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New comment by badc0ffee in "This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It's Opening Again"

badc0ffee — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:22:04 +0000

Major W for Australia.

New comment by badc0ffee in "The AI Billboards Are Killing SF"

badc0ffee — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:43:17 +0000

What did the prepared mustard ever do to you?

You're far, far more likely to get fatty liver disease from products sold by companies like Diageo and Bacardi.

New comment by badc0ffee in "When online commenters detect my art as AI"

badc0ffee — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:11:05 +0000

I can tell from some of the pixels, and from seeing quite a few 'shops in my time.

New comment by badc0ffee in "Azulejo"

badc0ffee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:43:23 +0000

I visited Colonia del Sacramento on a day trip from Buenos Aires, and I remember these beautiful tiles all over the old town.

New comment by badc0ffee in "We discovered a new variant of Super Mario Bros"

badc0ffee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:35:12 +0000

I'd love to hear about the game ROM. This post is just focusing on a new, slight variant of the packaging, as if the game is a collectible like a stamp or coin.

New comment by badc0ffee in "We discovered a new variant of Super Mario Bros"

badc0ffee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:10:45 +0000

I was expecting to read about a new variant of the game ROM itself. But, this just sounds like a new, slight variant of the packaging.

It almost feels more like stamp or coin collecting, than video game collecting as I understand it.

New comment by badc0ffee in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

badc0ffee — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:40:57 +0000

Electric utilities are certainly building out infrastructure. It's needlessly costly and slow in a lot of places, but it's happening.

New comment by badc0ffee in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

badc0ffee — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:38:10 +0000

The conversion to all-electric homes is more recent, and hasn't even started in some places. Here in Canada, some jurisdictions require newly constructed houses and apartments to have electric heat and cooling (heat pump, with resistive heat as a backup), an electric dryer and stove, and an electric water heater (tank or tankless). Others jurisdictions are still using gas furnaces and gas-fired hot water tanks.

New comment by badc0ffee in "Recreating the Bell Labs Cafeteria"

badc0ffee — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:30:03 +0000

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New comment by badc0ffee in "US imposes new 50% tariffs on some Canadian products"

badc0ffee — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:13:16 +0000

There was never a Canada-wide US alcohol ban.

In places like Ontario, which admittedly is the most populous province by far, the purchaser for the government-run liquor stores (LCBO) decided not to buy US alcohol, and the LCBO decided not to sell its remaining stock.

In some provinces, US booze never went away. Here in Alberta I've never not been able to buy US wine or bourbon. Of course, I won't buy it, and I've found some Canadian whiskies I like that are new to me, like Bearface, Red Bank, and Gooderham and Worts. And at dive bars, I've started ordering a Jameson and soda.

New comment by badc0ffee in "Shinjuku Station in 3D"

badc0ffee — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:52:46 +0000

This is off-topic, but I find it surprising that relatively small Stockholm is so high on the list.

New comment by badc0ffee in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

badc0ffee — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:05:05 +0000

The "that's a XY problem" guys always seem to think they're the smartest in the room.

New comment by badc0ffee in "More Bounce to the Ounce"

badc0ffee — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:40:31 +0000

We must have different definitions of the word "related".

New comment by badc0ffee in "Multi-Primary Color Display Emerges as Next-Gen Color Reproduction Technology"

badc0ffee — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:33:41 +0000

I remember George Takei shilling those things.

New comment by badc0ffee in "Show HN: One More Letter"

badc0ffee — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:14:21 +0000

MARC? MARCEL? Come on

New comment by badc0ffee in "Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica"

badc0ffee — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:04:59 +0000

I gave away all my ISA cards for free, including my AWE64 Gold.

Can you run every line of code in Super Mario Bros.?

badc0ffee — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:58:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0gOALTvkcc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855596

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by badc0ffee in "Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees"

badc0ffee — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:34:24 +0000

Most of the tomatoes and cucumbers I buy here in Alberta year-round are greenhouse grown in-province. Our electric power here is basically natural gas with a bit of wind and hydro. Although to your point, we're probably one of the cheapest locales in the world for NG.

New comment by badc0ffee in "Aluminum foil (2021)"

badc0ffee — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:05:29 +0000

But the top of the lid is unlined, I think.

New comment by badc0ffee in "Zero-copy in Go: sendfile, splice, and the cost of io.Copy"

badc0ffee — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:19:20 +0000

The lack of apostrophe in "dont" makes me think at least part of it was written manually.

It's also a totally readable article, really.