Hacker News: ooterness

New comment by ooterness in "Let's talk space toilets"

ooterness — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:29:44 +0000

Is it simpler to build a better space toilet, or to build a ship with centrifugal gravity and use a regular toilet?

New comment by ooterness in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

ooterness — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:12:37 +0000

Too little, too late. I switched to Linux and I'm never looking back. Good riddance, Microsoft.

New comment by ooterness in "Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network"

ooterness — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:16:09 +0000

So you gave up everyone's privacy for no benefit at all?

New comment by ooterness in "Nepal's Mountainside Teahouses Elevate the Experience for Trekkers"

ooterness — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:38:00 +0000

It took me a minute to realize that "Trekkers" in this headline is not referring to fans of Star Trek.

New comment by ooterness in "The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference"

ooterness — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:57:36 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_conspiracy

1. Do you know anybody from "J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference"?

2. Have you ever been to "J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference"?

3. Do you know anybody who has ever been to "J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference"?

New comment by ooterness in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

ooterness — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:05:25 +0000

Sounds like a great plugin.

New comment by ooterness in "'If you aren't lying, you aren't flying.' Pilots hide mental health struggles"

ooterness — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:06:22 +0000

No, it really hasn't. Sweeping the problem under the rug has already resulted in at least 150 deaths, which could have been prevented by allowing pilots to seek mental health care.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525

New comment by ooterness in "Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton"

ooterness — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:34:02 +0000

Actually, ProtonDB indicates Crysis runs just fine on Linux.

https://www.protondb.com/app/17300

New comment by ooterness in "Meow.camera"

ooterness — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:21:43 +0000

It depends on the cat. Some will self-regulate, others will not.

New comment by ooterness in "Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach"

ooterness — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:33:10 +0000

> passed some level of authorised audit in order to be able to store government ID cards.

In a perfect world, maybe. Not in this one.

New comment by ooterness in "Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?"

ooterness — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:12:07 +0000

It's so the billions of disgruntled former workers can't storm the castle.

New comment by ooterness in "Two Amazon delivery drones crash into crane in commercial area of Tolleson, AZ"

ooterness — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:14:30 +0000

Who could have predicted that drones flying outside during the day might have to deal with direct sunlight?

New comment by ooterness in "How to draw construction equipment for kids"

ooterness — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:03:57 +0000

If you've ever wanted to try this, I highly recommend "Dig This" in Las Vegas. They'll teach you the basics and then put you in a an excavator or bulldozer, with an open course full of big heavy things to move around. It's great fun.

https://digthisvegas.com/

New comment by ooterness in "Flipper Zero Geiger Counter"

ooterness — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:40:31 +0000

Geiger counter with built-in taser. It's a feature, not a bug.

New comment by ooterness in "Wind turbine blade transportation challenges"

ooterness — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:32:09 +0000

> Wind turbines are noisy up close...

Citation needed. I toured a wind farm a few months ago, and they were barely audible at ground level.

New comment by ooterness in "How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?"

ooterness — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:58:33 +0000

Relevant video from USCSB, from a propane explosion in 2007 that killed four people.

https://youtu.be/JzdnUZReoLM?feature=shared

New comment by ooterness in "I don't like curved displays"

ooterness — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:58:55 +0000

Easy solution: Reorient the monitor in portrait mode. /s

New comment by ooterness in "Los Alamos is capturing images of explosions at 7 millionths of a second"

ooterness — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:24:42 +0000

Page not found :(

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

ooterness — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 22:56:00 +0000

Like all other forms of carbon, diamonds will combust in the presence of oxygen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfa-cKDzYSg

New comment by ooterness in "Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping (2017)"

ooterness — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 21:19:01 +0000

The opposite extreme: physics-based rendering that models the entire optical chain of a film camera, including the emulsion layers.

https://youtu.be/YE9rEQAGpLw?feature=shared