Hacker News: 508LoopDetectedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=508LoopDetectedHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:18:34 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by 508LoopDetected in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"]]>New Orleans is built on top of a fishbowl-shaped sponge, as far as its foundational land is concerned. Road repair costs reflect this, but of course the other side of the coin is the decades worth of local government corruption here that makes any major progressive infrastructure changes feel like a perpetual pipe dream. At the same time though, it's one of the most beautiful cities in the country for endless historical + cultural reasons. You could say New Orleans is a highly concentrated gumbo of both the "good" and "bad" of some uniquely American ingredients. I love it here and hate it here; I get jealous when I visit other cities, but then I greatly miss home. Weird place.

]]>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:04:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45669357508LoopDetectedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45669357https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45669357<![CDATA[New comment by 508LoopDetected in "Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen"]]>Yep! I'm guilty of continuing to use the double-colon separators to this very day. Just shipped an internal app for my company a few months ago that utilizes them in page titles.

]]>Thu, 29 May 2025 17:46:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44128390508LoopDetectedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44128390https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44128390<![CDATA[New comment by 508LoopDetected in "Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996"]]>Apt reference to Burroughs, as he and Bowie ended up meeting in the early/mid '70s, and Bowie employed the cut-up technique somewhat often on his albums afterwards (starting with Diamond Dogs, if I'm not mistaken). So the Verbasizer was essentially Bowie's attempt to modernize a creative process he was already very fond of.

]]>Wed, 07 May 2025 18:56:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43919370508LoopDetectedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43919370https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43919370<![CDATA[New comment by 508LoopDetected in "David Lynch has died"]]>But it's very much redeemed by the third season, which is every bit as good as the first season, albeit rather different in tone.

]]>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:54:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729325508LoopDetectedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729325https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729325<![CDATA[New comment by 508LoopDetected in "An Interview with Bill Watterson (1987)"]]>Even better, last year he published "The Mysteries", which to my understanding is his first book since Calvin & Hobbes ended!

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Mysteries/Bill-Wa...

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