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New comment by j_m_b in "Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens"

j_m_b — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:35:40 +0000

IN MICE should be added to this title

New comment by j_m_b in "“It turns out” (2010)"

j_m_b — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:15:33 +0000

Oh I have some other common phrases I've been collecting!

"to be honest" "...the thing..." "I mean.." "Yah yah yah" people say this rapidly. It seems rude and dismissive to me so I've stopped doing it

New comment by j_m_b in "Good Riddance, 4o"

j_m_b — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:31:10 +0000

Computing has made intimate sexual relationships worse.

Dating apps are skewed: men receive little attention while women have an overwhelming amount of attention.

Porn satisfies our most base sexual functions while abandoning truly intimate connections.

The ultimate goal of sexual unions has been demonized and turned into something to avoid. That being children. After school specials since the 80s have made pregnancy a horror to avoid instead of a joy to grasp.

AI is just the latest iteration of technology increasing the divide between the sexes.

When the clankers come, we're fucked.

New comment by j_m_b in "Nobody knows how the whole system works"

j_m_b — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:00:40 +0000

Also, no one knows how to make a Pizza! (great book for kids)

New comment by j_m_b in "How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)"

j_m_b — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:26:48 +0000

It might have been more like C&H or Far Side at one time, but by the time of the 80s when I first started reading the funny pages, Peanuts was just another mundane strip.

New comment by j_m_b in "The Art of Atari (2016)"

j_m_b — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:02:02 +0000

The spaceship beaming people up in Defender always looked like it's proportions were off. As a kid, I remember seeing the spaceship and thinking it looked like a metal glove.

New comment by j_m_b in "Irssi: IRC client in a Docker image"

j_m_b — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 03:05:01 +0000

Better would be a docker container for an IRC server. Something using a modern approach where you could have link attachments, replies for message threads etc. An IRC slack alternative.

New comment by j_m_b in "Gemini 2.5 Flash Image"

j_m_b — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:44:44 +0000

If this can do character consistency, that's huge. Just make it do the same for video...

New comment by j_m_b in "Why are there so many rationalist cults?"

j_m_b — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:22:53 +0000

> One way that thinking for yourself goes wrong is that you realize your society is wrong about something, don’t realize that you can’t outperform it, and wind up even wronger.

many such cases

New comment by j_m_b in "Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games"

j_m_b — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 16:42:02 +0000

So funny how people think this is a moral crusade. You should read articles around the tech stack for payment processing at any adult site. People try to do chargebacks all of the time on these kind of services. "Hunny what is this transaction on our account for BigBussomsCom?" .. "Oh must be some kind of fraud" "then let's call the bank and straighten it out". It's variations of this, over and over that lead to the high chargeback rates. I seem to recall that chargebacks are an order of magnitude higher for adult-oriented transactions. Unless you have a system of countering this with a team devoted to it, you will have a lot of successful chargebacks. I doubt Valve has the specialized team needed to deal with the amount of chargebacks, this the CC companies trying to avoid the headache.

New comment by j_m_b in "If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)"

j_m_b — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:09:58 +0000

One of my favorite visualizations of the scale of the solar system is from Stephen Hawking's Genius.

https://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/hawking_genius_ep...

It's a hands-on, practical example of how far things are away that we can easily visualize. I highly recommend the rest of the series as well. It's one of the best science shows ever produced. It shows the practical path of scientific discovery. You can watch is on the PBS app, which requires a $60 a year pass. Highly worth it. (I have no affiliation with PBS)

New comment by j_m_b in "Show HN: Let’s Bend – Open-Source Harmonica Bending Trainer"

j_m_b — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:26:26 +0000

This is cool! I made a similar app, but for guitar. However, I couldn't quite figure out how long I should sample. I wanted to make an app where it will play an interval and then you need to play it back on the guitar. If you can get this to work on a harmonica, I should be able to get it to work with a guitar. Will likely use your source for more inspiration, thanks!

New comment by j_m_b in "Sycophancy in GPT-4o"

j_m_b — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:20:58 +0000

"tough love" versions of responses can clean them up some.

New comment by j_m_b in "Amazon says workers must be in the office. The UK government disagrees"

j_m_b — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:28:13 +0000

This is the first filter on the incoming mass layoffs.

New comment by j_m_b in "Rainfrog – a database management TUI for Postgres"

j_m_b — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:27:40 +0000

Nice work! Would be cool to have a plugin system that could allow for interfacing with other DBs like sqlite etc.

New comment by j_m_b in "Swimmable Cities"

j_m_b — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 11:50:25 +0000

In the US, we've essentially banned swimming outside of a few lifeguard-monitored zones. There are no swimming signs everywhere and in places you wouldn't otherwise think should be banned, such as public lakes or beaches. People still do swim in these areas, but I remember a squad of cop cars showing up at Lake Artemesia near UMD because a woman was gasp swimming in the lake.

New comment by j_m_b in "A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD"

j_m_b — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 00:21:31 +0000

This is actually a very good point. The family I visited travel 1hr+ to get healthcare services because the local ones are pretty bad. They're not elderly per se, only a few years into retirement but they definitely have health issues that come with old age. They're relatively well-off and live in the nicer section of Cumberland where doctors and lawyers lived. I can't imagine how bad it is for people who are just getting by.

New comment by j_m_b in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

j_m_b — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 00:13:42 +0000

A NES emulator in Typescript targeting the browser. I've been using the Messenger emulator with cycle-accurate emulation to hone it. This stems from my interest in low-level machine code and understanding how computers work. I want to eventually write my own virtual machine and create a functional programming language on top of it.

New comment by j_m_b in "A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD"

j_m_b — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:08:44 +0000

That actually explains a lot. They are trying to expand their tax base. The improvements stipend will allow them to assess the property at a higher value!

New comment by j_m_b in "A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD"

j_m_b — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:03:33 +0000

I just got back from a visit with family in Cumberland. It's the epitome of rust belt. What used to be a thriving manufacturing area has become an abandoned service-sector economy with low-wage jobs. Property values are dirt cheap, even for nice houses. There isn't much nearby, you have to travel hours from Pittsburgh to even get there by plane. Tales of theft of items like power tools from relatively remote farms are common. It doesn't look quite as bad as videos I've seen of poorer parts of Appalachia, but it's pretty close. I don't know how they will be able to afford this as the tax base has all but left and Cumberland is trying to pinch every penny they can to afford their over-compensated government staff. It's a pretty sad state of affairs, this seems more like a last-ditch marketing effort.