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New comment by thedrexster in "TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)"

thedrexster — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:49:19 +0000

lol, brother, was that worth the throwaway? You're already flagged to hell.

New comment by thedrexster in "TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)"

thedrexster — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:37:26 +0000

This game is more Golden Age of Piracy piracy than Barbary Corsair piracy -- in fact, many pirate crews engaged in proto-democracy (well before it was fashionable!) and flatly condemned slavery.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance_in_18th-century_pir...

New comment by thedrexster in "Why I collect DLES"

thedrexster — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:12:57 +0000

this is my girlfriend's new favorite, thank you

New comment by thedrexster in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

thedrexster — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:16:31 +0000

>> "My voice is my passport. Verify me."

Well met, fellow Uplinker!!

Hedd Wyn

thedrexster — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:17:13 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedd_Wyn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905124

Points: 3

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New comment by thedrexster in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

thedrexster — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:20:52 +0000

i see you, brother! <3

New comment by thedrexster in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

thedrexster — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:37:44 +0000

> That was over half a century ago. Completely irrelevant.

This is Trump's America, brother, we don't learn from the past here!

List of Common Misconceptions

thedrexster — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:50:30 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560477

Points: 8

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New comment by thedrexster in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

thedrexster — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:05:37 +0000

> constraints of human memory and apathy

i like that a lot, brother, thank you!

New comment by thedrexster in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

thedrexster — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 06:42:53 +0000

Hack the planet! <3

New comment by thedrexster in "FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home"

thedrexster — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:48:18 +0000

Ooooph, brother :(

New comment by thedrexster in "I Taught Myself to Code on a Cracked Android Phone. Now I Can't Get Hired"

thedrexster — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:48:51 +0000

I'm sorry, are you me?? This tracks my story (minus the WGU stint) almost exactly.

We're even the same age, it's spooky!

New comment by thedrexster in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

thedrexster — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:29:48 +0000

can confirm!

New comment by thedrexster in "The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void"

thedrexster — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:06:06 +0000

also, TIL the word "litotes" -- thank you, brother!

New comment by thedrexster in "The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void"

thedrexster — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:03:23 +0000

"super not great" IS a real feeling :)

(fellow PNWer, I'd never before thought of this as a regional thing!)

New comment by thedrexster in "Sugars, Gum, Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples"

thedrexster — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:28:51 +0000

An eternal classic, brother, well done!

New comment by thedrexster in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

thedrexster — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:25:24 +0000

This is such an odd position to create a burner account to argue...

New comment by thedrexster in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

thedrexster — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:42:42 +0000

heroin is the drug, heroine is the damsel :)

New comment by thedrexster in "Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir"

thedrexster — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 21:06:49 +0000

It can be both! :D

New comment by thedrexster in "You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say"

thedrexster — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 19:04:53 +0000

I'd never considered this before, thank you!