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New comment by shoobiedoo in "Bring back crappy forums"

shoobiedoo — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:55:53 +0000

That little bit of personality is what made forums so much fun. The early 2000s somethingawful forums were such a goldmine. I've never laughed so hard in my life at the antics between users. When this person or that guy or some infamous user would show up, it would kick off a thread and it felt so much more "real" and personal.

The ultra niche subreddits have that vibe, but as soon as they get to around 10k users, it turns into nothing but an upvote dopamine chase.

New comment by shoobiedoo in "Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year"

shoobiedoo — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:44:46 +0000

Japan too. never thought I'd see it here but a taxi driver took the long way after a work drinking party. I guess he thought we were too drunk to notice. Well my boss sure did and lost his mind at the guy.

New comment by shoobiedoo in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

shoobiedoo — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:56:05 +0000

I bumped mine from 5g daily to 15 and noticed way less anxiety. It's a must have for me now. Besides that is the regular benefit of being able to squeeze out a few more reps during my kettlebell workouts

New comment by shoobiedoo in "Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch"

shoobiedoo — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:32:08 +0000

I'll never forget my first week working housing demolition in the Japanese countryside a few years ago. We were outside tearing down an old house, when I saw what I thought were bats. In broad daylight. But they were moving slowly... and I could see their wings beating. Holy crap, those are butterflies. Huge, stunningly beautiful, butterflies. And not just one or two, but many of them. When I was able to get a bit closer, they had dark purple lines and swirls, so not completely black. Housing demolition was a brutal job for many reasons but seeing that kind of thing made it more than worth it.

New comment by shoobiedoo in "Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM"

shoobiedoo — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:00:41 +0000

Wonderful breakdown. I love reading this kind of thing. thank you

New comment by shoobiedoo in "A Periodic Map of Cheese"

shoobiedoo — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:13:02 +0000

Since we're a bunch of nerds here, just wanted to throw this out there: cheesemaking is really, really fun. I highly recommend it.

I lived five minutes from a dairy farmer in Japan and he sold it to me for around a dollar a liter, so I made cheese dozens of times. Depending on where you live, finding low-heat pasteurized milk might be tricky, but if you can get fresh milk and pasteurize yourself, I really recommend trying it out.

If you're thinking of giving it a try, start with feta. With feta, flooring the PH is okay, which is a big no-no for most other cheeses (where you usually try to nail around 5.4). Since feta gets brined anyway, you don't have to mess around with an ideal fermentation environment (that being said, vacuum packing some cheeses avoids this anyway). Finally, feta has a very short aging period so you can dive in and try your first cheese sooner than later.

New comment by shoobiedoo in "Kyushu Railway Company Train Varieties"

shoobiedoo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:41:06 +0000

You can see many of them go to the middle and eastern side of kyushu. I just lived in Aso for a few years and can't recommend it enough. The takachiho/gokase/beppu areas are jaw-dropping.

New comment by shoobiedoo in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

shoobiedoo — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:35:47 +0000

Reminds me of soda. Why the hell liquid poison is allowed to exist turns my stomach. You could fill libraries with data linking it to a myriad illnesses and causes of death. Yet they are even allowed to juke it with caffeine for no other reason than to up the addiction level. Like... what are we doing here.

New comment by shoobiedoo in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

shoobiedoo — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:17:53 +0000

The climate change alarms have been sounding for decades and yet vehicles keep getting bigger. Even in formerly "doing it right" countries like Japan. Turns out humans will always choose vanity and status symbols over facts. Oh well

New comment by shoobiedoo in "MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger"

shoobiedoo — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 03:11:04 +0000

Kettlebells are the perfect middle ground for me. Dynamic movements, easy to incorporate strength gains, very little floor space required and one kettlebell is enough to get started. After a few years of kettlebells I feel like my lower back is made of titanium.

Downside is there is a fairly steep learning curve to use them without injury.

New comment by shoobiedoo in "Flameshot"

shoobiedoo — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:01:43 +0000

I see. Thank you for the explanation

New comment by shoobiedoo in "Flameshot"

shoobiedoo — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:05:34 +0000

Huh? I'm running kde plasma on wayland and flameshot runs like a dream come true. I hit the flameshot icon in the tray, it automatically selects the whole screen to save, or if I click it starts cropping wherever I move the mouse. It's like the devs read my mind for exactly what I wanted

New comment by shoobiedoo in "San Francisco to offer free childcare to people making up to $230k"

shoobiedoo — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:59:05 +0000

Wouldn't that be nice. mine are too busy watching pawn stars reruns for the hundredth time

New comment by shoobiedoo in "The great shift of English prose"

shoobiedoo — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:51:01 +0000

likewise. they are staggeringly beautiful when your mind is in "the zone". It's like a kind of focused meditation with images just flooding the mind

New comment by shoobiedoo in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

shoobiedoo — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 23:14:05 +0000

late reply but thank you. I won't bother with the rest of it

New comment by shoobiedoo in "GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene"

shoobiedoo — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:40:07 +0000

It really was magical. It felt like the wild west. I used to buy a copy of 2600 and sit in a cafe reading it just feeling like I could do anything or go anywhere, which I guess I could to a degree back in those days.

I left my system administration position in the 2010s because it brought back none of anything remotely close to those vibes. Staring at a cloud admin panel in a website all day made me start to hate computers. It was then I realized it was always just going to be a hobby if I wanted to keep it the way I remembered. Fine by me

New comment by shoobiedoo in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

shoobiedoo — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:59:50 +0000

What did you think of it? I got to about the third book and completely lost interest

New comment by shoobiedoo in "Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class"

shoobiedoo — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:08:48 +0000

Mueller & Oppenheimer (2014) – available via Psychological Science / SAGE (DOI: 10.1177/0956797614524581)

Longcamp et al. (2005) – PubMed or Elsevier (Acta Psychologica)

Smoker et al. (2009) – Human Factors and Ergonomics Society proceedings

Umejima et al. (2021) – Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (open access)

Ito et al. (2020) – HCII conference proceedings (Springer CCIS)

New comment by shoobiedoo in "Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class"

shoobiedoo — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:31:05 +0000

okay, but if you care about recall and activating regions of the brain that create a better understanding of what you're learning, handwriting wins according to research.

New comment by shoobiedoo in "X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run"

shoobiedoo — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:46:02 +0000

It is also the only way to get my city's public transport system to reply to queries about why a bus is extremely late, when/if it is coming. I always get a nice polite reply because it's publicly available. If I call I get stonewalled with endless call center rerouting eventually leading to a dial tone