Hacker News: mig39

New comment by mig39 in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

mig39 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:28:08 +0000

A nuclear reactor in the Alberta Oil sands would take care of a large amount of the CO2 produced in the production of crude.

New comment by mig39 in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

mig39 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:48:48 +0000

The article praises the UI, but isn't Windows 2000 using the Windows 95/98 UI with a different kernel?

New comment by mig39 in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

mig39 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:22:36 +0000

I live in Alberta. No rats here. Also the ticks here don't spread Lyme disease.

New comment by mig39 in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

mig39 — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:50:53 +0000

The new TPS reports!

New comment by mig39 in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

mig39 — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:54:26 +0000

Do you mean the ICRC?

New comment by mig39 in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

mig39 — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:16:31 +0000

I think you'll need to look at the constitution of Canada (section 35) and the legally-binding treaties that have been signed with indigenous Canadians. There's no "tribal" territory. It's all treaty territory.

New comment by mig39 in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

mig39 — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:13:54 +0000

Albertan here. I want to remain in Canada. I will leave Alberta if it separates.

This is being driven by a vocal conspiracy-minded maple-MAGA base that got our current premiere her job.

A majority of Albertans are against any talk of separation.

New comment by mig39 in "The locals don't know"

mig39 — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:35:55 +0000

I spend summers in Central Portugal after enduring the winter of Canada's North. Sometimes my Canadian friends want to spend a couple of days in Portugal and ask me what's for a good place to visit, or a good attraction to go to, etc. I always answer the same:

I have no idea. I don't go as a tourist. I go to live in my family's home town for 6 or 7 weeks and not think about work. I don't have any recommendations for a checklist. I avoid the touristy places if I can.

I then turn it around on them. If someone was visiting Canada for 2 or 3 days, where do you tell them to go? I dunno.

New comment by mig39 in "Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster"

mig39 — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:14:47 +0000

This is why rats are illegal in Alberta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_control_in_Alberta

New comment by mig39 in "Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster"

mig39 — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:05:25 +0000

My understanding is that when Elections Alberta shares the voter list with legit users (ie: sitting members of the legislature), it includes unique fictitious entries in the data. That way if there is a leak of the data, they can trace the source of the leak. Which they apparently have done.

I guess it's a form of a canary trap.

It reminds me of mapmakers including fake towns or other features in their maps, in case someone leaked them.

New comment by mig39 in "In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition"

mig39 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:51:02 +0000

Coming to Canada soon, though in a limited way:

https://nationalpost.com/news/massive-risk-chinese-evs-are-t...

Hopefully this means competition with the other EV manufacturers in Canada too.

New comment by mig39 in "How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll"

mig39 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:14:53 +0000

Archive link: https://archive.is/k4Pxr

New comment by mig39 in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

mig39 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:41:33 +0000

I'm Backblaze user -- multiple machines, multiple accounts. I'm going to be dropping Backblaze over this change, that I'm only learning about from this thread.

Any suggestions for alternatives?

New comment by mig39 in "15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die"

mig39 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:02:04 +0000

I didn't know about Webminal until today. Going to try it with some college students this afternoon!

New comment by mig39 in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

mig39 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:02:53 +0000

Base model M4 Mac Mini -- takes 2 seconds to load Word (and ready to type) without it being cached. Less than 1 second if I quit it completely, and launch again, which I assume is because it's cached in RAM.

New comment by mig39 in "The bee that everyone wants to save"

mig39 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:57:06 +0000

Neither are earthworms.

New comment by mig39 in "Kuwaiti F/A-18's Triple Friendly Fire Shootdown Gets Stranger by the Day"

mig39 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:19:38 +0000

That could explain one accidental shootdown. It cannot conceivably explain three.

New comment by mig39 in "US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows"

mig39 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:53:08 +0000

If you read the article, you'd know most of the information came from Bellingcat and ABC.

New comment by mig39 in "US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows"

mig39 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:52:43 +0000

I think it means that the entire site, including the school and several other buildings, were all hit at the sae time:

> Wes Bryant, a national security analyst who served in the US Air Force, also confirmed it was a Tomahawk missile.

> Bryant added that the evidence for multiple strikes on the entire IRGC compound "is indicative of a deliberate and precise" US operation.

> N R Jenzen Jones, director of Armament Research Services, previously told BBC Verify it was unlikely an Iranian missile had caused the significant blast damage seen at the school because they carry "relatively small explosive warheads".

New comment by mig39 in "19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack"

mig39 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:33:41 +0000

You didn't read the link, did you? This is addressed in the article.