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New comment by hobotime in "Valve developers discuss why Half Life 2: Episode 3 was abandoned"

hobotime — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 01:22:13 +0000

Being jump scared by head-crabs scary on 27" monitor, and entire another thing in VR glued to your face.

New comment by hobotime in "Airlines Hate 'Skiplagging.' Meet the Man Who Helps Travelers Pull It Off"

hobotime — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:25:24 +0000

That's how it would work - they airlines would have to cut service. By filling up seats with lower fares, it allows the whole route to be profitable. This helps more flights to occur serving more places.

New comment by hobotime in "Tariffs Won't Work, Just as McKinley's Didn't"

hobotime — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:47:39 +0000

Emotional reason: better to be a poor master than a rich slave.

Pragmatic reason: I'd like to see American workers get American wages.

Long Term reason: We need the ability to manufacture critical things at all times.

New comment by hobotime in "Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)"

hobotime — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:52:33 +0000

I've done this for vacations: Put in 50K into a mutual fund, and every year we use 5% of it for a guilt-free vacation.

New comment by hobotime in "Why Pascal Deserves a Second Look"

hobotime — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:25:31 +0000

OS-9 was a gateway for a lot of good developers. Constrained (8/16-Bit) enough to make you think but having a lot of the tools and ideas from mainframe/Unix world.

New comment by hobotime in "Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid"

hobotime — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:07:24 +0000

Let the eggs develop a crust on the bottom before doing anything with them.

New comment by hobotime in "For the love of God, stop talking about "post-truth""

hobotime — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:34:32 +0000

"What can be, unburdened by what has been" -Kamala Harris

New comment by hobotime in "Response to DHH"

hobotime — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 18:40:20 +0000

TLDR:

DHH doesn't make kilo-millions so his ideas suck.

New comment by hobotime in "US public schools banned 10k books in most recent academic year"

hobotime — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:50:25 +0000

>>What is the harm in making a book available to check out?

Children should not be exposed to sexual material at an early developmental age. That's sexual child abuse.

New comment by hobotime in "Show HN: Interactive map of the convenience store "turf war" in Japan"

hobotime — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:30:56 +0000

'Conbini' is a loan word from English meaning 'convenience store.' Please forgive the originators of the word for spelling it so they can understand as Convenience starts with the letter 'c.'

New comment by hobotime in "Show HN: Interactive map of the convenience store "turf war" in Japan"

hobotime — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:28:48 +0000

ADA law in the US financially prohibit this. Once you need an elevator, the costs go though the roof for the building. Elevator design, installation, inspection and repair are incredibly expensive and eat up a lot of square footage on every floor.

New comment by hobotime in "10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023"

hobotime — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 20:27:29 +0000

Cuban-Americans telling us what Cuba is like sounds ok to me. From what I've heard, they hate Socialists.

New comment by hobotime in "Reining in America's $3.3T tax-exempt economy"

hobotime — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:08:42 +0000

Pat's income from his mega church and gifts in kind are taxable.

I'm not saying he's a good person, but he has personal income just like the rest of us. The odd clergy exemptions to the personal income tax are not that large: https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc417

New comment by hobotime in "Austria to 'Super-Speeders': We're Taking Your Car"

hobotime — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:53:42 +0000

Don't matter, as police officers migrate to places that don't hate them.

The Democrat stronghold cities have less police now than three years ago.

New comment by hobotime in "Austria to 'Super-Speeders': We're Taking Your Car"

hobotime — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:52:39 +0000

Seattle sure did. And it sucks.

We lost 70% of the officers to other jurisdictions that don't hate them.

New comment by hobotime in "Noam Chomsky's wife denies reports of death"

hobotime — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 22:43:51 +0000

If we're just a particular configuration, that configuration will have to exist again with infinite time and infinite universes.

If that holds, then it would be well to align ourselves such that we have a better chance to awake in a good place rather than a bad place.

New comment by hobotime in "What would happen if a nuclear bomb went off in your backyard"

hobotime — Wed, 29 May 2024 22:09:59 +0000

Careful with "Threads" - I've heard from normally stout people that it sent them into a funk because it was rather traumatic.

New comment by hobotime in "AI-generated spam is starting to fill social media. Here's why"

hobotime — Thu, 16 May 2024 00:22:40 +0000

Rage farmer. It's sucks how well it works. Basically, we have AI personas with one side always over-reaching and looking slightly stupid. This is to bolster the side we think is correct.

Works really well and we're swaying the opinion of a rather local community.

New comment by hobotime in "Bossware is a big legal risk"

hobotime — Wed, 15 May 2024 22:24:59 +0000

Perhaps during the video they discovered that they didn't like you.

New comment by hobotime in "AI-generated spam is starting to fill social media. Here's why"

hobotime — Tue, 14 May 2024 15:39:40 +0000

Ai assisted rage farming is something I'm part of and it scares the crap out of me. Nothing gets attention like opposite AI personalities raging against each other.