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New comment by mickeypi in "Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux"

mickeypi — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 01:09:10 +0000

Yes, and this is a huge habit difference between Mac and Windows laptop users I know. Give a Windows user a Mac and they will habitually try to use scrollbars with their fingers. Mac users just don’t have that habit and they find it strange. The reflective MacBook screens also look awful with the slightest smudge so that enforces the “don’t touch” reflex for them, I think.

Can You Optimize Love?

mickeypi — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:29:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/style/love-symposium-artificial-intelligence-keeper.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567062

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mickeypi in "37-year old Easter Egg in Windows 1.0"

mickeypi — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:19:16 +0000

This is claimed to be the longest-to-discover easter egg ever.

37-year old Easter Egg in Windows 1.0

mickeypi — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:19:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.slashgear.com/1820930/longest-unfound-easter-egg-thirty-seven-year-message-microsoft-windows-team/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43576629

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by mickeypi in "Show HN: Add auth to Next.js and deploy in 60 seconds – no manual config"

mickeypi — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:27:05 +0000

I did the walkthrough - pretty slick!

New comment by mickeypi in "The C4 model for visualising software architecture (2017)"

mickeypi — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 20:50:55 +0000

The same article posted for the 14th time since 2017. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=c4model.com

New comment by mickeypi in "Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations"

mickeypi — Sat, 27 May 2023 20:04:38 +0000

FTA:

“Companies interested in the contract included Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle”

and

“The deal was considered "gift-wrapped for Amazon" until Oracle (co-chaired by Safra Catz) contested the contract”.

So pretty much every single large cloud provider went after this, though Google did eventually bow out early. Other than winning the second round of the bidding (and not actually going live), is there something Microsoft did specifically that warrants being singled out?

Intuit will pay $141M for misleading ads for free tax filing

mickeypi — Thu, 05 May 2022 05:45:37 +0000

Article URL: https://text.npr.org/1096612276

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31269967

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by mickeypi in ".plan"

mickeypi — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 06:02:49 +0000

https://github.com/microsoft/msquic

New comment by mickeypi in "No bids for over 70% of Indian coal mines up for auction"

mickeypi — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 23:11:33 +0000

The extraction of coal is really destructive too. https://www.npr.org/2021/06/28/1010956116/a-coal-mining-mons...

New comment by mickeypi in "Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared"

mickeypi — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 16:51:10 +0000

Yes, people also built the buggy software. But the role of software here can’t be overlooked. Because people trust software to run the modern world, there is a high level of trust that this software is working properly. The article says that this trust was misplaced in this case and it caused serious harm. It doesn’t just blame the existence of software, but questions the way in which it is built, used, and the ways in which society places trust in it.

New comment by mickeypi in "The Baby-Formula Crime Ring (2018)"

mickeypi — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 23:37:52 +0000

Another reason to breastfeed, if that's a viable option for the parents.

New comment by mickeypi in "America's True Unemployment Rate"

mickeypi — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 03:51:15 +0000

That’s like saying your house is for sale because if someone offered you enough money you’d sell it. Therefore all houses are for sale?

Opportunistically earning some extra cash is a lot different than having to work for a living.

New comment by mickeypi in "The American Press Is Destroying Itself"

mickeypi — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 04:15:04 +0000

Watergate was a long, difficult, expensive and risky investigation for the journalists and newspaper involved. They did it because, in their opinion, Nixon was doing something wrong. Without opinions, what would motivate real journalism?

The problem with journalism today is not opinion, but that we’ve allowed “newsish” to pose as real news, to the extent that people can’t tell the difference. And on top of that I don’t think people are generally equipped well to recognize opinion as such.

New comment by mickeypi in "What Microsoft got right about power users, but not quite"

mickeypi — Tue, 26 May 2020 14:56:39 +0000

Yes, you can do that with ssh even from cmd.exe. Windows ships with an ssh server too, you just have to enable those features.

New comment by mickeypi in "The CUE Data Constraint Language"

mickeypi — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 16:49:03 +0000

Unfortunately it inherits JSON’s lack of support for dates.

New comment by mickeypi in "Neglected Food Bubbles: The Espresso Coffee Foam"

mickeypi — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 00:11:26 +0000

Couldn't agree more on the pet peeve. I've stopped having coffee after a great meal at a restaurant because inevitably they'll ruin it with a cup of something awful. Even in places like Vancouver, SF or Seattle with a very strong coffee culture, and where pretty much anyone in the food industry knows a good coffee.

New comment by mickeypi in "The Cloned-Consciousness-as-Continuous-Consciousness Fallacy"

mickeypi — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 06:06:28 +0000

Sorry, that was intended to be implied. The original would say that it matters to them but to any observer it does not.

New comment by mickeypi in "The Cloned-Consciousness-as-Continuous-Consciousness Fallacy"

mickeypi — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 20:34:46 +0000

Yes, and if we actually had a way to disassemble and reassemble humans, the reassembled beings would tell you that the experiment works and their consciousness goes back to their first memories as a child. But the disassembled person would have been destroyed and therefore unable to share their opinion on the matter.

New comment by mickeypi in "The Cloned-Consciousness-as-Continuous-Consciousness Fallacy"

mickeypi — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 20:29:00 +0000

Consider another version: An exactly similar human being to you is discovered to exist on another planet. They have your memories, your aspirations, your habits, etc. They were not created as a copy of you. This person was born to parents, just like you, and lived the same life that you did. They are reading this post on HN right now.

Surely in this scenario the answer to "is it OK to kill one of you now?" is "no".

So why is this different to some people than a synthetically-created clone?