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New comment by mjcl in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

mjcl — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:45:44 +0000

Comcast actually implemented IPv6 10-15 years ago so that they could unify the management of all of their cable modems. Prior to that they had many regional networks using with modems assigned management IPs in overlapping private IPv4 ranges.

New comment by mjcl in "Delta Air Lines Says It Will Suspend Special Services for Congress Members"

mjcl — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:05:50 +0000

United had a "chairman's flight" between NY and a SC airport that was created so the chairman of the Port Authority of NY/NJ could fly to his vacation home on the weekends.

New comment by mjcl in "DOJ to Allow Hiring of US Prosecutors Straight Out of Law School"

mjcl — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:09:02 +0000

I think there is some benefit to resigning because you can see the DOJ is already suffering in court from sub-par lawyering. Every departure of a competent DOJ lawyer puts even more pressure on the remaining ones and there's only 24 hours in a day.

New comment by mjcl in "OpenAI should build Slack"

mjcl — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:36:19 +0000

Not quite, they built Slack as an internal communication tool while building the game Glitch (RIP) and after the game failed they decided to productize Slack.

New comment by mjcl in "Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?"

mjcl — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:26:49 +0000

> machines will achieve human level output at some point

Would you care to put some sort of time scale to "at some point?" Are we talking about months, years, decades, centuries?

New comment by mjcl in "Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'"

mjcl — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:01:04 +0000

Fun fact: For now, adding a boolean search term like -blahblahblah will skip the AI result and just show web results.

New comment by mjcl in "Guideline has been acquired by Gusto"

mjcl — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 03:14:29 +0000

Fun Guideline story: I worked for a company that went bankrupt and used guideline for 401k. The first day the website allowed me I withdrew the balance for rollover. Apparently this should not have been possible before the bankruptcy was finalized. I found from court filings that the bankruptcy trustee kept telling Guideline they need to freeze withdrawals until the bankruptcy was finalized, and Guideline kept dragging their feet and acting like they didn't understand. The trustee ended up having to go to court and get a temporary restraining order to prevent more employees from withdrawing their balances before the bankruptcy was finalized.

Un-fun bankruptcy fact: All employee names & mailing addresses are part of the public record and accessible on PACER because they're potential creditors in the bankruptcy.

New comment by mjcl in "A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down"

mjcl — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 02:59:03 +0000

Not even, in cases where the company couldn't recover funds from misdirected payments they ate the loss. Though obviously I think that's a good thing.

New comment by mjcl in "A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down"

mjcl — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:02:25 +0000

Not even corner cases. I worked for a fintech that launched a dda-ish product that had 16 digit account numbers, issued sequentially, with no check digits. At launch there didn't seem to be a CS process for dealing with pretty obvious "customer mistyped account number and sent their money to some else's account." problem.

New comment by mjcl in "Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?"

mjcl — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 14:30:51 +0000

I think the high-density data centers that are being built to support the hyperscalers are more analogous to the dark fiber overbuild. When you lit that fiber in 2015, you (presumably) were not using a line card bought back in 1998.

New comment by mjcl in "Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis"

mjcl — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:24:03 +0000

So this will force datacenters that employ "reliability theater" to either actually be reliable or give up the facade and take repeated outages?

Ok!

New comment by mjcl in "Tesla Diner"

mjcl — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 23:28:45 +0000

Maybe the "wagyu" chili with a big 'ol squirt of nacho cheeze sauce?

New comment by mjcl in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

mjcl — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 03:22:12 +0000

Google was kind enough to give the AI overview a stable CSS class name (to date), so this userscript has been effective at hiding it for me:

window.addEventListener('load', function() { var things = this.document.getElementsByClassName('M8OgIe'); for (var thing of things) { thing.style.display = 'none'; } }, false);

New comment by mjcl in "The FTC puts off enforcing its 'click-to-cancel' rule"

mjcl — Mon, 12 May 2025 14:27:55 +0000

Democrats see government differently than Republicans.

New comment by mjcl in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

mjcl — Sat, 10 May 2025 16:09:51 +0000

And it was an antitrust action that unlocked a lot of that value. The consent decree required Bell Labs to license its patents (e.g. transistors) for reasonable royalties. The same consent decree also forbid AT&T from entering new industries like computing. So after they built UNIX, they sold the source code 'as-is' to universities for $200 ($20k for businesses).

New comment by mjcl in "Charlie Javice convicted of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup sale"

mjcl — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 02:58:52 +0000

One funny aspect is that Javice had an employment contract with JPM that stated JPM would pay for legal defense related to her official duties. Her lawyer argued that means JPM has to pay for her civil and criminal defense lawyers, and the court agreed!

New comment by mjcl in "When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines"

mjcl — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:24:42 +0000

They have figured it out, the client is paying for it.

New comment by mjcl in "Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media"

mjcl — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 14:56:57 +0000

Good news! Bluesky does default to chronological, but also provides other options.

New comment by mjcl in "Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris"

mjcl — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 02:33:08 +0000

Then I'd suggest their tagline of "Democracy dies in darkness" is pretty self-important and misleading.

New comment by mjcl in "As Milton barrels toward Florida, FEMA's capacity could be tested"

mjcl — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 05:45:29 +0000

> local weather manipulation

What do you mean by this?