Cerium's comments

On: Tesla loses ground as Chinese EVs dominate global markets

[Cerium]

"forced"? Nothing but greed and a race to the bottom forced their hands.

On: The Day Hobie Made Nixon a Surfboard

[Cerium]

I heard it described as: motorcycle riding actually consists of two hobbies, riding and maintenance. Most people can't afford to only participate in the riding.

I think each riding maintenence have their own four quadrents.

[mulmen → Cerium]

Having thought about this a bit more I think hobbies are recursive.

I buy a motorcycle. I talk about the motorcycle. I ride the motorcycle. Riding motorcycles is a hobby now.

The motorcycle needs maintenance. I talk about the maintenance. I do the maintenance. Motorcycle maintenance is a hobby mow.

A part is unavailable. I talk about making the part. I buy a welder. I make the part. Welding is a hobby now.

On: Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work?

[Cerium]

For others who missed it.. https://www.threads.net/@austinnasso/post/DFLc9-hv4xg?hl=en

On: Zinc, a systems programming language prototype

[Cerium]

It's called zinc because you are avoiding rust?

[vram22 → Cerium]

I wonder if there are PLs named after metals, or even other elements of the periodic table, other than Zinc, Carbon and Mercury? :)

[SkiFire13 → vram22]

Not a metal/element but there's Ruby

[vram22 → SkiFire13]

Crystal too.

[fuzztester → SkiFire13]

Good one, close.

I used Ruby in the Web 2 days in a few dotcom projects.

On: Wealthy Americans fuel half of U.S. economy consumer spending

[Cerium]

Just assume that the money will be spent and put a $X*tax-rate refundable credit on the tax return.

[BobbyJo → Cerium]

Income taxes require extra infrastructure. If you can do everything buy-side, it'd cost less to implement I think.

On: Giving Up a $250k Salary to Retire Early Is Hard

[Cerium]

In my experience large companies reserve part time employment for valued contributors with long tenure- usually they have title like principal or fellow, and contribute in ways that cannot be hired for.

On: Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

[Cerium]

Sometimes I daydream that we moved beyond text files and had a format with a UUID per line.

Version control could reliably track movement between files, we could identify copy and paste (and prompt when refactoring), and code coverage changes would be accurate.

On: Trump says he has directed Treasury to stop minting new pennies

[Cerium]

Keep going! We only need the quarter.

On: Natural fission reactors in the Franceville basin, Gabon

[Cerium]

I remember it having a time travel aspect as well as moderation of reaction via chared tree trunks thrust into the heap.

On: The government information crisis is bigger than you think it is

[Cerium]

That's not the worst I saw this week. I saw a floating dialog box that cannot be closed, that was on the right hand side obscuring the form that it was hassling you to complete. You had to only scroll down a third of a page at a time in order to complete the form.