Hacker News: MivLives

New comment by MivLives in "Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting"

MivLives — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 06:35:29 +0000

Managed to find an alt I forgot I made and gave up using years ago. I do wonder about other high up people. Like what about our mutual histories makes us have similar word usage? Are we from the same areas or did we hang out in similar places online?

New comment by MivLives in "The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development"

MivLives — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 20:27:36 +0000

In Seattle at least they do posters. Mostly in Cap Hill (the gay area). The super small stuff is generally social only but anything with an actual venue will pop up. 19hz is also a good resource, it's searchable and city specific.

New comment by MivLives in "The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development"

MivLives — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 06:20:28 +0000

19hz has a good listing of events. A lot of it is announced on Instagram or Telegram (or the old classic of looking at the fliers on the telephone poles of cap hill). Renegades still happen (the bridge has been a super popular spot) but that season is sorta over. I more favor the Kremwork (that's more my scene) or digital hardcore shows which seem to just pop up everywhere.

New comment by MivLives in "The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development"

MivLives — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 01:39:11 +0000

PNW in general. Seattle is for sure active. They're not even that hard to find if you go looking for them.

New comment by MivLives in "Shipbreaking"

MivLives — Tue, 21 May 2024 09:38:01 +0000

I'm a big fan. For me a lot of the fun was mastering that movement system. The way the game is set up it incentives you to be fast and take risks. To get around faster you have to treat yourself the same as the chunks of the ship, using the tether to pull yourself in. You can also magnetize yourself to the hull and spider around like that. With upgrades and practice I was able to get most of the smallest level of ships done in one in game day.

New comment by MivLives in "Rise of fast-fashion Shein, Temu roils global air cargo industry"

MivLives — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 08:27:49 +0000

I've been thrifting a bunch recently and it's amazing how different even a 90s tshirt feels compared to a modern one. There's a heft and thickness to it that just doesn't seem to be the priority anymore. Also everything now seems to not be just cotton but blend in something that lets it stretch.

New comment by MivLives in "Ask HN: Why do recommender systems not seem good?"

MivLives — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:01:59 +0000

I think that the issue is that it's always assumed that similar things are a better recommendation. The issue is at least for myself and other people I've talked to about that a lot of times we're looking for something different from the last thing. For example if I spend a week listening to vintage surf rock the recommendations that could be given might be 60s pop, or more surf rock. But what actually I wanted was to listen to experimental jazz with a retro funk twist on it. How could they anticipate that? Talk to anyone who's deep into some art form, movies, tv, music, and you'll see recommendations given that maintain vibes more than just similar things.

New comment by MivLives in "Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)"

MivLives — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 22:36:55 +0000

What are people using for rss on mobile? I feel like that's the biggest change, at least for me. The way I consume news moved from something I did on my laptop to something I did on my phone.

New comment by MivLives in "LED Matrix Earrings"

MivLives — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:59:39 +0000

I would if I could program them relatively easily. And if there were other colors then just red LEDs.

New comment by MivLives in "We're moving to a post-entertainment society"

MivLives — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:41:42 +0000

I switched to movies only because I realized that TV was encouraging this behavior. It's a lot easier to watch television without looking at it. It's easier for me to consciously put down my phone for 90 to 180 minutes then it is for me to do so for however long I get stuck in a television binge.

New comment by MivLives in "Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines"

MivLives — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 00:46:10 +0000

Seattle is like this too. There seems to be one or two machines in a lot of bars, particularity the sleepy ones. There are a few dedicated pinball bars as well which are always fun to kill an hour or two in.

New comment by MivLives in "Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines"

MivLives — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 00:44:42 +0000

I move frequently enough that it would be a hassle. I would love if there were a way to make a smaller version that still felt worth playing.

New comment by MivLives in "B&H Photo Published an AI-Generated Guide Written by a Fake Person"

MivLives — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 01:00:55 +0000

I worked at another retail site. We were also looking at doing this with SEO purposes. Whatever they were using to generate the articles was picked up by Google I assume because those pages were never indexed. It was also a secret from the ten person team they had turning out copy for seo blog articles.

The crazy thing was that whole section of the site was getting maybe a thousand views per hour on a site that got seven figure hits a day. Most employees didn't even realize it existed. The amount of money burned on it attempting to chase SEO was crazy.

New comment by MivLives in "$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people"

MivLives — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 21:34:53 +0000

That'd work great until someone realizes there's all these bins of precollected trash all over the place. Perverse incentives.

New comment by MivLives in "Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths"

MivLives — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 18:59:36 +0000

I sold my Onewheel because I was seeing more reports of this sort of stuff. Personally never experienced it in about 2.5k miles ridden. I guess I was lucky. The way I've seen people take drops on these things, or modify the electronics can't be good. I've honestly wondered if those little front wheels (called Fangs I think) would become a standard thing.

New comment by MivLives in "Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths"

MivLives — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 18:51:23 +0000

Maneuverability. You can turn in place. The tire is massive compared to a skateboard wheel. It can run off road, it feels nice on road.

New comment by MivLives in "Memories from old LAN parties"

MivLives — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 19:28:08 +0000

I did LAN parties through out highschool in the late 00s. It's funny looking how different our era of lanning was. This was post Steam, and so the piracy was less rampant. By the time I went to college, they also had a lan club and I started doing that. It was the early 10s, and that's when the lan part of the lan party was truely dead. Everyone stopped playing TF2, and CS, and everyone moved to League of Legends. There was still SC2, and a bit of cs going on but the majority of the lan was just people grouping into fives/tens and playing league. Esports became a thing a few years later and sorta ate the lan club. I can't say I every lugged a CRT but games of UT2k4 and TF2 in a dingy basement full of nerds are core high school experience memories for me.

New comment by MivLives in "Kraftwerk issued their own pocket calculator synthesizer (2019)"

MivLives — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 23:42:37 +0000

Most of the chiptune people are using gameboys with LSDJ or a Dirtwave m8. The latter seems to have really taken off.

New comment by MivLives in "Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the music industry waged war on the cassette"

MivLives — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 01:43:05 +0000

Right there with you. I didn't start listening to hiphop until college. Did a lot of Indie in highschool, that's sorta out now. Electronic music has completely changed for me. I've been loving this new wave of music that'll change genres mid song to just hit the right vibe. It's fun to watch all the stuff that you heard in middle/high school be thrown in a blender and turned into Hyperpop. DnB has been sneaking into all sorts of genres as has chiptune. The availability means things like city pop can shine.

What do I want to listen to today? Japanese garage rock? Phonk? Industrial Hip hop? This was so much harder to do even in the torrenting era. Music has such a low amount of time investment to listen to, why not just try everything if there's no additional cost?

There is one part of me that sorta misses the era when I'd get twenty albums and that was 3 months of music. I'd know them back to front, get excited at the ending notes of one song as I got hyped about the next one. The lack of commitment has made me more like a humming bird flitting from one flower to the next.

New comment by MivLives in "How to stay safe and happy on an electric unicycle"

MivLives — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 01:32:24 +0000

I normally would stick the one wheel in the bottom of my cart. I also could stick it under my desk at work which helped a bunch. Bikes got locked in a parking garage that was "secured" but would have a bunch of bikes stolen every 3 months.

I don't. I just can't take the escooter to the store. I can really only commute on it as I can't really do anything with it when I get to a store/bar/whatever. My friends may or may not be able to fit it depending the apartment size. Now that I'm laid off I'm probably going to try to sell the scooter.

Those trolley handles look great. My next PEV is probably going to be an EUC of some stripe. I like that there's more than one brand after watching Future Motion get more restrictive and have more problems with their recent releases.