Hacker News: mec31

New comment by mec31 in "Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep"

mec31 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:40:28 +0000

They periodically have ‘specials’ such as idle chatter by the announcers during a rain delay. Ha!

New comment by mec31 in "Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers"

mec31 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:58:28 +0000

And this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

New comment by mec31 in "Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers"

mec31 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:56:12 +0000

This one blew my mind when I first heard of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisbee_Deportation

New comment by mec31 in "The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety"

mec31 — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 16:59:19 +0000

Of course, in your particular case, the Jesus atoms may outnumber the other two. So you’re probably good.

New comment by mec31 in "Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups"

mec31 — Fri, 30 May 2025 11:25:16 +0000

That’s not the way to look at it. The airline has a total cost hurdle for the flight to make sense. If they don’t cover that the flight doesn’t happen. So in a very real sense, your seatmate paying half what you are could be the difference between the flight going or not. As long as they are covering the direct costs of their flight (fuel, etc.) they are helping the flight take place at all. Since the assumption is the business travelers ‘really, really want that flight’ everyone benefits here.

New comment by mec31 in "New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms"

mec31 — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:35:52 +0000

Another perspective on the underlying issue—do you suppose that MDs will be more easily replaceable with AI than nurses will be?

New comment by mec31 in "Apple Hearing Study shares preliminary insights on tinnitus"

mec31 — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 01:14:50 +0000

For something similar but seemingly nutty, try the podcast ‘Northwoods Baseball’. It consists entirely of ‘broadcasts’ of baseball games in a fake baseball league. Sounds crazy, but works for me! Each ‘game’ lasts about 2.5 hours.

New comment by mec31 in "Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions"

mec31 — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 01:25:34 +0000

I live outside Boston and frequently see a Newark-Singapore A350 fly over. A mind boggling distance…

New comment by mec31 in "When Armor Met Lips"

mec31 — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 21:46:50 +0000

Reminds me of one of my favorite Far Side cartoons https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFarSide/s/g5y9E0ZlmI

New comment by mec31 in "4D Knit Dress"

mec31 — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:49:44 +0000

Maybe so, but the 6-axis machine appears to be sitting in the front window of a store on Newbury St. (which is Boston’s high-dollar shopping area).

New comment by mec31 in "A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32"

mec31 — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 19:57:49 +0000

An extra safety margin is conferred by the stepladders found in the tailcones :-)

New comment by mec31 in "Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”"

mec31 — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 20:31:28 +0000

When the pope was in the US, he was driven around in a Fiat 500 (!). Granted, it was the four-door version :-)

New comment by mec31 in "Boston mayor announces residential conversion program for office buildings"

mec31 — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 19:47:13 +0000

Fun fact—AI has done that already. 200 million proteins have been folded (and that’s all there are). Folding at Home is no longer a thing!

New comment by mec31 in "Dishwasher Salmon"

mec31 — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 12:41:22 +0000

Everything old is new again. Here is the same thing, from Yankee Magazine in 1987: https://newengland.com/food/fish-seafood/salmon-cooked-in-di...

New comment by mec31 in "The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter"

mec31 — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 18:30:32 +0000

Can confirm. I have an 1898 house in the Northeast. Just upgraded from 100A service to 200A service for $3900. I didn’t own the house at the time, but I believe it went from 40A to 100A in 1985.

New comment by mec31 in "DDoS attacks slow down Citizens' Initiative signing in Finland"

mec31 — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 21:58:10 +0000

By similar logic to Russia’s claim on Crimea, wouldn’t Finland have a claim on eastern Karelia?

New comment by mec31 in "Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying"

mec31 — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 23:14:38 +0000

I haven’t received a notice either. I do however use Google as my domain registrar, and I purchase storage from Google. Is it even conceivable that either of those has spared me? Or is Google just lagging with its termination notices?

New comment by mec31 in "Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas"

mec31 — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 20:47:43 +0000

Just some minor pushback. When walking, ‘look at chimneys’. There is something to be said for enforcing an uplifted posture, plus engaging with the light. Honestly, it makes a difference!

New comment by mec31 in "River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up"

mec31 — Thu, 27 May 2021 20:51:58 +0000

Cut Bank, Montana to Gulf of Mexico is also quite a ride!

New comment by mec31 in "Harry Eng, the Master of the “Impossible Bottle”"

mec31 — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 19:16:19 +0000

It’s like pulling teeth through the anus. Theoretically possible, but very, very difficult.