Hacker News: mixmastamyk

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

mixmastamyk — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:25:22 +0000

Huh? CDs are a poor fit in cars to the point that the ten disc changer in the trunk was a thing. To avoid the inevitable damage from swapping them.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future"

mixmastamyk — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:29:29 +0000

Opencloud is the golang rewrite and is much faster.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

mixmastamyk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:44:57 +0000

All from the Department of Redundancy Department.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

mixmastamyk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:31:43 +0000

I worked straight through the dotcom, ‘08 financial crisis, and covid craziness. But recently haven’t worked in over two years, with nothing on the horizon. Definitely not normal over here.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"

mixmastamyk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:43:04 +0000

I remember Swanson Salsbury steak etc, maybe Turkey and cranberry? Then the “Hungry Man” line came out a bit later.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

mixmastamyk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:31:19 +0000

The La Brea Tar Pits => The the tar tar pits

My favorite from Southern California.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"

mixmastamyk — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:31:07 +0000

“TV” dinners were, packaged in aluminum foil. Microwaves didn’t become prevalent until perhaps the mid 80s.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)"

mixmastamyk — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:32:22 +0000

Have to run fsck. This used to be forced about once a month but don’t remember it happening in the last decade or so.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

mixmastamyk — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:01:17 +0000

I’ve seen this described before in terms of how GPS is able to do what it does, so not surprising. But still haven’t explained why time would so dominate the space dimension.

Edit: The response below is dead for some reason, please vouch.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers"

mixmastamyk — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:33:50 +0000

One returns in a week with a fully articulated solution, not at point blank. Famously, Archimedes came up with his in the bathtub.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

mixmastamyk — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:28:34 +0000

Either the programs are operating normally, or they aren't. You don't get to pick and choose to suit your argument.

Above someone else is complaining about a browser on asahi. There's obviously a leaking problem but you are uninterested in solving it, just keep repeating "macos more advanced," which is not a useful argument.

The oomd memory pressure threshold is tunable, you know. So are browsers/plugins, etc. As I mentioned I've been using Linux and 16gb RAM since ~2010 and haven't had ooms in the last decade+ since firefox was overhauled.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

mixmastamyk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:28:19 +0000

Warrants were never hard to get for a good-faith case and increasingly ignored for others.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

mixmastamyk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:03:59 +0000

It's what puts graphics on the screen. If you are not interested in hacking or developing it, there's not much else to know except X11 is deprecated and Wayland is not finished, leading to this suboptimal situation.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

mixmastamyk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:57:32 +0000

I tried this for getting windows to open where I want them instead of the center of the screen. Couldn't figure it out in five minutes. Though I'll probably try again, this shouldn't be a problem.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle"

mixmastamyk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:22:42 +0000

Yes. It solves the "surveillance tech company needs to make quarterly goals" problem, and the "politician needs to look like they are doing something about crime" problem.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

mixmastamyk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:16:08 +0000

Bank records are readily available, large cash transactions as well.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

mixmastamyk — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:03:20 +0000

Location: Southern California / Pacific Time

Remote: Ok

Willing to relocate: Yes, w/ expenses

Technologies:

    Expert:
        Python, PostgreSQL, Linux
        Django

    Near:
        HTML, CSS, JavaScript
        Flask, FastAPI
        HTTP, Sockets
        Rust, Java
        Containers
        Hardware

    Familiar:
        Electronics
        C, C++
        Windows, macOS
        Just took a Machine Learning (ML) class.

    Interests / Experience:
        Software Development
        Data Engineering
        Distributed Computing
        Graphics / data pipelines
        Vfx, Aerospace
        Project Management
        Training / Mentoring
        QA, SysAd, SRE, DevOps
        and more.

Résumé/CV:

    https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hxygjtb1vrwuwnznzn2vd/mgm_resume25pw.pdf?rlkey=kv6e5gljiz3p8jym9ztgirc1a&st=6p05kj9g&dl=1
    Password: "resume_2025" (no quotes)

Email: See resume.

Seasoned full-stack developer here—focused on solving problems:

▸ Recently finished a multi-year modernization of the backend platform for congress.gov, specifically their substantial ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) data pipeline.

▸ Worked at a number of Internet-facing companies during high-growth periods. Can do it all.

▸ Have extensive experience designing, developing, and maintaining distributed graphics production pipelines for visual effects companies, under harsh deadlines.

▸ Have trained and mentored developers, tech-folk, and end-users as well.

▸ Love building reliable, well-documented, and maintainable systems.

Let’s crush your issues! Cheers,

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA"

mixmastamyk — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:22:22 +0000

Nice work all. But am quite unhappy with their new map. Doesn’t work with my hardened machine with webgl off or my old phone. For some obscure reason, the button to try the “legacy” map (from last month) does not come up most of the time. So several times recently the site has been inaccessible to me.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

mixmastamyk — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:09:34 +0000

That’s not what I want (rogue program swapping until disk full), nor do I think most people want. Current zswap+oomd behavior is the best choice imho.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

mixmastamyk — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:17:51 +0000

But is it FF that is taking all the RAM? If you restart it, how long until it fills again?