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New comment by failrate in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

failrate — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:23:41 +0000

Some of these are considered rude, but ibd I do a lot of them, anyway e.g. rubbing disposable chopsticks to remove splinters, because a chopstick splinter in the gums is miserable, and using chopsticks to cut apart food. They seem less like faux pas and more like strategies. Plus, not Japanese.

New comment by failrate in "Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear"

failrate — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:12:58 +0000

https://imitone.com/ is what I use.

New comment by failrate in "'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately"

failrate — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 15:44:59 +0000

The background is that Night Dive tried to do this back when they formed, but it turned out to be intractable for a number of reasons including no one knew who actually owned it.

New comment by failrate in "Can text be made to sound more than just its words? (2022)"

failrate — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 15:43:06 +0000

Comic books already use changes in font, weight, size, of text and the shape of the word balloon to indicate tone and expression.

New comment by failrate in "Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes chip bag for gun in Baltimore"

failrate — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 18:01:23 +0000

Don't make tap the sign: "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION"

New comment by failrate in "Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice"

failrate — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:53:59 +0000

The article did not also point out issues like the compiler or interpreter having a runtime error, the hardware the software is running on having a defect, etc. Do we consider these out of scope of the discussion?

New comment by failrate in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

failrate — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:25:47 +0000

My lived experience is that high stress situations frequently make me feel like just going to sleep.

New comment by failrate in "I Never Cared Much for Swords. Then I Had to Fight with One"

failrate — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:19:10 +0000

I recommend @robinswords on YouTube for historical fencing.

New comment by failrate in "Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends"

failrate — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:51:50 +0000

The main caveat is that you have to enable developer mode on the Android device to load the apps, but that is typical if you are running your own apps.

Godot uses a Python-like language instead of Lua, which is good for me. Lots of people groove with Lua, but it gives me the ick.

I did not get very far trying to make 3D or physics-based games with Godot 3. I did not like the 3D interface, and the physics engine was too brittle for e.g. a pinball simulation. Too much tunneling and other inconsistent behavior.

But for 2D applications that are a mixture of text and images, i find it fits the bill quite well.

(For 3D apps and physics, I currently use Unreal Engine 4. Some tunneling, but I know tricks to mitigate that, and I much prefer its 3D interface.)

New comment by failrate in "3D-printed device splits white noise into an acoustic rainbow without power"

failrate — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:41:58 +0000

IIRC it is an array of cilia of different sizes that filters sound into different frequencies in the human ear.

New comment by failrate in "Scrappy - make little apps for you and your friends"

failrate — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:39:19 +0000

Godot 3 and 4 are very good for bashing out apps for both desktop and Android phone.

New comment by failrate in "Human coders are still better than LLMs"

failrate — Thu, 29 May 2025 22:36:24 +0000

LLMs are using the corpus of existing software source code. Most software source code is just North of unworkable garbage. Garbage in, garbage out.

New comment by failrate in "Mustard Watches (1990)"

failrate — Wed, 28 May 2025 03:29:22 +0000

I have one full of thyme.

New comment by failrate in "Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)"

failrate — Sat, 10 May 2025 19:49:52 +0000

As someone who avoids making threats in public, those stickers and whatnot do leave me concerned about the person's mental health.

New comment by failrate in "Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games and needs contributions"

failrate — Sat, 10 May 2025 15:18:58 +0000

https://www.themade.org/

New comment by failrate in "More people are getting tattoos removed"

failrate — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:58:30 +0000

It turns out that those ephemeral tattoos did not fade out in time and are extremely problematic when trying to laser remove them. The company that originally started that tech is gone, and the "ephemeral" tattoos they created are still around.

New comment by failrate in "More people are getting tattoos removed"

failrate — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:56:22 +0000

I had a similar issue, so I just got something small and essentially random. Now that the seal is broken, thinking of more tattoos is easy.

New comment by failrate in "Thank you for holding my duck (2021)"

failrate — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 20:02:11 +0000

I argue that verbalizing to the duck without involving another person solves many problems just by itself. Deeper problems may require verbalizing it to a person. In my professional experience, I have lost vast amounts of time and attention to people who would break my flow state to explain the problem to me and figure it out themselves while verbalizing it for the very first time. So, I explained Rubber ducking to them and gave them all ducks. It worked wonderfully.

New comment by failrate in "An end to all this prostate trouble?"

failrate — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 18:03:35 +0000

Yes, and you also want to do fast and short Kegel's in different positions.

New comment by failrate in "Clinical trial: novel nutritional formula treats gut microbial overgrowth"

failrate — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:06:02 +0000

In my personal experience with SIBO, fasting can mitigate symptoms but does not resolve the SIBO.