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New comment by sumo89 in "Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it"

sumo89 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:43:12 +0000

I'd put bets on yours being the Jubilee line then, that loud whine is etched into my soul. One thing this couldn't capture for the Central line is the sheer volume of it.

New comment by sumo89 in "Typing and Keyboards"

sumo89 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:22:44 +0000

Yeah same, even after years of gaming I still prefer laptop style short travel keys. Slim mechanical are good but still not quite the same. The official apple separate keyboards are my favourite but currently I use a keychron k1.

New comment by sumo89 in "How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel"

sumo89 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:52:44 +0000

If you start doing longer rides you learn there are general temperature ranges and kit that's fine to commute in or ride an hour in traffic with a rucksack is very different from the kit you want on a 6 hour ride in the countryside. I generally have kit for 0-10, 10-15, 15-22, 22+°C. My 0-10 jersey will boil me alive after an hour cycling in 13°C but likewise my 10-15°C will risk hypothermia in 8°C. There's only so much layering you can do with cycling kit before it starts becoming restrictive.

New comment by sumo89 in "Mac external displays for designers and developers, part 2 (2022)"

sumo89 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:24:39 +0000

Actual display recommendations aside I would have loved this article years ago when trying to explain to designers why a font on one device may not look the same on another device, even if it's the same font-family and pixel height, especially when they're all using Macs.

New comment by sumo89 in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

sumo89 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:01:16 +0000

The shark biting the cable is what gets me

New comment by sumo89 in "What I Learned After Building 3 TV Apps Coming from Mobile"

sumo89 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:44:08 +0000

As someone that used to work on a TV app I wasn't surprised when focus issues were the first thing mentioned. It sounds trivial but it takes a surprising amount of testing and bug fixing to get it right.

New comment by sumo89 in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

sumo89 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:28:17 +0000

Popular as in populous as in numerical

New comment by sumo89 in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

sumo89 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:26:23 +0000

Yeah it's just the kernel anti-cheat now which is keeping me on windows. I'm fully ready to swap to linux but unfortunately I do like to play games that need it.

New comment by sumo89 in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

sumo89 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:36:40 +0000

I recently built a windows PC again for gaming. Haven't used one for years. Everything's fresh, loads of room on hard drives etc and still sometimes it'll just be weird and needs a reset. But it doesn't surprise me, it's sad we've come to tolerate that from the world's most popular OS.

New comment by sumo89 in "New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair"

sumo89 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:13:31 +0000

Huh? If this was an article from a commercial entity selling a product we'd be calling it a marketing puff piece and asking for the science.

New comment by sumo89 in "Wasp Blower"

sumo89 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:53:30 +0000

More like "Wasp Wood Chipper"

New comment by sumo89 in "Chezmoi introduces ban on LLM-generated contributions"

sumo89 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:30:39 +0000

Or arguably that's the point. If you Copilot generate a few lines of code or use it for inspiration you're still paying attention to it and are aware of what it's doing. The actual outcome will be indistinguishable from the code you hand wrote so it's fine. What policies like this do is stop someone generating whole pages at once, run it with minimal testing then chuck it into the code base forever.

New comment by sumo89 in "Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?"

sumo89 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:48:47 +0000

Maybe read some of the stories of the cyclists like Pantani doing blood doping. They would have to wake up every few hours through the night and do some cycling on a stationary bike to get their heart rate up or their heart might stop while they're asleep due to their blood being too thick. Sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber to boost the mitochondria is childs play in comparison.

New comment by sumo89 in "Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?"

sumo89 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:29:14 +0000

Yeah I meant viewership, tv coverage etc.

New comment by sumo89 in "Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?"

sumo89 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 10:31:21 +0000

It's the most tested sport by far. Mostly because a couple of huge scandals - Festina and Armstrong. It's an endurance sport which is a natural target for doping because of the huge gains that can be made and it's also probably the most popular endurance sport too. That said, it's a problem in other sports but they just don't test as much or publicise it as much. It's become a real problem in Rugby, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/50785122 and in Football where they hardly test anyone https://warrenmenezes.substack.com/p/doping-and-english-foot...

New comment by sumo89 in "Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?"

sumo89 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 10:21:16 +0000

Except in cyclocross you swap bikes constantly during the race so the current one can be cleaned of mud before it blocks the wheels from spinning.

New comment by sumo89 in "Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza"

sumo89 — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:36:56 +0000

Oh look the Israeli tech workers are online. Everyone knows it's a genocide. "Gaza victim narrative", the absolute state of you.

New comment by sumo89 in "Show HN: I made a running app that turns your runs to a virtual garden"

sumo89 — Wed, 28 May 2025 14:44:59 +0000

I was thinking something like those idle phone games with a virtual garden that gets more plants the more time you've logged.

New comment by sumo89 in "Withnail and I (2001)"

sumo89 — Thu, 22 May 2025 08:35:41 +0000

"We've gone on holiday by mistake" is forever in my head.

New comment by sumo89 in "I was a Theranos whistleblower. Here's what I think Elizabeth Holmes is up to"

sumo89 — Fri, 16 May 2025 08:28:30 +0000

> That’s a ridiculous theory

Yeah she's not even a Fox News host yet. She needs to be on TV for at least a couple of years before Trump gives her a job.