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New comment by jmuguy in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

jmuguy — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:20:47 +0000

From my old experience in IT - people just default to Microsoft for everything. They don't want to hassle with learning anything else and assume better the devil you know. Glad I'm out of that world but its wild what people will put up with.

New comment by jmuguy in "LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer"

jmuguy — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:49:52 +0000

This is ignoring things like newspapers that were made obsolete by the internet. At some point someone does need to actually pay for the content we see online. That is if we want that content to actually be good.

New comment by jmuguy in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

jmuguy — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:04:39 +0000

One of the principles of HN is to take the strongest meaning of an argument, instead of the weakest. I am not casting everyone who prepares for a disaster into the same bucket - I have specifically said I think that people who are attempting to prepare for the literal end of the world by stockpiling supplies are silly.

There are IMO a very small set of circumstances, out of many likely full collapse scenarios, where your average American (and make no mistake - I am specifically referring to Americans here) stockpiling junk is going to actually survive for very long.

This has nothing to do with faith in our society or institutions just that is uniquely American to think that you can buy your way out of any circumstance you can imagine.

New comment by jmuguy in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

jmuguy — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:51:48 +0000

Well for one thing - you'd get by a lot better with beans and rice and a functioning garden than overpriced dehydrated meals. And what I'm referring to by buckets (that is a lot/years supplies) of dehydrated food and who is being targeted are companies like this https://www.mypatriotsupply.com/pages/about-us

"We’re taking steps for survival for what we all know is coming. Today." I mean, come on.

Maybe I'm just beating around the bush too much - what I'm making fun of are people that are "prepping" for the end of the world. It is a silly (and strictly American, I imagine) fantasy to think that you're going to ride out the end of days sitting on a pile of guns and MREs. That is who I'm making fun of, and yes those people exist.

New comment by jmuguy in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

jmuguy — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:04:23 +0000

I agree with you on actual preparedness and getting to know your neighbors.

However, I think the derogatory prepper must exist in some number because you see so many products clearly targeting them. All the tacticool stuff, the buckets of dehydrated food, etc etc

New comment by jmuguy in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

jmuguy — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:57:47 +0000

They probably saw good results with this back when everyone could take a piece of Craiglist's business and make a billion bucks. Now you're just left with the ethos of cheating your way to the top without a real business to attach it to.

New comment by jmuguy in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

jmuguy — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:57:09 +0000

Well usually when people refer to someone as a prepper its the specific type of person that is buying hundreds of guns, tons of dehydrated meals but still living on city water - like they're preparing for a disaster movie but not anything real. Specifically the idea that you would be able to stay in place, with all your hoarded disaster crap, during the end of the world is kind of funny.

New comment by jmuguy in "AI coding is gambling"

jmuguy — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:13:11 +0000

A lot of this is also missing understanding the software we're creating. I have a deep knowledge of our SaaS because I've spent years working on coding it. If I had been prompting an LLM this entire time, I can't imagine I would actually have near the same understanding. That is assuming purely planning and prompting could actually result in a product that's in active use for years and not just a pile of prototypes which apparently desperately needed to be created and were just waiting for AI to come along to make it possible.

I've been using AI tools more but this idea of never actually writing any code seems way too black and white to be serious.

New comment by jmuguy in "White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward"

jmuguy — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:44:15 +0000

Yeah really the take away apparently is that Democrats should just lie, brazenly, about everything. I mean that's what Trump and JD Vance did and continue to do. When you can just invent your own world to live in, how are rational people supposed to deal with that? Would people have reacted different if Biden and Harris had truthfully said "oh and the world is still fucked up because of COVID, electing Donald Trump won't change that"

New comment by jmuguy in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

jmuguy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:37:48 +0000

I hadn't really considered the case of actually wanting to learn English :) I just assume its tolerated by the rest of the world.

New comment by jmuguy in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

jmuguy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:29:22 +0000

Beyond folks for whom English is a second language, I agree with you. I don't understand why people are immediately trying to find some loophole in this with spelling, grammar, etc checks. We just want to communicate with you, and if you sound like an idiot without the help of an LLM then maybe work on that rather than pretending to be Hemingway.

New comment by jmuguy in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

jmuguy — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:59:04 +0000

Its disingenuous to claim that OP spent that much time and money to know when the washing cycle was complete. That's one of several different things the screen can do in addition to everything else it can display.

New comment by jmuguy in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

jmuguy — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:51:37 +0000

I think you can divide the comments in here between people that have a family and don't. "Why would you need to know when the washer is done! Just set an alarm". When you have (young) kids, you'll be wandering around the house looking for the pen that's in your left hand. Little reminders like that are really nice.

New comment by jmuguy in "Open source is not about you (2018)"

jmuguy — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:12:26 +0000

What do you mean?

New comment by jmuguy in "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash"

jmuguy — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:40:33 +0000

Without it, if you want to know when something is happening on camera, you have to use motion detection. Motion detection sucks. Everything sets it off. Shadows moving, insects... anything moving.

Object detection, and then human detection, is extremely useful. Thankfully thats become nearly trivia enough to happen on device, but even with just "dumb" cameras the open source, on network solutions are very good.

New comment by jmuguy in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

jmuguy — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:10:49 +0000

Fastmail seems to go through periods where they're a little slower to adjust to new spam techniques, and they do rely on users filtering somewhat. About twice a year a few will slip through, but if I report them as spam they soon stop.

I've been a happy customer otherwise for years, for what its worth.

New comment by jmuguy in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

jmuguy — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:28:12 +0000

Google is at least less arbitrary than Microsoft. Microsoft will decide an email is spam today, and tomorrow the exact same email is perfectly fine. I think Google relies more and more on sending IP and domain reputation rather than content.

New comment by jmuguy in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

jmuguy — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:23:52 +0000

Most of that can be mitigated, or at least centrally managed, using an ESP like Mailgun or Sendgrid.

It is a pain in the ass though, coming from someone that had to dig their domain out of "low" reputation with Google Postmaster.

New comment by jmuguy in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

jmuguy — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:45:31 +0000

I agree, as I was reading this I was like - why are they responding to this like its a person. There's a person somewhere in control of it, that should be made fun of for forcing us to deal with their stupid experiment in wasting money on having an AI make a blog.

New comment by jmuguy in "Show HN: Rails UI"

jmuguy — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:15:55 +0000

This definitely does fill a gap that Rails has. I love using it but man I can't make a nice looking front end to save my life. We've used Tailwind UI a ton but thats kind of a foot gun because you end up slightly tweaking classes all over the place if you're not disciplined.