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New comment by flocciput in "Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down"

flocciput — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:49:08 +0000

did you not read the last line of the post?

New comment by flocciput in "TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin"

flocciput — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:30:26 +0000

There are laws about the age you can be to gamble or drink, restrictions on the establishments where these things can occur, and you can have your license revoked for driving while under the influence, or be banned from a casino. Don't act like those are totally unrestricted activities.

New comment by flocciput in "Researchers Find Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil"

flocciput — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:06:14 +0000

> Story source: Universe Today

Just link that article. I hate this story recycling thing some sites do.

New comment by flocciput in "The great Hobby Lobby artifact heist"

flocciput — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:15:06 +0000

Is it just me or has HN as a whole become... more Christian lately? A lot more defensive comments here than I would've expected, and I've seen in other threads people actually openly recommending religion/Christianity specifically as something that solved their problems. What's the deal here? I would've thought this would be a relatively atheist/agnostic community, if not one that eschews discussion of religion entirely.

New comment by flocciput in "This Game Is Perfection, Please Don't Buy It [video]"

flocciput — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:47:45 +0000

Unrelated to the video, but I recommend the DeArrow extension for turning clickbaity titles like this one into something actually informative about the video's content.

DeArrow title for this one is "the game 'rollerdrome', and how take-two interactive laid off everybody that made it".

The Moral Economy of Tech (2016)

flocciput — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 23:52:48 +0000

Article URL: https://idlewords.com/talks/sase_panel.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43418513

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by flocciput in "Ask HN: How Do I Escape Homelessness After Rebuilding My Mental Health?"

flocciput — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:29:32 +0000

This is really the only comment here with any weight to it. Congrats on making it out of homelessness.

New comment by flocciput in "Ask HN: How Do I Escape Homelessness After Rebuilding My Mental Health?"

flocciput — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:12:01 +0000

Rely on those programs while you still can: https://www.ala.org/news/2025/03/ala-statement-white-house-a...

New comment by flocciput in "Six mistakes I made in my dioramas-and-felt Steam game and one I didn't"

flocciput — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:18:13 +0000

Hylics by Mason Lindroth is the only other thing I'd ever seen do the "physical art" thing in a videogame. I love it a lot, so now curious about the other games you've mentioned! Thanks for the recs.

New comment by flocciput in "Aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation"

flocciput — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:13:02 +0000

I've found seltzer makes me sleepy or fatigued for some reason. Everyone I tell this to looks at me like I'm nuts but I swear it's real. I think it has something to do with the brain's expectation of calories and the subsequent lack.

New comment by flocciput in "Bangladesh's factories turn to surveillance, automation; workers feel pressure"

flocciput — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 19:35:57 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology

New comment by flocciput in "Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it"

flocciput — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 18:21:43 +0000

Avoid weed if you don't already. Might seem out of left field but a programmer friend of mine is absolutely convinced their memory is shot because of long covid and it's like, well, maybe, and the trauma of the pandemic certainly put a dent in everyone's cognitive ability, but also the dabs can't be helping.

New comment by flocciput in "Solitaire"

flocciput — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:47:01 +0000

When I was a kid, if I couldn't be on the computer for whatever reason I'd occupy myself with a pack of cards. I'd play solitaire (Klondike) over and over. I would vary the draw count and see how that affected the game. I'd sort the cards beforehand and see if that made it any easier or harder to win. I'd try to find the optimal order the cards would have to be in before dealing for the game to be won in the least number of steps. Ultimately I figured Solitaire was just a roundabout way of sorting a deck of cards and started messing with other sorting methods. I still, every time I see a pack of cards, feel that urge to just sort and sort and sort. It wasn't even "fun", I was just so desperate for mental stimulation.

Anyways, love Balatro!

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

flocciput — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 01:08:13 +0000

> The Department of Export Promotion of the Thai Ministry of Commerce offers potential restaurateurs plans for three different "master restaurant" types—from fast food to elegant—which investors can choose as a prefabricated restaurant plan.

from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culinary_diplomacy#Thailand

New comment by flocciput in "'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised"

flocciput — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 22:02:47 +0000

I feel your pain. I managed to use my first smart phone, an iPhone 6s, for almost 10 years. In that time the system data took up more and more of what little space I had on there (16GB I think? So unthinkably small to most people that they think I'm confusing it with RAM) to where I was basically dealing with a few mb of storage to use for photos and work-critical apps like Authenticator. I also refuse to use iCloud on principle (tried it once, and realized when I wanted to download all my photos onto my computer that it would only let me do 1 at a time, or low quality versions, or something scummy like that).

It got so bad I had to do things like delete my Internet history if I even wanted to copy and paste something! And I would do everything I could to not have to pick which photos and conversations I needed to delete forever just to download some fucking app I would only use one time to order food or park somewhere or do first-time router setup.

Finally I had to give in and get a new phone, because managing phone storage was making my life much more difficult than it needed to be. But I'm still so mad that I had to, because daily living seems to demand more and more storage space. And people accept it!! Ugh. The dang thing didn't even have a scratch on it either. Would've used it for 20 years if I could.

New comment by flocciput in "Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks"

flocciput — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:40:17 +0000

Nice! I was gonna say 43 is encouraging to hear, as someone who's worried about how age will affect my proneness to injury/ability to recover, but that's an impressive background and probably a major factor. Guess that's another good reason to stay active.

New comment by flocciput in "Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks"

flocciput — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:09:01 +0000

Yep, something I'm realizing is a lot of guidelines/expectations around how long something will take to heal seem to be based on people in the 30-45 range. In your teens and twenties you might get injured and heal faster than expected and think "huh, must be my genes/technique/etc" when really it's probably just youth. Suuuuucks when you start to realize that superpower of yours is fading.

New comment by flocciput in "Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks"

flocciput — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:13:40 +0000

How old were you?

Against Access (2021)

flocciput — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:53:08 +0000

Article URL: https://audio.mcsweeneys.net/transcripts/against_access.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43062223

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by flocciput in "Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture"

flocciput — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:14:32 +0000

Is that so bad? If the only way to ensure a language's preservation and continued use is to mangle and evolve it? I think that's kind of a neat concept, to be honest. To live is to change.