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New comment by drchickensalad in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

drchickensalad — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:06:07 +0000

Check out the Epic Encounters 2 mod for D:OS2. Best tactics experience I've ever had. Runners up are LWOTC for XCOM3 and Homebrew for BG3.

New comment by drchickensalad in "I quit. The clankers won"

drchickensalad — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:33:41 +0000

You do know that there's many different personalities that people can have right? A lot of people love writing code and don't care about those things at all.

New comment by drchickensalad in "LLMs can be exhausting"

drchickensalad — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:49:31 +0000

You're so lucky you feel this way...every day is a worse hell for me since these demons arrived. I miss my job.

New comment by drchickensalad in "We might all be AI engineers now"

drchickensalad — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:58:40 +0000

I wish I moved to HCOL earlier so I could have saved enough fast enough to be you. I thought it would take more time before the end...

New comment by drchickensalad in "Cosmologically Unique IDs"

drchickensalad — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:53:36 +0000

That also looks like the widely used BSON ids, to anyone else interested

New comment by drchickensalad in "After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up"

drchickensalad — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:36:45 +0000

Yeah I've seen this a few times on the backend that decides this. The standard should be to use the accept-language header, but all the time when people write their own code on top of frameworks (or maybe use niche shitty ones) they just geoip for language.

For business use cases sometimes it's based on the company's default language that you're an employee for.

New comment by drchickensalad in "Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years"

drchickensalad — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:10:52 +0000

My iPhone friends literally grab my s24 ultra camera when we take pictures at cocktail bars and tell me to send them the picture

New comment by drchickensalad in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

drchickensalad — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:19:40 +0000

That doesn't get shown publicly for everyone else watching you.

New comment by drchickensalad in "How do I get into the game industry"

drchickensalad — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:41:47 +0000

I was an admin on a huge wire mod server as a teen and it changed my life :). I might not even have gotten into software, don't even want to imagine that life

New comment by drchickensalad in "Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012)"

drchickensalad — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:40:59 +0000

I think you grossly undervalue execution. Ideas are cheap. Most developers would have turned those games into weaker money extracting machines that generate one tenth the love from current players

New comment by drchickensalad in "Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)"

drchickensalad — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:35:13 +0000

This fuels my feelings on why most uses of GenAI are such a step back for society's non-short-term effectiveness.

New comment by drchickensalad in "LLM Inevitabilism"

drchickensalad — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:37:10 +0000

Isn't that what was said about the next year, the last two years?

New comment by drchickensalad in "Why Koreans ask what year you were born"

drchickensalad — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 22:44:36 +0000

Gotta love when you're in a 2,000 person public company, and you can still "heya Phil" despite not being a personal friend at all, and he even prefers it

New comment by drchickensalad in "Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature"

drchickensalad — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 12:52:51 +0000

I miss F#

New comment by drchickensalad in "Show HN: OpenTimes – Free travel times between U.S. Census geographies"

drchickensalad — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:32:27 +0000

I love how much this affects people on dating apps too, lol.

New comment by drchickensalad in "The good times in tech are over"

drchickensalad — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:05:07 +0000

Yeah that's a really good analysis.

It feels emotionally true because when I buy many terabytes of high quality SSD, I have no preference to "keep the valuation" of my SSD investment, I just want more faster for cheaper! If the price goes down tomorrow and my friend gets in for less than I just paid, it's not screwing me over. In fact I'm probably buying more on the future so I love the increased supply!

This is not true at all for housing lol. As someone who bought Manhattan real estate, I can feel the shitty incentives every day, and it's really destructive of a system.

New comment by drchickensalad in "The good times in tech are over"

drchickensalad — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:48:42 +0000

This is a really good point that honestly I've been neglecting considering. I try to help and push my friends to be better than most (because honestly most are quite lazy and entitled) but still you can't ignore the societal ramifications of most people getting less than they expect.

New comment by drchickensalad in ""The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab" – a "study""

drchickensalad — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 22:53:51 +0000

Honestly NYC has a lot of its best restaurants by train stations, throughout every borough.

New comment by drchickensalad in "VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas"

drchickensalad — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 17:52:53 +0000

Yeah it's like fully virtualized to run the same familiar environment completely on a local machine. It's not even remotely comparable. Extremely necessary in many cases like thin clients for machine learning

New comment by drchickensalad in "The average American spent 2.5 months on their phone in 2024"

drchickensalad — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:50:03 +0000

In fact if it's not a voice call it should probably be excluded, lol. I feel like semantically right now being on your phone refers to looking at the screen actively, even though that's very much not the origin of the phrase. Yet, nowadays the meaning of the phrase probably excluded when you're holding it to the side of your head, as you're not looking at a screen at all.