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New comment by zulux in "The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake"

zulux — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:09:12 +0000

There's a huge push to go peat-free, and I agree 95%.

There are just a few uses for peat that don't have an alternative. I mention this to fellow gardeners because if you go 100% peat-free, you'll end up with an expensive disaster and, out of frustration, may go back to peat entirely.

I think it's not productive to ignore the small corner cases where peat is almost a requirement.

New comment by zulux in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

zulux — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:57:02 +0000

I'm on the pill version, which allows me to adjust the dosage on a more day-to-day level. It also doesn't need a fridge, so it allows me to travel more easily. There's a level that works best for me long-term, and it's quite a bit less than typical.

New comment by zulux in "Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available"

zulux — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:40:45 +0000

Pascal Syntax is horrible for programming. It's verbose and confining.

It's wonderful for reading ten years later and figuring things out.

New comment by zulux in "Humans Will Never Leave the Solar System"

zulux — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:48:25 +0000

Things said before:

Humans will never see the edge of the Earth Humans will never fly Humans will never get to space

New comment by zulux in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

zulux — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:32:57 +0000

Agreed, and in my opinion he's 100% right. But I'm still invested in both.

The market hasn't been working on fundamentals for a long time. I have a fair amount of value stocks and a bunch of cash lying around, so I'll be ok.

I really feel for anybody trying to invest to grow right now; there's no obvious safer play.

New comment by zulux in "Man convicted of child sex crime by added _ char "Fus Ro Dah" Skyrim username"

zulux — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:24:07 +0000

Because of crap like this, our business has a standing policy of always using copy and paste when transferring data. We view it as a show-stopping bug when we can't do that from one system to another.

Saves us an incredible amount of drama. The hard part is following through when the data is simple.

New comment by zulux in "Show HN: I made email signatures less boring"

zulux — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:15:11 +0000

Not my cup of tea, but kudos on making something unique. The world need more of that.

New comment by zulux in "HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router"

zulux — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:56:51 +0000

For me, the era of MikroTik is sort of... now.

Don't get me wrong, they make powerful and feature-complete stuff, but their UI sort of assumes you really know what you're doing. I don't know what I'm doing.

But my LLM does. I've been able to set up site-to-site VPNs with Mikrotik in fifteen minutes now, rather than the day-long exercise of googling and praying.

New comment by zulux in "No link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes"

zulux — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:31:41 +0000

RFK walked the talk. The previous inhabitant was... and I'll try to be polite... easy to dismiss when they said it.

New comment by zulux in "AI Bubble vs. Dot Com Crash. History Is Repeating"

zulux — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:30:06 +0000

Yes... and no. DJI/BYD, etc are legit amazing. But entire ghost cities filled with unused condos scream bubble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underoccupied_developments_in_...

New comment by zulux in "Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years"

zulux — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:53:29 +0000

When my Korean friends tell me that my cuisine isn't spicy enough: Well... let's talk about that spice.

New comment by zulux in "AI Bubble vs. Dot Com Crash. History Is Repeating"

zulux — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:38:43 +0000

For me, my blind spot has been China. They've maintained their bubble economy for decades longer than I (and a few other smarter people than me) think possible.

New comment by zulux in "SpaceX and the myth of independent Wall St research"

zulux — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:00:55 +0000

Fair point, and thanks. Certainly true that Starlink satellites are already successfully dealing with the problem and use a lot of energy.

I think the trouble with my thinking was that I was locked into the Shuttle/STS numbers of waste heat transfer.

New comment by zulux in "SpaceX and the myth of independent Wall St research"

zulux — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:34:41 +0000

Any idea how they're handling the space data center heat problems? Energy harvesting in space is easy, while getting rid of heat is quite hard.

New comment by zulux in "SpaceX and the myth of independent Wall St research"

zulux — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:33:25 +0000

There's a relationship in that a persuasive kid pointing out the obvious flaws could collapse a Keynesian beauty contest.

New comment by zulux in "SpaceX and the myth of independent Wall St research"

zulux — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:16:48 +0000

Yep. Keesian Beauty Contest!

(Dear Reader, if you have no idea what that is, it's a good idea to know about in my opinion)

New comment by zulux in "Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey"

zulux — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:15:39 +0000

No I dont, and you're quite correct. I'm one of those weirdos who thinks The Lord of the Rings movies were better because they left out some things from the books, so I'm happy with both.

Oddly enough, I sort of appreicated the David Lynch movie more after the recent movies because not what I'm older, I sort of undersgand how hard it would be to make a movie anyways.

New comment by zulux in "Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey"

zulux — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:13:25 +0000

Yes it is.. I'm glad that it seems that he's cherry-picking the good bids from a few books to give us a potentially good movie.

New comment by zulux in "Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey"

zulux — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:12:21 +0000

In the book, Paul's nine-year-old son fuses baby sandworm larvae to his skin and becomes a worm-god-human-face weirdo.

I mean, I've seen Apocalypse Now, but I suspect the movie of that would be... unique.

New comment by zulux in "SpaceX and the myth of independent Wall St research"

zulux — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:06:46 +0000

Que? Market analysis thinks SpaceX sucks as a stock.

Heck, it goes against all my value investing instincts for me to even have 2% of my net value in it. To be fair however, 15% of my net value came from Tesla. I obviously have brain worms.