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New comment by surfsvammel in "Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game"

surfsvammel — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:08:37 +0000

I absolutely loved this game. I still think about it often, the story and the characters. I wish there was more games like it.

Interesting read!

New comment by surfsvammel in "The mushroom making people hallucinate tiny humans"

surfsvammel — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:22:55 +0000

In my youth I experimented with hallucinogenic drugs. Having shared hallucinations are very easy. It often just requires that someone give you an idea of a hallucination, or someone tells you what they see, and your brain will make you see it as well.

Maybe people know these things make you see small people, and then they are primed to do so.

New comment by surfsvammel in "Scientists find a way to regrow cartilage in mice and human tissue samples"

surfsvammel — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:36:10 +0000

My dream is to be able to run again. Please. Let me run a 10k at least once more in my life. To feel that stillness and freedom and calm that sets in when the brain start going to hibernation after about 7km.

That would be quiet something to feel that again.

New comment by surfsvammel in "Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?"

surfsvammel — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 20:08:06 +0000

The SGU. There is only one podcast that I always come back to! https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts

New comment by surfsvammel in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?"

surfsvammel — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:45:34 +0000

I want to:

- Hone my motorcycle riding skills. Curves, breaking and the rest.

- Learn and manage to do some basic home renovation stuff by myself.

- Learn the basics for keeping a garden.

- Start playing table tennis

New comment by surfsvammel in "GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients"

surfsvammel — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:25:48 +0000

I don’t know! Think I’ve seen a headline somewhere, but can’t remember where. Quick search should help you :)

To me, it’s anecdotal, of course, but I have same sense of being in control over alcohol intake as food intake.

Basically makes it much easier for me to avoid binging.

New comment by surfsvammel in "GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients"

surfsvammel — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:16:59 +0000

I don’t agree. They are not saying that.

It’s observational. They are saying they see correlation.

Your suggested mechanism is plausible, and likely, of course, but that might only be part of the effect.

I think it’s still valuable findings and can help direct further studies.

New comment by surfsvammel in "GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients"

surfsvammel — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:14:46 +0000

I am on GLP-1 (very low dose), and I’ve found that it seems to help me moderate my alcohol consumption as well. Maybe some thing like that could also be contributing to the effect.

New comment by surfsvammel in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

surfsvammel — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:42:06 +0000

I have this exact problem, my colleague does not. I also noticed yawning helped. I gave my old AirPods to my ex :( I miss them.

New comment by surfsvammel in "Intermittent fasting strategies and their effects on body weight"

surfsvammel — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 16:17:02 +0000

I diet, on and off. Keeping fat free weight as the highest priority (I don’t want to loose hard earned muscle)!

I’ve tried all types of diets. For me, the most important for me is to save the biggest meal for late in the day. I can easily go hungry a couple of hours during the day if I know there is a filling meal coming.

I suspect IF works in a similar way.

New comment by surfsvammel in "Europe is breaking its reliance on American science"

surfsvammel — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 19:19:43 +0000

Yes. Very similar actually. Most of Europe is increasing spending on military defence.

New comment by surfsvammel in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

surfsvammel — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:32:16 +0000

I love the Switch and will love the Switch 2. But this video feels so cheap. Didn’t enjoy the launch video at all.

New comment by surfsvammel in "Undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia suffers damage"

surfsvammel — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 08:49:47 +0000

According to an interview with people from the company that owned this particular cable (from Swedish media SVT) these things happen by accident sometimes, they said a couple of times per decade. They themselves did not think this was an accident.

New comment by surfsvammel in "Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices"

surfsvammel — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 00:06:20 +0000

Why would a QR be more safe from containing malware than another medium like USB drive?

Is it just that the amount of data it holds is more constrained?

New comment by surfsvammel in "Researchers identify major driver of inflammatory bowel and related diseases"

surfsvammel — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 19:24:45 +0000

Anyone got a link for the actual study paper?

New comment by surfsvammel in "Researchers identify major driver of inflammatory bowel and related diseases"

surfsvammel — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 19:23:35 +0000

I have IBD. Any sensible doctor will tell you that there seem to be no link between diet and IBD, apart from certain food possibly aggravating symptoms.

No use whatsoever to blame oneself for something like this.

New comment by surfsvammel in "Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?"

surfsvammel — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:21:32 +0000

My first mail in my gmail account is 20 years old. Not sure if that is my oldest account though.

New comment by surfsvammel in "FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm"

surfsvammel — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 06:15:30 +0000

I don’t know. I’m through about 100 cards. I’ll let you know in a couple of months:)

New comment by surfsvammel in "FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm"

surfsvammel — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 06:14:40 +0000

It’s not TP, it’s a Swedish game called När då då.

The image is on the back of the card, with the answer. So trying to recall the year, I don’t get to see the picture. But, the picture is the first thing that comes to mind when I get the question and the from it I get the year.

New comment by surfsvammel in "FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm"

surfsvammel — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 22:04:08 +0000

I’ve learned tens of thousands of foreign language words using Anki and have always find that having pictures on the cards help me remember the words.

I currently have a (foolish?) project. I’m trying to memorize the 750 cards of a quiz game that we play in the family. All questions are answered by a year. So for example: “What year did Coca Cola Light come out?”.

I have been using Midjourney to generate images for those cards which makes it so much eaaier to recall.

I have a system. I have a person representing each century; Einstein is 1900-2000 and for example Mari-Antoinette is 1700-1800. Then items represent the decade; a sixties car represent the sixties, jacket with shoulder pads the eighties and so on.

I do something similar for the last digit.

Then I have Midjourney generate such pictures, in a comic book style, and I save the most fun or absurd one and use that on the back side of the Anki card.

The image is often easier to recall than the year by itself