Hacker News: mchristen

New comment by mchristen in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

mchristen — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:47:40 +0000

Those could just be individual commits on a branch. Why does it need to be a stacked PR? That concept really only exists within the interfaces of these kinds of tools.

New comment by mchristen in "BGP ORIGIN attribute manipulation and its impact on the Internet"

mchristen — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:50:50 +0000

For the longest time I could not stream YouTube on my Google fiber connection without constant buffering unless I ran my browser through a socks proxy to a server outside of the ISP network.

Some time a few years ago they got it figured out and it's no longer been an issue. I could not explain to the CSR in terms they understood what the problem was.

I always assumed it was some kind of mis-configuration...

New comment by mchristen in "Beyond the SQLite single-writer limitation with concurrent writes"

mchristen — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 02:13:03 +0000

Unfortunately if you use WAL mode the transactions are only isolated per database file.

https://www.sqlite.org/lang_attach.html

New comment by mchristen in "Mr. Cooper Group Hit by Cybersecurity Breach"

mchristen — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:39:15 +0000

https://incident.mrcooperinfo.com/ for their actual posting. Light on details so far.

New comment by mchristen in "GFiber Labs announces first project: 20 Gig with Wi-Fi 7"

mchristen — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:07:59 +0000

It's not all sunshine and rainbows though. I've been lucky to have Google Fiber for a number of years and I still get buffering issues with YouTube and YouTube TV.

New comment by mchristen in "Can the American mall survive?"

mchristen — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 16:42:47 +0000

Austin Community College has done this and it's amazing.

https://www.austincc.edu/campuses/highland-campus

New comment by mchristen in "OctoPrint: Snappy web interface for your 3D printer"

mchristen — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 02:35:49 +0000

If only my 3D printer was as reliable as OctoPrint :)

New comment by mchristen in "It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV"

mchristen — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 17:58:42 +0000

my Roku Ultra is very fast. It's the TCL Roku TV that is very slow.

New comment by mchristen in "It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV"

mchristen — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 17:58:14 +0000

1) I'm not the sole user of these TVs. 2) If I wanted a "dumb monitor" I would have bought one. 3) When I sit down to watch something, I put my phone away and in a different room so I am not distracted by it, that goes against using the "remote apps".

New comment by mchristen in "It’s Still Stupidly, Difficult to Buy a ‘Dumb’ TV"

mchristen — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 12:40:07 +0000

I also own a TCL Roku TV and the interface is easily twice as slow as my Roku Ultra. Right on the home screen is a giant ad(unless you have network adblocking). Over the years Roku and Google have been fighting about Youtube/Youtube TV on Roku, just like Disney/ESPN fought the cable companies.

I also own a Toshiba built FireTV that suffers from those same problems but far worse. Way more ads, much slower interface, and the hilarious part is a hidden power off button in the menus(it's fun trying to turn the TV off without the proper remote).

New comment by mchristen in "Ask HN: Alternate Email hosting to G Suite"

mchristen — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:05:02 +0000

Well I've had my free gsuite account for almost 15 years so you still have some time before you get to Google levels of screwed over.

New comment by mchristen in "Google could face class action lawsuit over free G Suite legacy account shutdown"

mchristen — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 23:22:13 +0000

I believe there is a technical challenge they are not willing to overcome. My Google Apps account has long had broken integrations with almost all of the "new" google services. There is also a limitation in that you can't join a family group using a Google apps account, so I'm forced to have a regular gmail account anyways in order to participate in that.

New comment by mchristen in "Hypersonic HAWC missile flies, but details are kept hidden"

mchristen — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 20:16:37 +0000

> In aerodynamics, a hypersonic speed is one that greatly exceeds the speed of sound, often stated as starting at speeds of Mach 5 and above.

New comment by mchristen in "Why is the university of California dropping the SAT?"

mchristen — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 16:21:13 +0000

The downside of that system is that the 10% at one school is definitely not equivalent to the top 10% in another school. When you compare rural school districts to the suburbs of the major cities a kid in the top 10 people at one school might not even rank in the top quarter at another school.

New comment by mchristen in "The humble water heater could be the savior of our energy infrastructure woes"

mchristen — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 13:11:29 +0000

The city of Austin has a chilled water loop and more. It's pretty neat how it all works. https://austinenergy.com/ae/commercial/commercial-services/d...

New comment by mchristen in "Condo boards everywhere are unprepared for serious repairs"

mchristen — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 18:37:29 +0000

I can relate to this. My parents lived in a 22 story building that had water leaks throughout the entire building from construction defects. Until my mom literally got herself elected to be the president of the condo board nobody seemed to care that the building was broken. Many years later and a lawsuit against the developer, the building association and the owners were finally able to get compensated AND have the construction defects fixed.

There is no way you can financially prepare for the magnitudes of repairs needed in their case.

New comment by mchristen in "Amazon Sidewalk"

mchristen — Tue, 11 May 2021 12:32:48 +0000

They are oftentimes way more expense, I'm guessing because you aren't subsidizing the cost with your data.

New comment by mchristen in "New malware found on 30k Macs has security pros stumped"

mchristen — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:59:44 +0000

Signing doesn't keep Gatekeeper away, you need to also get your app notarized, which involves uploading the app to Apple's servers.

New comment by mchristen in "Building DigitalOcean's API Gateway"

mchristen — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 16:35:40 +0000

It's not just big tech. I've seen multiple startups struggle and fail because ultimately they are building things to build things, not to solve the problem they set out to solve.

New comment by mchristen in "Reed-Solomon error recovery in RAID-6"

mchristen — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:51:45 +0000

More than once I've lost a RAID array during a rebuild. That's what backups are for, I suppose.