Hacker News: scrumbledober

New comment by scrumbledober in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

scrumbledober — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:40:32 +0000

it feels like every share of income is at its lowest except for the ultra wealthy.

New comment by scrumbledober in "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)"

scrumbledober — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:37:32 +0000

the study was conducted using a didgeridoo but the circular breathing seems to be the important mechanism. No studies have been conducted on other instruments that require or benefit from it.

New comment by scrumbledober in ""People who don't use AI will be left behind""

scrumbledober — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:13:00 +0000

6-12 months ago I felt like i was constantly behind the curve with all the different things people were doing to get more out of their claude code. as the year has progressed though, all of those features keep making their way into vanilla claude code, at a faster and faster rate. Now someone working on the bleeding edge is using things that i'll be using without having to think about them a month from now. It has really reduced my anxiety of being left behind.

New comment by scrumbledober in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

scrumbledober — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:05:11 +0000

It's surely not a great book and if you are someone who reads a book every few months i wouldn't recommend it. It's very weird and different and fun, though. I suggest it for people who read a lot of sci-fi and are looking for something that doesn't feel the same as 10 other books they've already read.

New comment by scrumbledober in "The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora"

scrumbledober — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:39:43 +0000

The animation quality of mickey mouse clubhouse was appalling when I first had kids. They seem to have decided to care about that, as the animation on mickey mouse clubhouse + is a marked improvement.

New comment by scrumbledober in "Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date?"

scrumbledober — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 17:14:51 +0000

definitely my paycheck from being a full time software engineer

New comment by scrumbledober in "Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries"

scrumbledober — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 17:13:52 +0000

I have celiac and often feel the same way about gluten free foods. Please stop trying to feed me gluten free versions of things that rely on gluten to be good. Just give me a rice bowl or tacos on corn tortillas. With Veganism/Vegetarianism it makes even less sense to me. Not eating gluten is not a choice for me, but Vegans and Vegetarians chose this lifestyle because they don't want to eat meat, why make fake things that resemble meat?

New comment by scrumbledober in "Show HN: Hoku – The app that makes group travel simple"

scrumbledober — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 20:04:15 +0000

I don't know what the actual website is, but the Dungeon Master for my DnD group sent out a link to a collaborative calendaring website and all we needed was the link, and we just put our names in and marked out our availability. This really only worked because we didn't have to sign in or create accounts, just have the link. There are probably other low-impact ways to handle the authentication, I would probably just use a sign in with google page.

New comment by scrumbledober in "Is wine fake?"

scrumbledober — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:14:52 +0000

at least with wine there's less of an ability to quantifiably refute most of the bullshit

New comment by scrumbledober in "Is wine fake?"

scrumbledober — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 23:23:24 +0000

I recently picked up exactly this, not caring much what I got since it was destined for a pot of mulled wine. I had some of it and was pretty surprised how delicious it was untainted by spices and honey and brandy

New comment by scrumbledober in "Kindness, tech staffing and resource allocation"

scrumbledober — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 22:50:33 +0000

I had a miserable job that I absolutely hated before my career in tech. I was saving up money to last me through going to a coding bootcamp and had just sat down and calculated that I needed $X more. I got called into a meeting and laid off and given a severance check for almost exactly $X. I still cried on the way home, even though looking back objectively it was one of the best things that ever happened to me

New comment by scrumbledober in "SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says"

scrumbledober — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:35:07 +0000

Kerosene makes a lot more sense than methane. The only reason methane makes sense for SpaceX is they intend on manufacturing fuel on mars for the return trip.

New comment by scrumbledober in "Cree releases LEDs designed for horticulture"

scrumbledober — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 21:09:00 +0000

A graphic on the page notes that these are designed to be used with red 660nm bulbs. A lot of current grow lights are white, blue, and red bulbs. It seems these are aiming to create the blend of blue and white so manufacturers can blend them with red without worrying about the white/blue mix.

New comment by scrumbledober in "One in eight U.S. adult deaths aged 20 to 64 involved too much alcohol"

scrumbledober — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:47:48 +0000

It may keep you away from driving but does it keep you away from travelling by car? Riding in an uber because you drank is just as dangerous as driving yourself sober.

New comment by scrumbledober in "SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says"

scrumbledober — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:42:34 +0000

the cryogenic methane fueled full flow staged combustion engine of the raptor 2 is in many ways not a good fit for weapons platforms. It's a very purpose built engine for uplifting mass into orbit.

New comment by scrumbledober in "iPhone 14 Pro camera review: A small step, a huge leap"

scrumbledober — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 19:24:39 +0000

it is hard, but it's getting a little easier with the larger cameras

New comment by scrumbledober in "Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote working rainbow?"

scrumbledober — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 16:28:32 +0000

sending a slack message saying "hey, i'm stuck" is really not that difficult.

New comment by scrumbledober in "Blink-182 tickets are so expensive because Ticketmaster is a monopoly"

scrumbledober — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 18:11:18 +0000

there's also a feature in the ticket master app to just send the tickets to someone digitally so you can still sell them other ways. /i just got rid of a spare ticket i had on cash or trade.

edit to add: my friend couldn't make the concert, I'm not a scalper!

New comment by scrumbledober in "Barcelona-style “superblocks” could make cities greener and less car-centric"

scrumbledober — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 21:13:09 +0000

I think they still do, but they at least used to have this in the SF Financial District, it was always fun walking out to lunch with hordes of people all crossing the street whichever way they wanted, including diagonally through the intersection.

New comment by scrumbledober in "San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet"

scrumbledober — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 16:53:33 +0000

I was blown away by how nice the bathrooms at dolores park were. I was really avoiding going in because I had very very low expectations.