tohnjitor's comments

On: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

[tohnjitor]

The worst aspect of the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport was the sliding bathroom door. Almost everything else about the place was really great but the bathroom door wae 1/2" from the face of the wall and bounced off the end of the slider track.

[bcoates → tohnjitor]

I think it's an unavoidable consequence of the space constraints they're working with.

On the plus side, when I dayroomed there it was dead silent and the room had blackout curtains.

On: US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban

[tohnjitor]

Better preparation most likely. He had a staff of about 1,000 already hired before being sworn in. Some of them had probably been working on this stuff since 2020.

On: Study reveals mammoth as key food source for ancient Americans

[tohnjitor]

maybe they did save specific foods for infants.

[gweinberg → tohnjitor]

well, there is one food that is primarily consumed by infants. Maybe you meant they saved special food for nursing mothers?

[tohnjitor → gweinberg]

Indeed. Good point

[ceejayoz → tohnjitor]

Probably not entire mammoths, though.

[pests → ceejayoz]

Infants usually drink milk no?

[ceejayoz → pests]

At eighteen months? Not exclusively.

On: Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance

[tohnjitor]

With all of the features and plug-ins being crammed into Teams, it may become TeamsOS before long

On: Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system

[tohnjitor]

I thought this was going to be about a DIY USB-C cable.

On: The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out

[tohnjitor]

There is now a USD$10/month subscription for Solidworks. The software includes an astounding amount of bloat but it does work.

On: Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning

[tohnjitor]

As I understand it, the topsoil in parts of Texas is only a foot deep or less and then it's solid bedrock. This is why most homes do not have basements.

[EasyMark → tohnjitor]

That’s not true in all of Texas for sure. I can vouch for it in Central Texas “hill country” 6-10”around my home and you will hit solid limestone. Makes a nice home foundation (provided it’s not too porous)but I would not want to pay for a pool or basement here.

On: Kids Who Get Smartphones Earlier Become Adults with Worse Mental Health (2023)

[tohnjitor]

This is almost correct.

>A society with prosperity but lacking athletic, artistic and intellectual pursuits will devolve into a crowd of purposeless humans living for the pleasures of the moment.

I would change this to

>A society with prosperity but lacking family and reproductive pursuits will devolve into a crowd of purposeless humans living for the pleasures of the moment.

[dbtablesorrows → tohnjitor]

I am all for family values, but I am not convinced it will guarantee purpose in life and prevent you from spiralling into depression for some other reason.

[tohnjitor → dbtablesorrows]

Indeed, few things are guaranteed.

[shrimp_emoji → tohnjitor]

This is almost correct.

>A society with prosperity but lacking family and reproductive pursuits will devolve into a crowd of purposeless humans living for the pleasures of the moment.

I would change this to

>A society with prosperity and whose universal revealed preference across all cultures is to use that prosperity to buy other crap that beats dealing with family and reproductive pursuits will devolve into a crowd of purposeless humans living for the pleasures of the moment.

On: Google dropping continuous scroll in search results

[tohnjitor]

Putting a big fat thumb on the scale during election seasons.

On: FDA denies petition against use of phthalates in food packaging

[tohnjitor]

Plastics and related materials leeching into food and water is one of the theories for continent-wide decrease of testosterone in male mammals in North America

[kube-system → tohnjitor]

If it widely impacts other mammals other than humans, then it probably isn't primarily attributable to eating from packaged foods. It is probably from a shared resource like our air or water.