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New comment by hydrogen7800 in "The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)"

hydrogen7800 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:19:48 +0000

I know someone who spent ~ a year in rural Kyrgyzstan, and found the food to be very meat-based, with little variety. Maybe different in the cities, since they enjoyed the trips to Bishkek, and possibly Tashkent, somewhat more.

New comment by hydrogen7800 in "New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study"

hydrogen7800 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:59:42 +0000

Are you saying that the result of millions of years of evolution is more impressive than decades of medical research?

New comment by hydrogen7800 in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

hydrogen7800 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:59:49 +0000

Wow, you can do this? At the risk of further complicating my arr stack, which I barely had the wherewithal to get running in the first place, how does that work?

New comment by hydrogen7800 in "Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout"

hydrogen7800 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:01:51 +0000

Yea, but that's what they call it. No editorializing on my part.

New comment by hydrogen7800 in "I Built the Only 2026 WWII Jeep"

hydrogen7800 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:00:33 +0000

Spitfires were British planes, so not part of the American lend lease program. Maybe if they were build with American loans, though?

New comment by hydrogen7800 in "I Built the Only 2026 WWII Jeep"

hydrogen7800 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:52:43 +0000

This is one of those perennial aviation legends[0] that are still alive, like Amelia Earhart's wreck. Always another rich guy funding a search with promising results.

[0]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-20957162

Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout

hydrogen7800 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:17:59 +0000

Article URL: https://visitfaroeislands.com/en/plan-your-stay/getting-around/world-first-under-sea-roundabout

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48840152

Points: 75

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New comment by hydrogen7800 in "Hate "The Algorithm?" RSS Is One of the Tools You've Been Looking For"

hydrogen7800 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:38:44 +0000

I use Feeder, but still end up doom scrolling reddit way too to often. Discovery is the hard part for me, and I don't spend much time trying to find good content. For me, this is the "personal responsibility" side of the coin and requires effort. I suspect this is common, and it's what algorithmic social media exploits.

New comment by hydrogen7800 in "Virginia bans sale of precise geolocation data"

hydrogen7800 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:47:17 +0000

I can't find it so it's probably just a myth, but I recall hearing about "free beer with purchase of food" at bars during prohibition. However, I think it was more than just the sale that was prohibited.

New comment by hydrogen7800 in "I built a 10 inch mini rack from aluminium extrusions"

hydrogen7800 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:25:01 +0000

Man, I spent a lot of time looking for something like this when i bought my NAS and got annoyed with all the power bricks. Guitar players use them[0] to power their several guitar pedals, but the polarity, voltage and plug form factors are all the same, as far as I know. The various devices i have use slightly different plugs, polarities and i think not all are 12VDC.

I'm very surprised that nothing like this exists in the tech/IT space. There can't be that many form factors, voltages, etc. to deal with.

[0] I think something like this: https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=600062

New comment by hydrogen7800 in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

hydrogen7800 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:33:23 +0000

One thing I remember from his book is that the 747 was initially of secondary importance within Boeing, behind the SST. This wasn't Boeing's flagship, so to speak, until SST was canceled.

New comment by hydrogen7800 in "LastPass confirms data breach in Klue supply chain attack"

hydrogen7800 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:35:01 +0000

I've never been able to access my old LastPass vault to delete its contents since its first breach when I switched to bitwarden. I recall contacting them to make sure my data was erased, but I never got a good confirmation of that.

New comment by hydrogen7800 in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

hydrogen7800 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:41:32 +0000

I'm thinking that the effort required to make that one sale in a thousand is not worth it. The 999 others didn't complain about that.

New comment by hydrogen7800 in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

hydrogen7800 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:08:13 +0000

>Make sure that dealers know why you changed your mind.

"Some nerd couldn't use their nerd phone."

What incentive does a dealer have to know or care about this?

New comment by hydrogen7800 in "Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb"

hydrogen7800 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:54:50 +0000

When should it be reported, then?

New comment by hydrogen7800 in "Fox to buy Roku"

hydrogen7800 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:44:30 +0000

Yes, which you have to do repeatedly after every software update when they change your settings.

New comment by hydrogen7800 in "Kennedy Center board's new bylaws strip funding if center removes Trump's name"

hydrogen7800 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:24:01 +0000

Yeah, and he is such an intellectual child, that he can very easily be manipulated by those minions. They let him think he's the brains of the operation, and they get their policies enacted.

New comment by hydrogen7800 in "Kennedy Center board's new bylaws strip funding if center removes Trump's name"

hydrogen7800 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:38:05 +0000

I don't think it's allegiance so much as the metaphorical opposite of a fig leaf. He allows and provides cover fire for the worst intentions of his deputized minions.

New comment by hydrogen7800 in "Judge orders Trump admin to restore Park changes at sites that 'disparaged' US"

hydrogen7800 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:33:40 +0000

>historic

Who's history?

New comment by hydrogen7800 in "Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway"

hydrogen7800 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:49:24 +0000

I have to look this up each time I am reminded of it, to make sure it's not some absurd urban legend.