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mod··on Keropunk Part 2: Lantern Analysis
I haven't yet. I will in a few days here. I wanted to get some fresh fuel, and I made a trip to town today.

We've got temps in the 20s coming so it'll be a nice test on what to expect for heat levels.

mod··on Keropunk Part 2: Lantern Analysis
I happen to have a dietz blizzard--someone gave it to me, or maybe it was left on the property I bought. I don't share your opinion of the aesthetics of the thing, but I dusted it off after reading your first article recently.

I share a similar love for lanterns and their light quality, although I've mainly just used gas lanterns with mantles.

mod··on Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch
I have the original galaxy watch still. I use it almost without ever touching the screen. Two buttons and a crown/dial pretty much make it four buttons, and yeah, I don't have to touch the screen really.

I'm also not a very hardcore watch user, though.

I was sold on the GW because the OS (Tizen) was supposed to be the best one. Everyone hated the google OS, which then in GW4 I think they switched to.

mod··on Ask HN: How do you build a social circle as a remote worker/nomad in a new city?
Statistically, if you meet ten people in a bar, how many of them are from the group that is "most likely to be in a bar?"
mod··on Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children
He'll branch out when he gets a little older.
mod··on Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children
At young ages, I say give them an old-school Nintendo, or N64 etc. Little/no advertising, monetization of your kid's attention, whatever. If they're not on the web or at school yet, they won't even know they're missing out on more modern systems.

Or some similar setup where there's no online, no monthly charge, no pay-to-win, and instead the child gets to play a carefully crafted game, hopefully an awesome one.

I also think (offline) minecraft is great at that age.

mod··on Ask HN: What platform are you building a niche site on in 2023?
Tangent: Man this landing page is hard to read. For the record, I'm a full stack web programmer.

What the fuck is an island?

"Lazy loading islands" What?

"Components only hydrate when they scroll in to view" WHAT?

"Need interactive UI? Load individual, non-blocking component islands in parallel." WHAAAT!?

"...and live server output (SSR)" SSR = Live Server Output. OOOOOOOkay.

50 acronyms later and I'm way too fatigued to try this shit out.

mod··on Why are there so few dead bugs on windshields these days?
In the case of fireflies, they lay eggs in leaf litter. So you need some unkempt properties or wild land.
mod··on New motorcycle lighting design could save lives
Fellow rider, that's terrifying. I'm trying to even imagine what could happen. I guess at an angle means your rear wheel was coming around, slipping? Maybe the slickness and even your "maintaining speed" amount of throttle was enough to get the rear wheel spinning. That's just especially scary for me, because I really like the--illusion?--that I'm in control. I want a say-so in what happens, especially in risky situations.

I've totaled out a bike myself and gotten back on, but more and more I think maybe it's time to give it up. Especially because I think there's a non-zero (but small) chance we solve aging/death in my lifetime.

mod··on New motorcycle lighting design could save lives
What is about 40 to 50% on any given year?

It's unclear to me after reading both the GP and your comment.

mod··on Ask HN: How to find a niche for a side project?
Common advice is to find where two of your interests or talents cross. Programming is one here, so now just build something that's useful in another of your hobbies or interests.

Another idea is just cloning an existing idea. I think there are probably many niches where it would be relatively easy to build the best product, and other niches where the number of customers is so large that it's not too difficult to capture a small part of the market, even if it's saturated. 12k/yr is a tiny amount of revenue.

mod··on Patients can now access all their health records digitally
You may have read the comment the way I initially did:

as "Now let us (let's) delete them"

I think his meaning was "give us the right to delete them" which IMO should be the standard.

mod··on Patients can now access all their health records digitally
Are doctor's notes part of this?

I wonder how many doctor's are going to regret some things they wrote.

mod··on Will We Ever Run Out of Sudoku Puzzles?
Also, can't you get more/less difficult puzzles by altering where the clues are, or how many? It would feel like a totally different puzzle.
mod··on False memory implantation in adults is easy
I do think that my brain may have fabricated that part. It's the fishy part--pun intended.

I have never been picked up again by my scalp, so I think that's decent reason to believe the memory of the physical sensation is pretty accurate.

