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New comment by cgh in "Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982"

cgh — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:44:48 +0000

SYS 49152

New comment by cgh in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"

cgh — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:12:04 +0000

I get that from the Souls games (including Bloodborne and Elden Ring). They are all I can play now.

New comment by cgh in "Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug"

cgh — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:35:48 +0000

Cialis is most common and it is typically low dose, like 5mg/day. Can still provoke unwanted “movement” in a gym environment however.

New comment by cgh in "Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug"

cgh — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:33:37 +0000

Taking Arimidex (breast cancer treatment drug) to control estrogen levels.

New comment by cgh in "Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study"

cgh — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:28:03 +0000

Yes, roughly 30% of health care in Canada, from dental care to cosmetic surgery, is privately funded.

New comment by cgh in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

cgh — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:01:37 +0000

This book and the "bullshit jobs" label is discussed extensively in the article.

New comment by cgh in "Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents"

cgh — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:23:34 +0000

No. Hoplites are annoying slimy enemies in Demon’s Souls: https://demonssouls.wiki.fextralife.com/Hoplite

New comment by cgh in "The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)"

cgh — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:22:50 +0000

Uzbekistan has long been one of the largest natural gas exporters in the world and that is set to increase as they have huge untapped reserves. Same story with oil although they aren’t yet a top exporter, so far as I know.

New comment by cgh in "Sarah's Wager"

cgh — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:22:54 +0000

I recall reading similar articles in 1998.

New comment by cgh in "Grok Build is open source"

cgh — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:54:25 +0000

He’s a fast-talking dingbat.

New comment by cgh in "Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church"

cgh — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:09:22 +0000

Any well-travelled guy is familiar with women who ask them to pretend to be married to allow them to escape constant, occasionally dangerous male pestering. In Turkey, I even met a woman who carried fake wedding bands for this purpose. We hung out for a few days as a “married” couple so she could get relief from the constant harassment.

New comment by cgh in "Resetting Xbox"

cgh — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:52:30 +0000

Elden Ring sold 30 million copies. Even Bloodborne, a PS4 exclusive, sold over 9 million copies.

New comment by cgh in "Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine"

cgh — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:32:42 +0000

This is the founder: https://xonaly.com/about-the-founder/

I guess he’s psyched about being Canadian? Anyway, nothing about funding. The privacy-first stance is certainly welcome.

New comment by cgh in "The case for physical media ownership"

cgh — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:52:23 +0000

Maybe not mentioned in the comments, but it gets a full entry in the article.

New comment by cgh in "The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring"

cgh — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:45:12 +0000

Yeah, I’ve been playing these games since DS1 (currently on my umpteenth DS3 run as I recover from surgery). The quests never fail to make me laugh.

New comment by cgh in "The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring"

cgh — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:09:11 +0000

Perhaps this explains why Fromsoft npc quests are easily the most inscrutable in all of gaming. Like, okay Hyetta, have another “grape”, aka eyeball, oh now you’ve moved to the bridge in Liurnia, cool. I’ve exhausted your dialogue but you’re stuck. Oh I have to reload the area and exhaust it again to advance your quest. Okay, cool. Now you’re in a random church and you want a “fingerprint grape”. What?

It’s all part of the Fromsoft experience but man, who writes these things?

New comment by cgh in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

cgh — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:37:46 +0000

The phrase “financial nihilism” is explicitly mentioned and discussed in the article.

New comment by cgh in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

cgh — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:08:52 +0000

“Paints the back of the cabinet” is a great analogy. LLM-driven production is so far away from this mindset.

New comment by cgh in "Fox to buy Roku"

cgh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:18:22 +0000

We use a PlayStation 5. It has all the streaming service apps you’d expect, including YouTube, and the UX is great.

New comment by cgh in "The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair"

cgh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:01:37 +0000

Unpopular opinion I imagine, but this is an awesomely Bureau of Sabotage thing to do. Jorj X. McKie would approve.