<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: CobaltFire</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CobaltFire</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:50:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=CobaltFire" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CobaltFire in "American sentenced for helping North Koreans get jobs at U.S. firms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not in the slightest.<p>Its both about your decision making in getting to that point, and about what you might do to get out from under those debts.<p>Exactly the issue we see in this situation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:20:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44690107</link><dc:creator>CobaltFire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44690107</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44690107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CobaltFire in "Nerve pain drug gabapentin linked to increased dementia, cognitive impairment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sorry to hear that. I'd say that risk very small absolute risk is worth it then, given both the quality of life and the other health problems that lack of sleep would bring.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:22:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44531850</link><dc:creator>CobaltFire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44531850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44531850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CobaltFire in "Nerve pain drug gabapentin linked to increased dementia, cognitive impairment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I tried looking this up, and they don't say anywhere what they mean by prescription. Mine are 90 days, so I want to assume thats normal but don't honestly know. Looking up dosing it seems that 3x300mg is as small as is prescribed, and it can go up to 3x1200mg.<p>Then we have the increase in incidence. The incidence rate is already small in those age groups, so even doubling it is a tiny number.<p>I'm going to stop taking it (I take something between 1/10 and 1/5 of my prescribed dose anyhow) and think about if the benefit to me is worth the added risk.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:32:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44528409</link><dc:creator>CobaltFire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44528409</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44528409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CobaltFire in "Nerve pain drug gabapentin linked to increased dementia, cognitive impairment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well damn. I take this as needed for a back injury that left me with chronic pain. My prescription is for a LOT more than I take (I take it about 20% as often as prescribed).<p>Now I'm not so sure I want to take it. My saving grace is that I'm on the younger end and haven't taken it that long.<p>After reading the paper and looking into dosing I learned that I'm taking a tiny fraction of the normal dose. Wow. Learn something every day.</p>
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<p>I have to say, thats like someone saying anything I write is an allegory for my career (military). It may be informed by it, but its not an allegory beyond the fact that it shaped me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:25:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44499750</link><dc:creator>CobaltFire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44499750</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44499750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CobaltFire in "Why are there no good dinosaur films?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had to look this up because I wasn't aware of it. It seems the creators themselves have refuted this and said that it was a journalist twisting their answers.<p><a href="https://www.them.us/story/lilly-wachowski-work-in-progress-season-two-showtime" rel="nofollow">https://www.them.us/story/lilly-wachowski-work-in-progress-s...</a></p>
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<p>Some of these are, as others have commented, guidelines meant to be broken. Others are solid insights into technical limitations leveling the playing field (Phase One being equal to a phone after compression and resizing when displayed on a phone).<p>I have to say that the one regarding the rule of thirds was... wrong. Thats always been a rule to break, and square isn't even close to a new format. Shooting 120 film in 6x6 is, and was, common. Its what the Apollo Astronauts took with them. Its also my favorite format.</p>
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<p>I actually really feel this. Before I retired I had a homelab in the learning, testing, experimenting sense. I didn't run anything for home "production" on it because the downtime wasn't appreciated.<p>Now I have a more capable rack, but it's all just running stuff I use. I don't experiment on it at all, and I don't use it to gain any new skills.<p>So I do call it a homelab, but its not quite what people understand that to be.</p>
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<p>I do believe the Absolute History channel on youtube has their series now, if you want an easy to stream source.</p>
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<p>Looks like this one [0] has an implied update in 2023, as thats the latest listed road trip.<p>Seems he just doesn't have anything to update on some of the pages.<p>0: <a href="http://alaskaroads.com/roadgeek-superlatives.htm" rel="nofollow">http://alaskaroads.com/roadgeek-superlatives.htm</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:02:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44357141</link><dc:creator>CobaltFire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44357141</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44357141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CobaltFire in "Hawaii Highways"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is awesome, and a nice trip down memory lane for when I lived in Hawai'i.<p>Looks like the last update was in January 2014 though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 02:28:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44351995</link><dc:creator>CobaltFire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44351995</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44351995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CobaltFire in "Fujifilm X half: Is it the perfect family camera?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So I don't actually like shooting at 24mm (the iPhone 15 Pro 48MP FL). If we adjust that to a more typical 35mm (I prefer 40mm personally) or 50mm we end up at either a 1.5x crop or a 2x crop of the iPhone's sensor.<p>That gives us ~21MP for 35mm and 12MP for 50mm. The 35mm crop is almost a match for the sensor size of the Kodak, and the 50mm is smaller.<p>Then we have to deal with the inescapable processing that the iPhone does, even in "RAW" mode (which, while better than JPEG, is not anywhere near RAW). We are stuck with JPEG but no major processing on the Kodak, so no imagined detail.<p>We can compare lenses as well, but to do that properly I would need to do a like for like comparison. I may actually do that between the iPhone, Kodak, and Panasonic.<p>All in, your simplistic approximation just highlights how much you've bought into the marketing instead of understanding how cameras work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 03:06:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306324</link><dc:creator>CobaltFire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306324</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CobaltFire in "Fujifilm X half: Is it the perfect family camera?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My first SLR was an A100.<p>Fond memories, I carried that camera all over the world for 6 years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 23:53:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44305253</link><dc:creator>CobaltFire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44305253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44305253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CobaltFire in "Fujifilm X half: Is it the perfect family camera?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everyone here keeps touting an old phone, and I have to heatedly disagree.<p>But a Kodak Pixpro FZ55 or FZ45. Brand new for $130 or less, beats even the best smartphones, and are Japan's top selling cameras for a reason.</p>
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<p>As a long time micro four thirds shooter:<p>The Panasonic 20/1.7 is an amazing little lens but its autofocus is absolutely horrible. I used to carry it and an E-M5 (the first one) and the shots were great but AF was near useless.</p>
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<p>Absolutely. We have an iPhone 15 Pro Max, a Kodak Pixpro FZ55, and a Panasonic G9 II + Panasonic Leica 12-60.<p>The iPhone can't even hope to touch the cheap Kodak, much less the actual mirrorless.</p>
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<p>My wifes new Kodak Pixpro FZ55 ($130) absolutely smokes my iPhone 15 Pro.<p>I shoot a Panasonic G9 II and thats a completely different level.</p>
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<p>I completely agree. I adore the Ghibli classics, but the three you mentioned are my personal favorites for much the same reason.</p>
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<p>Fortunately only his cancer was RUNX1, not his whole genome. It was also trisomy-21. Essentially he had what his doc described as the "stereotypical" B-ALL for individuals with Down Syndrome, but he doesn't have it.</p>
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<p>Its fascinating to hear from someone who my son's enrollment would have affected. I'm hoping his data point can help tune treatment for more people in the future.<p>And thank you for YOUR data point that helped my son have the option to not do those extra months.</p>
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