Hacker News: ngvrnd

New comment by ngvrnd in "Cannabis Users Face Substantially Higher Risk of Heart Attack (2025)"

ngvrnd — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:26:45 +0000

this is so true. There's huge variability in competence. and many doctors have fled to boutique medical care, or whatever it's called, since the recent changes in healthcare.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Cannabis Users Face Substantially Higher Risk of Heart Attack (2025)"

ngvrnd — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:22:50 +0000

cf. paracelsus on the dose and the toxin

New comment by ngvrnd in "The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore"

ngvrnd — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:43:05 +0000

the internet i grew up with didn't exist yet

New comment by ngvrnd in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

ngvrnd — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:06:48 +0000

This feels to me like a transitional problem. People will learn not to do this. I hope.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Accelerando (2005)"

ngvrnd — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:01:18 +0000

The stuff by Peter Watts, Blindsight and so on, is fun.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

ngvrnd — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:08:48 +0000

it should apply to all public sector unions, they're a disaster. That's the real problem. Should never have been allowed.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

ngvrnd — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:07:08 +0000

I sense a great disturbance in the force.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Isopods of the world"

ngvrnd — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:09:05 +0000

I worked with a woman who kept isopods as pets. She had a little terrarium at work with all sorts of breeds of isopods. That's where I learned you could buy isopods online.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC"

ngvrnd — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:14:57 +0000

Except for Keith Moon. All the stories about him are true and if anything underplay the truth. :-)

New comment by ngvrnd in "Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language"

ngvrnd — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:06:31 +0000

Is it possible to reset the source once you've started modifying it?

New comment by ngvrnd in "Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?"

ngvrnd — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:31:16 +0000

General class in USA, not currently active. More interested in tech/building than conversation/contesting although POTA and SOTA hold some interest, as does field day. Perhaps when I retire those might become a thing I do.

New comment by ngvrnd in "So you want to build a tunnel"

ngvrnd — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:40:19 +0000

Seymour Cray down in the tunnels, communing with the Machine Elves.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Wyoming mayoral candidate vows to let an AI bot run Cheyenne"

ngvrnd — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 16:21:55 +0000

The City Fathers from cities in flight

New comment by ngvrnd in "The Myth of the Second Chance"

ngvrnd — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:46:12 +0000

While I think it is true that mistakes cannot be undone, it's also the case that most mistakes (even fairly bad ones) are not a sentence of doom. There are still choices to be made in the future (if you think there are choices) and you can always take the stoic route which is imo quite useful regardless of the question of free will.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Trial of the effects of kefir on behaviour, sleep and the microbiome in ADHD"

ngvrnd — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 18:09:59 +0000

what were the conclusions? I skimmed it but did not see any.

New comment by ngvrnd in "EURISKO Lives"

ngvrnd — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:39:06 +0000

No, the high school project is talking about this.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Scientists have traced human tail loss to a short sequence of genetic code"

ngvrnd — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 13:11:28 +0000

There is no "why" -- it happened and was not selected against; it may have been adaptive and that is a kind of why, I guess. I think it would be better to be clear about this in science communication.

New comment by ngvrnd in "A cheap, generic drug became a darling of longevity enthusiasts"

ngvrnd — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 18:19:41 +0000

rapa-nui-cin

New comment by ngvrnd in "Consider the Pawpaw"

ngvrnd — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 03:09:38 +0000

neurotoxic? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22130466/

New comment by ngvrnd in "Don't Talk to People Like They're Chatbots"

ngvrnd — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 13:51:20 +0000

Daughter recently told me: "that was a very chatgpt explanation."