Hacker News: mig39

New comment by mig39 in "Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland"

mig39 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:40:48 +0000

In the comment you're replying to, "their diesel will only last 6 months" is a reference to Red Storm Rising. I don't think the commentator literally meant diesel. But whatever's happening inside Russia is forcing their hand. Either they act now, or their window shuts.

New comment by mig39 in "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI"

mig39 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:24:13 +0000

I have no idea what that is, but I'm interested. What is LVMH?

New comment by mig39 in "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI"

mig39 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:29:55 +0000

They are literally in the start menu.

New comment by mig39 in "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI"

mig39 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:28:18 +0000

They're a premium brand, not a luxury brand. That's an important distinction.

Dell, HP, etc. all have premium products as well as their economy ones. Apple just doesn't do cheap and economy products.

When that gold plated Apple Watch came out, you could feel the discomfort. That's luxury brand territory.

Even the most expensive Apple Watch isn't in that "luxury" category anymore.

New comment by mig39 in "The Auditor's Opinion"

mig39 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:51:08 +0000

This is supposedly his obituary:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/mark-stephens-obit...

New comment by mig39 in "Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill"

mig39 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:51:45 +0000

How does Mullvad do it? They also have Canadian servers.

New comment by mig39 in "Big Oil asks Supreme Court to kill climate lawsuits before trial"

mig39 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:14:31 +0000

The argument is about State's Rights essentially. Can a state file a claim against a corporation that only has a small footprint in the state?

Where are those State's Rights people on this?

New comment by mig39 in "Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time"

mig39 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:38:09 +0000

I live in Canada, where even our right-wing parties are in favour of public education and free health care. I guess that makes us all socialists.

New comment by mig39 in "Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees"

mig39 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:30:19 +0000

Canada's first amendment is about a completely different topic :-)

New comment by mig39 in "Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side"

mig39 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:11:02 +0000

The Canadian keyboards are so Canada: supposed to appeal to either English or French users, but just pisses them off. English speakers go for the US layout, and French speakers go for a European layout.

I remember some of our early Chromebooks had Canadian keyboards, and students and teachers revolted.

New comment by mig39 in "Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields"

mig39 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:17:56 +0000

I think they're referring to the obsession that some people have to trans issues.

New comment by mig39 in "The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week"

mig39 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:38:58 +0000

>safari is NOT capable of PWAs... > They deliberately hobble PWAs and make them very difficult to install.

Hit the share button, "Add to Home Screen" is very difficult to install?

New comment by mig39 in "The Beauty of Roundabouts"

mig39 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 02:31:27 +0000

The big difference is that when you have a collision at a 4-way or 2-way stop, it is almost always a "T-Bone" collision, where all the energy hits at a right angle. These collisions kill, especially at speed.

A similar collision on a roundabout is almost always a "glancing" blow, at an angle, and rarely causes injury or death.

Roundabouts force you to slow down when approaching. Stop signs can be ignored. Roundabouts can't.

New comment by mig39 in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

mig39 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:39:21 +0000

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

New comment by mig39 in "I haven't lost a customer service fight in seven months"

mig39 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:20:22 +0000

Crazy having to fight with insurance providers to get basic health care.

New comment by mig39 in "How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads"

mig39 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:50:08 +0000

I've sent in corrections to Apple Maps in Portugal (shopping mall is 1km away from the location on Apple Maps) and Canada (speed camera does not exist). Both were taken care of within a couple of days.

New comment by mig39 in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

mig39 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:36:45 +0000

I think the proxy must be on the same machine, otherwise why are they suggesting editing the /etc/hosts file?

New comment by mig39 in "Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982"

mig39 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:04:08 +0000

I visited this ZX Spectrum museum in this summer: https://loadzx.com/en/

So strange to stumble upon this blast from the 80s in a small town in the middle of Portugal. But I think this reinforces the fact that the Spectrum was to Europe what the C64 was to North America.

Anyway, wonderful memories in there!

New comment by mig39 in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

mig39 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:20:31 +0000

Biggest antifa "rally" in history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings

New comment by mig39 in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

mig39 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:31:55 +0000

The Fräck mirror was named after the commonly used faux swear word on Battlestar Galactica, where one of the characters used a similar mirror:

https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/fraeck-mirror-stainless-steel-3...