<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: CocaKoala</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CocaKoala</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:08:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=CocaKoala" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CocaKoala in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A quick browse of Sweetwater shows 689 different s-style body guitars, four of which are made by Fender under the Squier label. The other 685 different varients are made by companies that I'm not immediately identifying as Fender or Fender-owned. Anecdotally, that doesn't seem significantly different from the status quo I remember 10-15 years ago when I was actively guitar shopping. The body style has been widely used and generic for decades.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 13:49:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222504</link><dc:creator>CocaKoala</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CocaKoala in "How did IRC ping timeouts end up in a lawsuit?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it is imprecise to say that the facts were not argued - they were! As the judge writes in paragraph 58,<p>> The authorship or control of these accounts has consistently been strenuously denied by Dr Garrett. I have no evidence from the Defendants to support it. Instead, they necessarily rely on an inferential case built on a limited number of pleaded facts, some of which are undisputed. I consider them in turn.<p>There were not _witness statements_ presented by the defense in support of myriad facts, but it's not like the case for the defense wasn't made at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:30:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329177</link><dc:creator>CocaKoala</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CocaKoala in "The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>More specifically, it's highly doctor-dependent. The FDA hasn't approved shingrix for people under 50; some doctors are willing to prescribe it without FDA approval, others are not. I personally had shingles in my early thirties and have thus far been unable to have my doctor prescribe shingrix.<p>Also, I would like to point out that having shingles was possibly the single most physically unpleasant experience of my life and boy it sure would have been fantastic to have been able to get the shingles vaccine before I got shingles, as opposed to sometime after! because wow, having shingles sucks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:09:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46165824</link><dc:creator>CocaKoala</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46165824</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46165824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CocaKoala in "The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pilot Precise V2 got me through grad school and when I started journaling recently, a set of those was the first thing I went and picked up. Great pens.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:25:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43246269</link><dc:creator>CocaKoala</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43246269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43246269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CocaKoala in "More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember at one point a couple years ago, I saw a thread on the Bogleheads forum where people could basically call their shot on market crashes; they would post and timestamp when they exited the market and when they re-entered, so that people could go and calculate if the timing was correct or if they lost money by missing out on market growth.<p>I might not have the dates correct, but I remember the general strokes of one guy who decided in like 2017 or something that the market had topped out, the crash was coming any moment now, and he sold everything and called his shot. He missed out on three years of incredible gains, and then the market absolutely _crashed_ in early 2020. He got it right, by a very small amount; he had gotten more selling his positions than he would have gotten selling in march 2020. He buys back in at what ended up being the absolute nadir of the market in like april 2020 or something. The rare success story of timing the market, you love to see it.<p>And then a few days later, he decides that actually, no, the market still has more to drop, and he sells again. Oh well.</p>
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<p>Ah, see, my experience is exactly the opposite of yours; I don't listen to the ChilledCow streams, but I do listen to the Chillhop playlists (and in fact purchase the seasonal essentials collections on vinyl) and one of the reasons I like them is because there's a lot of curation that goes into the playlist and they tend to feature artists that I end up liking - Blue Wednesday, Purple Cat, Joey Pecararo are all reliable artists in the genre for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:12:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42467115</link><dc:creator>CocaKoala</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42467115</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42467115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CocaKoala in "FDA warns top U.S. bakery not to claim foods contain allergens when they don't"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If cooking involves boiling, what are you doing when you put a steak in a hot cast-iron pan?<p>To the rice cooker point, I'd argue that an oven uses a heating element of some form (electric coils, gas flame, wood fire) to heat the air in a closed environment, and the air transfers heat into an item. In contrast, a rice cooker uses a heating element to directly heat a metal pot, and the metal pot transfers heat into an item. Usually that's going to be a combination of rice and water, but you can e.g. pour pancake batter into the pot and get a large souffle pancake, or put bread dough into the pot and get a loaf of bread. The trick is that the metal pot is much more efficient at transferring heat than the air is, so the rice cooker doesn't need to be at the same temperature as an oven to get the same amount of heat into whatever you're cooking.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 19:30:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40824293</link><dc:creator>CocaKoala</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40824293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40824293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CocaKoala in "FDA warns top U.S. bakery not to claim foods contain allergens when they don't"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's the difference between baking and cooking in your understanding? You can make bread in a rice cooker, which nobody has ever called a "rice baker".<p>edit: and a rice cooker is definitely not a small oven.</p>
