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New comment by frakkingcylons in "The underrated benefits of always having oatmeal at lunch"

frakkingcylons — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:06:16 +0000

I appreciate the world building in this oatmeal comment

New comment by frakkingcylons in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

frakkingcylons — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:20:36 +0000

Have you never seen the word Syria spelled out?

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance"

frakkingcylons — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 02:36:32 +0000

When one of my coworkers bought a used car, he went out of his way to buy a model year that was compatible with Comma. He has lots of praise for it.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

frakkingcylons — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:21:21 +0000

Greenland's appeal is more about expanding the US military's presence in the Arctic rather than petroleum.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "25 Years of Wikipedia"

frakkingcylons — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:18:59 +0000

I haven’t noticed this.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Show HN: I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser"

frakkingcylons — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:53:25 +0000

this is really nice. One request: when searching for a station name, let me type "and" instead of "&" e.g. typing "E 47th St and 2 Ave" would still return "E 47th & 2 Ave".

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers"

frakkingcylons — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:25:37 +0000

I think a better way to think of it is in terms of revenue per employee. Valve is WAY up there.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

frakkingcylons — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:40:07 +0000

If you can’t appreciate the value of less is more, this device is not for you.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Steam Machine"

frakkingcylons — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:25:40 +0000

Yes that’s why he and Gabe were speakers at the talk. In game economies were the topic.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Steam Machine"

frakkingcylons — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:58:31 +0000

Yes he was a visiting professor for like a semester or two.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Steam Machine"

frakkingcylons — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:37:28 +0000

Gabe gave a talk at my college like 12 or 13 years ago. He explicitly called out the unbelievable number of downloads for Doom as a sign that games were going to be huge.

Fun non-sequitur: the other speaker at that talk went on to become the finance minister of Greece.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Steam Machine"

frakkingcylons — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 01:48:36 +0000

One (maybe the only) advantage that the hypothetical new Windows-based Xbox console is that it'll be able to play all online games that require anti-cheat like COD, Battlefield, and Fortnite. All games that are mega-popular but are unfortunately unwilling to support anti-cheat on Linux.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?"

frakkingcylons — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 04:18:52 +0000

I also used your tutorial to get started with web development and helped me get my first job about 11 years ago. Thanks a lot!

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining"

frakkingcylons — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:52:26 +0000

Where did you source them? I've thought about buying HDDs from a vendor like serverpartdeals.com but was unsure how reliable the drives would be.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

frakkingcylons — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 05:17:09 +0000

By your logic, we would never have normalized running elevators without an operator.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Hulk Hogan Has Died"

frakkingcylons — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:41:36 +0000

Also Dark Side of the Ring.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "AI is ushering in a “tiny team” era"

frakkingcylons — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 01:04:09 +0000

I think the faux pas is regurgitating the first hit you find on StackOverflow or Wikipedia without considering if actually adds something to a discussion.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle"

frakkingcylons — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 15:09:14 +0000

Lucky that you happened to be in need in countries with a low cost of living. I needed an ambulance, stitches, and an MRI in Germany and it cost me $2000 USD. I wish I had travel insurance then.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Ultra-low power, miniature electrophysiological electronics"

frakkingcylons — Tue, 27 May 2025 00:39:37 +0000

Note that this is backed by Gabe Newell of Valve.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful"

frakkingcylons — Sat, 17 May 2025 21:05:37 +0000

weird (positive)