Hacker News: m4ck_

New comment by m4ck_ in "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"

m4ck_ — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:36:30 +0000

To the business? logistics, facilities (think power, HVAC, refrigeration systems), security, HR, finance, accounting, legal, purchasing, sales, marketing, etc. Probably with multiple environments (dev/qa/prod/DR) for anything important.

New comment by m4ck_ in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

m4ck_ — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:27:51 +0000

If companies would allow people to spread out more we could probably improve that situation some, but they want us all concentrated in 10-20 major metro areas. There's cheap housing in this country, its just in places where the job market is extremely limited.

New comment by m4ck_ in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

m4ck_ — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:54:01 +0000

You can definitely get a decent jet in that budget, there's a popular tech youtuber who recently bought one for considerably less. I'm pretty sure you could get like 6 houses in mountain view and still have money left over for a jet.

New comment by m4ck_ in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

m4ck_ — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:02:57 +0000

If i run that (or similar sites) multiple times, shouldn't I like.. not be unique each time?

New comment by m4ck_ in "I want to live like Costco people"

m4ck_ — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:57:10 +0000

In my experience, get there as early as possible and it's not bad. But that's the standard for these membership stores, although Sam's Club has the edge being able to use their app to scan your items and pay without having to stop anywhere (other than the line to get out.)

Publix' pricing is obscene though.

New comment by m4ck_ in "UK: Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds strongly"

m4ck_ — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:17:47 +0000

Ram 1500 eTorque is one.

New comment by m4ck_ in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

m4ck_ — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:02:18 +0000

But the claude/cursor/kiro/codex said my code was production ready, enterprise grade, and PCI/alphabet soup compliant.

New comment by m4ck_ in "The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars"

m4ck_ — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:32:50 +0000

What Edison motors is trying to do with their conversion kits is the solution for us privacy-aware folks, I think. If they, or someone, manage to bring hybrid/electric conversion kits to the market, we'll have an option that's slightly better than hoping parts stay available for older cars.

New comment by m4ck_ in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"

m4ck_ — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:31:44 +0000

I felt the same way, they used to taste awful to me, now I only notice a slight difference between Dr Pepper zero and regular. Maybe I just got older and my taste buds degraded?

New comment by m4ck_ in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"

m4ck_ — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:22:07 +0000

It's probably not great if you're drinking dozens of cans of sugar free soda every day.

All I really know is don't take health advice from influencers, especially if they're selling something, and don't take health advice from people who support deregulation (less industry transparency, oversight, and consequences won't make food or anything safer.)

New comment by m4ck_ in "I am building a cloud"

m4ck_ — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:30:22 +0000

And if you need a cluster, Hashicorp Nomad seems like a more reasonable option than full blown kubernetes. I've never actually used it in prod, only a lab, but I enjoyed it.

New comment by m4ck_ in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

m4ck_ — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:01:33 +0000

I agree, but the law is pretty vague. Root is a user on an operating system on a general purpose computer after all.

New comment by m4ck_ in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

m4ck_ — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:49:42 +0000

I look forward to having to age verify the dbus and chrony and root accounts on every linux-based "smart" device in the future. That should be fun.

Will my children be able to use my smart oven/thermostat after I verify I'm 18+ on those devices?

I also wonder what verification will look like for containers and and VMs that might have a short life. Maybe that's how we keep IT jobs for a little while longer? Human age verification on every local account every time a container or VM is spun up.

New comment by m4ck_ in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

m4ck_ — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:25:29 +0000

And it's seemingly the only large platform where you have some control over the 'algorithm' - meaning if I tell it I'm not interested in something, or not to show me content from a creator, it actually works. On Facebook or Instagram the "not interested" button doesn't seem to do anything and it takes several clicks and a wait to block an account.

New comment by m4ck_ in "The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands"

m4ck_ — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:53:59 +0000

It's 2026, you should not be using command prompt (or batch.) In powershell ls is a built in alias to get-childitem and has been for years, and in recent versions of windows you'd have to go out of your way to get a command prompt (you would have to open a powershell terminal and then run cmd.)

New comment by m4ck_ in "The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands"

m4ck_ — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:44:42 +0000

You could just one line it too:

  Get-Item "C:\some path\having spaces.txt" | select DirectoryName, Name, Basename

New comment by m4ck_ in "The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands"

m4ck_ — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:29:39 +0000

rm only removes files and directories right? Remove-Item can be used for any powershell provider, such as environment variables, active directory, certificates, and registry. And of course you can implement your own providers that utilize *-item cmdlets. I don't know that i'd call either superior, or that i'd even say that they're equivalent. rm is a utility for removing files, remove-item is a little more than that.

New comment by m4ck_ in "The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands"

m4ck_ — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:10:04 +0000

The verbosity especially in cmdlet names kind of sucks but having everything be an object with properties and methods, vs having to chop up and parse and pipe text is quite nice. I haven't had the pleasure of being a linux admin professionally so I don't have much experience on the linux side.. but just like a really simple example of getting in interface's IP address.. Grabbing a property from get-netipaddress is easier/faster/simpler to me than chopping up text output from ifconfig.

This applies to errors of course, there are a number of properties for an error that you can look at (and use in scripts to handle errors) if the full output is too much or unclear.

New comment by m4ck_ in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

m4ck_ — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:58:57 +0000

Pre-trump's attempts to eliminate the department, almost $20 billion.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/enforcement/enforcement-by-t...

New comment by m4ck_ in "Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products"

m4ck_ — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:13:26 +0000

If companies are going to start giving us free drugs to boost productivity, they should at least give out the good stuff. Give me a modafinil (/provigil) vending machine, forget nicotine.