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New comment by kevinmchugh in "I Love the Computer"

kevinmchugh — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:27:01 +0000

JJ Abrams, Rian Johnson, Dave Filoni, Jon Favreau: all big Star Wars fans.

Tony Gilroy is not!

New comment by kevinmchugh in "Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates"

kevinmchugh — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:11:24 +0000

It was remade in 2006

New comment by kevinmchugh in "Child prodigies rarely become elite performers"

kevinmchugh — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:10:35 +0000

Dennis Rodman grew up overshadowed by his sisters' basketball skills, and then had some unheard of growth spurt of 8" after finishing high school. He hadn't even played much high school ball.

New comment by kevinmchugh in "Child prodigies rarely become elite performers"

kevinmchugh — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:06:11 +0000

There's a story about, I think, the kickboxer/fighter Alistair Overeem that he was playing Connect 4, and lost, and kept demanding rematches until he had the winning record. Just a refusal to be the loser. That matches every story I've ever heard about Michael Jordan.

New comment by kevinmchugh in "Water 'Bankruptcy' Era Has Begun for Billions, Scientists Say"

kevinmchugh — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:37:42 +0000

We also have a treaty with Canada about the usage of water from the Great Lakes.

New comment by kevinmchugh in "Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them"

kevinmchugh — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:40:50 +0000

Higher rise pants help. I have a long torso and started buying higher rise pants for the aesthetic difference, but they also make me less concerned about a t shirt becoming a belly shirt

New comment by kevinmchugh in "Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)"

kevinmchugh — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:05:36 +0000

I occasionally forget to add a new file but don't mind it much. I consider it a significantly smaller problem than committing a file that shouldn't be. CI is gonna run and my tests are surely gonna fail if I didn't commit some file. So I'll see that and commit --amend or fixup to add the new file.

unless the file I forgot to commit is the tests, which hopefully I'll catch by the time of the PR

New comment by kevinmchugh in "Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)"

kevinmchugh — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:34:23 +0000

I almost exclusively use add -p. It's another moment to review my changes and it saves me from having to type out the names of the files I've changed. I don't know if I've ever committed a file unintentionally since adopting it.

I like it especially in concert with git commit --amend, which lets me tack my newest changes onto the previous commit. (Though an interactive rebase with fixup is even better)

New comment by kevinmchugh in "Coca Cola has an executive dedicated to McDonald's"

kevinmchugh — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 02:44:43 +0000

I went to Bentonville, Arkansas a few years ago. You'll see every major consumer packaged good company represented in the skyscrapers there, because Walmart is hq'd there. They want to have people close to Walmart, since Walmart is always a big part of their sales

New comment by kevinmchugh in "Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Kills by Claiming Targeting Drugs, Not People"

kevinmchugh — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:56:22 +0000

You mean the casual sense of "innocence", but they are literally innocent in they they've not been convicted of the crime they were killed for allegedly committing.

New comment by kevinmchugh in "The Greatness of Text Adventures"

kevinmchugh — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 01:29:07 +0000

Counterfeit Monkey is very high up on my favorite games of the 2010s: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=aearuuxv83plclpl

The puzzles are all excellent, the writing is remarkable, both for game and fiction.

New comment by kevinmchugh in "The MacBook Air 2025 Is Now Cheaper Than a Random Mid-Range Windows Laptop"

kevinmchugh — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:29:17 +0000

Apple announced M5s recently, so these are the old chips.

New comment by kevinmchugh in "Ruby Blocks"

kevinmchugh — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 21:26:33 +0000

Fun fact - there's no Boolean class in Ruby. True is an instance of TrueClass and false is an instance of FalseClass

New comment by kevinmchugh in "You did no fact checking, and I must scream"

kevinmchugh — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:56:19 +0000

Aiui the New Yorker has always been the most rigorous in its fact checking.

New comment by kevinmchugh in "A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator"

kevinmchugh — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:47:36 +0000

Reddit has an easy way to choose moderation, just stop going to the reddits that are poorly moderated.

New comment by kevinmchugh in "Pre-record your demos"

kevinmchugh — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:42:08 +0000

Yes - I call them "the other cake" demos

New comment by kevinmchugh in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

kevinmchugh — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:46:09 +0000

I quit caffeine with no withdrawal symptoms by reducing my intake by 10% every day for 10 days. I weighed how much iced tea I drank on day 0, then had 90% of that on day 1. The last day was just a shot glass full.

I probably picked the idea up here, but don't know from whom so I thought I ought to continue sharing it

New comment by kevinmchugh in "A recent chess controversy"

kevinmchugh — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:05:09 +0000

Well that's one hole plugged

New comment by kevinmchugh in "Ghost kitchens are dying"

kevinmchugh — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 01:09:40 +0000

I saw this the other day: https://www.reddit.com/r/chicagofood/comments/1na3fer/commen...

So some places are optimizing their fries for delivery.

I've also noticed some restaurants are better at adapting the packaging, like punching out ventilation so fried products don't steam themselves in transit. Lawrence Seafood (which rules) did that for a side of tempura we got this weekend.

But I agree in large part. I wouldn't order fried chicken delivered via door dash in any event. People doing that are optimizing for something other than quality.

New comment by kevinmchugh in "16-inch softball"

kevinmchugh — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:42:28 +0000

https://youtu.be/oqrtoFWglMY?si=dF70gTql9TwYi4iB