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New comment by uxp100 in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

uxp100 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:26:54 +0000

There was a lot of arson at BLM protests, and plenty of people beaten in the street, some of whom were in no way asking for it. The majority of the violence probably was the cops though.

New comment by uxp100 in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

uxp100 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:16:53 +0000

USAmericans casually play basketball still. Basically a few kids shooting hoops at every little court you pass, and lightly organized (just show up at a time) adult games are common too.

New comment by uxp100 in "Nabokov's pale fire: the lost 'father of all hypertext demos'? (2011)"

uxp100 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:03:55 +0000

Interesting to make the connection to Sonny Boy. That’s one to think on.

New comment by uxp100 in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

uxp100 — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:38:13 +0000

No, it’s not. Please stop driving and leave it to the adults.

New comment by uxp100 in "I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan"

uxp100 — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:48:28 +0000

There were a couple of other LLM-isms that think mainly served to pad the length for no reason. I found the article interesting. Just not real concise.

New comment by uxp100 in "US launches new strikes on Iran"

uxp100 — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:03:18 +0000

I also believe some in the administration want chaos. But also consider that Iran is legitimately hard to negotiate with and the negotiators have no experience with highly technical negotiations around nuclear enrichment. Like, I don’t think Trump wants chaos, actually.

New comment by uxp100 in "The Classic American Diner"

uxp100 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:01:38 +0000

I’ve got a place by me that does 2 eggs, 2 pancakes (or French toast), 2 sausages and toast for $4 before 8 AM.

And I don’t go there. The spots that get twice (or more) as much for that meal really are quite a bit better. And their coffee is truly foul. Classic diner coffee is fine, but if I’ve had better coffee on an airplane I’m not prone to going back.

New comment by uxp100 in "The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi"

uxp100 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:13:40 +0000

I think that used to be true, but it has been overtaken by Houston. Either way, yes, good place to eat Vietnamese food.

New comment by uxp100 in "Notes from the SF peptide scene"

uxp100 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:36:59 +0000

20% work in tech? I think that’s gone up quite a bit since I last spent a lot of time there in 2015. I would see these articles from time to time and think, people are getting the wrong idea if they haven’t been there, when I think of SF I think of middle aged Chinese people and alleycat bike races and music venues and book stores and drug dealing and gays, though tech bros are also present (and overlapping). But damn, 20%, that’s a lot bigger than finance bros, maybe tech really is ruining the city. Shoot.

New comment by uxp100 in "Single-Dose Creatine Reduces Sleep Deprivation-Induced Deterioration"

uxp100 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:33:21 +0000

Effects seen at .35g/kg and .2g/kg. Both pretty big doses. Which is not uncommon for creatine for a single day, but ongoing dose is typically lower.

I’ve taken creatine for exercise recovery and possible cognitive improvements when I was a vegetarian. Never perceived it to do anything.

New comment by uxp100 in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

uxp100 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:04:34 +0000

Nah, I’m sure Elbridge Colby knew about this. His political views may be unpleasant (I mean, I think there is far worse in the Trump administration, but I’m not a supporter of any of them) but he’s definitely in the well read in history section of maga.

New comment by uxp100 in "Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one"

uxp100 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:02:02 +0000

> Some components addressed this problem by providing their own installer for the component, and telling installers, “You are not allowed to install these component file directly. Instead, you must run our custom installer.

Aha, that’s why they do that.

New comment by uxp100 in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

uxp100 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:20:58 +0000

When I’ve brought atypical stuff in to be repaired at one of those shops they have been absolutely willing to solder whatever, however they did have just one “soldering guy” for every shop in the metro area who only came as needed. So just keep that in mind if you’re in a hurry or want to talk an atypical task through with someone. Probably call ahead.

New comment by uxp100 in "Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded in the US"

uxp100 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:31:45 +0000

Well, in this case because drunks keep murdering people.

New comment by uxp100 in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

uxp100 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:42:37 +0000

That’s a funny analogy because some electric railway companies owned power generation. The one in my town also sold electricity to consumers for some time, though most of the history I can find online focuses on the rail aspect, which makes sense, as they started and ended in the rail business, but at some point in the 1890s to 1930s appended “and light” to their name.

New comment by uxp100 in "EV-1 for Lease (1996)"

uxp100 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:17:26 +0000

It’s got the tone of public radio, which I think this reporting was from.

New comment by uxp100 in "Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level"

uxp100 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:16:50 +0000

Not the poster, but I grew up eating oatmeal that you would slice. Toss a pot on the wood stove, done when you remembered to grab it. Milk and honey on soft slices of oatmeal. Honestly don’t eat oatmeal much today, but was confused the first time I had oatmeal away from him and it wasn’t at least like lumpy. I’m sure that pot had to be soaked for a half an hour every morning.

New comment by uxp100 in "PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible"

uxp100 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:42:56 +0000

Yeah, I had great memories of secret of mana and SD3 (emulated in translation, I think that was Aeon Genesis?) and I replayed them with my partner in 2020. For a few hours. Honestly, kinda miserable.

Single player it was less fun than I remembered, multiplayer it was awful. SD3 is a beautiful game, and very overrated.

New comment by uxp100 in "Why the Pumpernickel Bagel Is Disappearing"

uxp100 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:27:15 +0000

Luckily still present where I buy my bagels. I’ve only done it a few times but I do remember than rye flour makes a somewhat more difficult dough to handle.

New comment by uxp100 in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

uxp100 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:16:52 +0000

What are you quoting? I mean, that sounds like what Stephen miller believes, but who said it?