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New comment by adzm in "Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008)"

adzm — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:04:03 +0000

See also paperback paradise which did sci-fi book cover parodies https://paperbackparadise.bigcartel.com/category/prints you can see the Instagram and x links at the bottom too

New comment by adzm in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"

adzm — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:58:10 +0000

I actually love SoundCloud's timestamp based comments. It is pretty fun seeing someone's joyful reactions to a nice drop, beautiful vocals coming in, a brilliant lyrical phrase, etc. It's disappointing that this is not the primary mode of commenting on Spotify.

New comment by adzm in "Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists"

adzm — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:43:43 +0000

This is why hybrids need to be re-bred with themselves many many generations in order to stabilize the phenotype. The genetic info may still be there but not expressing itself

New comment by adzm in "Browsers situationship: When browsers agree but the spec doesn't"

adzm — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:22:19 +0000

Are there any more examples other than the newlines thing?

New comment by adzm in "The softness of metal"

adzm — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:38:51 +0000

Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!

New comment by adzm in "People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes"

adzm — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:07:27 +0000

> it's actually the action of inhaling from a little stick and exhaling visible smoke/vapour that is most addictive. It's quite curious why that is.

Because dragons are cool

New comment by adzm in "Show HN: SQLBraid – Write SQL directly in TypeScript without a query-builder DSL"

adzm — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:26:27 +0000

> Metadata is open-world positive evidence; missing facts do not prove SQL invalid. Numeric exactness, JSON/temporal profiles, and nested containers remain separate evidence boundaries.

right

New comment by adzm in "Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented"

adzm — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 05:57:54 +0000

I'm confused by how that is speculation.

New comment by adzm in "English: A vs. An"

adzm — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:40:03 +0000

And cherries were ceries from French, leading to the singular form cherry. Lots of neat little things like this.

New comment by adzm in "C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour"

adzm — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:16:57 +0000

as an aside, i've always preferred the zoidberg for (;;) to while(true)

New comment by adzm in "C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour"

adzm — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:15:48 +0000

i have never before thought that a function could 'fall through' to another function. why does this behavior even exist?

New comment by adzm in "Astra for Law"

adzm — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:14:34 +0000

"7.5 hours - reviewing output"

New comment by adzm in "Small programming tricks"

adzm — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:34:37 +0000

My favorite is generating a sequential resultset of the numbers 1-4096 in SQL Server with this simple query:

;with [[[]][[[](_)as(select 1 union select 0),[[]][]][](_)as(select 1 from [[[]][[[] []]]][]]],[[[]][[[] _),[]][]][[](_)as(select 1 from [[]][]][] []]]][]]],[[]][]][] _),[[[[[]][](_)as(select 1 from []][]][[] []]]][]]],[]][]][[] _),[[[]][]]](_)as(select 1 from [[[[[]][] []]]][]]],[[[[[]][] _)select _ from(select row_number()over (order by _)from [[[]][]]])[[[]][[[](_);

New comment by adzm in "Java 27"

adzm — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:52:59 +0000

Cross platform C# is certainly getting huge in healthcare and medtech recently though.

New comment by adzm in "Performance Improvements in .NET 11"

adzm — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:33:05 +0000

Runtime async is certainly an interesting development. Really excited to see how this plays out.

New comment by adzm in "The Nature of Dance"

adzm — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:58:03 +0000

Before I went to my first Phish show I always heard people refer to it as their church; it didn't make sense to me until I went. Even being sober, it was a very powerful experience, and the sense of connection and community was very enlightening.

New comment by adzm in "The case against JPEG XL"

adzm — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:40:01 +0000

I didn't realize progressive AVIF was a thing recently either; the comparison between that and jxl was pretty surprising.

New comment by adzm in "The case against JPEG XL"

adzm — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:30:49 +0000

Lossless was discounted due to webp, but doesn't webp lossless only use 8bit depth RGB? (I think it is important to have a separate file extension for lossless stuff anyway, otherwise it gets confusing quickly)

New comment by adzm in "Eating Fruit Skins"

adzm — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:38:26 +0000

One time I decided to slice up a mango like a melon and just eat the flesh off the skin. A bit later I realized I had an awful itchy rash all around my mouth. That's when I learned about urushiol in mango skin! Would not recommend

New comment by adzm in "Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization"

adzm — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:29:20 +0000

Alcohol and fermentation have a much different role with food safety and preservation though; the inebriation is just a pleasant side effect for some (and a curse for others)