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New comment by louthy in "Now is the best time to be a duct tape engineer"

louthy — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:05:05 +0000

> Why are you jumping to the worst possible interpretation? Who would you kill?

The person you didn’t see because you weren’t paying attention to the road. Regardless of how busy or not it is.

New comment by louthy in "Now is the best time to be a duct tape engineer"

louthy — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:37:28 +0000

> take meetings while driving as well, though I stopped because it was perceived poorly by others.

The lack of self awareness here is astounding. You’re in control of a two ton bullet, please concentrate on the road. Killing somebody because you’re not paying full attention is not a good look.

New comment by louthy in "Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order"

louthy — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:12:56 +0000

Which is foot ball. Not foot egg.

New comment by louthy in "The surprising story behind the first British person in space"

louthy — Fri, 22 May 2026 08:27:56 +0000

I think everybody in Britain of a certain age knows Helen Sharman. Her name popped into my head the moment I read the title of this post. It was certainly a big deal at the time.

I know we don’t fawn over astronauts here, but I’m not sure what additional “respect” or “adulation” you’d expect? She may not be a household name now, but she certainly was at the time.

New comment by louthy in "The Burning Man MOOP Map"

louthy — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:08:34 +0000

The leave-no-trace aspect of Burning Man is one of my favourite parts of the event. I've been 10 times in my life, I haven't been for a few years, the trek from the UK is a bit much sometimes! But each time I go to a UK festival I'm always reminded of how bad it would be if leave-no-trace was not a thing. It sickens me seeing the rubbish just strewn everywhere and, at the end of a festival, tents and general piles of waste left "for someone else to deal with".

Burning Man is a real breath of fresh air from that viewpoint and seeing everyone (pretty much) adhere to it is pretty special. Individually you take responsibility, not just for your own mess, but if you see MOOP, you clean it up regardless of who made it. It's not somebody else's problem, it's ours.

Seeing the camp MOOP report is always pleasing (obviously if you take the cleanup seriously, as most do).

New comment by louthy in "Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes"

louthy — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:45:30 +0000

Indeed, I wouldn’t give up hyperfocus for anything. When it kicks in, it genuinely feels like a super power. It’s pretty much given me a career; but also just pure enjoyment from creating and making.

New comment by louthy in "Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes"

louthy — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:04:15 +0000

> It's not about attention deficit per se

I've always considered it Too Much Attention Disorder.

The way I like to think about it is that neurotypical people have a beam of light shining out in front of them, wherever they turn their head the light shines and that's where their attention is. Nothing else distracts them from where the light is shining.

With ADHD (for me at least) it's like 50 beams of light scanning the entire room constantly for 'something'. This is too much attention to things that I'm not really interested in, but can distract me from anything I'm trying to do or wan't to do.

For things that I am really interested in (like writing code) the 50 beams of light all manage to synchronise and focus in the same place and that's hyperfocus.

New comment by louthy in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

louthy — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:41:29 +0000

I’m in Europe. I use it as part of Apple CarPlay for all my navigation and I think it’s much better than Google Maps (for car navigation, at least)

New comment by louthy in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

louthy — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:34:22 +0000

And coal tar

New comment by louthy in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

louthy — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:10:49 +0000

Take their phones off them, turn them off, and place them in a faraday cage. It really is the only completely safe way of operating.

New comment by louthy in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

louthy — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:10:18 +0000

Loose lips sinks ships. So does uncontrolled mobile phone access. It just doesn’t rhyme as well.

New comment by louthy in "Building a TB-303 from Scratch"

louthy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:11:25 +0000

> TB-303 owner here. If my TB-303 sounded this bad I'd set fire to it ;-)

Fellow TB-303 owner here. I concur.

New comment by louthy in "Number of UK workers on zero-hours contracts hits record high ahead of crackdown"

louthy — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:35:47 +0000

If HR says that they’re lying. It isn’t true.

US threatens Anthropic with deadline in dispute on AI safeguards

louthy — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:02:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrq1vwe73po

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163252

Points: 4

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New comment by louthy in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

louthy — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:26:47 +0000

‘They’ literally didn’t.

New comment by louthy in "Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed"

louthy — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:44:07 +0000

> But the real crime with brutalism was the stuff that got demolished to make room for it

The Barbican was a literal bomb site after the war [1]. Blame Hitler, not urban planning.

[1] https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/archive/collecti...

New comment by louthy in "Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed"

louthy — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:58:07 +0000

I mean it works as intended. It’s an art centre that succeeds in hosting art extremely well. Therefore, its functionally good architecture (if not visually appealing to everyone).

New comment by louthy in "Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed"

louthy — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:45:29 +0000

It’s a magnificent space. If you just judge it purely on the concrete you may have a different opinion, but if you’re there to consume the various forms of art performed on the Southbank, then the space really comes alive. I’m glad it’s listed.

I happen to love brutalist architecture, but in the uk it can sometimes not work (grey rainy days don’t bring out the best of the concrete). However, I think in this case it really works.

New comment by louthy in "Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI"

louthy — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:48:18 +0000

This is just phase one; phase two requires the law to be changed so that you must do what the AI tells you to do, or be immediately terminated (read in to the last word whatever you want)

New comment by louthy in "Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI"

louthy — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:44:57 +0000

This is so dystopian I can’t tell if it’s a joke or not.