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New comment by cogogo in "The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients"

cogogo — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:08:06 +0000

I was always under the impression that canola oil was mildly poisonous. It is sort of true in that it has euric acid but far below levels that can hurt you. I think I was confusing things with an event where industrial rapeseed oil in spain was sold as olive oil in the 80s and many people were poisoned.

Also, TIL that canola is a portmandeu of canada and oil.

All the above reference here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed_oil

New comment by cogogo in "Starship's Twelfth Flight Test"

cogogo — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:34:00 +0000

Jarring to see the Gulf of America in print.

New comment by cogogo in "Hindenburg’s Smoking Room"

cogogo — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:38:03 +0000

Vaping is still objectively horrible for the lungs.[0] And I would be slower to argue about the cancer. Do we know yet? It is a young vice.

[0]https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/evali

New comment by cogogo in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

cogogo — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:31:54 +0000

I find it hard to believe the donors had any idea they were authorizing an experiment like this but sure hope I am wrong.

Reminds me of the Three Body Problem and sending a live brain to the cosmos because the tyranny of the rocket equation made a whole human impossible.

New comment by cogogo in "Hindenburg’s Smoking Room"

cogogo — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:31:56 +0000

Think these bins persisted on some aircraft until fairly recently. Maybe 10 yrs ago?

New comment by cogogo in "Hindenburg’s Smoking Room"

cogogo — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:30:27 +0000

Ha my first ceramic project in elementary school art class was an ashtray. Smoking was everywhere.

New comment by cogogo in "Hindenburg’s Smoking Room"

cogogo — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:24:16 +0000

I think the argument is that vaping is far more addictive for young people because of exactly what you say. Does not feel harmful and they end up very addicted at higher doses of nicotine than cigarettes

New comment by cogogo in "We've made the world too complicated"

cogogo — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:18:07 +0000

And much of our society believes those two things. You see it every day watching people interact in public with a sense of extreme entitlement. Toxic individualism.

New comment by cogogo in "The smelly baby problem"

cogogo — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:26:42 +0000

Our kids have been out of diapers for a couple of years. We loved these bamboo diapers[0] Nearly as good as pampers. Much softer and much better for the environment. I have no relationship to the company.

And disposables dropping at 10cents a pair. Holy crap! I thought they were expensive now.

Finally we had a crazy trustee in our condo assoc that wanted us to scrape the poop off before we threw diapers away in our community barrels (in sealed bags of course). We just smiled and nodded.

[0]https://dyper.com/

New comment by cogogo in "Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks"

cogogo — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:11:36 +0000

Interesting. I recently cancelled and reordered a card and I have still been able to make purchases via Amazon without ever making an update. In this case I am happy about it because I am lazy but had no idea how it was working. Presume this is what is going on.

New comment by cogogo in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

cogogo — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:12:01 +0000

Just recently I was in a small shop where I was surprised to see epaper tags and ended up talking to the owner about them. She said they were super flaky and would reset at random. Agter that interaction I am not at all surprised a flipper could mess with them. But I also have not seen them widespread at the physical outlets I shop at.

New comment by cogogo in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

cogogo — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:08:36 +0000

I know people who regularly stole this way. They would usually work in pairs and one would leave a full cart near the exit and the other would walk out confidently. Worst case they figured they would just act the fool and either leave the cart or pay. Irked me that they did this but not enough to rat. I bet these days doing that with any kind of regularity would have you starring on much higher quality film.

New comment by cogogo in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

cogogo — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:12:31 +0000

I was at a small conference north of San Diego and thought I could find my way back to the airport for an early flight. I did but not before making a U-turn at the Mexican border. My excuse is the darkness (and of course no gps at the time).

New comment by cogogo in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

cogogo — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:45:33 +0000

actually a sign of our times that we can gripe about this. i remember how annoying it was to rent a car on a business trip without anything other than a road atlas. you had to dedicate a fair bit of cognitive load you really didnt want to use.

New comment by cogogo in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

cogogo — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:42:21 +0000

I primarily use Apple maps and bounce back to google sometimes because I think the browser experience is so much better and it is faster to just type my terms right into ironically safari. Every time I do I think it is still simpler and snappier. Especially true if I have recently tried to use the MacOS maps app… that never behaves how I would imagine it should if I go beyond a simple location search. There are things about the ios app that make me crazy too. No qualms about the maps themselves these days.

New comment by cogogo in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

cogogo — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:43:55 +0000

This misalignment is especially bad at startups. In my experience security is only prioritized when driven by the customer and is largely a performative box checking exercise.

New comment by cogogo in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

cogogo — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:08:48 +0000

Why oh why is openclaw an improvement for workouts and calorie tracking?

New comment by cogogo in "Lunar Flyby"

cogogo — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:43:23 +0000

You are right. I do think it is miraculous that the trajectory happened to bring the capsule into a solar eclipse and Mercury, Mars and Saturn are positioned in this way. This site helped me understand the current/past positioning[0]. Even though there is no reason the photo has to be oriented with the planets to the right. I am still surprised at how blurry they look when zooming given what I see from Earth with binoculars. I guess they are magnifying considerably more than this lens.

In retrospect it was pretty silly to think they could have been galaxies.

[0] https://www.theplanetstoday.com/

New comment by cogogo in "Lunar Flyby"

cogogo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:00:27 +0000

Appreciate the detailed response. I think it would be a borderline miraculous photo if they are planets aligned in that way. Zooming they look more like artifacts or galaxies to me. I spend a good amount of time looking at planets from earth through binoculars and even with an atmosphere they resolve better than that.

New comment by cogogo in "Lunar Flyby"

cogogo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:55:40 +0000

Are the bright spots to the lower right in this photo galaxies or just camera artifacts[0]? Unreal photo either way.

[0]https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e009301/art002e00...