<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: craz8</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=craz8</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:12:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=craz8" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "Tonight's restaurant dinner fell off the Sysco truck"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An interesting psychology of restaurant menus is when they use the term ‘house made’ for an item.  My assumption then is that all the other items came from the Sysco truck and will be suitably generic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 03:55:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523325</link><dc:creator>craz8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523325</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "Private Welsh island with 19th century fort goes on the market"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it’s the distance by boat to the nearest dock, not as the seagull flies</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 16:51:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44848056</link><dc:creator>craz8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44848056</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44848056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "Private Welsh island with 19th century fort goes on the market"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I grew up in that area and went to school with a member of the family that owned Thorne Island at the time.<p>There are times of the year that access is not possible at all due to weather which does limit the usefulness of the location.<p>The Angle lifeboat isn’t far away in an emergency though, so that’s helpful.<p>There are other Victorian  fort locations in that area in private hands. A different school friend owned more than one of these for a while. Maintenance costs are outrageous!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 14:40:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846860</link><dc:creator>craz8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846860</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "JANET – The UK Joint Academic Network (1988) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah, JANET - so many default passwords, so little time to log into them all!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 06:28:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44742929</link><dc:creator>craz8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44742929</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44742929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have 2 measurable ones on Zepbound.<p>My lowest sleeping heart rate is now at least 10 beats higher than before starting (it comes down during the week to about 10 over)<p>The night after taking the injection my sleep is crap, and the heart rate is 5+ higher again<p>I have lost 20lbs since mid March with no real effort, and we’re about to do some blood tests for specific cholesterol numbers, which was one of the reasons to try this out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 04:24:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44556444</link><dc:creator>craz8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44556444</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44556444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "How Blackjack Works (2007)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The real story of the whole of the MIT blackjack team is quite something. When you ask someone if they’re still allowed to play in this casino and they reply with “if I use my real name, then yes”.<p>The 80s were a wild time, kids!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 04:37:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262492</link><dc:creator>craz8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262492</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "MIT Blackjack Team"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The MIT blackjack team from 1979 onwards played with many, many players to make real money in Vegas. Not everything was in the movie!</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Blackjack_Team">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Blackjack_Team</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262470">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262470</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 04:32:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Blackjack_Team</link><dc:creator>craz8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262470</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If I could have got a steady hand with tweezers, I could easily have been a surgeon. Real patients probably don’t have noses that light up, which reduces distractions too!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:56:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41964309</link><dc:creator>craz8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41964309</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41964309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "The Architecture of London Pubs (1966)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the 80s, Sam Smith pubs had a ‘25 pubs in London’ challenge.  Get a drink in each of the 25 and get a T-shirt. It took me and a friend several weeks. There was a story of some guys doing it in a weekend. Hard because of travel AND opening times of some of the financial centre ones.<p>Good Times!  And of course, no screens and no-one had phones (except in the financial centre and those came with an external battery)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:47:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41676954</link><dc:creator>craz8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41676954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41676954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master: The Medieval Guild (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ha!  I went to a British polytechnic.  There wasn’t a lot of very practical degrees ( there were some though), but there was a lot of hands on computer work in my Computer and Communications degree<p>It is strange on a resume listing a university I never technically went to, but now only Wikipedia remembers! And I was there before Thor destroyed it in a movie</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 02:35:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41157701</link><dc:creator>craz8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41157701</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41157701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a $4500 LG OLED thin TV that is 2 years old and broken<p>The screen has had lines for a while, annoying, but not critical.  Now there’s a power issue where it powers off in a few minutes<p>Now, this is out of warranty, and, it turns out, the 2 LG repair locations in the Seattle area no longer do TVs<p>LG know this is a problem - they are currently sending parts, and there’s a West Coast LG repair guy who will come and fix it when the parts arrive<p>A 4K $4k TV that isn’t that old and is almost un repairable is crazy<p>Anything with some exotic screen is going to cost more money and be harder to fix - pay for the extended warranty!<p>Note - my credit card has automatic extended warranty, but I need a quote for fixing the item, and there are absolutely no authorized repair people within 500 miles of Seattle to even get that!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2024 03:18:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41105773</link><dc:creator>craz8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41105773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41105773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "1989 Networking: NetWare 386"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used Btrieve a lot in several jobs in the UK in the late 80s and early 90s.  It was fast and easy to work with, mostly<p>I used the stand alone version, not the later NLM on the server</p>
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<p>To be fair, I work in software, so I too am familiar with the whoosh of a deadline as it passes by, unmet.<p>Although I don’t find it as hard as Douglas did with his writing, but then that level isn’t needed for most software projects.<p>I was about to say that software, unlike creative writing, can be changed after publishing.  But Douglas did that for Hitch Hikers - the radio script, books, and TV show are fairly different stories!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 02:37:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41013586</link><dc:creator>craz8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41013586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41013586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "Mercedes-Benz high-power charging goes large at Starbucks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The chargers they showed at their first Mercedes location in Atlanta are 400kw split between 2 units.  So 200kw each for 2 cars that can handle it, and balanced between the 2.  Eg if one car only needs 100kw, the other can pull up to 300kw<p>I’ve seen video of the Cybertruck getting more than 330kw, and the Lotus cars seem to charge at high rates too.  But 200kw each is a fine charge whilst getting a coffee<p>The question is how reliable they can be - if a charger is broken, it doesn’t matter what the numbers on the label say</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 02:00:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40991874</link><dc:creator>craz8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40991874</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40991874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I grew up in this area a long time ago - not quite 40,000 years.  This is my local Norman castle!<p>The obvious history you could see were the castles and walled towns.  More recently, lots of ship building in the last 200 or so years, and plenty of WWII sites.<p>There are many other parts of Pembrokeshire with Stone Age sites that are well known, and there were clearly many people living in this area for a long time before even those later inhabitants<p>Very cool!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 23:37:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40794933</link><dc:creator>craz8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40794933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40794933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have that exact setup for control, and there’s 1 thing I want to control, and that’s the start time of warming up in the morning depending on outside temp.  It’s less efficient at lower temps so takes longer to provide enough heat, and my house loses heat faster at cooler temps, so needs more heat at those lower temps.  I want to say “make it 72 at 8am” not “start at 6am to try to get to 72 at some future time”<p>I’m also concerned about what happens when their online system stops working.  Technically I can program some on the connected unit, but it’s not ideal<p>Oh, it also can only use the temp from 1 remote thermostat at a time.  My last 3rd party one allowed, for instance, the night temp to be the remote in the bedroom and the daytime to be set by the living room remote - Trane doesn’t support that in the schedules at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2023 21:19:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38756951</link><dc:creator>craz8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38756951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38756951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "Interactive tour of James Clerk Maxwell's house"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There’s a room on the left and another on the right</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2023 06:36:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38662238</link><dc:creator>craz8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38662238</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38662238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "Oxford Word of the Year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I first heard this used, my immediate thought was that it was a reference to the Uk brand of cigarette paper, Rizla, and clearly something to do with smoking pot<p>Sadly, it’s a more mundane contraction</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:46:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38519561</link><dc:creator>craz8</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38519561</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38519561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craz8 in "Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Appearing at a science fiction convention as a Steampunk character allows them to blend right in.<p>I’ve seen hundreds of these travelers go by.<p>Some with lighter dress have passed as artisanal bartenders too</p>
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