeks · a month ago

In my view, algebraic effects enable specifying different kinds of effects (with different interpretations) — e.g. read a file, run DB query, network access — as opposed to just a single 'Io' effect that allows everything.

runeks commented on Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful florian-kraemer.net//soft... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac

pbreit · 2 months ago

That’s pretty bad design. Only GETs should include a querystring. Links should only read, not create, update or delete.

runeks · 2 months ago

> Only GETs should include a querystring.

Why?