Hacker News: cheeseomlit

New comment by cheeseomlit in "For 20 years, Stephen Colbert distinguished truth from truthiness"

cheeseomlit — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:19:03 +0000

He was always a propaganda tool, he just did a better job of it when he was in-character and had funny writers

New comment by cheeseomlit in "The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Probably Think"

cheeseomlit — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:01:03 +0000

That doesn't really make sense considering low-income demographics have the highest birth rates

New comment by cheeseomlit in "Trump Pressures FDA Commissioner to Approve Flavored Vapes"

cheeseomlit — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:31:01 +0000

Around here the end result of the flavored juul pod ban was a proliferation of cheap chinese disposable vapes with all the fruity flavors, while juul was relegated to virginia tobacco and menthol flavors only, so now everyone just gets the disposable ones. Big win. Makes no sense to me, if juul ran an ad they didn't like then just fine them and pull the ad- don't pull the product while allowing others to sell a shittier version of it.

New comment by cheeseomlit in "Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook"

cheeseomlit — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:57:22 +0000

Those 5 billionaire guys do want this- The french revolution probably wouldnt have happened the way it did if they had to deal with an army of terminator robots

New comment by cheeseomlit in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

cheeseomlit — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:24:29 +0000

Just ban smoking indoors then

New comment by cheeseomlit in "Breaking the console: a brief history of video game security"

cheeseomlit — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:20:27 +0000

Back in the day I remember my brother got his hands on a PS1 modchip, but it didn't require any soldering- you just plugged it into the "parallel I/O" port in back of the console and it let us run games on burned CDs. We really got our moneys worth at blockbuster after that

New comment by cheeseomlit in "Russian soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops executed on commanders' orders"

cheeseomlit — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:55:19 +0000

What would be your next move after shooting your commanding officer? You're a dead man yourself after that. Possibly even shot by your fellow soldiers who did drink the kool-aid. And your family back home would probably face consequences as well.

I wondered the same thing when reading about WW1 where soldiers were ordered to charge at enemy trenches and they'd predictably get mowed down immediately, then the officer would send the next group out. I can't help but think 'just shoot him', but it's a lot different actually being in that situation vs. reading about it

New comment by cheeseomlit in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

cheeseomlit — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:22:37 +0000

'Ewe Heard Me!' reminds of that looney toons sheep raider game on ps1. And it's exactly the kind of game I'd expect a dog to make

New comment by cheeseomlit in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

cheeseomlit — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:36:19 +0000

I'm just questioning the 'most users' aspect- just anecdotally among my 'normal' peers those big servers dont seem like the most common use case. For every big million-user server there could be a million private 10-user servers

New comment by cheeseomlit in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

cheeseomlit — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:32:08 +0000

>Most people use Discord for its community features and being able to join massive servers with 1+ million people

Do they? Personally I've never willingly joined one of those massive servers, only when forced to by some projects that refuse to host their content anywhere else- and its always a terrible experience. 99% of my discord usage is just a group chat with my IRL friends, so when looking for alternative I dont really care about roles and moderation and bots at all. I just want a group text chat, a mobile client for it with notifications, and drop-in/drop-out voice calls

New comment by cheeseomlit in "On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf]"

cheeseomlit — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:11:52 +0000

Yeah, after he was forcibly injected with drugs against his will.

>Mr. Wright said the hospital later apologized to him and gave him a $50 gift card for a restaurant. The crisis center also apologized and gave him a $25 Walmart gift card.

That alone would be enough to drive me clinically insane

New comment by cheeseomlit in "Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow"

cheeseomlit — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:39:08 +0000

For me the real headaches emerged when I started writing [Tool] classes in C# for scripting within the editor itself. I don't know enough about the lower level nitty-gritty stuff to explain it, but I basically had to close and re-open the editor every time I recompiled. It had something to do with not being able to load assemblies, for example if I had a Tool script which referenced a sqlite library. There were also some concerning instances of Exported properties losing their saved values, though in that case they can at least be restored from previous versions of the .tscn file from version control

New comment by cheeseomlit in "Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow"

cheeseomlit — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:24:39 +0000

Agreed 100%, C# is obviously a second-class citizen and I'm not going to waste my time with GDScript. It really is a shame because there are so many things to like about Godot, but the litany of issues with C# support due to their focus on GDScript has just soured the whole thing for me. Unity is just not an option as far as I'm concerned due to their bizarre licensing fiasco (and their own mountain of technical issues). So it's Monogame/FNA for me I suppose.

New comment by cheeseomlit in "Prism"

cheeseomlit — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:24:14 +0000

Anecdotally, I have mentioned PRISM to several non-techie friends over the years and none of them knew what I was talking about, they know 'Snowden' but not 'PRISM'. The amount of people who actually cared about the Snowden leaks is practically a rounding error

New comment by cheeseomlit in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

cheeseomlit — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:43:36 +0000

>including facts

New comment by cheeseomlit in "Much of the World Facing 'Water Bankruptcy,' U.N. Report Warns"

cheeseomlit — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:42:12 +0000

What do you mean? When a Fremen dies they extract all the water from their body- Paul is given the water extracted from the Fremen he killed in a duel. And when the Fremen first encounter Paul and Jessica I think one of the first things they say is basically "so why shouldnt we just kill you for your water right now?", meaning the water in their bodies

New comment by cheeseomlit in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

cheeseomlit — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:08:30 +0000

Yes, but there were practical limits to currency debasement when the currency was a physical commodity with intrinsic value. People notice when their coins start getting filled with lead, and there were serious political repercussions for it. You cant just conjure a trillion gold/silver coins out of nothing like you can with fiat, and the ability to do so is 100% guaranteed to be abused.

New comment by cheeseomlit in "UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning"

cheeseomlit — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:43:58 +0000

>it is designed to protect UK citizens

Is that really what it's designed for?

And as far as the PRISM comparison goes, I'd rather mass surveillance not be done at all, but if it's being done no matter what I'd rather it be illegitimate than official policy. At least they have to jump through some hoops for parallel construction that way, and it doesn't normalize the practice as morally/socially acceptable- it's a "secret" because its embarrassing and shameful for it to exist in a "free" society. If its not a secret and nobody is ashamed of it then you dont even have the pretense of a free society anymore

New comment by cheeseomlit in "Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says"

cheeseomlit — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:59:29 +0000

Ask for it?

New comment by cheeseomlit in "Singapore study links heavy infant screen time to teen anxiety"

cheeseomlit — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:00:32 +0000

Nice edit. I'm not sure "don't put an ipad in front of your infant" qualifies as "unproductive" or a "hot take".