Hacker News: jojobas

New comment by jojobas in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

jojobas — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:46:39 +0000

Great, time to proxy through AWS, Azure and GCP so that these muppets block Spain from everything.

New comment by jojobas in "Kindle users in uproar over update rendering oldest devices virtually unusable"

jojobas — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:21:53 +0000

Great incentive to never buy a device you don't get to own and never pay for "libraries" where you don't get the durable files.

New comment by jojobas in "Happy Map"

jojobas — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:08:00 +0000

For me, too many people seem to be happy about things of no consequence at all.

Ate pizza? Made plans to go to a casino? Cut your hair? Come on.

New comment by jojobas in "Happy Map"

jojobas — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:18:18 +0000

You can (and indeed must) control a lot about whether family, especially children, make you happy.

Also many people don't seem to control what they buy.

New comment by jojobas in "Happy Map"

jojobas — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:16:25 +0000

Of course you can, you just have to cause it years in advance.

New comment by jojobas in "Happy Map"

jojobas — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:37:57 +0000

Children/family = least agency, while buying something = most agency? I must be misunderstanding something big time.

New comment by jojobas in "1D Chess"

jojobas — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:30:39 +0000

Odd moves for white, even for black.

New comment by jojobas in "Filing the Corners Off MacBooks"

jojobas — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:26:21 +0000

You can anodize aluminium black relatively easily, similar to this

https://youtu.be/y8HEZ-x4-_w?t=402

Getting the shade right could be tricky though.

New comment by jojobas in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

jojobas — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:20:56 +0000

The strait is wider than horizon distance from reasonable heights. Also that's how you don't hear back from the analyst in many different ways.

New comment by jojobas in "John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement"

jojobas — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:07:22 +0000

Going out of your way to make sure the gauge doesn't work after the battery is replaced surely is.

New comment by jojobas in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

jojobas — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:54:48 +0000

Why would a newspaper openly try to doxx someone who did nothing wrong?

Clearly the guy doesn't want to be public and there is no public interest in figuring him out either.

New comment by jojobas in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

jojobas — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:52:39 +0000

"Created" or "originally used" would be on point, 60 years after the fact it is just slop.

New comment by jojobas in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

jojobas — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:16:14 +0000

If "shouldn't" worked we'd have no industrial accidents without any safety measures, no unwanted pregnancies and in general would more or less achieve heaven on Earth.

New comment by jojobas in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

jojobas — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:43:09 +0000

This son is reportedly in coma and in no position to rule.

New comment by jojobas in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

jojobas — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:19:57 +0000

The old government is largely dead. The new one has a carrot and a stick in front of them.

New comment by jojobas in "Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it"

jojobas — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:40:11 +0000

I got 6/9 and I've never been there.

New comment by jojobas in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

jojobas — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:24:24 +0000

Surely you realize it's AI responding? (not sure if /s)

New comment by jojobas in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

jojobas — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:10:12 +0000

His first, middle and last names are among the more popular, chances are you found a namesake.

New comment by jojobas in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

jojobas — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:31:41 +0000

The guy called out for being a sociopath by a multitude of Silicon Valley CEOs of all people, sure we can trust him our future.

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

jojobas — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:27:53 +0000

On call should go against negotiated hours like 1/3 or 1/4. 3-4 8-hour shifts on call = day off. A single shift requiring active firefighting = day off.