<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: resolutebat</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=resolutebat</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:00:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=resolutebat" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by resolutebat in "Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>Overnight</i> guests are typically banned, but I've never seen an Airbnb listing that says you can't have someone over for a cup of tea.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:07:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40753826</link><dc:creator>resolutebat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40753826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40753826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by resolutebat in "54 Humans in One 8-meter Gravitics Module"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Filming what happens next has often been proposed as a great revenue driver.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:04:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40753793</link><dc:creator>resolutebat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40753793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40753793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by resolutebat in "54 Humans in One 8-meter Gravitics Module"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Where are you going to find a counterweight in space? Launching two Starships is much easier than trying to capture an asteroid or something.</p>
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<p>A friend of a friend worked at NASA on essentially this, except that instead of fitting Japanese candy in a box, they were fitting cargo into the Space Shuttle. As you can imagine this introduces a whole slew of new complications, notably mass distribution and that things must be unloaded in a certain order.</p>
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<p>That book dates back to 2003, only a few years after the Tajik civil war ended.</p>
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<p>What, no Simutrans?<p><a href="https://www.simutrans.com/en/" rel="nofollow">https://www.simutrans.com/en/</a><p>Don't be put off by the, uhh, legacy graphics and quirky UI, like Dwarf Fortress 
it has the the depth of decades of development (and the learning curve isn't <i>quite</i> as murderous).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2024 22:47:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40744279</link><dc:creator>resolutebat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40744279</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40744279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by resolutebat in "I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, he knocked out the two routers serving the <i>entire country</i>. NK sites were inaccessible to the outside world, and outside sites were inaccessible to NK.</p>
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<p>Only the lines in/out. NK has their own intranet which is completely separate from the global internet, which was presumably entirely unaffected by this.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network)</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:10:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40726006</link><dc:creator>resolutebat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40726006</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40726006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by resolutebat in "A market mystery: Why do capers come in such tiny jars?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I suspect that's for regular olive-sized capers with the stem attached?  The article is about peppercorn-sized baby capers, where you could fit thousands into a jar that big.</p>
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<p>The caper jars in question are too small for a normal teaspoon to fit into.<p>Me, I use a tiny little dessert fork.  Also means you get only the capers and not the juice, which you don't want anyway.</p>
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<p>Vinegar is acidic, which stops the bacteria from reproducing.</p>
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<p>Infused oils don't fall under most people's mental model of "canning" though.</p>
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<p>It's not quite that straightforward: botulism can only happen if the garlic contains botulinum spores, which it probably does not. But <i>if</i> it does, and you don't heat, acidify, or otherwise stop them from reproducing, you <i>may</i> get botulism.<p>Botulism gets a lot of press but it's actually pretty rare, there were all of 18 food-borne cases in the US in 2018: <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/botulism/surv/2018/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cdc.gov/botulism/surv/2018/index.html</a><p>Compare to, say, norovirus, which is implicated in ~20 million cases of food poisoning per year.  The numbers are not directly comparable, because there are doubtless unrecorded cases of botulism, but we're still talking 6 orders of magnitude here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 03:54:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724633</link><dc:creator>resolutebat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724633</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by resolutebat in "Hokusai's 'Great Wave' features on new Japanese banknotes (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sigh, autocorrupt strikes again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:31:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40704919</link><dc:creator>resolutebat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40704919</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40704919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by resolutebat in "Hokusai's 'Great Wave' features on new Japanese banknotes (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's 神奈川沖浪裏 in Japanese, which translates literally as Behind Kanagawa Open-Ocean Wave, referring to Fuji being behind the wave in the composition.</p>
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<p>The article is from 2019, but the notes will be rolled out next month (July 2024), so it's quite timely.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 07:54:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40695427</link><dc:creator>resolutebat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40695427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40695427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by resolutebat in "Hokusai's 'Great Wave' features on new Japanese banknotes (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, it is. There was an episode of Jet Lag (Amazing Race-type YouTube show) where the contestants drew a challenge card requiring them to find a picture of the Great Wave, but they were deep in the Japanese countryside. They knocked it off at the first vending machine, which had a bottle of water featuring the Great Wave.<p>That said, it's generally regarded as one of many classic woodcuts, with other works by Hokusai, Hiroshima, Utamaro etc also held in high esteem.  And it's known not simply as "Great Wave", but the "Great Wave off Kanagawa", since it's just one of the 36 Views of Fuji series.</p>
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<p>I'm not saying it's going to be a <i>good</i> revolution, just a change in the way we do many, many things.</p>
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<p>We are in the middle of dot.com bubble v2. There's a lot of over hyped AI garbage that will deservedly flame out and die, but it's still sowing the seeds of a future revolution.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 23:27:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40686135</link><dc:creator>resolutebat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40686135</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40686135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by resolutebat in "Japanese addresses: No street names. Block numbers (2009)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I lived in Tokyo before Google Maps, and the answer was: printed maps. Every business card had a map on the back, every ad for an event had a map, every personal invitation had a hand-drawn map.  But yeah, if you were going somewhere as a group, you'd meet at a known point (outside train station etc) and then head over together.<p>If you were roughing it on your own and only had the address, things got more interesting. Train stations always had detailed maps of major landmarks, so finding those was not an issue.  If you were looking for something too small to be covered (say, a restaurant), you'd head to the chōme and then start winnowing down. Police boxes (koban) always had detailed neighborhood maps bolted to a wall nearby listing every single business and family by name, albeit usually in handwritten Japanese only, and you could ask the cops for directions too.<p>The final boss was the non-linear numbering house scheme though. Some friends and I once spent a fruitless hour searching for the HR Giger bar in Tokyo, which we knew was at X-Y-Z, but only managed to find X-Y-(Z+1) and X-Y-(Z-1).</p>
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