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New comment by spookybones in "Honda is killing its EVs"

spookybones — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:06:16 +0000

Mexico City needs this badly. It would be beautiful if it wasn't for the smog and noise of traffic.

New comment by spookybones in "Everything Is Becoming a Bank"

spookybones — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:13:01 +0000

My partner convinced me to use the Starbucks app for incentives. Unsurprisingly within months, the company doubled the points requirements for all rewards. I now have a dollar and change held hostage on it, but refuse to keep topping it up. I imagine there are many people in my situation.

New comment by spookybones in "The Demon-Haunted World"

spookybones — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:21:29 +0000

I once lent my copy to a friend of a friend prone to conspiratorial thinking, who professed to be open-minded and interested in my viewpoint. A few years later, after many reminders, he returned it to me. I asked him what he thought of it. He said he never read it, but it made for a great paper weight. This was the first of many realizations for me that magical thinking cannot be altered with logic.

New comment by spookybones in "Using your phone on toilet may give you hemorrhoids: study"

spookybones — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:11:19 +0000

Why do they link it to stress and not to the virus? Personally, I still deal with major digestive issues, primarily acid and silent reflux, after getting really sick from the second vaccination. (I'm not ruling out that I could have caught covid just before the vax, though my test was negative.) Prior to this, I was someone who had never once experienced reflux. Never took a Tums, etc. Now I'm on PPIs (Nexium basically), seemingly forever. What makes me think the symptoms are not due to anxiety is that they frequently hit me when my thoughts are elsewhere and not stressed or I'm asleep.

New comment by spookybones in "Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a $2 USB key"

spookybones — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:10:32 +0000

I recently discovered Tinker WriterDeck OS (https://tinker.sh/), which I’d been meaning to try, but this sounds like an even easier solution for repurposing old laptops and writing without distraction.

New comment by spookybones in "An end to all this prostate trouble?"

spookybones — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:00:49 +0000

I desperately want to do this type of walking, but I live in a major city. There’s always something to distract me, which is great for boredom perhaps, but ruins any sense of zen or reflection. I would say half of every walk involves people yelling, loud vehicles, and louder music. Noise-cancelling headphones are only useful for distraction through podcasts and music, not for decompressing. I’m starting to wonder if the solution, the sad solution, is to walk on a treadmill at a gym during off-peak hours.

New comment by spookybones in "Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots"

spookybones — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:22:41 +0000

Does this kind of service really need a subscription? Immediate turn off.

New comment by spookybones in "Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]"

spookybones — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 14:42:35 +0000

This is explained better in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/artificial-intelligence/#...

New comment by spookybones in "Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th"

spookybones — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:37:49 +0000

I was reading a Reddit thread on this, and not a single person there understood this. It isn’t good news, but it’s being severely misinterpreted.

New comment by spookybones in "Diets high in advanced glycation end products promote insulin resistance"

spookybones — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:04:26 +0000

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New comment by spookybones in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market That Bad?"

spookybones — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 22:53:33 +0000

LinkedIn is now silent for me besides spam.

New comment by spookybones in "Martin Amis and the pursuit of pleasure"

spookybones — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:32:53 +0000

Yeah, wealth can be a great boon for developing talent. It's annoying for the rest of us peasants, but talent is talent.... A rich kid may lack a hard-knock life, which is great fodder for writing. But, she or he may be privately tutored in, say, world literature from a young age and given 1-on-1 access to great minds.

New comment by spookybones in "Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize"

spookybones — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:54:39 +0000

I wouldn't say PKD is gravitas. He is often funny and has a workingman prose. Gibson, yes. Though, I find his later works, like Peripheral, less stylized and serious.

New comment by spookybones in "Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize"

spookybones — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:50:54 +0000

I barely remember 2049. I remember so much of the original. Ridley Scott and team created the world from scratch and mastered the atmosphere. 2049 is very good, but it's basically a requel.

New comment by spookybones in "I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it"

spookybones — Mon, 20 May 2024 14:37:25 +0000

Great, I’ll eat my cat.

New comment by spookybones in "Show HN: magick.css – Minimalist CSS for Wizards"

spookybones — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 15:56:58 +0000

It love it.

For the hell of it, I looked at the Chinese translation offered in the nav. I can’t read Chinese, so I wonder what someone who can read it thinks, but it looks very cluttered to me. (I know font options are very limited compared to English.) Interestingly, it also uses different photos.

New comment by spookybones in "Lovecraftian movie posters from Ghana"

spookybones — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 05:26:41 +0000

The first Evil Dead 2 poster is weirding me out because it looks just like it was made by early Dalle-2/HuggingFace AI.

New comment by spookybones in "ChatGPT went berserk"

spookybones — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:24:35 +0000

Where does he talk about this? I’m interested in reading it

New comment by spookybones in "Alexei Navalny has died"

spookybones — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:37:25 +0000

Odd plan. The invasion is at, what, ~500k casualties? This also assumes massive assimilation.

New comment by spookybones in "Sora: Creating video from text"

spookybones — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:05:33 +0000

Yeah, some of these comments are clearly made by people who don't actually know the history of art.