I've seen some pretty janky rides at state and county fairs.

I only have 2 data points, but my mom in the southeastern US (in her 70's) and all of her friends have started playing and are fully addicted and the same seems to be true at my golf club in Inland Northwest. Maybe it's getting a toehold? (in a very non-HN demographic)

In my area it's become pretty popular, pretty broadly but especially with younger individuals.

Yes its become a hot game among socialites. Complete with a SAAS subscription for the “yearly cards” and a marketing push to play the sanctioned version.

A slightly less cultured and different but nonetheless entertaining Carolina accent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtQCUrMZWOc

To be fair, discovering a new shower gel that smells better or feels better is a nice experience.

At least we can rest knowing that all of these rich, famous, powerful people will face consequences for their disgusting actions....

I had disk issues in my lumbar spine that caused nearly unbearable pain and terrible quality of life. Tried everything: PT, OTC painkillers, epidurals, massage, nothing worked. Was prescribed pragabalin and duloxotine. Duloxotine is an SNRI that also treats nerve pain. That combination helped some but I was sleeping 11+ hours per day and generally felt like my head was in a complete fog, was pretty much useless with work. I had been trying to avoid surgery but finally had 2 procedures in 2024 that helped immensely. Weaning off those 2 drugs was no fun: sweating constantly, anxious, headaches for about 2 weeks. Extremely happy I went the surgery route and stopped those meds. I can't imagine living day to day feeling like that.

Duloxetine was indeed a beast to get off of. It got so bad that I would open the capsules and count the number of beads to taper as slowly as possible. It was hell

My first internship was at DEC / Compaq in 2000. I was on their C compiler team and my project was to build seti tools with their updated Alpha Linux C compiler and compare perf against the tools built with the GNU C compiler. It was a fun project.

That is very fun.

There are basically zero players on the PGA tour right now who were self taught. For the next generation of pros, if you are not a plus index player by the time you are around 13 you have no chance whatsoever.

I reread The Secret History by Donna Tartt for the umpteenth time and it is still wonderful.

The combination of Charles + Postman is great for reverse engineering mobile API's. Inspect traffic w/ Charles, export request to cUrl, import cUrl into Postman, play around with request headers / params / etc, export to py, use Cursor to create reusable library.

Out of curiosity, what would the setup for reverse enginering a iOS/Android app look like using Charles Proxy?