Hacker News: mjcarden

New comment by mjcarden in "The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]"

mjcarden — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:42:18 +0000

Canberra - Sydney is one of the busiest routes in Australia with Dash 8 and ATR turboprops on high rotation every day. I could see a small electric aircraft working pretty well there, modulo charging times.

New comment by mjcarden in "The safest job from AI may be writing"

mjcarden — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:39:39 +0000

Arriving ten hours after this was posted, I am a tad surprised that nobody seems to have popped up to suggest that the article ought to have been titled, "The job safest from AI may be writing".

New comment by mjcarden in "Jira and Confluence Are Both Down"

mjcarden — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:43:28 +0000

Ten minutes ago from Atlassian: "Our teams have identified a possible fix for the issues impacting Jira Cloud, Jira Service Management and Confluence. This is now being rolled out to impacted regions and we will update within one hour, or sooner if further information is available."

New comment by mjcarden in "AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T"

mjcarden — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:58:00 +0000

A lot of swans live here in the Australian Capital Territory. They seem to like our lakes. I have only ever seen black ones.

New comment by mjcarden in "Craig Mod built his own Good Reads"

mjcarden — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:37:42 +0000

From that link... if only Craig knew the difference between 'tenet' and 'tenant'.

New comment by mjcarden in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

mjcarden — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:11:10 +0000

Yes, in Australia we have compulsory voting, but no national holiday. Polling day is on a Saturday, so most people can get to their local polling booth pretty easily. And since COVID, pre-poll postal votes have become even more popular and the Australian Electoral Commission has a really secure and streamlined process for these, proved over decades.

New comment by mjcarden in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

mjcarden — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:15:58 +0000

I think that the EV6 User Interface is pretty spot on, including things like side mirrors complemented by cameras that activate when you indicate, a nice HUD and real buttons for most things. If ONLY I didn't have to manually deactivate lane keep warning alerts EVERY time I start the car, it'd be nudging perfect.

New comment by mjcarden in "Sci-Fi Short Film “There Is No Antimemetics Division” [video]"

mjcarden — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:27:42 +0000

I saw the book mentioned at random here mid way through last year and ordered it for my Kindle. To my surprise, it wouldn't be available until the end of the year. I found that puzzling because some people here seemed to be saying that they had read it. Now reading this set of comments today it seems that I was to be buying a revised version and the text had been 'in the wild' for some time. Anyway, it duly arrived, I read it and thought it an okay read. It wasn't until reading this page today that I became aware of the existence of a thing called SCP and any of what that entails in relation to the book.

New comment by mjcarden in "Honda is killing its EVs"

mjcarden — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:28:03 +0000

Is there a place somewhere in the world where Hydrogen powered passenger vehicles are a success? I know that the one Hydrogen filling station here in Australia's Capital City has shut down after opening with great fanfare a few years ago. And the approximately 20 or so Hydrogen cars it supplied are no longer being used.

New comment by mjcarden in "You Just Reveived"

mjcarden — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:11:57 +0000

Actual voice phone calls are so rare for me these days that I'll often go months without making or receiving one, though my mobile phone is always with me. And I recently realised that the house I live in, which was built in 2020, has no provision for any sort of landline telephone at all.

New comment by mjcarden in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

mjcarden — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:45:43 +0000

Installed the snap on Ubuntu 24.04 and when I used it to look at /etc/sudoers.d/README, it emitted:

WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

Press RETURN to continue

...which I thought a little odd.

New comment by mjcarden in "After 50 years, The Magic Circle finally inducts Penn and Teller"

mjcarden — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 23:29:03 +0000

I'm having trouble getting my head around an interview with Teller. We all know he doesn't speak. :)

New comment by mjcarden in "20 years of Git"

mjcarden — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 03:32:27 +0000

I think that was the first time I ever saw Tridge deliver a conference presentation and it was to a packed lecture theatre at the ANU. He described how he 'hacked' BitKeeper by connecting to the server via telnet and using the sophisticated hacker tools at his disposal to convince Bitkeeper to divulge its secrets, he typed:

help

The room erupted with applause and laughter.

New comment by mjcarden in "Take this on-call rotation and shove it"

mjcarden — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:25:29 +0000

This article gave me unpleasant flashbacks to the first half of 2023. I resigned from planet.com in mid 2023 due to the stress caused by being on-call every second week. It took me six months to get my head into a healthy state again. Now I have a much better job, better paid and no possibility of on-call, ever.

New comment by mjcarden in "Shakenfist is Cloud done differently"

mjcarden — Wed, 01 May 2024 07:23:09 +0000

And only because some readers are quick to make assumptions - here is a link to the assumptions: https://shakenfist.com/manifesto/

New comment by mjcarden in "Shakenfist is Cloud done differently"

mjcarden — Wed, 01 May 2024 07:13:34 +0000

When the Old Man shaking his fist at the Cloud is a former tech lead of OpenStack's Compute project Nova, I think it's worth paying attention. His fist started shaking 4 years ago, but the most recent commit on GitHub was 4 hours ago. The fist is still shaking.

Shakenfist is Cloud done differently

mjcarden — Wed, 01 May 2024 07:13:34 +0000

Article URL: https://shakenfist.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40220399

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by mjcarden in "Subject-First Commit Messages"

mjcarden — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 01:11:59 +0000

You won't be able to call Jenny with a typo'd number like that.

New comment by mjcarden in "Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud"

mjcarden — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 04:33:01 +0000

A quote from that excellent management training video, "A Bug's Life": First rule of leadership: Everything is your fault.

New comment by mjcarden in "A New Future for Icanhazip"

mjcarden — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 23:50:39 +0000

He hasn't updated this for a while, but it gives you a good picture of the kind of guy Major is: https://majorhayden.com/