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New comment by cgh in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

cgh — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:10:20 +0000

> even living in a country with far better healthcare.

FYI I’m not American. Your medical misogyny comment is dead on, in my opinion. This sort of thing can happen anywhere.

New comment by cgh in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

cgh — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:05:44 +0000

My wife has a cardiac autoimmune disease that was similarly misdiagnosed (including an appalling “it’s all in your head” from her family MD at the time). We underwent a year of immense stress. Just days before her probable death, she had a pacemaker and defibrillator installed, which saved her life.

I’m not entirely sure why I’m mentioning this, other than I sympathize deeply with your wife. What an absolute ordeal.

New comment by cgh in "The dead economy theory"

cgh — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:40:16 +0000

I suppose Neuromancer/Count Zero/Mona Lisa Overdrive are a good start.

New comment by cgh in "Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz"

cgh — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:24:19 +0000

Re fertilizer, it’s already happening. Potash exports from Canada, the world’s largest producer, have surged. In another US own goal, I believe potash demand will offer serious Canadian leverage in CUSMA negotiations.

New comment by cgh in "New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater"

cgh — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:31:39 +0000

Good point, not only is titanium expensive but the glue-in part is tricky to get right as the glue has to completely surround the bolt. Not only that, but early efforts at titanium rebolting sometimes didn’t use glue at all. In Thailand, I pulled out some titanium bolts with my fingers because they weren’t glued in.

New comment by cgh in "Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare"

cgh — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:14:49 +0000

From your link: “Further, the enforcement of this Bylaw, like all laws enacted in our current colonial and racist legal system…”

Practically no Vancouverite would read this page and take it seriously.

New comment by cgh in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

cgh — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:41:45 +0000

I'd say fully 25% of the ads I see on YouTube are for the Baerskin "tactical" hoodie. I'm pretty sure it's just generic dropshipped Chinese junk but the advertising is relentless. And how the hell is it possible for a hoodie to be "tactical"?

New comment by cgh in "The Closing of the Frontier"

cgh — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:19:45 +0000

The same corporations that insist upon private Maven repositories to control all code dependencies are nevertheless fine with establishing a massive dependency on a privately-held corporation in order to write software that hardly anyone in the organization understands. When I really think about this and how it plays out in the long run, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

New comment by cgh in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

cgh — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:43:22 +0000

The Vatican Library contains roughly 1.1 million printed books and around 75,000 codices, only a small percentage of which have been digitised.

New comment by cgh in "Peptides: where to begin?"

cgh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:39:12 +0000

I don’t think either of those are patentable so I doubt you’ll see studies or trials any time soon. A lot of strength athletes at all levels, not just elite, are absolutely convinced of their efficacy and their usage sometimes seems as common as ibuprofen.

New comment by cgh in "Peptides: where to begin?"

cgh — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:32:11 +0000

You should hang out at a climbing gym sometime. There is nothing that unites climbers more than injury talk.

New comment by cgh in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

cgh — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:21:12 +0000

Clippy: “Hi, it looks like you’re trying to go to the Moon”

New comment by cgh in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

cgh — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:47:52 +0000

Testosterone and estrogen are not magic substances that eliminate bone density, preponderance of type II muscle fibres, favourable tendon insertions and all of the other athletic advantages conferred upon males in the womb. I have experience with women who take steroids for strength sports and I am not exaggerating when I say they could be out-competed by 17 year old male high school students with proper coaching.

New comment by cgh in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

cgh — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:25:08 +0000

New cryptography algorithms, particularly post-quantum cryptography

New zero-knowledge proofs

Video compression

And so forth.

New comment by cgh in "LLMs can be exhausting"

cgh — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:57:29 +0000

What we once called “vibe coding” is increasingly known as just coding. There’s no reasonable way to review thousands of lines of code a day and many organizations simply aren’t. No review fatigue there! Just a black box of probable spaghetti.

New comment by cgh in "Shall I implement it? No"

cgh — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:21:07 +0000

All of this shit is just so goddamned ridiculous.

New comment by cgh in "Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan"

cgh — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:09:10 +0000

Username checks out stares into abyss

New comment by cgh in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

cgh — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:07:32 +0000

Las Vegas hotels are currently offering to take Canadian dollars at par.

New comment by cgh in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

cgh — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:04:29 +0000

Same. We had two month-long trips planned and canceled them both. I realize California is not exactly “enemy territory” or whatever but we’ll spend our money elsewhere.

New comment by cgh in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

cgh — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:29:04 +0000

Not a hot take at all. Probably the best take in this thread.