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New comment by icameron in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

icameron — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:23:33 +0000

I was thinking about your last point about why we honor veterans. In the US it’s not really the case that without them we’d be captured or killed. All our conflicts in the last several generations have been us invading or fighting in foreign lands against forces that were not attacking us. All our modern military personnel are willfully employed and well compensated and given lifetime benefits for that.

New comment by icameron in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

icameron — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:34:14 +0000

It’s tacky. Here’s my kid sitting on a bar.

New comment by icameron in "Show HN: GrobPaint: Somewhere Between MS Paint and Paint.net"

icameron — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:15:29 +0000

It lists Magic Wand under Features [1] https://github.com/groverburger/grobpaint/blob/e249c7553f4c8...

New comment by icameron in "Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project"

icameron — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:31:00 +0000

I can’t stop myself from chewing on the little rubber cups that come in the ends of earbuds. I guess the slightly sweet synthetic taste is BPAs.

New comment by icameron in "Ten years of deploying to production"

icameron — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:34:57 +0000

Yes yes. You’re right. I am saying at some places devs don’t own production- there’s an IT/Ops/non-dev person in the loop. Especially common if you’re a consultant in non-tech industries

New comment by icameron in "Ten years of deploying to production"

icameron — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:13:53 +0000

I completely agree. I really worded this poorly. I was trying to say it’s great to have CI/CD to production. There are places I’ve worked who don’t have it due to their bureaucracy/regulation/security. Not because we don’t know how it set it up

New comment by icameron in "Ten years of deploying to production"

icameron — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:07:32 +0000

That’s a tough policy to only update prod biweekly! It would be super frustrating if you had a bug crawl out and not be allowed to patch it for 2 weeks. This post really expresses the frustration of working in a bureaucratic environment where developers don’t have full access to change production.

That being said CI/CD is a luxury for coders at lean startups, but there’s still a lot of jobs where you have to work with some DevOps Team to deploy your code to prod. Organizations past a certain size have more hoops to jump through, for reasons.

Of course as a dev it’s ideal to have full access!

New comment by icameron in "Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)"

icameron — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:47:25 +0000

Sturgeon. Maybe lamprey (I've never tried it)

New comment by icameron in "OpenAI should build Slack"

icameron — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:38:46 +0000

My org went all in on Teams over 6 years ago. Removed all PBX systems and desk phones. Pulled out Cisco phones from 20 offices. Ported all numbers to MS. By all accounts it was unremarkable to the end users, and when WFH mandates started it was seamless. Definitely a lot less IT support for configuring and troubleshooting a phone system too. There is far less downtime because Teams will ring through to your cell phone if the office internet is down or your laptop is off. That was not possible when the Cisco routers and CallManager in the office were running the DIDs and local extensions

New comment by icameron in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

icameron — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:00:41 +0000

Page crashed after downloading and extracting. On safari iPhone that’s a few years old, latest iOS. I was really interested in trying / why I waited Ed: tried again it crashed at 66% loading (after 100% loading)

New comment by icameron in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

icameron — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:44:36 +0000

Sure, if there is increasing or evolving utility being offered. But it’s also fair to charge for upgrades in that case.

New comment by icameron in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

icameron — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:50:29 +0000

Running a web server off a disposable vape: https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/

New comment by icameron in "ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods"

icameron — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:31:58 +0000

When I first heard the advice to ditch your phone when you go a protest, I thought maybe that's a little extreme. But it's a real threat. We already knew post Snowden there is an extensive big brother apparatus. We saw post 911 that all rights can be taken away in the name of counter-terrorism. Now with a government that's operating outside the law and labeling peaceful protesters as terrorists, I don't think we can rely on telcos to protect our identity. The mass surveillance will fingerprint a device, and the telco will know your name so it's not at all an extreme precaution to ditch your phone.

New comment by icameron in "10 years of personal finances in plain text files"

icameron — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:49:46 +0000

Is there any other way to deal with comcrap? I’ve been doing the annual ritual of calling them to say the bill went up by 50% give me the best rate again. Every year it’s always a short term promo. This year took a lot longer to get through to a human

New comment by icameron in "Grok 4.1"

icameron — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 01:20:18 +0000

Yeah it’s really kinda overconfident, aggressive and rude I’ve found. It says it has a solution to a problem caused by Microsoft updade November 2025 and “hundreds of users have been using it for 6 months” obviously that’s impossible

New comment by icameron in "Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated"

icameron — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:19:36 +0000

The market was down for AI related stocks especially, while down only over 3% it’s the worst week since April, and there’s no single event that is to blame it just looks like market sentiment has shifted away from the previous unchecked exuberance.

New comment by icameron in "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"

icameron — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 03:42:27 +0000

You have over a 100,000 servers? How is this? This is wild to ponder. I can only guess your monthly bill is in the millions. Are you able to say the company?

New comment by icameron in "The MP3.com Rescue Barge Barge"

icameron — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 04:54:57 +0000

Thank you for the rescue, I loved mp3.com for discovering new artists and genres. I created an artist account and they sent me stickers and a tote bag, I thought those records were long lost, but finally just found them here!

I believe this site helped post hardcore emo break into the mainstream in the very early 2000s. Bands like Thursday and Taking Back Sunday rose on the mp3 charts with their Demos before they were signed. At least that’s how I remember it.

New comment by icameron in "Intent to Deprecate and Remove XSLT"

icameron — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 06:50:28 +0000

During my college undergrad CS series we had a practicum with a real engineer from HP or somewhere. Our project was to help the world find and download printer drivers over the web. The project was to make a Java web service send XML that conformed to a schema, which would be turned into a webpage by a transform aka XSLT. It seemed convoluted at the time. The teacher showed us “the how” but I guess “the why” was left as an exercise for the reader. I never understood the big picture- at the time it seemed rather complex. But now I realize this probably would have scaled quite well on turn of the century hardware.

New comment by icameron in "This World of Ours (2014) [pdf]"

icameron — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:47:35 +0000

While not the uranium phones and tee shirts, in the real world just last year we got Operation Grim Beeper, where Mossad remotely detonated thousands of custom made pagers with a few grams of plastic explosive, followed by two way radios the next day. AFAIK they didn’t make tee shirts but they did go on 60 minutes, in disguise, to brag about the operation. Just saying, it seems pretty on brand.