Hacker News: VeninVidiaVicii

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

VeninVidiaVicii — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:30:44 +0000

Oh thanks for clearing that up.

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II"

VeninVidiaVicii — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:13:05 +0000

This is the right take. In my opinion, AI can’t ever be conscious but I can’t really prove it - moreover it’s not even a scientific stance because it’s not even falsifiable. But it probably doesn’t matter.

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme"

VeninVidiaVicii — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:37:29 +0000

> Could this be an adaptation, or is it a coincidence of evolutionary history?

Ha! It’s the same thing.

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado"

VeninVidiaVicii — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:57:59 +0000

Why on earth did she dedicate it to Trump?

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

VeninVidiaVicii — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:30:07 +0000

The egress cost is gonna be a doozie though!

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "Heart attacks aren't as fatal as they used to be"

VeninVidiaVicii — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 18:24:45 +0000

I'm no expert but at least in the initial stages of resuscitation, the cost is relatively low. Paramedics doing CPR, defibrillation, some epinephrine, then in the ER they'll intubate, get some lines in, push more epi and maybe amiodarone - pretty basic stuff that's more about doing it fast than expensive equipment. I don't think it adds up to a ton… well yes American healthcare is absurdly expensive, but this particular aspect isn't extraordinary. The initial resuscitation steps are about timing, not fancy drugs

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "Heart attacks aren't as fatal as they used to be"

VeninVidiaVicii — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 17:07:54 +0000

Anecdotally I worked in the emergency department and ICU for 2.5 years as a scribe and translator in undergrad (ending about 7 years ago) and never saw a single person successfully revived. In the sense that everybody who ever got revived to the point that your dad did, in my experience, died.

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "The Hollow Men of Hims"

VeninVidiaVicii — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 04:28:16 +0000

The attitude in this article is suffocating. I’m 40, healthy, and picked up cheap generic Cialis for the hell of it with no shame, no crisis. It flipped my sex life on its head, instantly. The real scandal is how cheap, safe, and transformative this stuff is, and yet the medical world acts like you’re doing something dangerous by just wanting better sex. It’s not a problem. It’s the most fun I’ve had in years.

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA's Gamble on America's Drugs"

VeninVidiaVicii — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:48:27 +0000

I had the same exact issues on generic Vyvanse, which also causes me intense palpitations compared to the brand-name, I legit thought I was going to have a heart attack several times a day. So much so, that I quit it altogether—I couldn’t stand the side effects or the constant unavailability of the brand-name.

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "Don't guess my language"

VeninVidiaVicii — Mon, 19 May 2025 14:03:38 +0000

Here I am losing my mind. My phone’s set to Portuguese (EU), I live in the US, and somehow I get ads in German and Spanish, and news exclusively for Portugal. No ties to Germany at all. Just lost in some algorithm’s fever dream.

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter"

VeninVidiaVicii — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:31:11 +0000

I’ll go you one further — it seems like every time some prescient comment about the economy gets extremely upvoted, the economy does the literal opposite thing.

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back"

VeninVidiaVicii — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:09:53 +0000

Capitalism as such went out the window with tariffs.

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "A Reddit bot drove me insane"

VeninVidiaVicii — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 22:47:26 +0000

Niche content for sure is the best thing Reddit is for. I only go there for info on my favorite instruments, and a few other shitposting communities for games and shows I watch.

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?"

VeninVidiaVicii — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 22:42:12 +0000

I mean… the first orange basically looks red on my monitor.

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "Cells are swapping their mitochondria. What does this mean for our health?"

VeninVidiaVicii — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 22:13:03 +0000

Oh is that all?

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "Why so many children in America have ADHD"

VeninVidiaVicii — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 18:50:27 +0000

This is wild. It took me ~20 years as an adult to get diagnosed because I couldn’t get my shit together to keep going back to neuro-psychiatrists to progress through the testing pipeline.

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape – And I will do it again"

VeninVidiaVicii — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:54:55 +0000

I used Twitter at one point to get a replacement on a Patagonia backpack, through their actual claims department.

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government"

VeninVidiaVicii — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:32:50 +0000

And believe as many as impossible things before breakfast!

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government"

VeninVidiaVicii — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:15:18 +0000

Save yourself, the comments are terrible. When did Hacker News turn into Facebook?

New comment by VeninVidiaVicii in "Wine 10.0 RC1 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS"

VeninVidiaVicii — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 03:17:21 +0000

Or illustrator … these are products are the only reason I have a MacBook Air.