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New comment by analog8374 in "The Unsung Hero of the Lord of the Rings (2025)"

analog8374 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:21:18 +0000

It was cool. He Dunsany'd out there.

New comment by analog8374 in "The Unsung Hero of the Lord of the Rings (2025)"

analog8374 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:20:15 +0000

Hey I read that twice when I was a kid. We had that ragged paperback floating around the house. It's good. And Doon too.

New comment by analog8374 in "The Unsung Hero of the Lord of the Rings (2025)"

analog8374 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:02:21 +0000

we could go with Bombadill is an "awakened being", in the Buddhist sense. Which is supposedly better than a god. And it's hallmark power is self-control and resistance to temptation.

Basically Neo.

New comment by analog8374 in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

analog8374 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:34:04 +0000

Maybe this is why generative art never really took off.

That said, roguelikes are awesome. So there is definitely a place for simulated effort.

New comment by analog8374 in "Show HN: I Derived a Pancake"

analog8374 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:46:09 +0000

You need a teflon-coated caliper to measure the batter puddles. And one of those point and click thermometers.

New comment by analog8374 in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

analog8374 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:39:04 +0000

Meta has written itself into a solid tyrant role. A million aspiring rebels are happy to play along.

New comment by analog8374 in "Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API"

analog8374 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:17:36 +0000

yes

New comment by analog8374 in "Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API"

analog8374 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:15:19 +0000

My mother-in-law recently became fed up with Windows and asked me to install Linux for her. I gave her Debian with a Mate desktop.

She loves it. Zero problems. It's been a week and she's using it just fine. No lifestyle upheaval.

New comment by analog8374 in "Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API"

analog8374 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:07:10 +0000

Everything I ever added to Wikipedia was removed, within the day, by a very diligent and hard-working Wikipedia person.

New comment by analog8374 in "Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain"

analog8374 — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:16:50 +0000

Most people are profoundly conformist in their opinions and very defensive towards the smallest contradiction. It's a conversation-killer. It's the cement that binds society. It is what it is.

New comment by analog8374 in "Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine"

analog8374 — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:34:05 +0000

well android chrome doesn't

New comment by analog8374 in "Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain"

analog8374 — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:10:54 +0000

Memory is environment-associated. Which is to say, these memories that you have are connected to the environment that you find yourself in. Change your environment and your memory, to a degree proportional to the environment change, breaks.

This is why sometimes you enter a room and forget why you came in.

This can explain the phenomenon referred to in the op. A woman enters a room devoid of estrogen and her memory breaks.

New comment by analog8374 in "Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine"

analog8374 — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:02:28 +0000

Oh don't let us pinch zoom. That would be a disaster.

New comment by analog8374 in "The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters"

analog8374 — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:37:57 +0000

These are their kitchens and living rooms. You leap in swinging your broadsword.

New comment by analog8374 in "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)"

analog8374 — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:30:44 +0000

It sounds like an attention thing.

Attention is magic stuff. Putting it on part of your body can make it better. Withdrawing it can make it worse. I suspect that much disease stems from such neglect.

I used to have a chronically stuffed nose. Then I started doing a kind of meditation where I put my attention upon my nose. My nose opened up and I almost never get a stuffed nose anymore.

New comment by analog8374 in "Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks"

analog8374 — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:26:14 +0000

It would be nice if they named/prosecuted the people who paid them to perform the attacks.

New comment by analog8374 in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

analog8374 — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:52:45 +0000

I heard somewhere there's like eight basic plots or something. and everything else is just an elaboration on that

New comment by analog8374 in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

analog8374 — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:31:10 +0000

It is what it is. Unless it threatens you. Then it's bad And then you prefer a narrative explaining why it's bad. And then you you propagate that narrative. And then that narrative infects the hive.

New comment by analog8374 in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

analog8374 — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:24:49 +0000

Seriously. I recall a thousand hours of movies. Those memories sit in my head and I pay no royalties

New comment by analog8374 in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

analog8374 — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:22:44 +0000

to bring attention to certain ideas