Hacker News: jpease

New comment by jpease in "A desktop made for one"

jpease — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:43:07 +0000

Just to be contrarian, perhaps some measure of risk is reduced by the scale of one.

Identifying a vulnerability that can be exploited against many thousands or millions of targets is perhaps more attractive than a single one of individually low value.

This of course would assume that vulnerabilities are in fact unique (which is admittedly questionable).

New comment by jpease in "The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands"

jpease — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:20:46 +0000

CTRL-ALT-DEL?

New comment by jpease in "Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites"

jpease — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:43:30 +0000

In a cool club on the other side of town, where the real cool kids go to sit around and talk bad about the other kids.

Yeah, it's a real cool club and you're not part of it.

New comment by jpease in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

jpease — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:56:43 +0000

Plus still have to contend with the space sharks.

New comment by jpease in "Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers"

jpease — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:13:21 +0000

Lo, behold how the beast doth roar! From the depths thereof it crieth aloud, saying, “Feed me.”

Sincerely,

Sales & Marketing

New comment by jpease in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

jpease — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:47:22 +0000

Clicks through to see what Tom or Chris started…

Oh, nevermind, it’s some MS dude.

New comment by jpease in "Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?"

jpease — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:36:31 +0000

I asked AI if “I asked AI, and it said” replies should be forbidden, and it said…

New comment by jpease in "macOS Tahoe"

jpease — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:54:28 +0000

At a minimum, it can not find them faster!

New comment by jpease in "Nerve pain drug gabapentin linked to increased dementia, cognitive impairment"

jpease — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 05:17:07 +0000

As results are quantified by number of “prescriptions”, and 6 prescriptions of n pills at a given dosage presumably increase risk over 1 prescription of 6(n) pills, then they’ve clearly proven the risk factor is going to the pharmacy.

New comment by jpease in "Octobass"

jpease — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 04:49:40 +0000

Saw it in Phoenix.

Definitely big.

Wouldn’t recommend for slap.

New comment by jpease in "The Rise of the Japanese Toilet"

jpease — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 17:50:24 +0000

I would’ve expected better sarcasm detection from this audience.

But, since jokes are best explained:

The opening assertion is one that mimics the toilet hygiene practices of many, but recasts it in a scenario that the reader is likely to find repugnant and evoke a reaction.

The second statement draws the reader’s attention back to the topic at hand, with that fresh strong feeling.

The reader may then make the connection that if “a few wipes with paper towel” is not good enough in scenario A, then the argument is that it is not enough in scenario B.

Others would downvote.

New comment by jpease in "The Rise of the Japanese Toilet"

jpease — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 03:11:55 +0000

If you get feces on your hands, a few wipes with paper towel is good enough.

Why do we need something fancier for a toilet?

New comment by jpease in "Chimps strike stones against trees as communication, study suggests"

jpease — Thu, 29 May 2025 21:22:07 +0000

Chimps strike stones against trees as communication.

Communication translated:

“You see this stone? Get any closer and you’re next, Timmy. Seriously. I’m in no kind of mood to be messed with today.”

New comment by jpease in "Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought"

jpease — Mon, 12 May 2025 20:57:14 +0000

Accepting table reservations now, you won’t want to miss this.

New comment by jpease in "Doge Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months"

jpease — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:51:43 +0000

Years are made of months.

New comment by jpease in "Tech takes the Pareto principle too far"

jpease — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:17:19 +0000

Scanning the comments, it looks like 80% of you agree with 20% of what the author is saying.

New comment by jpease in "41% of Employers Worldwide Say They'll Reduce Staff by 2030 Due to AI"

jpease — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:44:43 +0000

C-suite is a pretty huge salary expense. Seems like prime target for AI replacement.

And working for even a glorified clippy would be a better experience than some we’ve all probably encountered.

New comment by jpease in "Pointless Velocity"

jpease — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 21:49:06 +0000

Thank you for the in depth response.

The part I attempted to highlight as nonsense, perhaps unsuccessfully so, is the idea that “velocity” is a measurement of output. It is solely a measurement of estimation accuracy. As such, your example of increasing velocity by 5% each sprint falls into the three problematic scenarios described, right? If not, I’m happy to learn what I’m missing.

As far as the usefulness of story points to talk about time estimates while mitigating some of the human nature you describe, I don’t disagree. However, by masking that points ultimately are placeholders for time, I believe it’s contributed to nonsensical concepts (like Velocity) which would be clear if using plain language.

New comment by jpease in "Pointless Velocity"

jpease — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:26:57 +0000

Have you ever been asked to improve velocity?

Absolute & utter nonsense.

Pointless Velocity

jpease — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:26:57 +0000

Article URL: https://justinpease.com/2023/12/28/pointless-velocity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38842563

Points: 1

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