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New comment by tdrgabi in "I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)"

tdrgabi — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:25:00 +0000

Because he decided to write an investigation article and wanted to see what would happen.

I don't think he replies to all spam emails.

New comment by tdrgabi in "The Religion of Speed"

tdrgabi — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:41:12 +0000

Sorry if it sounded like I was picking on your story, that wasn't my intention.

I was just thinking out loud. You hear stories of "do 100, it beats doing 1" and "plan well and do 1, it beats doing 100", in the end... you sort of chose the stories that agree with you.

New comment by tdrgabi in "Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation"

tdrgabi — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:10:08 +0000

Could you share a link to the interview?

New comment by tdrgabi in "The Religion of Speed"

tdrgabi — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:33:22 +0000

There are anecdotes supporting almost any point.

We've all heard about the "make 100 clay pots", or, sometimes it's photos group vs "make 1 perfect clay pot" group.

New comment by tdrgabi in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

tdrgabi — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:36:02 +0000

I am building a solitaire solver for Zachtronic Solitaire. Especially the last one. It should allow you to take a pic of the screen and tell you if it's solvable and what the next moves could be.

New comment by tdrgabi in "Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)"

tdrgabi — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:11:46 +0000

Carmageddon would be what a kid could ask

New comment by tdrgabi in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)"

tdrgabi — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:59:02 +0000

What other books did you find in that style?

New comment by tdrgabi in "What happens when an octopus engages with art?"

tdrgabi — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 07:36:17 +0000

Imagine being taken from your environment, maybe on a spaceship and get to see, among other things, a human market, where parts of humans are sold.

I'm sure that octopus has a UFO kidnaping story.

New comment by tdrgabi in "The year of peak might and magic"

tdrgabi — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:47:39 +0000

Not exactly what you asked for but https://store.steampowered.com/app/867210/Songs_of_Conquest/ is somewhat close.

I played the campaign and it scratched the itch

New comment by tdrgabi in "Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need?"

tdrgabi — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:41:37 +0000

I'm sorry if this has been answered many times in the past. I didn't find the answer anywhere else.

If everyone gets 1000$ extra, why wouldn't rent increase by close to 1000$. If you're not willing to pay it, someone will. I don't understand how giving all of us X amount of dollars would help. The number of goods are the same, they would become more expensive through inflation.

New comment by tdrgabi in "Dragonsweeper — A minesweeper game that requires observation"

tdrgabi — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 06:01:30 +0000

If you liked this, there's a game on steam: "Desktop dungeons". It's a more refined version and more puzzles, character classes etc https://store.steampowered.com/app/226620/Desktop_Dungeons/

New comment by tdrgabi in "The joy of reading books you don't understand"

tdrgabi — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 04:55:09 +0000

Probably "The spy who came in from the cold"

New comment by tdrgabi in "Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?"

tdrgabi — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:44:38 +0000

I liked the JRE episode with Jimmy Corsetti. He thinks he found the traces of Atlantis in west Africa.

It was an entertaining episode to listen to, not being a scholar, it's hard to know if he's right or not.

Here's a clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_R1zoY9kWs

New comment by tdrgabi in "What is Glamorous Toolkit v1.0?"

tdrgabi — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 20:45:40 +0000

I had the same problem as you.

My current understanding is that it's similar to Emacs, but in this case it uses Smalltalk instead of Elisp.

It's an IDE who's selling point is that you should extend while coding.

If my day job uses Python, for example, is it pragmatic to use Glamorous Toolkit? Yes, it has a few functions for editing code in some language .. but you get a lot more Python power from Intellij or Pycharm. I don't use Smalltalk but if I were, I would consider it, alongside Pharo or instead of Pharo.

New comment by tdrgabi in "Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?"

tdrgabi — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 08:54:39 +0000

I don't have tinnitus, so I can't verify, but I stumbled a long time ago across this reddit thread https://np.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/3l3uri/these_guys_light...

The url looks weird, I'm not talking about the video but the comment this links to.

It looks like ... his method makes it stop for 10-15minutes, so it's not permanent.

New comment by tdrgabi in "A self-driving Uber killed a woman. The backup driver pleaded guilty"

tdrgabi — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 08:19:13 +0000

Police have released the video https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2018/03/2...

I'm not sure I could have avoided her, if I was the driver and paid full attention. She came out of the dark so fast, in the middle of the lane.

New comment by tdrgabi in "Language models can explain neurons in language models"

tdrgabi — Thu, 11 May 2023 14:10:52 +0000

But they "didn't know how it worked", DNA was not discovered yet

New comment by tdrgabi in "Microsoft Freezes Salaries for 2023"

tdrgabi — Thu, 11 May 2023 05:21:38 +0000

What resources can you recommend to learn how to advocate strongly in this context?

New comment by tdrgabi in "DuckDuckGo’s building AI-generated answers into its search engine"

tdrgabi — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 17:39:16 +0000

I see your point, but is it much different than googling and getting a site in the result with wrong information or advice?

New comment by tdrgabi in "Up (Film Series)"

tdrgabi — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 05:14:54 +0000

I was trying to reply to the Everyone part in:

If society can't make everyone happy, what's the point.