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grilledchickenw··on Enjoy Every Sandwich
This reminds me of a quote, "hunger is the best condiment".
grilledchickenw··on Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance
Yep, started with PR changes not being visible, but now can't load entire repos. I see the pink unicorn.
grilledchickenw··on Show HN: Unusual Wikipedia
I like this idea.
grilledchickenw··on Show HN: Unusual Wikipedia
As bdsa said, 99 percent are from that Wikipedia page as is, but there's a few dozen I've added in that I've stumbled across and favourited over the years.
grilledchickenw··on Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine
Could you share more information on this custom python procedural engine?
grilledchickenw··on OpenAI won't make money by 2030 and needs another $207B, HSBC estimates
500 billon, you mean.
grilledchickenw··on The Faroes
I intend to! I didn't post this here but all these comments have inspired me to flesh this out a bit more.
grilledchickenw··on The Faroes
Thanks for pointing it out. Need to visit again and explore more. I'll fix it in a bit.
grilledchickenw··on The Faroes
Not the poster, but it's my blog, funny seeing it posted here. This was actually from June this year, which is supposed to be the sunniest month. I got to see just five islands, so there's still plenty more to explore. The cliffs and the rough sea are a mesmerising sight, I remember sitting for an hour just watching the waves crash along the base.
grilledchickenw··on Greenland is a beautiful nightmare
Thank you, kind of you to say. Enough people have said nice things that I've convinced myself that more might be interested in my travel shenanigans.
grilledchickenw··on Greenland is a beautiful nightmare
Thank you, I've been trying to post more.
grilledchickenw··on Greenland is a beautiful nightmare
Thank you, I don't think I'm doing anything particularly special with my process. I like blacks, and keep photos slightly underexposed, something that most phone cameras will avoid like the plague, brightening everything up. Cropping and composition is also more important than it seems IMO.
grilledchickenw··on Greenland is a beautiful nightmare
You just described wonderfully why I'm drawn to remote places. It started with a trip to the interior of Iceland, then Tromsø, and more recently Svalbard and the Faroes.

I tried to capture the beautiful sense of isolation in Svalbard here, maybe it inspires others to make a trip to somewhere remote. https://photoblog.nk412.com/Svalbard2024/n-ssC8fP/Svalminiph...

grilledchickenw··on ‘Robber bees’ invade apiarist’s shop in attempted honey heist
Jason Statham in "The Apiarist" doesn't have the same ring to it
grilledchickenw··on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
OP, what is that grid of geo-located countries called? It's beautiful, and I want to play with such a map. Is there a name for this?
grilledchickenw··on Tldraw Computer
Seems like the same text/instructions are cached, so they give you the same result. Just a hack, but adding in a data box with current date+time fixes it as expected as the inputs are no longer the same. I wouldn't rely on this for true randomness though.
grilledchickenw··on Why you can hear the temperature of water
I hear the same with my shower, but I'd wager most of the change in sound would be to do with pressure change between the hot and cold source.
grilledchickenw··on Deletion of user account
It's been there for a long while, doesn't look like a test item. My guess is they're trying to take it down, but cache hits along the way bring it back for now.
grilledchickenw··on Deletion of user account
The wayback machine will always remember: https://web.archive.org/web/20240503105207/https://www.soflo...
grilledchickenw··on World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator
This is a lot of fun. I created a planet with life and a moon with craters that resembled the a Basilisk fractal that crashes any living brain that looks at it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story)).

Was great to read life evolve subterraneanly and in the oceans alone.

grilledchickenw··on Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade
Dune: Part Two was actually scheduled for release end of last year, but got delayed due to the writers' strike. Maybe it hasn't changed afterall.
grilledchickenw··on Show HN: pgxman – npm for Postgres extensions
ooof, that render on the homepage consistently brings my Chrome browser to its knees.
grilledchickenw··on Akiyoshi’s Illusion Pages
The second black hole one "Approaching black hole: yesterday" is stunning. I cannot believe it's a still image. http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/saishin69e.html
grilledchickenw··on The game I've spent 3.5 years on has been rejected and retired by Steam today
Should be no difference. It looks like different languages. There's de.reddit.com for German, in.reddit.com for Indonesian. SH is Saint Helena I guess, which is a British overseas territory, and thus English. Not sure but that's my guess.
grilledchickenw··on How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
The detailed response is much appreciated!
grilledchickenw··on How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
I've been meaning to do this and move away from Smugmug. Would you be okay to share your portfolio and/or source?
grilledchickenw··on ‘Poison in every puff’: Canada to put warning labels on individual cigarettes
Yeah, that reply sounds irrelevant, but I can see this as meaning "Every little helps". Even if it deters one person from smoking, that's good.
grilledchickenw··on Show HN: PuzzleMoji, a daily emoji pictionary challenge against ChatGPT
Yeah, nerd face + cop + beer.
grilledchickenw··on Show HN: Tomatotree.tv – Find your next series to watch using Rotten Tomatoes
RottenTomatoes has strict licensing policies[1] on where you can use the tomato icons. I bet it's to workaround that.

[1] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/help_desk/licensing

grilledchickenw··on Show HN: Watch YouTube videos in a 3D world with your friends
This is great work! Really simple but well executed idea.
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