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<p>With the caveat that I haven't done any sessions run by SpeedSF, the description for their AutoX events at Sonoma usually says something like "Show up and drive, we have dedicated course workers, you can expect to have 20-30 runs in a day".<p>For something run by a group like TrackMasters or GGLC or PCA, then you're definitely correct, you'll have somewhere between five and ten runs depending on how smoothly it goes, you'll work the course for a while, and you should view it as a fun day of hanging out with people who like cars and you'll get to drive a bit.<p>You're also definitely correct that autocross is a lot of fun and anybody who is interested in driving their car for the joy of it should try it out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 16:01:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38940019</link><dc:creator>CocaKoala</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38940019</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38940019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CocaKoala in "Visualizing fighting game mechanics (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're imagining the Guilty Gear series, which gives you a variety of defensive options in the system - you can jump, double jump, or super jump to avoid something with different take-off timings, jump arcs, and speeds; you can block, instant block, or faultless defend to change the amount of chip damage, block stun, and pushback in an effort to throw off your opponent's timing; you can dead angle while blocking to try and recover initiative; you can backdash or throw out a move that's invulnerable on startup in an attempt to get your opponent to whiff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:12:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38644844</link><dc:creator>CocaKoala</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38644844</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38644844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CocaKoala in "You have a right to know why a health insurer denied your claim"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Eh, we're currently fighting to get some claims covered. Before a certain date, all the claims are denied; after a certain date, all the claims are approved. The claims are all for the same thing, related to the same procedure (physical therapy after a joint replacement).<p>Could the claims have been rejected due to a simple human error? Sure, it's plausible. Was there another human error that caused the claims to be rejected after we appealed? Maybe, but probably not. Could a third human error cause the claims to be rejected again after our second appeal? Seems pretty unlikely.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2023 20:15:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38210560</link><dc:creator>CocaKoala</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38210560</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38210560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CocaKoala in "Own-goal football (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ball is rolling towards the goal - if the attacking player touches it, it will be offsides: A player in an offside position has entered active play by "interfering with play by playing or touching a ball passed or touched by a team-mate".<p>Goalkeeper makes a save, since the ball is rolling towards the goal. If the attacking player touches it, it will be offsides: A player in an offside position has entered active play by "challenging an opponent for the ball" or "gaining an advantage by playing the ball or interfering with an opponent when it has [...] been deliberately saved by any opponent".<p>The goalkeeper deliberately plays the ball. Immediately afterwards, the attacking player receives the ball played by the goalkeeper - this is not offsides, since "a player in an offside position receiving the ball from an opponent who deliberately plays the ball, including by deliberate handball, is not considered to have gained an advantage, unless it was a deliberate save by any opponent."<p><a href="https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-11---offside" rel="nofollow">https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:51:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36155639</link><dc:creator>CocaKoala</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36155639</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36155639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CocaKoala in "Own-goal football (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interfering with the ball is sufficient to be called for off-side - you need to be in active play, but you can do that when your team doesn't have possession.</p>
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<p>As long as a nominal defender (not counting the goalie) is in between you and the goal, I don't think you're off-side. So presumably it means you have to a) maintain possession of the ball or 2) clear the ball before all other defenders are able to make it past whoever currently has possession. A) sounds a lot easier than 2), though.</p>
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<p>Mazda's also one of the few carmakers that's independent, as opposed to being part of a much larger conglomeration!</p>
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<p>You can indeed encode digital data onto a vinyl and then play it back meaningfully to a computer - <a href="http://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/" rel="nofollow">http://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/</a> is somebody making a vinyl boot disk and using it to boot DOS.</p>
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<p>As a teen I thought adults were boring because they didn't do any of the things I wanted to spend my time doing - as an adult, I have a bunch of hobbies that are pretty inaccessible to children and I think they're very neat hobbies, but I would also forgive a child for thinking that I'm boring because I like to drive my car or go on wine tastings instead of watching cartoons on saturday morning.</p>
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<p>The current Miata (ND) has some fairly aggressive headlight styling but still maintains the wide grin "mouth" for the front grill: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_MX-5_%28ND%29#/media/File:2016_Mazda_MX-5_Sport_NAV_1.5_Front.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_MX-5_%28ND%29#/media/Fil...</a><p>They look pretty neat in person, it's a very nicely designed car.</p>
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<p>It eliminates the times you uncontrollably think about a past event - note that voluntary recall isn't affected. So it's saying that this lets you process the trauma in a controlled environment when you're in a position to deal with it, but otherwise resume a life that isn't interrupted or dominated by it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2022 19:16:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33321114</link><dc:creator>CocaKoala</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33321114</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33321114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CocaKoala in "Color has been disappearing from the world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'll occasionally see cars like that - bright pink, or some other bright colour, and they always make me smile. I've taken to describing them as "a car that I'd never want to own, but I'm really glad it exists". Like the pink camo-wrapped Dodge Charger that I occasionally see tootling around town - do I want to own a Charger and do it up in pink camouflage? Absolutely not. Am I glad that the option exists and somebody has availed themselves of it? Absolutely yes.</p>
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