Hacker News: weedfroglozenge

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

weedfroglozenge — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:10:17 +0000

Perhaps the research is wrong though because our way of thinking has been "slow, controlled, non intensive".

Now that technology CAN give us content at faster speeds, isn't it better for the brains to change to adapt to the short form cycles? Otherwise you'll be left behind stuck on topic one when the new generation have absorbed 1, 2, 3, 4. etc.

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

weedfroglozenge — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:21:24 +0000

Are we surprised?

Books were entertainment when that's all the world offered. Now whenever reading gets mentioned online, it's a "smarter way" to consume entertainment. Readers always give off a smug aura.

Technology has come along and with that visuals, audio, engagement.

The Tiktok Algorithm is this generation's Shakespeare. This isn't a bad thing.

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Opera's browser is now available with chess baked in"

weedfroglozenge — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 08:53:37 +0000

Makes it easier to have an engine open behind :(

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Rekt.network"

weedfroglozenge — Wed, 17 May 2023 07:23:02 +0000

I really enjoy Soma.FM which has a wider range of genres. The cult classic is "Groove Salad"

Edit: There's also the free-with-ads, or paid subscription option, of digitally imported (Di.FM)

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "I found the best anagram in English (2017)"

weedfroglozenge — Fri, 05 May 2023 07:43:44 +0000

One of the longest anagrams I know that doesn't involve obscure medical words is "astronomers" and "moon starers." Both of these phrases contain the same letters but in a different order, making them anagrams of each other. This anagram contains 11 letters and is quite interesting, as both phrases relate to looking up at the night sky and studying celestial bodies.

ChatGPT

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years"

weedfroglozenge — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 01:13:42 +0000

I really like your writing style. The end of an era for you - Wishing you all the best

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "An unwinnable seed of Slay the Spire"

weedfroglozenge — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 05:07:33 +0000

Every round I start in StS is unwinnable :(

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Tesla cut a steering component from some cars, didn’t tell customers"

weedfroglozenge — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:57:14 +0000

I think he is talking about the former. I've also had power steering fail on me and it took everything I had to get home. And I was ~2 minutes from home.

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Reddit Is Down"

weedfroglozenge — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 08:11:24 +0000

It is blaming the user for a server side issue, which could lead to alternate browsers being tested, tethered vs ethernet, cookies/cache clearing, extensions review, etc.

This makes the user question, is it me?

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Reddit Is Down"

weedfroglozenge — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 06:33:19 +0000

I really don't like the down page they show [1], gaslighting the end user into thinking it's on their end.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/HTKvJee.png

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero"

weedfroglozenge — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 06:51:31 +0000

Because they are ending the game before it gets to that stage. Similar to seeing check mates 3, 4, 5 moves in advance, they can see with perfect play that the reduction in pieces will end in an end game with insufficient material.

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users"

weedfroglozenge — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 07:16:23 +0000

And does it look like they'll be able to restore it? :)

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "AirPods don't “just work”"

weedfroglozenge — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 21:04:37 +0000

Something I've found annoying is if I'm using the airpods with my iPhone, and I'm chilling on the couch and decide to Chromecast, if I have already started chrome casting to the TV and then take my airpods out it will pause the show despite audio already going through TV?

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?"

weedfroglozenge — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 07:17:26 +0000

Wow thanks! This is exactly what I need thanks to constant phone notifications which have reduced my attention span to.... that of something with a small attention span!

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "novelWriter – open-source plain text editor designed for writing novels"

weedfroglozenge — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 11:59:59 +0000

Working on CPTR-045

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "W3.org Cert Expired"

weedfroglozenge — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 03:13:20 +0000

I'm glad I saw this comment - What can make a site perform like that?

At work we use Chrome as our general browser, and we've had several issues with expired certs before. Some websites allowed you to expand the box and opt "Continue" but some simply didn't have the option. Whats the difference?

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "[dead]"

weedfroglozenge — Tue, 11 May 2021 21:55:42 +0000

Nice p1 to wake up to

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Why doesn't pg use HTTPS on his site?"

weedfroglozenge — Fri, 07 May 2021 10:22:51 +0000

Australian Government weather website, www.bom.gov.au

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online"

weedfroglozenge — Thu, 06 May 2021 06:07:15 +0000

Bitch ute?