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som commented on The Promised LAN tpl.house/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

kentonv · a month ago

Indoor plants are tricky with cats. They will chew on them, and many plants can be poisonous to them. Also keeping them watered is work, and they can create a mess if they grow in the wrong direction.

We have a lot of plants outside, though.

som · a month ago

Makes a lot of sense. Mystery solved, thank you :)

som commented on The Promised LAN tpl.house/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

kentonv · a month ago

At the time the pictures were taken, we hadn't gotten around to populating the walls much. Now we've hung up a lot of our kids' art, nicely framed. Amusingly a lot of it looks sort of like abstract modern art, like Jackson Pollock or Rothko, enough so to confuse guests. :)

som · a month ago

I actually had a similar question / comment but about plants! We have (at least) one in every room in our house and they do wonders for the space.

Not suggesting you go out and buy plants for the gaming rooms (maybe you already have) but wondering if it was a conscious decision not to have any?

som commented on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized nodaysoff.run... · Posted by u/friggeri

zparky · 2 months ago

just wanted to say the site looks awesome! I love the minimal black+white/grayscale and the fonts are just lovely. vis looks great too, I enjoyed poking around nearly all of the unique runs to look at the map and paces.

som · a month ago

Agreed. Was wondering where the inspiration came for each chart choice?

som commented on Couchers is officially out of beta couchers.org/blog/2025/07... · Posted by u/laurentlb

dkersten · 2 months ago

I lived in a house where one of my housemates was also into couchsurfing and for a few month in summer and early autumn 2008, we were very active hosts. One weekend while there was a CS event on in my city, we hosted 12 people at once.

In 2009, I was living somewhere I couldn’t host, but my primary social group for that year was other local couchsurfers — we used to meet up twice a week. One of them got married to one of my friends. Others I kept in touch with for many years.

I haven’t been part of it in a long time, but I haven’t many fond memories of the couchsurfing community. Like you, I didn’t have any bad experiences.

som · 2 months ago

I was hosting around this time too (and surfing a bit, but less so), it was a great experience. Never got up to 12 but we always had someone with us, someone crossing over ... and probably someone we were doing a favour for. At one point had two Italian climbers in a tent in our living room for multiple weeks, who ended up moving to our city and becoming good friends.

I tended to go out my way to try and accept people to stay who were either very new the the platform (which usually made it hard to find a place as karma was low) or were very different to my normal group of friends. Which definitely made for some interesting experiences and conversations. Price of entry was usually a list of their favourite albums. I discovered so much great music out of it.

Finally gave it all up when I moved back to Australia and wasn't in a position to host anymore. So many fond memories tho. I miss it.

som commented on Mapping latitude and longitude to country, state, or city austinhenley.com/blog/coo... · Posted by u/azhenley

som · 3 months ago

Great approach.

Worth noting that there is a 6 decimal precision on the coordinates of the 90kb (gz) `coord2state.min.js` ... which suggests an accuracy that may not be present in the simplified data (i.e. <1m).

Before you increase tolerance to decrease filesize, you could consider lowering this decimal precision to 5, 4 or even 3 decimals given the "country, state, or city" requirement.

I also like the idea of using a heavily cached, heavily compressed image that is perfect for the >95% of the country that isn't within a pixel of a border. With a subsequent request for another heavily cached vector tile that encompasses any lat/lng within your 1px tolerance.

somishere commented on I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic wave3.social... · Posted by u/nswizzle31

somishere · 3 months ago

Mainly just questioning in which direction the poisoned chalice is being passed

somishere commented on I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic wave3.social... · Posted by u/nswizzle31

rchaud · 3 months ago

I don't think the OP comment was about women, I read it discriminatory in terms of social class and "culture fit".

somishere · 3 months ago

I think the comments and down votes are fairly self evident here, despite what I may or may not have meant. Discrimination is a fairly well defined term.

Another hot take - the healthiest communities are those that people self-identity into. Like HN ;)

somishere commented on SVG favicons in action css-tricks.com/svg-favico... · Posted by u/stefankuehnel

rachkovsky · 3 months ago

Animated icons can be quite annoying.

somishere · 3 months ago

Couldn't agree more. I'm using it for notifications, where icon colour changes depending on the type of notification (colours are also user editable) ... and the notifications can be disabled :)