Hacker News: joncp

New comment by joncp in "Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down"

joncp — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:35:15 +0000

I’d love to find a way to do something similar with neighboring dogs.

New comment by joncp in "Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices"

joncp — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:47:44 +0000

... and a car to haul all that stuff, and time to drive to the nearest Costco.

It really is a luxury that a ton of people can't afford.

New comment by joncp in "Poisoning Well"

joncp — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:08:44 +0000

That’ll end up in an arms race where you refine the gibberish to be more and more believable while the crawlers get better and better at detecting poison wells. The end state is where your fake pages are so close to the real thing that humans can’t tell the difference

New comment by joncp in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

joncp — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:47:41 +0000

> That is achievable in physical security, but not in cybersecurity.

Not with physical security either, I'm afraid.

New comment by joncp in "Fern Hollow Bridge should have been closed years before it collapsed"

joncp — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:09:26 +0000

They sort of do have that power. They have the ability to lower the max vehicle weight and eventually it gets lowered to where no real traffic can go over it. Grady talked about it in the video.

New comment by joncp in "The flip-flop on whether alcohol is good for you (2023)"

joncp — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 21:10:20 +0000

because one doesn't tend to get drunk on pie and then go beat up your wife or run over a pedestrian with your car. Is it biblical? No, but people rank sins by social impact out of habit.

New comment by joncp in "Show HN: Peanut Butter Spinner"

joncp — Sat, 18 May 2024 20:57:17 +0000

You can also just use a hand mixer with only one beater inserted.

New comment by joncp in "Show HN: Kubernates in Node.js"

joncp — Mon, 06 May 2024 15:28:37 +0000

Cheekily forging forward with Atwood's law! I love it!

New comment by joncp in "U.S. opens UnitedHealth antitrust probe"

joncp — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 22:44:01 +0000

And has Optum conveniently forgotten to ship refills, but only for the expensive drugs? That happened to my wife on multiple occasions.

Or maybe they've rejected refill requests until right before your supply runs out, such that you have to go days without your meds while the new supply is shipped?

Optum is the shadiest shitshow I've ever dealt with.

New comment by joncp in "Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037"

joncp — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:41:32 +0000

> customers so inept that...

I used to think like that until I got to see some legacy systems in action. Sometimes it just makes financial sense to keep paying Larry and avoid a big rewrite.

New comment by joncp in "Ten Simple IT Security Rules for Early-Stage Startups"

joncp — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 14:36:48 +0000

You’re assuming that everyone in the office is a coworker.

I recommend Deviant Ollam’s YouTube channel for an entertaining way to expand your assumptions

New comment by joncp in "New Photonic Chip Is the Full Package"

joncp — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 15:37:44 +0000

We’ll call it “spacecadet’s law”: every online discussion will eventually end up talking about the bubble-du-jour.

New comment by joncp in "Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features"

joncp — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 17:37:43 +0000

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like podman is by and for linux devs. Once you move to Mac or Windows, you give up podman's main benefit of running containers without a daemon since you're still having to run a VM.

New comment by joncp in "Unix Time reaches 1.7 billion"

joncp — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 23:46:56 +0000

I remember where I was when we hit 1,000,000,000. My coworkers thought I was strange for thinking it was significant.

... two days later all hell broke loose.

New comment by joncp in "I've overlayed stays on a light pollution satellite map"

joncp — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:52:27 +0000

It's goofy on FF/Mac too. Not flashing but oddly distorted.

New comment by joncp in "An ultra-quiet electric leaf blower"

joncp — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 21:39:46 +0000

> Cool tech, but the GTM strategy will make or break them

I'm having trouble seeing what google tag manager has to to with it.

New comment by joncp in "Jupe: Off-grid shelters that pop up anywhere on Earth"

joncp — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 09:20:35 +0000

This feels like the Juicero of tents.

New comment by joncp in "US Government issues first-ever space debris penalty to Dish Network"

joncp — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 18:26:14 +0000

Exactly. Some sort of escrow to guarantee that what goes up will eventually come down. Without that satellite operators could go out of business and dissolve without cleaning up their messes, much like mining companies have historically done.

New comment by joncp in "Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens (2022)"

joncp — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:28:06 +0000

Even better: just uninstall the apps and only use the sites via mobile web. The benefits: you'll never see a single notification from apps you don't have, they'll never be able to eat your battery, openings for tracking are much reduced, and the slightly less awesome UI of the web version will somewhat reduce the dopamine hit you get from interacting with them.

New comment by joncp in "Runme – Interactive Runbooks Built with Markdown"

joncp — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 22:56:00 +0000

Another is that it looks like runme is written in Go instead of python. It's a single executable I can drop onto any new machine instead of futzing around getting a particular python version installed before doing any work.