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New comment by antonymoose in "DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety"

antonymoose — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:15:56 +0000

Why would liquor be absorbed faster than beer given the same route (drinking)?

New comment by antonymoose in "The Death of the Creator Middle Class"

antonymoose — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:44:38 +0000

That definitely killed my own desire to engage. Stoped blogging, most open source, and given up on StackOverflow, sadly.

New comment by antonymoose in "Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii"

antonymoose — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:31:42 +0000

Do sharks have a history of attacking small vessels? I’ve had dolphins mess with my kayak over the years so I can believe it.

New comment by antonymoose in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

antonymoose — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:20:38 +0000

If you read Mark and the entirety of New Testament in good faith you would know the answer :)

It’s your actions and not your culinary habits. If you chose to fornicate you’re sinning. Nothing in the New Testament reneges on that. Intentionally endorsing lifestyles that promote such acts are bad per the scripture.

If you don’t believe that and choose to”good feels” and statism as your God, that’s your choice.

New comment by antonymoose in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

antonymoose — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:16:30 +0000

You are correct it neither endorses nor denigrates the specific practice. So why then do we have a church hosting the performances? It’s not relevant to the faith at all? Identity politics entered the chat, unfortunately.

Which leads back to my point, there is a hunger for churches that ignore the intentional blend of secular belief systems in any direction.

New comment by antonymoose in "AI Can't Recreate the Thrust Game (But It Can Help You Understand It)"

antonymoose — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:51:52 +0000

I get this all the time at work because I am bearish on “AI” - except I try it with the models available and they all fall down similarly.

Perhaps go try it with your model de jure and report back?

New comment by antonymoose in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

antonymoose — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:40:00 +0000

You’re free to believe whatever it is you like - that’s your belief system. I didn’t intend to start a theological debate ultimately. Only highlight as a counterpoint to the GP that going to church in the modern era really feels like you have to pick one side or another and that it’s simply an extension of politics rather than an higher-order thing.

New comment by antonymoose in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

antonymoose — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:32:31 +0000

Well, that’s quite a bit of baggage to unpack.

In regards to “miscegenation” we have Galatians which largely renders that point moot, highlighting everyone’s love of cherry-picking scripture.

In regards to homosexuality, you have Leviticus, I assume you’re referencing. Given the widespread practice of man-boy relations as famously highlighted by the Spartans and of course recent special military operations in Afghanistan I have an incredibly hard time believing this piece of scripture is at all misinterpreted.

Regarding BBQ, I assume that’s a presence to kosher law and subsequently an attempt at calling hypocrite on the congregation. In that regard we have quite a few pieces of scripture, e.g. in Mark, effectively redefining and negating much of kosher law thereby making that issue moot.

Overall - your assumption around Southern Baptists largely stands. Our last church, my wife had to constantly deal with snide remarks because of her having previously been married to a man that went and overdosed on fentanyl. Meanwhile half the grandparents in the congregation are raising their own grandchildren for the exact same reason…

Which leads to our currently being “unchurched” as they say, because the worst part of Christianity is the other Christians ;)

New comment by antonymoose in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

antonymoose — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:17:06 +0000

I can love you and still disagree with the things you do and not endorse them. These are not in conflict.

New comment by antonymoose in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

antonymoose — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:38:38 +0000

I read it as a take encouraging me to render aid to anyone in a dire emergency regardless of their background.

New comment by antonymoose in "Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021)"

antonymoose — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:58:05 +0000

Ah - the closest thing I’ve heard of is the “pine straw” scam. Some landscapers firm pulls up to a cut-de-sac and tells a homeowner they have 20-30 bales of pine straw from a big job and asks if they’d like their beds re-done at a reduced bulk-rate. They then proceed to do the work and bill an exorbitant rate per bale and or inflate the total number of bales, e.g. that 20 bale leftover load is magically now 120 bales.

New comment by antonymoose in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

antonymoose — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:45:01 +0000

What church(es) are you thinking of here exactly? I’ve never heard of any such group in my entire independent Southern Baptist life.

On the contrary, most folks in the 20-40 range are tired of “cafeteria Christian” denominations that pick and chose which parts of scripture to stand by and which go ignore based on ever shifting social trends, whether it be so-called woke churches hosting drag performers or Boomer-tier Endtimes preachers that can’t stop talking about their all expense paid Israeli “pilgrimage.”

New comment by antonymoose in "How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI"

antonymoose — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:30:00 +0000

Well that’s easy, start shooting yourself in the foot with .22 until you develop a tolerance and bump up to .380!

New comment by antonymoose in "Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021)"

antonymoose — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:19:26 +0000

What was the scam exactly? I thought curb numbers were a thing people actually had from the movies!

New comment by antonymoose in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

antonymoose — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:04:48 +0000

I live along the coast. They’ll routinely go supersonic too near to shore and violate their own standards. Nothing ever comes of it. Just part of life.

New comment by antonymoose in "Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace"

antonymoose — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:03:33 +0000

I’ve long seen this class of conversation on HN and my answer is always the same: introduce a higher burden of proof, maybe even “no doubt,” for capital punishment.

Imagine a scenario where the Pulse nightclub shooter surrendered to police and was on death row now. There is no doubt at all that he did the killing. Why waste calories concerned for a demon like that?

New comment by antonymoose in "How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)"

antonymoose — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:40:41 +0000

Perhaps interesting, my Publix experiences are almost always… not great. The staff seems aged (don’t hate me, I’m also aged!) - but they seem more on the apathetic and miserable side of the spectrum. I always heard how well they treat their employees so I assume it is some kind of retail trap where the job is too good to give up but never good enough to be truly good?

New comment by antonymoose in "Fintech Engineering Handbook"

antonymoose — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:22:48 +0000

You provide different handling strategies for different currencies. You also sort currency data alongside your amount. There is nothing complicated or edge-case here.

This works for USD, JPY or $MEMECOIN and it scales very well.

New comment by antonymoose in "Fintech Engineering Handbook"

antonymoose — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:18:58 +0000

You store the sums on either end, the currencies, the exchange rate and the final sum? No one has .0000145 cents in their account. Rounding occurs in the real world.

New comment by antonymoose in "Fintech Engineering Handbook"

antonymoose — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:33:10 +0000

Having done HFT / low-latency in C++ with a browser based (read: JavaScript) management front-end: Go ahead and use integer cents everyone. It’s practically an industry standard and it works just fine. Anything else is a worse compromise.