Hacker News: mejthemage

New comment by mejthemage in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

mejthemage — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:49:45 +0000

Claude was very easy to unsubscribe from. I barely use it anymore anyways, primarily use Gemini

New comment by mejthemage in "Automatic Programming"

mejthemage — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:46:30 +0000

I hope you aren't missing the point. My position is similar to the author. I WILL take responsibility for the code I push to production, and rather than input a prompt and roll the dice on the outcome, I am strategic in my prompts, ensuring the LLM has the right context each time I I voke it, some of that context being accurate descriptions of what I want built, and I am in charge of ensuring it has been properly vetted. Many times I will erase what the LLM has written and redo it, by myself depending on the situation.

Replace "LLM" with "IDE" and re-read. The LLM is another tool. Of course tools can't be held responsible, the person wielding the tool is.

New comment by mejthemage in "Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers"

mejthemage — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:37:44 +0000

Humans average one police reported accident per 500,000 miles?!

TIL I'm incredibly unlucky.

New comment by mejthemage in "Twelve Days of Shell"

mejthemage — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:24:38 +0000

I went searching and realized overthewire has a bash specific course called "Bandit". Still a VM you SSH to

New comment by mejthemage in "Twelve Days of Shell"

mejthemage — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:22:15 +0000

I would love something like this that puts me in my own shell. Like a light CTF that is really just shell commands rather than breaking into a VM

New comment by mejthemage in "How “The Great Gatsby” took over high school"

mejthemage — Wed, 14 May 2025 14:23:05 +0000

You won't be given a year's supply of medication.

You will be cursed with years of calling every pharmacy in town once a month to figure out which one has your medication in stock this time, and once you figure that out, you stay on the phone with them until you walk into the store to pick it up so they don't give it to someone else.

New comment by mejthemage in "Google is winning on every AI front"

mejthemage — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:23:00 +0000

Why did you copy the dictionary's definition nearly perfectly, but then add "without logic"?

In many cases, the conservative approach to a problem is prudent because the old ways work whereas there is more risk and uncertainty with new.

That's not fear, it's wisdom.

New comment by mejthemage in "Texas banned abortion, then sepsis rates soared"

mejthemage — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:13:33 +0000

Where does "providing a choice to people in tough situations" end? When is it wrong to terminate a life because you're in a tough situation?

New comment by mejthemage in "Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim"

mejthemage — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:57:33 +0000

Reading the article, I thought every positive mentioned is also in VS Code, but VS Code has a larger more mature community.

What drew you to Zed over VS Code?

New comment by mejthemage in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

mejthemage — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:49:02 +0000

ISO 8601 is the only correct date format.

I don't care if people laugh at me when I sign documents and date them with "2025-01-16"

New comment by mejthemage in "ISPs say their "excellent customer service" is why users don't switch providers"

mejthemage — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:22:48 +0000

The one time I considered cancelling my current provider (Comcast where I have gigabit), I found the alternative was CenturyLink with 20 Mbps.

As if to rub salt in the wound, Comcast then upgraded me to 2000 Mbps which I can't even use with my current hardware.

New comment by mejthemage in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

mejthemage — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:39:24 +0000

I don't see that anything went wrong.

New comment by mejthemage in "Cops Are Towing Teslas to Secure Recordings Captured by the Cars Cameras"

mejthemage — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 20:48:09 +0000

I don't know about other property seized as evidence, but my car costs a nontrivial amount for me to own and maintain, and it's critical for my way of life. Losing my car for even a couple of days would be a very serious disruption of my life.

New comment by mejthemage in "Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out"

mejthemage — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 12:52:21 +0000

Reminds me when my daughter made her Roblox account. They had some rule "don't use your real name" but they never asked her for her real name, so couldn't validate. They would arbitrarily fail a lot of chosen usernames that were made up fake names.

When she tried a variation of "Taylor Swift" it worked fine.

New comment by mejthemage in "Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out"

mejthemage — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 12:42:46 +0000

Those rules sound more like they were developed by admins that don't know proper security and so they add complicated rules to feel like they are improving security.

The only password rule that needs to exist is "use something you've never used before". That really does make it difficult for most users though.

New comment by mejthemage in "Pixel Watch 3"

mejthemage — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 14:55:33 +0000

The number one reason I forget my watch (Garmin) is because it was on the charger the once in like 10+ days I needed to charge it.

That is a big deal to me personally, that's an extra routine I have to incorporate into my day that given the option I'd rather not.

New comment by mejthemage in "End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App"

mejthemage — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 20:33:52 +0000

I see other replies also recommending password managers

Why would I store my second authentication factor alongside the first? Aren't we effectively now back to 1FA?

New comment by mejthemage in "The Bun Shell"

mejthemage — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 16:55:05 +0000

Thank you. As someone who avoids Apple at all costs but loves zsh, this really rubbed me the wrong way. Pretty sure MacOS used to use bash too.

New comment by mejthemage in "DNS Toys (2022)"

mejthemage — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 16:29:55 +0000

I didn't know you could specify a DNS server with a name. So does dig first look up that name using whatever DNS server is normally configured to determine where the intended DNS server is?

NextDNS gives you a name that you can put in certain UIs (like "Private DNS" in Android) -- I always assumed there was just something special about those.

New comment by mejthemage in "Show HN: Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io"

mejthemage — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:13:57 +0000

There's a huge need for subscription bundles. I'd gladly pay $20/mo for access to a bunch of big names, even if I'm limited to like 60 articles per month combined across those sources.

Instead I just don't pay anyone, turn back when I encounter a paywall and look for someone's summary if I'm really interested.