iamhamm
Re:SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:49PM (#49915961)
I love them but unfortunately it’s just not as robust as it once was with regards to support. I’ve been locked out for some time now but can’t get a response from anyone. I know it’s volunteer driven but ultimately if people can’t rely on it, they’ll move on. Still happy I was able to support all these years but absent my account getting fixed, this will be my last year of support.
Re:Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
on Thursday August 27, 2026 @11:38PM (#49474075)
Same! My wife is at the opposite end and can visualize these wild scenes and describe them in detail and I’m like “I can tell you roughly where the parts of a cat go”.
Re:Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
on Thursday August 27, 2026 @11:29PM (#49474028)
You just broke my mind. I have visual aphantasia but until I just read your comment about audio aphantasia it never even dawned on me that hearing a song or sound in my head was a possibility. I just did your “who let the dogs out” test and I could remember the tune but as soon as I stopped thinking about it, it went away. That’s a wild personal discovery to have from an HN comment. Thanks!
Re:Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
on Thursday August 27, 2026 @11:25PM (#49474003)
Here’s some evidence for you: when I close my eye, I see black. That’s it. No amount of effort conjures an image. That’s not what most people I talk to about it report, so I am going to assume there’s a functional difference between me and people with functioning visualization.
Re:Beware of Star Trek managers, especially when bearing MBAs
on Monday June 15, 2026 @09:40PM (#48549497)
Feels like the author starts with a valid criticism of Rush and then spends 3,000 words settling old scores with managers. The strongest part of the article is the first 10%; after that it mostly becomes an anti-MBA rant.
Re:Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?
on Friday March 06, 2026 @02:01PM (#47279511)
I'm an amateur extra, US. Licensed since I was 12 years old back in 1992.
Re:Europe Begins Rethinking Its Crackdown on Big Tech
on Monday November 17, 2025 @06:02PM (#45959439)
FBI takes down BreachForums portal used for Salesforce extortion
Elon Musk's Boring Co. accused of nearly 800 enviro violations in Las Vegas
Your calm is contagious but so is your chaos
Re:Trump administration has killed a massive solar power project in Ne...
on Friday October 10, 2025 @10:35PM (#45546097)
Great news! Killing the Esmeralda 7 solar project is the right decision. People don’t realize how massive it was, over 110 square miles, bigger than Las Vegas itself. It would’ve scraped up pristine Great Basin desert, wiped out wildlife habitat, and trampled culturally important land not to mention diverting massive amounts of water which is a tight resource out here. Renewable energy is great, but we don’t need to bulldoze entire ecosystems to do it. Killing this one might actually push solar developers to think smaller and smarter next time.
Intermittent fasting is effective for weight loss and improves cardio health
Re:We Didn't Evolve to Exercise
on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @10:14PM (#42447806)
Viewing exercise as interesting time spent is probably where the outliers of "people whose instincts defy millennia of evolution" come from. My wife and I truly love trail running and usually running more than 99% of users in Garmin (according to the charts). During race training season we're frequently in the 50 miles per week or more range which, as older and slower runners, means we might be running 10 to 15 hours per week. But, we love it, so no more interesting things for us to do than that.
Re:Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job
on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @08:51AM (#42387659)
> I can’t stop myself from thinking that working on a book for 6 months, doing its projects, is a huge waste of time for me, and because I already feel late, I find myself, yet again, in a cycle.
That’s such an important observation. Many of us have become so fooled by the notion of fast consumption and immediate gains that we have all but stopped putting in the meaningful work.
Re:The Rarest Mineral Is So Rare It's Only Ever Been Found Once
on Sunday December 01, 2024 @10:11AM (#42288824)
“It also has hollow, tube-shaped inclusions called en echelon veins that are caused by shear stress – evidence of its natural formation.”
Re:Show HN: Tinder, but to Decide What to Eat
on Monday November 04, 2024 @12:19AM (#42038718)
What about an app to tell you what kind of sub sandwich to eat? Could call it Grinder!
Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:24PM (#41570195)
I've personally always had at least an hour each way. What are commutes like where you are?
Re:CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not part of our proc...
on Friday September 13, 2024 @09:29PM (#41536791)
SentinelOne
Re:Forest Service orders Arrowhead bottled water to shut down Californ...
on Saturday August 10, 2024 @12:24AM (#41207309)
Re:HamClock – a real time space weather dashboard
on Sunday August 04, 2024 @11:09AM (#41154032)
Too Many Connections :(
Re:The 'Broletariat Revolution'
on Thursday August 01, 2024 @06:35PM (#41134343)
Re:The manager's unbearable lack of endorphins
on Monday June 24, 2024 @12:30PM (#40778044)
hug
> So I drift from one interest to the next, because the only reward I get is from novelty, as long as things are interesting I can stay focused, but as soon as I loose interest my brain stops giving me a reward signal and I move on.
That hits so hard as a fellow ADHDer. I read that then turned around to look at my disastrously messy home office filled with hundreds of partly done projects and abandoned hobbies. I often wish I wasn't highly compensated since being broke would meter me. ADHD is a vicious cycle.
Re:I Kind of Like Rebasing
on Saturday June 22, 2024 @07:09PM (#40763081)
I read that as “I kind of like freebasing” at first and thought it was a bit racy.
Re:OSRD: Open-Source Railway Designer
on Thursday June 20, 2024 @07:03PM (#40744434)
Run8 by Run8 Studios is what you want. I just busted 4 coupler knuckles during a boring meeting because I didn't watch my slack coming off while accelerating up a +0.10 grade :)
www.run8studios.com
And if you want to peak train nerd like me: raildriver.com
Re:How to Disable Windows Recall
on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @11:57PM (#40593298)
Uninstall Windows seems like an easier fix.
Re:Webb's First Deep Field (NIRCam Image) (2022)
on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @11:39AM (#40575724)
I missed this when it came out and thought I'd share this humbling image.
Webb's First Deep Field (NIRCam Image) (2022)
Re:Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?
on Monday April 22, 2024 @05:02PM (#40120630)
Visiting and documenting abandoned mine sites across the U.S. desert southwest.
Re:How I pwned half of America's fast food chains, simultaneously
on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @08:14AM (#38939084)
Hi Albertsons/Safeway VP of Security Engineering here. Thank you for disclosing this. I’ll have it fixed along with the fact our VDP submission link is missing from the Safeway site. Here it is for future reference https://albertsons.responsibledisclosure.com/hc/en-us