Hacker News: Jailbird

New comment by Jailbird in "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"

Jailbird — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:57:13 +0000

We say "are bears Catholic?" when in more polite company and we can't get away with asking if the Pope shits in the woods :)

New comment by Jailbird in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

Jailbird — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:08:53 +0000

Adding on and being specific: AMC in the GSP mall in Paramus, NJ. Assigned seating for sure.

New comment by Jailbird in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"

Jailbird — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:04:57 +0000

That was my thought when watching the video. The robot is the size of a room if you count all the cameras.

It's like the pitch-o-matic 5000 from Futurama.

New comment by Jailbird in "Show HN: What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center?"

Jailbird — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:28:05 +0000

I may have missed it, but may I assume a device license is transferable? I mean to transfer it when I ditch my Mac for a new one, so I'm talking about my devices only. I'm just asking to be clear, especially given use of the word "lifetime". Thanks!

New comment by Jailbird in "Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri"

Jailbird — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:35:51 +0000

I cross my sevens!

I'll consider starting to slash my zeros. Seems legit.

New comment by Jailbird in "1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18"

Jailbird — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:47:54 +0000

Did we learn nothing from "A View to a Kill" ?

New comment by Jailbird in "Zed is our office"

Jailbird — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:11:38 +0000

There are canvases.... Some similarities if you squint. Clearly not for code use but for shared durable notes....

New comment by Jailbird in "Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale"

Jailbird — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 03:59:54 +0000

I've seen both of these philosophies. I liken them to religions, the believers are devout. Code is King vs the DB is King.

I'm personally Code is King, and I have my reasons (like everyone else)

New comment by Jailbird in "Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage"

Jailbird — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:14:14 +0000

OK, in all fairness I did think all we were talking about was the trigger, not the underlying vulnerable system (which I already had understood to be less than solid over the years.)

New comment by Jailbird in "Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage"

Jailbird — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 04:02:17 +0000

I heard similar but haven't found a "no, it wasn't a monkey" article yet.

New comment by Jailbird in "Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)"

Jailbird — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 17:13:21 +0000

I'd say that's about the process itself, not the script mirroring the process.

Fix the process, fix the script. Onwards....

New comment by Jailbird in "A simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils"

Jailbird — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:41:22 +0000

Probably not by Black Plastic Kitchen Utensil Co., though...

New comment by Jailbird in "We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines"

Jailbird — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 02:39:23 +0000

What are good places to start down this rabbit hole? (for those willing to have their illusions tarnished? )

New comment by Jailbird in "Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces"

Jailbird — Fri, 10 May 2024 11:02:40 +0000

My first thought was that airplanes need noise canceling for the engine sounds. There's a real difference in a long flight with and without noise canceling headphones. Effective (better?) noise cancelation for the whole cabin would be impactful.

New comment by Jailbird in "Gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations"

Jailbird — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 13:23:19 +0000

OK yeah, I was just attempting not to project authority but let the data (which I didn't have handy) be the important part.

New comment by Jailbird in "Gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations"

Jailbird — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 13:08:38 +0000

I'm definitely not an expert, but I would say nothing of note has changed with our utility bill since we replaced the gas cooktop with an induction cooktop. The marketing will tell you it's more efficient because all the energy goes into the cooking (heating the pot) instead of heating the room as with gas. But hey, that's marketing.

One other concern was control: we did find out that the power levels on our model were not linear. The first 5 were all low power for low power needs (eggs, sauces, etc) and then 6 through 9 were much larger increments for high power needs (e.g. frying).

Our experiment before committing was using a plug in cooktop. We got a good one, and even though it was "only" 1800W it made many meals. It's power settings were linear but offered us 0-100% in 1% increments (amazing control! Love that thing.)

New comment by Jailbird in "Gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations"

Jailbird — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 12:50:38 +0000

After trying induction for a couple of years, I now believe it's superior to gas.

New comment by Jailbird in "EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR"

Jailbird — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 11:12:09 +0000

I've seen that forever and not just on United. I have thought it's something about the underlying SABRE system that many airlines use. Maybe someone here knows more.

New comment by Jailbird in "United Airlines plans to board passengers with window seats first"

Jailbird — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 02:32:53 +0000

The article mentions they only plan to do this starting at group 4... So that's

1. All pre boarding (military, families with small children, wheelchairs, etc)

2. Global services

3. Group 1

4. Group 2

5. Group 3

6. Group 4

7. Group 5

I also think Group 2 often seems to me to be the most populous one... that may just be my experience.

I guess now I can see why they'd only save 2 minutes.

Edit: formatting, formatting and more formatting

New comment by Jailbird in "Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release"

Jailbird — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 07:34:42 +0000

Chiming in: on my Android, I do have FF Nightly as my default browser for the whole phone. Recently some Google apps have begun to use Chrome, ignoring the system setting, but mostly, the setting is honored. There might be a few other exceptions but again... mostly honored. (Phone is a Samsung Galaxy S23)