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New comment by millerm in "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"

millerm — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:20:44 +0000

Great tools!

New comment by millerm in "Why Objective-C"

millerm — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:19:53 +0000

Wow, I haven't written any Objective-C since around 2012. I just went back and looked at some code I had written back then and that really brought back some memories. I was much happier then. I'm perpetually sad and unemployed now.

That's all. Enjoy yourselves.

New comment by millerm in "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"

millerm — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:14:47 +0000

I simply run GrandPerspective (GUI app, https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/), or dust (terminal app, https://github.com/bootandy/dust), to give me an idea of what is going on with disk usage.

New comment by millerm in "Human Existence Is Just as Wasteful as AI Data Centers, Sam Altman Suggests"

millerm — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:39:51 +0000

They have $. They pay others to execute their plans. There is no bright side.

New comment by millerm in "Descent, ported to the web"

millerm — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:05:09 +0000

I was the king of Descent for a long time at a place I worked at. 4 of us would play at lunch just about every day. I was so f'n good at that game. That and Duke Nukem.

New comment by millerm in "Java.evolved: Java has evolved. Your code can too"

millerm — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:44:42 +0000

As others have stated, there is no point in a "reveal". Simply show the comparison upfront. User interaction should not be necessary as it only needs to be a plain old html document. You didn't need to write any script. When I got through a bit of it, I wasn't sure if I accidentally skipped something or missed a nuance.

New comment by millerm in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

millerm — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:25:01 +0000

It's JSON.

New comment by millerm in "30 Years of ReactOS"

millerm — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:02:49 +0000

What would be the point of avoiding linux?

New comment by millerm in "JetBrains cancels Fleet"

millerm — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:23:14 +0000

Yeah, I'm not a paid shill. I have been using IntelliJ since version 2 way back in 2003(?). Yes, it's had its performance issues, but people tend to forget the feature set they brought to market, and have continued to do so. But, my career is dead now, as I am an unemployed loser. So, 2026 will probably be the first year that I no longer have an updated IntelliJ.

New comment by millerm in "Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig"

millerm — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:36:02 +0000

I'm in the camp of "If your target is Go, then prototype in Go." I don't bother with the intermediate step. Go is already so very close to being a dynamic language that I don't get the point. Just write "bad" Go to prototype quickly. Skip the error checks. Panic for fun. Write long functions. Make giant structs. Don't worry about memory.

You mentioned running someone else's python is painful, and it most certainly is. No other language have I dealt with more of the "Well, it works on my machine" excuse, after being passed done the world's worst code from a "data scientist". Then the "well, use virtual environments"... Oh, you didn't provide that. What version are you using? What libraries did you manually copy into your project? I abhor the language/runtime. Since most of us don't work in isolation, I find the intermediate prototype in another language for Go a waste of time and resources.

Now... I do support an argument for "we prototype in X because we do not run X in production". That means that prototype code will not be part of our releases. Let someone iterate quickly in a sandbox, but they can't copy/paste that stuff into the main product.

Just a stupid rant. Sorry. I'm unemployed. Career is dead. So, I shouldn't even hit "reply"... but I will.

New comment by millerm in "Go's Sweet 16"

millerm — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:58:27 +0000

I haven't been able to find a job anywhere, using any language, that didn't require all that stuff these days. I wish I could go back to pure development, but now we all get this entire infra-crap thrown at us too. Which then means... you support the environments, the runtime, and the code. It's a 24/7 world and I don't care for it anymore.

New comment by millerm in "Go's Sweet 16"

millerm — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:55:14 +0000

Yeah, I've been there. I would get passed down horribly formatted code from another repo and it showed the data scientists writing it barely knew what they were doing. It was their repo, we couldn't do anything about it. They wouldn't reformat the code, because they were afraid it would break. They also passed us a lot of Python, and you can see where they got this fear from.

New comment by millerm in "WinObjC – The Windows Bridge for iOS"

millerm — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:17:38 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree. I had a great time in Objective-C.

New comment by millerm in "NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again"

millerm — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:48:56 +0000

It means your in a large room with a lot of people talking to each other. It's not a fine dining experience where people whisper. It's a social place. The social aspect was taken out of the experience, which is vital to development. The "loud" (meaning, it's not quiet) aspect is not a negative. It's not a "lunch break" for adults to go decompress from the stress at work. If kids want quiet for studying, they can hit their school library, or other places for solitude and tranquility. It's about younger people actually communicating and discussing what is going on in the day, their life, after school, hobbies, interests, relationships, etc.. Imagine going to a playground where there are 100 children. None of them are making a sound. That would be a scary sign. You should hear kids laughing, screaming, crying... experiencing social engagement. People are being isolated from each other because they are becoming "addicted" to screens and short media formats. We are training our brains for instant gratification, but there is no retention or learning going on. Younger people aren't learning how to communicate directly with others. Without these engagements we hobble our development of things like empathy. How to control our emotions with others. It's damaging for all.

That's my take.

New comment by millerm in "Show HN: JSON Query"

millerm — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:44:05 +0000

How could you even type such a ridiculous statement?

New comment by millerm in "Ask HN: Is AWS down again?"

millerm — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:48:34 +0000

I know I could sure use some updog right about now.

New comment by millerm in "Shutdown with no clear end poses new economic threat"

millerm — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:36:37 +0000

DOGE should not have even been a thing. The fact that DOGE is a friggin' meme, brought to you by a ridiculously wealthy man child swindler who pushes the meme coin with the same name, was enough of a tell. Unfortunately, most of society is uninformed/uneducated, or simply enamored with the wealthy.

It's not the entirety of congress's fault. We know who's to blame here.

New comment by millerm in "Code from MIT's 1986 SICP video lectures"

millerm — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:35:38 +0000

> That wouldn't work for, say, Java

The ~29 years deprecated java.util.Date* methods would like to have a word. ;-)

*https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/25/docs/api/java.base...

New comment by millerm in "Just Use Curl"

millerm — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:36:21 +0000

Yup. Article mentioned `jq` as well. That's an external tool (and so is cURL if we are all being honest here).

New comment by millerm in "Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models"

millerm — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:04:18 +0000

Ok, this is a little off-topic. I have to say it somewhere.

Yeah, The crazy stuff is that when we are out of warranty, and they push an update... who's problem is it now? Who pays? My TV gets updates I don't necessarily want (I'll have to take that upon myself to get an external device for streaming services) and it's out of warranty. What happens when they push something that causes it to not function properly anymore? I didn't break it, they did. We know who pays: we do. I'm almost fearful of bringing anything online these days. I really don't want most things I own to be connected. I find it sad that we are being sold dishwashers, washing machines, refrigerators, guitar pedals, and just about anything and they somehow need the net. It's gross. We own nothing, we control nothing, and yet we're expected to pay for it when someone else decides they don't want to continue to support, or even offer, the thing you paid for.