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New comment by rhyperior in "Childhood Computing"

rhyperior — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:52:28 +0000

I don’t know… if the top of line PC cost $3000 30 years ago, it seems like we’re pretty close to that today for class-equivalent hardware (without going absurd - 32GB of DDR5, game playing video card, 4TB SSD…)

New comment by rhyperior in "Childhood Computing"

rhyperior — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:47:17 +0000

Your post just clicked something from of a deep memory into place.

In the early 80s when the IBM PC hit the scene, Hercules had a graphics card that was amazing and offered better than CGA graphics. I was plinking on it at my dad’s friend’s house, drawing circles and stuff, and on HIS computer the graphics were retained. I had to figure out how to clear the screen, whereas on mine, not having the Hercules card, it wasn’t retained. Never understood what was happening until now.

New comment by rhyperior in "Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study"

rhyperior — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:48:38 +0000

Episode #103, @FoundMyFitness on Spotify podcasts. All about coffee’s benefits, including for exercise.

New comment by rhyperior in "Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study"

rhyperior — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:44:55 +0000

Many coffee distribution sites (like drink trade dot com) tell you the process. I’m a fan of the Swiss water method.

New comment by rhyperior in "An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce"

rhyperior — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:29:36 +0000

Same. I measure at home and my relaxed systolic is 30-40 lower than the first measurement in their office.

New comment by rhyperior in "I quit drinking for a year"

rhyperior — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:02:49 +0000

I agree, I actually prefer them now because there’s no ill effects AND they’re generally lower calorie, too.

New comment by rhyperior in "Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations"

rhyperior — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:01:55 +0000

“Ran out” and grabbed two more Majestouch 3 with silent red switches. Should keep me going for the rest of my life!

New comment by rhyperior in "Microsoft offers buyouts up to 7% of US employees"

rhyperior — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:08:24 +0000

They did not. They had already done this thinking with the 55/15 retirement option, where if you’re aged 55 or older and 15 years continuous service you could leave and keep most of your equity. And you signed a suite of “non” agreements including non-litigation.

New comment by rhyperior in "Sauna effect on heart rate"

rhyperior — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:25:25 +0000

That seems… misguided.

Sources?

New comment by rhyperior in "A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)"

rhyperior — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:55:39 +0000

The raw electromagnetic emissions of uncountable atoms jostling through space and time.

New comment by rhyperior in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

rhyperior — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:14:07 +0000

I’d say they’re writing as if they expect everyone to share their ideals, and they’re responding to violations of those ideals in a naive and disempowered way. That doesn’t mean they’re wrong in those ideals, but the way they tried to fix things… they interacted with Cutler, why didn’t they try to influence him to fix things? Or any other senior technical leaders?

New comment by rhyperior in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

rhyperior — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:27:17 +0000

A overly reductionist argument. They described any commercial software company because in the end, you sell or you die. Microsoft has incredible software people and incredible software that coexists with the shitty software people and shitty software.

New comment by rhyperior in "Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold"

rhyperior — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:08:14 +0000

I’m amused but I guess not shocked or surprised that some people below this comment have different limits on what they’ll do for money than I do. I 100% would not spend any significant time restricting my freedom in jail for ANY amount of money. You can extend my principle to doing other things for money, also. I think my principle might come down to: I won’t trade myself (me, I don’t mean my time or my knowledge) for money. I won’t relinquish my autonomy or control for your money. Yet some will.

New comment by rhyperior in "Rendezvous with Rama"

rhyperior — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:41:52 +0000

TBH I’m not sure I’ve read anything from Gentry Lee that I really loved.

New comment by rhyperior in "Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map"

rhyperior — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:00:42 +0000

https://earth.nullschool.net

New comment by rhyperior in "Facebook is cooked"

rhyperior — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:20:10 +0000

The only way you can use FB imo.

New comment by rhyperior in "Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986)"

rhyperior — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:42:50 +0000

lol! Me too! I remember the alien interaction dialog and this word.

New comment by rhyperior in "Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK"

rhyperior — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:04:46 +0000

Why this reaction? Please, look at everything going on in the US and the world not just this one aspect.

New comment by rhyperior in "Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK"

rhyperior — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:02:19 +0000

Except that’s just normalizing his behaviors.

New comment by rhyperior in "JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)"

rhyperior — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:39:48 +0000

Haven’t you ever experienced having a story read to you, and falling into deep immersion and visualization?