Hacker News: imzadi

New comment by imzadi in "California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down"

imzadi — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:28:38 +0000

> As currently amended, the act would not apply to completely free games and games offered “solely for the duration of [a] subscription. Any other game offered for sale in California on or after January 1, 2027, would be subject to the law if it passes.

So they just make their game free two months before they want to close?

New comment by imzadi in "Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center"

imzadi — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:15:32 +0000

The blinders on people about these things is insane. I'm in Arizona. We are having a water crisis but they are building data centers and oat milk factories. WTF?

New comment by imzadi in "Microscale Thermite Reaction"

imzadi — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:14:09 +0000

Does the second rusty ball really need to be a rusty ball since it is covered in foil?

New comment by imzadi in "Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time"

imzadi — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:11:39 +0000

Then why aren't they killing all the fish?

New comment by imzadi in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

imzadi — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:13:22 +0000

A few years ago we decided to go see the movie Thanksgiving for my friend's birthday. We were the only ones in the theater (about 8 of us). It was such a blast. We occasionally talk about renting out a theater so we can have the same experience again.

New comment by imzadi in "Show HN: Site Mogging"

imzadi — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:18:05 +0000

I think part of it is that people use it ironically to make fun of incel culture but then it gets absorbed into our language unironically. Similar to how AAVE ends up in mainstream language because non-Black people use it ironically (more to make fun of themselves), but then it ends up becoming an everyday part of the language.

New comment by imzadi in "Show HN: Site Mogging"

imzadi — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:01:59 +0000

There's an interesting Behind the Bastards podcast about the rise of incel culture and its push into mainstream. It's called "From Elliot Rodger to Clavicular." They talk about the language of incels and how their vocabulary tends to end up in the mainstream at a surprising rate compared to other fringe cultures. "Mogging" is one of those terms that comes from incels.

New comment by imzadi in "Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms"

imzadi — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:28:35 +0000

I've seen these images before, or some very similar images. So this is based on old photos or it has indeed been done before.

New comment by imzadi in "All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)"

imzadi — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:41:42 +0000

Challenger was destroyed on launch, not reentry.

New comment by imzadi in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

imzadi — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:25:51 +0000

My company is still on windows, but it's only because most of our users are over 60 and would stroke out if they had to learn something new. I predict within the next 10 years we will move to something else. The hoops I have to jump through to setup new devices without a Microsoft account are ridiculous. Every time we have a workaround they disable it and we have to do a deeper dive on it. The process right now requires using the command line to create an account with administrator permissions and no password and then create a password after logging in. Then we can create a non-admin local account.

New comment by imzadi in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

imzadi — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:34:03 +0000

As someone who has worked in a call center, it's not just that they complain, but they complain a lot and become much more difficult to work with. A customer who has been on hold for a long time can take twice as long to resolve because they spend so much time complaining and refusing to do what you ask them to do.

New comment by imzadi in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

imzadi — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:28:58 +0000

I believe they are saying their AHT went down (calls take less time) which made other people with longer handle times look bad.

New comment by imzadi in "Heart, head, life, fate"

imzadi — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:17:07 +0000

6 long paragraphs before it even tells you the name of the book it is reviewing or what it is about?

New comment by imzadi in "Ask Maps and Immersive Navigation: New AI Features in Google Maps"

imzadi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:24:45 +0000

All I want is an "avoid unprotected left turns" option

New comment by imzadi in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92,000 jobs in February"

imzadi — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:31:08 +0000

But this is the full amount of jobs shed:

> Payrolls in the US dropped by 92,000 and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4%, according to the latest official figures, surprising analysts who had expected hiring to remain stable.

I'm not in any way suggesting the economy isn't taking a shit, but I'm curious about the actual expectation and reality. I know it says analysts expect hiring to be stable, but hiring isn't the same as job losses.

New comment by imzadi in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

imzadi — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:21:18 +0000

I would like to know how much contraction is normal. I assume there's always some contraction around that time, because the holiday season is ending and the temp workers are being let go. I didn't see any mention of this in the article though (or I missed it).

New comment by imzadi in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

imzadi — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:10:56 +0000

I have shoulder issues and use a Kinesis Freestyle 2. It lets me keep my shoulders square while I am typing. I would love to get a keyboard with a trackball, though. Moving from the keyboard to the mouse and back starts to irritate my right shoulder after a while (have had rotator cuff surgery on that one).

New comment by imzadi in "AI made coding more enjoyable"

imzadi — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:58:35 +0000

When I tried using a coding agent it felt like the AI was stealing my dopamine hits.

New comment by imzadi in "Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy"

imzadi — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:40:20 +0000

Care to enlighten? Google has nothing meaningful.

New comment by imzadi in "The Everdeck: A Universal Card System (2019)"

imzadi — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:15:19 +0000

I have one. The cards are pretty well made and it's a nice deck. Decent playing cards do tend to be expensive.