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pmalynin··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
No but he’s also not borrowing against his 401k? You and I can also go and borrow against stocks held in regular accounts? https://us.etrade.com/bank/line-of-credit
pmalynin··on California is chasing wealth that has feet
Incredibly terrible example because you are allowed to borrow money against a 401k, up to $50000 with no penalties as long as you pay yourself back at whatever schedule you have determined for yourself
pmalynin··on San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs
As others have mentioned, Silicon Valley Power charges about half of PGE, and SF actually already has a power provider for businesses via Hetch Hetchy. It’s probably true that overall they might be a generation shortage but it doesn’t have to be true on a local scale. Plus PGE also needs to pay a lot of money for all the fires they started…which of course just goes back to the rate payers.
pmalynin··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
I guess they’ll just have to put the weights into a book format and publish the physical copies
pmalynin··on OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer
Yes and https://reviews.llvm.org/D69991
pmalynin··on Cow vs. Water Buffalo Mozzarella (2011)
These days its pretty easy to get from Whole Foods or Eataly if you have one nearby. Definitely worth, especially if you're making Caprese.
pmalynin··on A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability
Like, repr(C)?

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/other-reprs.html

pmalynin··on The Ski Rental Problem
I think it was 1/e but close enough (37%)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem#1.2Fe-law_of...

pmalynin··on FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores
If you put around 200-300k into IBKR (not affiliated) you can get portfolio margin which will give you just shy of $2,000,000 in buying power. Access to leverage isn’t really an issue, but forced liquidation definitely is. The bank will not liquidate your mortgage if you end up underwater.
pmalynin··on Timescale Is Now TigerData
Which has nothing to do with WiredTiger I guess?
pmalynin··on Mexican Navy ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge leaving two people dead
My back of the envelope math says velocity of about 28 m/s — call it an even 100km/h. Yeah seems kinda tough.
pmalynin··on Lvgl: Embedded graphics library to create beautiful UIs
https://docs.lvgl.io/master/details/integration/adding-lvgl-...
pmalynin··on Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop software
I’ve used Moonlight before https://github.com/moonlight-stream

You can just follow that thread no write up needed tbh

pmalynin··on Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union
Most recently I think Baldurs Gate 3. People have also been enjoying Balatro a lot
pmalynin··on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
I think a lot of people on hacker news were equally if not more outraged about Snowden leaks. Not sure what you’re trying to say.
pmalynin··on Hands-on Assignment – Therac-25 (2007)
RBMK Reactors Do Not Explode
pmalynin··on China completes green belt around Taklamakan Desert
Have you actually looked into "bailing out banks" (which is called Troubled Asset Relief Program), because if you have you would have learned that the US Government actually made ~$15 billion in profit after selling off the toxic assets 6 years later. Not to mention the money the government made thru preferred stock repurchase by corporations and other things (interest etc) the US Treasury booked a total profit of ~$121 billion.

Sorry for calling you out but I'm just very tired of purely emotional responses to this topic because people actually just refuse to go thru the facts of how events transpired and their consequences.

EDIT: You can see this for yourself from ProPublica https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/

pmalynin··on Russia and China rigged Romanian Elections using 10M fake TikTok accounts
While that statement has a grain of truth (NED having being created as a result of Reagan's NSDD-77 directive) I would rather eat democratic / neoliberal propaganda slop rather than what Russia / China (and their allies) are pushing. This comment kind of reeks of a particular kind of odour that is not quite whataboutism but is very similar to FSB demoralization propaganda. Given your account's relatively young age and other comments I somewhat feel you might have an ulterior motive?
pmalynin··on Show HN: Floating point arithmetic types in C++ for any size and any base
In general this isn’t true (i guess it is in this specific context). For example I believe it’s totally expected to specialize std hash
pmalynin··on American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway
Yeah sorry I was specifically referring to Christchurch Greyfriars. Basically it was as the article said, I was staying in the area (near uh a pub Samuel Pepys I believe) and was walking around and that was definitely one of the things that caught my eye. Maybe such things aren’t as common as I thought
pmalynin··on American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway
You don’t have to struggle. There are plenty of videos and photos of that time that you can check out. Also if you visit London you can go around and see a bunch of buildings they haven’t rebuilt and just left them in semi destroyed state as monuments
pmalynin··on Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues
Oh glad to know I’m not the only the with the 5950x MCE errors. I probably haven’t seen one in a year though, so maybe it was finally fixed
pmalynin··on The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC
Not sure if this is still the case but I thought you could get a free version of Wolfram Mathematica for RPI for free
pmalynin··on The CompCert C Compiler
Maybe not the C community at large, but companies / teams / projects that care about security have done this. For example, iBoot uses Firebloom which is basically C with fat pointers and bounds checking.
pmalynin··on Putting a Wet Towel on a Tesla Supercharger Handle Gets Faster Charging Speeds
Huh? Are you claiming convection doesn’t exist?
pmalynin··on Giant batteries are transforming the way the U.S. uses electricity
If you live in Santa Clara your rate will be around $0.166 per kWh.

I think a lot of folks there have solar. And by 2026 they say they will have 50% of electricity sourced via sustainable means.

pmalynin··on Show HN: Comprehensive inter-process communication (IPC) toolkit in modern C++
Tbh on macOS you should probably use xpc / Mach and that will probably let you do more than a generic ipc library. Of course caveat emptor it’s not portable
pmalynin··on Show HN: Wallstreetlocal – View investments from America's biggest companies
I think that’s not entirely correct either, for example Nvidia had to file a 13F for its holdings after their value of ARM shares exceeded 100M. And the requirement I believe is not for investment advisors (which is its own thing, see Register Investment Advisors from the SEC), but broadly extends to institutional investment managers which is a lot looser of a definition that can certainly include private companies like broker-dealers, in addition to hedge funds, RIC, etc as well as public corporation like Nvidia depending on the types of activities they are involved in.
pmalynin··on The hater's guide to Kubernetes
colo racks, rented dedicated servers, ec2 / managed vm offerings?
pmalynin··on Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games
My favorite was the tiff exploit to install virtual CFWs by scrolling through an album of digital chickens. Good times
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