There's not a lot else to the memory.

mod··on False memory implantation in adults is easy
I tend to agree, however depending on the size of fish and some other factors, many don't scare off very far. I don't think it's definitive.

(I'm an avid fisherman despite the dock fall!)

I'm not actually familiar with perch as an adult. I last caught one when I was maybe 8 years old. After googling, I believe they were "yellow perch" (caught in northern Indiana)

mod··on False memory implantation in adults is easy
I don't recall having dreams about it, no.

The perch are one of the only fine details I have, which is interesting. That and the scalp sensation.

I don't remember falling, and I don't remember the aftermath. I'm sure it only lasted a few seconds.

mod··on Notes against note-taking systems
I was genuinely interested, so thanks for the response.

I think a note-taking system would be great for the current version of what you're doing, because it would make the whole thing really easy to grep for keywords.

I kinda wish I had all my really old bookmarks, but as you say--I can find what I want with google.

mod··on False memory implantation in adults is easy
I always think about one memory I have that might not be true. I was very young--3 years old--and I have relatively vivid (visual) memories. But, it was a life-and-death circumstance, maybe that matters.

I fell off the dock while fishing. My dad was 20 or 30 yards away. I remember being underwater, I remember the water being stained green a bit, I remember seeing fish I was used to catching (perch), and most importantly, I remember how it feels to be lifted up by your scalp. My dad just grabbed my hair in one hand and lifted me straight up out of the water vertically. You would think it hurts, but it doesn't--at least at the weight of a 3 year old.

The event for sure happened, I'm just not convinced I didn't create a specific memory later--maybe when I was 9 or 10.

mod··on The life-changing effects of hallucinations
If anyone is interested in some listening on this topic, Tim Ferris interviewed a guy recently who talked a lot about rapamycin on his podcast.

https://tim.blog/2022/07/27/matt-kaeberlein-life-extension/

There's a transcript linked if you'd rather read/skim it.

mod··on The life-changing effects of hallucinations
After you take the CBD to stop things, what happens?
mod··on Notes against note-taking systems
How many of those bookmarks do you estimate are 404s now?
mod··on How criminals are using jammers, deauthers to disrupt WiFi security cameras
I can give you a reason:

I want to be able to move cameras inside my business on a whim. The cameras are 99% for monitoring while we're open. They solve many, many mysteries that tend to take place in bars.

mod··on We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online
I spent a bajillion hours flying helicopters. Really loved 3 & 4.

Haven't played since, though. What happened?

mod··on Ask HN: How to get started with real-time Linux?
Hi!

Is there a good training ground, like a simulation, for playing around with this stuff?

mod··on Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from thousands of sites
I agree. I think this publication is a net-loss for the world, for sure. People will find and use this code--people who could/would never create it themselves.

It will be used for many reasons, but the stalking is the most obvious.

Not all of my usernames are as resistant as this one, unfortunately.

mod··on After chess, cheating rows rock poker and fishing
Even in the hand, he was laughing while knowing that he lost.

He only freaked out (okay, his eyes did) when he saw her actual hand.

mod··on After chess, cheating rows rock poker and fishing
I'm not sure what you mean. She had the best hand at every point, before and after the outrageous call.

The odds were not against her, they were in her favor.

mod··on After chess, cheating rows rock poker and fishing
Usually the player who is losing is the one who more strongly prefers to run it more than once. That's just an observation of mine based on watching a lot of hands.

Monetarily, there's no difference whether you run it once or twice. It just lowers variance.

I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with. She literally says it, I'm not reading into anything. What are you taking away from the video? (I genuinely am not sure what your argument is)

mod··on After chess, cheating rows rock poker and fishing
> Because that's what she would have had to know, his cards, and the next cards in the deck in order.

She would only have to know that if it was an absolute requirement that she wins the hand.

It's not--she can take a positive expectation, which includes a coin flip, and still be wildly profitable.

The outcome of the last two cards isn't overly important, just the state of the game when she committed $109,000.

> He has more outs

You've made a fundamental error here. He's the only one with outs, as outs refer to cards that will improve your hand to be the winner. She doesn't have outs, because her hand is better than his at every single point.

I think your points are reasonably well thought out, they're just missing some fundamental knowledge required to make any kind of valid determination.

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