Hacker News: mike503

New comment by mike503 in "You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News"

mike503 — Thu, 01 May 2025 01:17:04 +0000

Other people have asked, probably for the same reason but I would love an offline version, packaged in zim format or something.

For when the apocalypse happens it’ll be enjoyable to read relatively high quality interactions and some of them may include useful post-apoc tidbits!

New comment by mike503 in "mIRC 7.81"

mike503 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:13:07 +0000

Same. One of my first forays into scripting. TCL for eggdrops too. Spent a lot of time and energy on IRC :)

New comment by mike503 in "Social Security Administration Moving Public Communications to X"

mike503 — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 23:08:40 +0000

Imagine someone hijacking the account and making “announcements” … that’s why they have official government websites.

I’ve always found it amusing how much world leaders actually use Twitter for communications. The fact that a private citizen can purchase the platform and do whatever they want with it is exactly why it’s a bad idea.

Not to mention this is a lame way to increase signups and AU metrics, holding a gun to an old person’s head.

New comment by mike503 in "Are Levi's from Amazon different from Levi's from Levi's?"

mike503 — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:11:59 +0000

Same experience ordering Lucky brand jeans… from Lucky themselves! Same exact model would result in different material composition / origin country. It could be 0-2% spandex/100-98% cotton or something. I wound up making a little spreadsheet to try to figure out which ones I liked the best (origin country, materials)

It’s crazy.

New comment by mike503 in "Microsoft paywalling features in Notepad and Paint"

mike503 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:43:18 +0000

Notepad is crap in Windows 11. I wanted a stupid simple way to put crap into a scratchpad (often times) and now it tries to outsmart me with multiple windows/tabs, maintaining state, spellchecking. I’ve disabled everything I can in it. It’s merely tolerable now.

They should have kept Wordpad and added all the crap into that.

New comment by mike503 in "Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS"

mike503 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:40:32 +0000

I have no doubt some of the benefits are definitely to be able to resell or access that data once again. I literally just told someone yesterday “don’t pay for domain privacy, any registrar worth a damn will include it anymore”

New comment by mike503 in "California Nominates Steve Jobs for Its American Innovation $1 Coin"

mike503 — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:09:31 +0000

I came here wondering if someone had posted this :)

New comment by mike503 in "U.S. Employee Engagement Sinks to 10-Year Low"

mike503 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:49:35 +0000

CEO outrage, politicians, corporations and the rich getting away with everything, hearing AI is being explored to replace you in the next few years, it's no wonder.

New comment by mike503 in "You don't have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase"

mike503 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 02:45:38 +0000

They have to keep jacking up prices so their SAFe(TM) certified trainers, scrum masters, coaches, consultants and such can continue to provide additional value

New comment by mike503 in "Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'"

mike503 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 03:52:49 +0000

Yeah, denying because it means more profits isn't okay. The fact that these insurance companies are publicly traded and have to maximize value for shareholders creates even more of the wrong incentives.

These should be not-for-profit entities, with appropriate controls.

New comment by mike503 in "Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'"

mike503 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 03:47:56 +0000

@nickff shouldn't that be a not-for-profit watchdog capability then? Not a massive money making middleman?

(Can't reply that deep)

New comment by mike503 in "Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?"

mike503 — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 09:42:03 +0000

If audiobooks count, so far enjoying the hell out of Project Hail Mary, I possibly got turned on to it by a mention on HN (I like The Martian movie, so I gave it a shot, and maybe decide to get that on audiobook too, now)

New comment by mike503 in "Amazon S3 now supports up to 1M buckets per AWS account"

mike503 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 12:42:40 +0000

Costs $.02 per bucket over 2,000 buckets - https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

New comment by mike503 in "Average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the US rises for 6th straight week"

mike503 — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 08:13:35 +0000

I wish they'd do away with compound interest. Why not some flat % like other loans? Maybe like 8-12% and I'm sure everyone wins.

New comment by mike503 in "Trump's likely FCC chair wrote Project 2025 chapter on how he'd run the agency"

mike503 — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 01:19:17 +0000

Also truth social and twitter.

New comment by mike503 in "NASA reconnected with Voyager 1 after a brief pause"

mike503 — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 18:16:12 +0000

Nobody is thinking of the original Star Trek?

New comment by mike503 in "Tesla Optimus Bots Were Remotely Operated at Cybercab Event"

mike503 — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:27:41 +0000

I was assuming that the robots at the Sphere also had some humans behind it if nothing more than to help "guide" the AI pieces. My assumption, at least.

New comment by mike503 in "Microsoft Remote Desktop will be renamed to Windows App"

mike503 — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:28:51 +0000

"do you use Outlook the application or outlook.com?"

Do you have a Live account? Or Office 365? Do you open a web browser to sign in?

I have had to ask non-technical people this and they're confused beyond belief.

New comment by mike503 in "Frontier is about to offer 7-gig fiber across several states"

mike503 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 05:16:14 +0000

Ziply was amazing. Fios was always great from Verizon to Frontier to Ziply.

New comment by mike503 in "Subway calls 'emergency' meeting with franchisees as sales plummet"

mike503 — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:29:45 +0000

They've spent so much on celebrity endorsements and so many of the Subways near me suffer from quality control issues. The one closest to my house cannot get a single order correct. Delivery drivers get frustrated waiting even when it's not busy. It's supposed to be 24 hours, but is closed at random times and is simply just unreliable all around.

It's like everything else, profits have been prioritized over everything else. There's simply no reason they have to be in trouble other than greed - overexpansion, advertising a ton but not enforcing quality (which is probably cheaper, but not useful)

I don't care who some famous sports players pretend to like, I want something I can depend on. Subway is the McDonald's of sub sandwiches. They've done so many menu changes and got rid of one of my favorite things, and their reshuffling and rebranding drives me nuts.