Hacker News: uslic001

New comment by uslic001 in "Companies promote incompetent employees to management to limit damage they do"

uslic001 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:31:55 +0000

Incompetent nurses in the VA system get promoted to management so they do not harm any patients. I have seen it happen over and over again. They spend their time in meetings all day instead of in direct patient care.

New comment by uslic001 in "Your Pension Depends on Kids You Did Not Have"

uslic001 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:56:20 +0000

I have 4 children so this article is incorrect.

New comment by uslic001 in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

uslic001 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:14:52 +0000

Vernor Vinge wrote a book that had this as part of the plot.

The book you are looking for is Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge. Published in 2006, it features a fictional undertaking called the Librareome Project.

Facebook ·Artificial Intelligence News Key Details from the Novel The Process: Physical library books are fed into industrial machines that shred the pages and blast them through a camera tunnel at high speeds. The Technology: High-resolution cameras photograph the flying paper shreds, and software uses the unique tear marks to piece the text back together (similar to shotgun sequencing in genetics). The Conflict: The story depicts public protests and pushback from people who want physical, analog books preserved rather than violently digitized and destroyed.

New comment by uslic001 in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

uslic001 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:05:28 +0000

I am a doctor. Pfizer Covid vaccine gave me a left leg DVT plus a peripheral neuropathy. I will never take another mRNA vaccine again.

New comment by uslic001 in "Reading the news is the new smoking"

uslic001 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:36:05 +0000

I quit all news shows since before 2000. I quit all TV for over a year now. Robert Heinlein knew this in the 1960's.

"Remind me... to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers."— Stranger in a Strange Land

New comment by uslic001 in "Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected)"

uslic001 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:02:37 +0000

Another failed communist country.

New comment by uslic001 in "Arcadia, CA, Mayor Federally Charged with Acting as Illegal Agent of PRC, Pleads"

uslic001 — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:10:28 +0000

Their Fentanyl precursors have killed way more than Israel or Russia.

New comment by uslic001 in "AI makes you boring"

uslic001 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:14:21 +0000

AI turns you into a NPC.

New comment by uslic001 in "Everyone Is Stealing TV"

uslic001 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:04:19 +0000

I stopped watching all TV 2 years ago. Unfortunately my family won't let me cancel all our streaming apps.

New comment by uslic001 in "Have Taken Up Farming"

uslic001 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:06:45 +0000

We bought a small homestead 20 months ago. The prior owners only used it for their horses, Nothing had been planted by them. We have slowly been planting fruit trees. We lost a lot due to our drought. I just put in another 20 fruit trees this past weekend. It is good for the soul.

New comment by uslic001 in "Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieck (2025)"

uslic001 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:30:28 +0000

https://youtu.be/iT9kh5Ug1Po?si=9VpvGY1HPYNUE4lR

New comment by uslic001 in "Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieck (2025)"

uslic001 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:28:02 +0000

I saw someone on You-Tube that soaked them overnight and then used Grandpa's Goody Getter nutcracker to open them. The shells shattered less, he got much bigger pieces, and it wasn't as messy. I have tried both with and without soaking them overnight and I agree that soaking overnight is better than not soaking. You still need a very good nutcracker. https://www.grandpasgoodygetter.com/products/black-walnut-nu...

New comment by uslic001 in "Why women experience more gut pain"

uslic001 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:49:33 +0000

We have know this for years. I was taught this over 30 years ago in my GI fellowship.

New comment by uslic001 in "Unreal Tournament 2004 is back"

uslic001 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:32:49 +0000

Still my favorite FPS of all time. Low gravity sniper rifle CTF was my favorite. Was in the NTHZ clan.

New comment by uslic001 in "How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)"

uslic001 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:38:27 +0000

One of my first ambient records I bought after I got into Music for Airports by Eno. Still one of my favorites. After those two I got into Stars for the Lid.

New comment by uslic001 in "Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects"

uslic001 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:39:03 +0000

I started beekeeping with my first hive in April this year. I find it very fascinating. It has helped me control my emotions as you have to be calm around them. Knock on wood, I have not been stung yet (I always suit up when I open the hive). My hive is thriving, but I did not harvest any honey to make sure they make it through their first winter. I have been fighting small hive beetles but so far have not had any significant infestation of varroa mites.

New comment by uslic001 in "ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others"

uslic001 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:11:22 +0000

As a doctor I hope it still allows me to get up to speed on latest treatments for rare diseases that I see once every 10 years. It saves me a lot of time rather than having to dig through all the new information since I last encountered a rare disease.

New comment by uslic001 in "Original C64 Lode Runner Source Code"

uslic001 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:41:17 +0000

One of my first video games I played. I loved designing my own levels.

New comment by uslic001 in "Carefully Educated to Be Idiots"

uslic001 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:37:36 +0000

Or shadow ban it.

New comment by uslic001 in "Why a 'Boring' Life Might Be the Happiest One"

uslic001 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:11:10 +0000

I definitely am enjoying life more since we bought a small 16 acre farm/woods and I started growing vegetables/growing fruit and nut trees/foraging mushrooms and berries/beekeeping. I wouldn't call it boring. Always learning something new. Found 8 black walnut trees on the property and 3 pecan trees. Lots of hickory trees. 3 persimmon trees. Multiple red mulberry trees. I enjoy country life.