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New comment by Baeocystin in "RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB"

Baeocystin — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:42:29 +0000

I have a 3090Ti, And it is still plenty performant for all the stuff I do. Especially considering modern pricing, I don't see me swapping for anything newer for a long time to come.

New comment by Baeocystin in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

Baeocystin — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:55:24 +0000

I was hoping someone would post Corridor's animations. What better for a custom rig! ...at least when playing with friends.

New comment by Baeocystin in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

Baeocystin — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:29:44 +0000

They aren't, at least not yet. It's more a reflection of how bad internet service is in places you wouldn't think it would be, at least here in the states. My as-advertised gigabit cable service slows to an utter crawl around Netflix O'Clock, And multi-hour+ outages are a regular occurrence.

Regarding latency, starlink satellites are low enough that it just isn't an issue.

New comment by Baeocystin in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

Baeocystin — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:32:02 +0000

I live in the suburbs in the bay area in California, and starlink offers a significantly better quality of service than charter spectrum cable service, which is my only other option. Considering the current state of our government, I don't see things improving anytime soon.

New comment by Baeocystin in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

Baeocystin — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:33:45 +0000

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

--Charles Babbage

Blind trust in the machine for a certain type of user seems to be endemic since the beginning.

New comment by Baeocystin in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

Baeocystin — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:03:45 +0000

I have about 15,000 hours on my Bambu x1c, and it's been fantastic. Their customer service has been great, too; the couple of times that I've had service issues, the tech genuinely worked with me to solve the problem. They were a lot nicer about it than the times I had to contact prusa about my older i3. FWIW.

New comment by Baeocystin in "A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began"

Baeocystin — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:49:22 +0000

That is a fantastic example of mesoamerican script. I would have naively assumed it was Maya had you not said otherwise otherwise, too. Thanks for posting it.

New comment by Baeocystin in "Apocalypse Early Warning System"

Baeocystin — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:44:45 +0000

Great land of confusion reference!

New comment by Baeocystin in "CC-Canary: Detect early signs of regressions in Claude Code"

Baeocystin — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:53:18 +0000

The brown m&m trick turns out to have more applications than one would think!

New comment by Baeocystin in "Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y"

Baeocystin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:21:14 +0000

Her contact information.

New comment by Baeocystin in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

Baeocystin — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 03:13:27 +0000

Not really inaccurate in this case, though. It's a huge loss.

New comment by Baeocystin in "Why vampires live forever"

Baeocystin — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:28:22 +0000

“I’ve told you before, Daniel: roach isn’t an insult. We’re the ones still standing after the mammals build their nukes, we’re the ones with the stripped-down OS’s so damned simple they work under almost any circumstances. We’re the goddamned Kalashnikovs of thinking meat.”

New comment by Baeocystin in "Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows"

Baeocystin — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:18:59 +0000

In my friend's case, donanemab, FWIW.

New comment by Baeocystin in "Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows"

Baeocystin — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:14:16 +0000

Completely arrested? I don't. But it appears to be arrested in ways that matter for mental acuity, for now. I've taken care of a parent with Alzheimer's, and helped several other caregivers over the years with their own family's journeys, and one thing I can tell you is that I have never, ever seen an actual halting of the progression for this long. The descent is usually a stairstep pattern, but the steps are on the matter of weeks to a month or two. My friend has been stable for a year.

This is all new. There is research hinting at Alzheimer's subtypes, some of which are more likely to respond than others. Even halting the decline is a huge potential breakthrough.

New comment by Baeocystin in "Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows"

Baeocystin — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:04:16 +0000

I know two people who have been taking the new monoclonal antibody treatment for it. One who was a bit further along when she started, and did not show any significant improvement. The one who started while she was still in the early stages has completely arrested her descent. She hasn't recovered much of what she already lost, but she's still able to live independently and enjoy life, and her mental acuity scores are (slightly) better than they were last year. That's a hell of a thing.

New comment by Baeocystin in "Why vampires live forever"

Baeocystin — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:10:02 +0000

Just a heads up, don't go in to Echopraxia expecting it to feel like Blindsight. When I first read it, I was actually pretty disappointed overall, and a few of my friends had similar reactions.

Over a couple of years a few re-reads, though, I've come to enjoy it perhaps even more that Blindsight, but in a completely different way. It fills out a lot of the posits opened in the first novel, without coming to specific conclusions, but it gives you a lot to think about.

New comment by Baeocystin in "All praise to the lunch ladies"

Baeocystin — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:56:59 +0000

I used to get the poor kid's meal when I was very young. They made us stand as a group aside in a line and let all the other kids get their full-sized meals first, then would give us our half-sized shitty sandwich after everyone else walked passed and stared at us.

Fuck every single adult involved in that kind of cruelty.

That being said- the bit of light in this story is the lunch ladies who went out of their ways to sneak us extra when it was available, even though I know they got in trouble for it. I managed to give one a hug once, and the strength she hugged me back, I knew she meant it. I have nothing but love and gratitude for those women.

New comment by Baeocystin in "The R47: A new physical RPN calculator"

Baeocystin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:11:32 +0000

I don't really disagree with anything you've said, but I still feel a warm spot in my heart from projects like this. I still have (and use!) my HP48SX from my high school days, and it still works like it always has. There is something to be said for a device's limitations, and I mean that honestly. It's very powerful for what it is, but its processing limitations keeps me from overextending, which is something very easy to do with the pocket supercomputers we've all gotten used to carrying around over the previous decade. (And its keys are simply a delight to press compared to even the best glass touchscreen.)

New comment by Baeocystin in "Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Alien: Covenant – Contemporary Horror of AI (2020)"

Baeocystin — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 19:35:03 +0000

Ripley being the survivor was a rug pull on the audience's expectations. Tom Skerritt (Dallas) was a well-known actor at the time, and would have been assumed to have been the default lead.

New comment by Baeocystin in "A built-in 'off switch' to stop persistent pain"

Baeocystin — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 04:41:21 +0000

When I turned 50 I started capping my max weights because I was more worried about long-term joint and ligament health than ultimate strength. I no longer lift above two plates (225lbs) for anything, even though that is well below my deadlift, squat, etc.

It's been a couple years, now, and honestly I wish I'd made the change sooner. I haven't lost any functional strength, and my recovery is a lot smoother. Haven't had any injury since, either.