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New comment by AceyMan in "The Dumb Little Skill That Made Humans Terrifying"

AceyMan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:15:46 +0000

As I recall (and not mentioned here) it's said that people have a lot of grey matter to be a good controller for the "arm/shoulder ballistics system," a detail which ended up out providing myriad other benefits.

The Dumb Little Skill That Made Humans Terrifying

AceyMan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:12:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4qaF25i6yw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409500

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by AceyMan in "The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida"

AceyMan — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:53:45 +0000

It's been said that the most amazing engineering of the whole Shuttle program was the external fuel tank (and there is one with the static display of Endeavour here at the California Science Center in LA).

New comment by AceyMan in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

AceyMan — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:04:20 +0000

Try finding the backtick on a mobile phone keyboard in less than a minute, tho. So very annoying. (SwiftKey I'm look at you, bud.)

New comment by AceyMan in "Simplenote is no longer in active development"

AceyMan — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:15:15 +0000

Considering they only shipped about every two years—I'm not kidding—so long as they keep the lights on, that's good enough for me. (I'll still look for a replacement, but I won't feel super rushed to switch away.)

New comment by AceyMan in "Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'"

AceyMan — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:05:33 +0000

Finasteride, in the US at least, has only a 30 day refractory period. My MD let's me stop for 30 days so I can donate, then resume the regimen.

New comment by AceyMan in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

AceyMan — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:47:10 +0000

Oof.

New comment by AceyMan in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

AceyMan — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:56:36 +0000

I'd think that original creators such as J.K. Rowling, Steven Spielberg, Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift (among others) would be other members of the !evil bucket.

New comment by AceyMan in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

AceyMan — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:40:37 +0000

obligatory citation: "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded." —Yogi Berra, MLB HOF catcher & manager

New comment by AceyMan in "Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)"

AceyMan — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:24:16 +0000

The comma has an unusual but super handy usage in PowerShell. When it precedes a variable of any array (list) type, the code it's the input to handles it as an array object, defending against the usual tendency to "unpack" the array and read in the elements that compose it.

New comment by AceyMan in "Stockfish 18"

AceyMan — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:52:21 +0000

Release announcement for our aquatic overlord of the classic, ancient game.

Stockfish 18

AceyMan — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:52:21 +0000

Article URL: https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2026/stockfish-18/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46869825

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by AceyMan in "Chuck Klosterman on why we've never actually seen a real football game"

AceyMan — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:31:12 +0000

The very best gridiron football is NCAA (SEC specifically) but getting tickets is basically unobtanium. I was lucky to have a FIL who was an alum, and donated enough yearly to get "rights for" season tickets for UGA games (Go Dawgs!). As the saying goes, "There's nothing like cheering on your team with 92,000 of your closest friends." An absolutely amazing experience every time that I got to go. [edit:clarity]

New comment by AceyMan in "Chuck Klosterman on why we've never actually seen a real football game"

AceyMan — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:27:17 +0000

My grandmother (b. 1906)—a very intelligent lady (held her J.D.)—always had MLB game the broadcast tuned in anytime I was visiting her. The tempo and information needs of the game makes it perfect for delivery by radio.

New comment by AceyMan in "People who know the formula for WD-40"

AceyMan — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:19:49 +0000

A germane chemistry story but not about lubricants. I grew up in Atlanta. My mom was a scientific librarian and for a while she worked in the chemistry department at Coca-Cola. She worked with the guys who knew the syrup secret formula ("7x"). She told me she had to burn her carbons (this was before duplicating machines). She could take shorthand and perfectly type organic chemistry expressions using just a regular typewriter; truly lost skills, anymore.

New comment by AceyMan in "When employees feel slighted, they work less"

AceyMan — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:49:36 +0000

It's surprising how dumb management has gotten in the Almighty Chase for A Quarterly¹ Profit.

Remember, "it is very difficult to get a man to understand a thing when his job depends on his not understanding it." [editor:and that goes doubly for MBAs] —Upton Sinclair

¹—added adjective

New comment by AceyMan in "Anyone have experiences with Audio Induction Loops?"

AceyMan — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:15:51 +0000

I just got my first pair of HAs in November and I opted for the T-coil enabled model. It also (already) has working Auracast (not just "available in a future firmware update" like the other mfgrs). The T-coil model was not much bigger than the one without, and it also had two buttons on each unit rather than one on the T-coil-less model.

411, "Loop systems" are hard-coded in the US's ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) so they are not going away anytime soon. When Auracast does proliferate it'll be alongside loop systems; not a direct replacement. (Not at least until the law is amended and we all know how long that takes.)

My HA model is the Starkey Omega 24 RIC-RT (the `mRIC` is the smaller version of the same, sans T-coil).

New comment by AceyMan in "There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout"

AceyMan — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 03:59:01 +0000

I'd always been told this was planned into the implementation of the US Interstate Highway System. There are dead straight and level sections ever so many linear miles or per some gridsquare measure to serve as ad hoc landing strips in a national crisis. That's been 35+ years ago that I heard it and I haven't sought any supporting documentation since the dawn of the Internet. Any insight would be appreciated.

New comment by AceyMan in "Vince Zampella, developer of Call of Duty and Battlefield has died"

AceyMan — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:46:37 +0000

> That seems to be a more recent thing. There is now a concrete barrier in front of the rock face.

Nodding thx for the correction. Understandably, I am not scanning the outside shoulder in this or any other technical section in the Angeles National Forest roadways. "Eyes on the road" is not just something your Dad would say when driving at speed on these (or any other) fast, twisty roads.

New comment by AceyMan in "Vince Zampella, developer of Call of Duty and Battlefield has died"

AceyMan — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:57:17 +0000

I drive this section of road 'spiritedly' myself¹, and I can attest that this particular spot is deceptive and can easily bite you. I wet my pants a couple of times by overcooking it (in both directions) before I finally got the hang of the proper entry speed, which is much lower than it looks approaching from either side.

Coming this direction, the tunnel makes it feel like you are going slower than you are due to the lack of passing references (trees, etc.). It's also downhill, so you are going faster than your foot/throttle angle makes it feel.

There is zero straight once you exit the tunnel; the turn begins immediately, and it is every so slightly off-camber; there is also, iirc, a little swell that unloads the weight just a little, which can be enough to matter. You need to stand on the brakes a couple of seconds before exiting the tunnel to get down to a navigable speed. The road surface is a little rough there; it's not lumpy or bumpy, but it's not butter smooth either.

Btw, it's not a 'concrete' wall, in the sense of something man-made: it's the granite face of the mountain formed as a result of cutting the roadway itself. It's easily visibly in Google Maps with satellite view enabled (keywords: Angeles Crest Tunnels).

411, my work buddy was riding his '24 Gold Wing around the forest (for the first time, based on my briefing) that afternoon and got stopped (coming from the ascending/opposite direction) by the road closure just a few hundred meters from the accident site as LEOs and Emergency responders had just secured the area.

¹- I rent sports cars through Turo a few times a year and take them up there for fun. Among this year's choices were a 2024 BMW M2 (6-speed) and a 2024 Corvette C8. [edit: formatting]