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New comment by squigz in "Anna's Archive Lost Several Domains"

squigz — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:56:36 +0000

https://shadowlibraries.github.io/DirectDownloads/AnnasArchi...

New comment by squigz in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"

squigz — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:48:38 +0000

While I broadly disagree with much of this, I have been advocating for years that expanding the universe would indeed dispel much of the issues with the power disparity between groups, as well as encourage more involved logistics and stuff like that.

Maybe one day :)

New comment by squigz in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"

squigz — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:20:46 +0000

The thing with EVE is that, even with all the ISK and SP in the game, you can't just buy your way to a win - you can't buy skill. You can have perfect skills and buy the best ship and modules and all that, but if you don't know how to fly, you're going to lose your ship immediately and it won't even be a fight.

That, coupled with your second paragraph (the new player experience being so rough) and I've never really been too upset about the stuff CCP sells.

New comment by squigz in "California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law"

squigz — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:17:38 +0000

Indeed, this is very generous of them, and we should be thankful.

New comment by squigz in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"

squigz — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:46:47 +0000

What has changed about the EVE economy that you don't like?

> Buy low, sell high. Specialize in industry, trading, transportation

I did all of this, quite profitably and for quite a long time, in EVE?

New comment by squigz in "Trade (and Tariffs)"

squigz — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:27:20 +0000

It also seems to ignore the companies and individuals that got rich because they chose to move jobs overseas.

New comment by squigz in "typ.ing"

squigz — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:43:20 +0000

Nope. But I don't see that happening anywhere either, so I guess that explains the confusion.

New comment by squigz in "Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice"

squigz — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:38:48 +0000

I understand what your position is. I addressed that already.

I don't understand what the point in taking that position in this thread is. Someone mentioned some injustice in the world. You point out many others, and suggest there might always be such injustices in the world. Why? What now? I just don't understand where the conversation is supposed to go after this, or what the person you're replying to is supposed to do with what you're saying - particularly as you haven't replied to my or the other comment's reply to your point on human nature.

New comment by squigz in "typ.ing"

squigz — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:35:46 +0000

That doesn't seem to happen on typ.ing or really any other typing site I know of.

New comment by squigz in "typ.ing"

squigz — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:35:26 +0000

> the point is to type the word a you'd do in real life,

I don't really know about that. I think the point is to practice typing, and that may or may not reflect how you type in everyday life. For example, most people don't spend their time typing random words without numbers or punctuation :)

In any case, are you saying that if you correct a word during one of these tests, it simply should not count as a mistake? Because if not, then I don't see what the problem is again - typ.ing and most other sites note corrections, and distinguish between corrected and uncorrected mistakes.

If so, I guess we might just disagree on what the point of these exercises is.

New comment by squigz in "typ.ing"

squigz — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:50:16 +0000

I don't really get this. This is how it should work, no? The point is to type the word correctly; if you miss a letter or mistype, and keep typing, then yeah, it's several mistakes in a row?

New comment by squigz in "Ask HN: What's your daily driver keyboard?"

squigz — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:20:53 +0000

ErgoDox EZ with brown switches. It took a (long) while to get used to, but far more comfortable to type on long-term IMO

I also use a Kensington trackball mouse

New comment by squigz in "typ.ing"

squigz — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:19:22 +0000

Monkeytype is still my favorite

https://monkeytype.com/

New comment by squigz in "Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice"

squigz — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:28:07 +0000

> Point being, a world where children are not made to suffer is a world that can't exist as long as humans are humans.

> I'm not sure it's able to be stopped? It seems part of the human condition.

The most important part of human nature/the human condition is our ability - or perhaps even need - to reflect and grow and change. It happens slowly, but it inevitably happens.

Any way though, I'm not really sure what your point is. That we shouldn't care or try to stop it because it's "part of the human condition"? That we must care about all these injustices equally? That if we can't address all these injustices equally, we mustn't address any?

New comment by squigz in "Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe"

squigz — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:24:15 +0000

I really have no idea what this means but I guess my mental model of the universe is quite wrong haha

New comment by squigz in "Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week"

squigz — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:38:44 +0000

Ahh, you almost had me up until the celibacy!

New comment by squigz in "Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe"

squigz — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:09:51 +0000

Don't we more or less already know that the universe - at least the space itself, not the stuff in it - is indeed infinitely large?

New comment by squigz in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

squigz — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:03:43 +0000

> Just like LLM's we sometimes correctly predict the next token or word, and sometimes incorrectly.

There is no "correct" next word when it comes to communicating with an actual human.

New comment by squigz in "Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice"

squigz — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:48:33 +0000

This is what I think of when I think of "early life stress" in kids - not worrying about school.

New comment by squigz in "People sick, 57 hospitalized in 32 states courtesy of contaminated jalapeños"

squigz — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:22:58 +0000

This is by far one of the best typos I've ever seen.