Hacker News: Podrod

New comment by Podrod in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

Podrod — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:23:00 +0000

You literally cannot think of a single benefit for having fast Internet?

New comment by Podrod in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

Podrod — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:45:40 +0000

Not so much a relic as it was West County actor Robert Newton putting on an exaggerated accent in his depections of Long John Silver and Blackbeard in several films of the 1950s. His depictions were extremely influential on later pirates in film.

New comment by Podrod in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

Podrod — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:35:58 +0000

Shame that it only seems to be available in physical form and only from the US. The price is already quite high and with postage to the UK it adds up to be quite expensive.

New comment by Podrod in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

Podrod — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:25:24 +0000

Not just for Germany but apparently for the entire continent of Europe!

New comment by Podrod in "Jony Ive Designed Ferrari Luce EV Interior"

Podrod — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:48:38 +0000

Have you tried taking off your sunglasses?

New comment by Podrod in "Why I Joined OpenAI"

Podrod — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:26:41 +0000

But that's just it,you're not going to reduce sizes. You're deluding yourself.

New comment by Podrod in "Treasures found on HS2 route"

Podrod — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:09:22 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_axe

New comment by Podrod in "Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

Podrod — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:06:55 +0000

Nah, 98SE was a clear improvement over the base 98.

New comment by Podrod in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

Podrod — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 09:52:17 +0000

While I in no way endorse whatever batshit insane things Trump is doing, I don't think the US has issued a declaration of war since WW2. Declarations of war have been quite rare internationally in general since the end of WW2 outside of a few examples.

New comment by Podrod in "James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies"

Podrod — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 10:16:08 +0000

Try in The World

New comment by Podrod in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

Podrod — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:09:09 +0000

Do you seriously believe that the German spelling reforms were done to "drive the Germanic people away from each other"? If so that's quite the insane conspiracy theory you got yourself there. And lmao at "Anglican German".

New comment by Podrod in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

Podrod — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:09:55 +0000

They really take the piss, even supposedly essential cookies get lumbered with hundreds of "partners" with "legitimate interests" harvesting your data.

New comment by Podrod in "Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image"

Podrod — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:54:39 +0000

Contrary to popular belief, not every single square inch of the UK is covered by state operated CCTV.

New comment by Podrod in "Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years"

Podrod — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:28:04 +0000

This is sovereign citizen level nonsense.

New comment by Podrod in "Comic Code Reviews"

Podrod — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:37:44 +0000

I thought this was going to be about the Comics Code Authority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority

I know this is hacker news but you do get all sorts posted here, that's my excuse.

New comment by Podrod in "Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold"

Podrod — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 09:49:42 +0000

As usual, generalising all of Europe based on your individual country is a mistake as there are some Euro counties where comics are quite popular. France, Belgium, Italy and the UK all have thriving native comic book industries, and I have Swedish friends who tell me Donald Duck comics are very popular there.

I imagine a pristine 1st edition Tintin or Asterix would be quite valuable.

New comment by Podrod in "Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold"

Podrod — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 09:38:37 +0000

What makes you think the copyright has expired?

New comment by Podrod in "Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k"

Podrod — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:47:58 +0000

>like Europe,

TIL The US pays for the defence of Russia and Belarus and Serbia.

New comment by Podrod in "YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'"

Podrod — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 09:28:47 +0000

Google Maps is garbage as well, full of inaccurate shit or meme stuff people added but the process of getting it fixed has been made worse and worse over the years.

The report system has been gimped massively,can't even type in reasons any more just have to select from some limited options and hope for the best. Took me over half a year of reporting a permanent street closure near me for them to actually change it and all the whole they were happy to direct people and cars down it . Other times they just outright reject reports without any reason.

Directions have got more sucky over the years.

More and more advertising has creeped into the maps as well, seeing the logos for stores and restaurants over other places and when zoomed out because they paid to be boosted.

I only use Google for street view and, on google earth, for historical aerial imagery these days, not for navigation. For that I use apps that use OSM like Organic Maps or now CoMaps.

New comment by Podrod in "First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)"

Podrod — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 02:58:23 +0000

That's basically sleep for me. I know I must dream but I only very rarely even remember the smallest fragment of any dreams. So sleeping is like I've not existed for 7 hours from my conscious perspective.