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revnodeon ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

A bigger house, a bigger car, a second car, a second home, more eating out, more vacations abroad, more charity spend, I can go on, but I think you get the idea. You can try to write this off as cultural differences, but if we're being honest, that's just cope.

The idea that economic growth is irrelevant is nonsense.

https://econofact.org/factbrief/fact-check-has-the-economic-...

revnodeon ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

I obviously said that in jest, an air conditioner is not expensive nor is it that expensive to run if you keep the set temperature within reason. The question itself is disingenuous. There is no one thing, because whatever the thing, there is a cheap knockoff available. It’s the quality of all things.

A cheap Android phone can do all the things an iPhone can, but the experience is worse. How do you quantify that?

I would urge Europeans to visit the US and stay at an AirBNB outside of a city to see how people live. I’ve done the same in reverse. Could I have a similar lifestyle to what I have in the US? Yes. But only with my American salary. This is the point that is being made here. There is nothing that Europe lacks. The problem is the numbers and what is available to the median household.

revnodeon ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

Air conditioning

revnodeon ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

This ignores the population differences between the two. When you look at GDP per capita, things are quite stark.

revnodeon Migrate from OpenClaw

openclaw = claude code + memory + cron job

persistent memory plus cron job lets you do stuff that you can't do with just codex/claude code/opencode

revnodeon Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

They've been at this for a while. They do have offerings you subscribe for and pay monthly. They have also consistently offered an option for each of those offerings to bring your own or self host. They've earned my trust.

revnodeon Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales

That's not true. Boss likes being flashy. You won't see them being used for actual work, but that's a different proposition.

revnodeon Scott Adams has died

Why is their reputation relevant? They're dead.

Reputation guides your behavior toward that person. But they're no longer around. There is no behavior toward them. They're gone. Their reputation is no longer relevant.

revnodeon US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces

How so?

revnodeon US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces

Yeah, that's not how things work. Senate can't pass anything unless the House agrees and the House is representative of the population. Also, footnote, we've been structuring governments this way for thousands of years. Rome, etc.

revnodeon Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy

Industry includes FOSS and artistic endeavors, anything that’s done professionally.

My intent was to exclude research efforts, which is fundamentally different from engineering, which is a practical concern and not a “get it to just work” concern.

revnodeon Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy

Engineering only exists within industry. Everything else is a hobby.

revnodeon Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy

There is no market for such a thing. At that price point, you get a personal chauffeur. That’s what rich people do and he can do stuff that a self driving system never can.

revnodeon Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy

The point of engineering is to make something that’s economically viable, not to slap together something that works. Making something that works is easy, making something that works and can be sold at scale is hard.

revnodeon Telo MT1

Slate is ugly and not nearly as functional. Predicting who is doomed at this point is silly. But there will be a small electric truck soon, which is nice.

revnodeon Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague

> If the US is in the wrong, why should I as a citizen not want our government officials held accountable?

A core principle of American justice is judgement by a jury of your peers from your community according to our laws, not by foreigners on the other side of the planet according to foreign laws. Violations of our core principles through means we were not a party to is a violation of our sovereignty.

revnodeon Gemini 2.5 Flash

You can self host something like https://big-agi.com/ and grab your own keys from various providers. You end up with the above, but without the pitfalls you mentioned.

revnodeon US tech tariff exemption may only be temporary, says Lutnick

> Who's going to bother to invest in American manufacturing when the tariff "strategy" changes daily?

Isn't that the point? If things are so unstable, you avoid the instability by manufacturing domestically.

revnodeon An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip

Nobody cares about personal use. That's why we have concepts like fair use. It's when you turn around and try to make a business out of it.

You want to generate photos of copyrighted characters? Go for it. But OpenAI is making money off of that and that's the issue.

It seems like they made an effort to stop it, but their product is designed in such a way that doing so effectively is a sisyphean task.

revnodeon Ask HN: Is Washington Post correct in saying Signal is unsecure?

Remember how she wasn't locked up? That set the precedent.

revnodeon Ask HN: How do I escape homelessness after rebuilding my mental health?

He asked what would you do. That's what I would do. And that's what I did. I'm sorry to hear you can't find work, but that's not a problem everyone shares.

revnodeon Ask HN: How Do I Escape Homelessness After Rebuilding My Mental Health?

> I only have a desktop.

Sell it. It's a paperweight for you right now. You can find a really nice open-box/used laptop for $300-400 that will allow you to work from anywhere. You can charge the laptop at a cafe or a library. $5 for coffee and you have a working space to take calls and work.

revnodeon Ask HN: How Do I Escape Homelessness After Rebuilding My Mental Health?

> I drive Lyft/Uber full-time

Stop driving Lyft/Uber. It's for those who don't have any skills beyond driving a car.

Sit down and determine what are the skills that you currently possess that are the most valuable on the market right now. Then sell those to the highest bidder.

My two cents, that isn't a job.

> I know I can earn 3-4x more doing freelance tech, but I can’t do that from a car.

Yes, you can. That's a limiting belief; it's just holding you back. All you need is a laptop. Need to make a meeting? Go to a local cafe. Nobody will even notice. More importantly, if you're doing remote contract work, perfectly acceptable to ask a percentage of the total upfront. That will go a long way to get you out of a car and into an apartment quickly.

> What would YOU do in my situation to break the cycle?

1. Stop driving Uber, stop renting motels, stop paying any bills, bring my costs down to near zero.

2. Start taking on as much contract work doing "freelance tech" that I can find, with as much paid upfront as possible.

3. Once I have 10k in the bank, rent an apartment and start cleaning up whatever mess is left.

4. Start making quality of life decisions. Maybe you don't want contract, but want a job? Maybe a nicer laptop? Closer to your kids? Live your life.

#1 is the hardest, because you're risking everything on your ability to deliver. You have to believe in yourself.

revnodeon Mistral OCR

So an invoice attached to an email as a PDF is sent digitally ... those unfamiliar with PDF will think text and data extraction is trivial then, but this isn't true. You can have a fully digital, non-image PDF that is vector based and has what looks like text, but doesn't have a single piece of extractable text in it. It's all about how the PDF was generated. Tables can be formatted in a million ways, etc.

Your best bet is to always convert it to an image and OCR it to extract structured data.

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Another interesting statistic is that Europe has given Russia more money than it has given Ukraine in 2024. That's a fun one.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/eu-spends-more...

revnodeon Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09PJYMK77/zcF9kZXRhaWxfdGhlbWF0aW...

I'm sure there are power supplies for servers that go above 1600 watts too. If you really want to, you can ... but you really shouldn't.

revnodeon Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting

We also have 20 amp wiring, 20 amp breakers, 20 amp sockets, and plugs too. A lot easier than going 240 volt. That will give you 2400 watts max.

revnodeon Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting

Ha! Find me where I can buy it for $2000.

revnodeon "Nvidia is so far ahead that all the 4090s are nerfed to half speed"

Even a monopolist is constrained by supply and demand. If they could sell everything they make as a 4090 without trashing their margins, they would. The fact that 4080, 4070, 4060 lines exist means they can't.

revnodeon "Nvidia is so far ahead that all the 4090s are nerfed to half speed"

> No, there would just be less 4080s for people to buy.

Sure, and more 4090s at a lower price.