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WalterGR commented on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet   nytimes.com/2025/08/11/bu... · Posted by u/situationista
Workaccount2 · 17 days ago
Almost certainly older people living in remote areas who login to the AOL to check the email box for pictures of the grandkids.
WalterGR · 17 days ago
Having very older parents, what an important use case!

Long gone are the days of writing a family update, including physical photos, and putting them in the post.

Fortunately, I’m able to guide my parents in their tech usage. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be their age and have nobody to do the same. The sheer isolation… It’s horrible to contemplate.

WalterGR commented on Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits   mattwie.se/no-sleep-till-... · Posted by u/mattwiese
etothepii · 17 days ago
I used to be a polyphasic sleeper so this article interested me but I find myself stuck on the final paragraph.

> My velocity has increased 10x and I'm shipping features like a cracked ninja now, which is great because my B2B SaaS is still in stealth mode.

Does someone have a good book I can read on stealth mode startups?

My B2B SaaS is only small (about $1.25m ARR) but I can't imagine shipping features without someone to use them. We could definitely write a lot more features if our users didn't point out the ways that what we were doing wasn't quite right or didn't fit with the problem we thought we were solving.

I can imagine doing the business part, regulatory part or hard tech part of a startup in stealth mode - but what would does it mean to ship features in stealth mode?

WalterGR · 17 days ago
> I used to be a polyphasic sleeper

Why? If you don’t mind me asking.

WalterGR commented on What does it mean to be thirsty?   quantamagazine.org/what-d... · Posted by u/pseudolus
JSR_FDED · 17 days ago
I have the opposite problem, after one glass of water I feel full and drinking any more makes me nauseous. It’s a struggle to get sufficient hydration during the day.
WalterGR · 17 days ago
How many ounces consumed over how many minutes?
WalterGR commented on Show HN: MoebiusXBIN – ASCII and text-mode art editor with custom font support   blog.glyphdrawing.club/mo... · Posted by u/california-og
msephton · a month ago
Very cool. The TES-SYMB5 font seems to be quite something.
WalterGR · a month ago
Indeed. It’s like a leet version of Unicode’s “Symbols for Legacy Computing” block.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing

WalterGR commented on TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale   github.com/KrishKrosh/Tra... · Posted by u/wtcactus
skyboo · a month ago
Reminds me of this from when I had an HDD Macbook https://uri.cat/software/LiquidMac/
WalterGR · a month ago
“It mimics the behavior of liquid by creating a particle system that reacts to the computer's orientation.”
WalterGR commented on Texas ranks as No. 1 state with the most people in financial distress   dallas.culturemap.com/new... · Posted by u/paulpauper
WalterGR · a month ago
Do you have data to support that?
WalterGR commented on Scientists reveal a widespread but unidentified psychological phenomenon   psypost.org/scientists-re... · Posted by u/thunderbong
constantcrying · a month ago
This "unknown phenomenon" is so unknown that it is one of the most discussed topics in behavioral psychology. Even in popular science it is well known.

Some of the most well known books about psychology, like "thinking fast and slow", describe how humans act seemingly irrational under various scenarios. Finding another example is the exact opposite of "unidentified".

Surely the researchers must be aware of the discourse and the competing theories to explain the thousands of other examples of this?

WalterGR · a month ago
They’re probably aware. From the paper:

> We end by discussing how doubling-back aversion is distinct from established phenomena (e.g., the sunk-cost fallacy).

Is the author of this pop sci article aware? Hard to tell.

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KarmaCake day4619January 26, 2009
About
Hi. I'm Walter Rader. In 1996, there were no slang dictionaries on the web that took user contributions. So I created one. I called it The Online Slang Dictionary. It still going after nearly 30 years!

I'm a Software Engineer with more than 15 years of experience across all stages of the software development life-cycle. I've worked in a variety of industries; at companies huge (100k+ employees,) small (30 - 60,) and tiny (my own); and have shipped code in 10 languages.

As of May 2025, I am open to new opportunities in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento metropolitan areas.

My resume is available on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/waltergr

You can reach me at waltergr@gmail.com

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Here are some cool features of a couple of my more visible sites:

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/

* Usage statistics

* Vulgarity ratings

* Maps that show where slang is used

* More of the interesting features are listed here: http://onlineslangdictionary.com/pages/about/

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http://www.offensivest.com/books/

* An analysis of the offensiveness of English works in the Project Gutenberg corpus.

* This analysis used >250,000 vulgarity votes cast on The Online Slang Dictionary.

* Analyses of more corpora are in planning.

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http://cokepopsoda.com/

* Put a pin in a global map for a word or phrase. (Think: "hashtags plus location".)

* This site powers the "I use this word - put me on the map!" feature of The Online Slang Dictionary.

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