<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mjevans</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mjevans</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:49:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mjevans" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mjevans in "AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've only personally utilized it for code _review_ and always ignored the suggested result code instead to understand the source of the issue and try to arrive at a resolution I find satisfactory for my mental model of the issue and solutions I'd prefer.<p>My take is that the main difference is the approach to problems the coding agents have.  They optimize towards presuming a fully working invocation environment, yet checking everything anyway, and then rolling back any changes and re-testing that such changes worked.  Which is great for normal types of software but incredibly tedious for anything aimed at less than a fully hands free automated environment.<p>In other words, AI is very awesome at scope creep of assigned problems and targeting the validation prompts baked into the review system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:48:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582836</link><dc:creator>mjevans</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582836</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mjevans in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The pay might not be as good but they could also go to Europe.  Might depend where they've got family / contacts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:22:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428364</link><dc:creator>mjevans</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428364</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mjevans in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ideally every side would prefer a complete victory... who wouldn't?  Reality rarely offers such clear outcomes.<p>Effectively the semantics are like a game of chicken and hostage combined.  Might as well be a Prisoner's Dilemma.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:20:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428356</link><dc:creator>mjevans</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428356</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mjevans in "Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It takes a village is so true.  Children are something society as a whole should invest in, and fails to do so at risk to it's own future.<p>By society, I mean every one of us that plans to grow old instead of an early death.<p>Wouldn't it be nice to have two or three or ideally more generations of well adjusted people that grew up not fearful of hunger, nor lack of basic shelter, medical care?<p>Also, providing quality child care for any time the parent(s) are working frees up quality workers to do that... though a better work life balance would also help society.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:00:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396986</link><dc:creator>mjevans</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mjevans in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Laser printed boarding passes are so much more reliable anyway and you never have to worry about recharging them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:23:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396540</link><dc:creator>mjevans</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396540</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mjevans in "Sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Really shows how approachable it would have been to have just a tiny bit more added to the API of 'PC BIOS' to make for an extremely portable driver platform system to allow OS independent arbitrary hardware drivers as Forth that the system BIOS could compile at boot and run beneath the OS.  Though of course the PC BIOS API from when that mattered isn't in anything like a modern protect mode operating profile.</p>
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<p>For all the theories about how covid might have been some conspiracy in China... (I'm more inclined to believe a hybrid, they didn't have a program to develop any weapons out of it, but would EASILY buy a coverup to try to hide the shame of yet another seasonal virus that turned out to be more)<p>What if this sort of research leads to some prion like disease that either works like a slow acting (fast to spread) neuro-toxin, or a scenario like the Children of Men movie?<p>Containment and risks need to be considered.</p>
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<p>I sum it up with: give me an error message rather than undefined or unintuitive behavior.</p>
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<p><a href="https://toonk.io/wireblast-building-a-line-rate-packet-generator-in-go-with-af_xdp/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://toonk.io/wireblast-building-a-line-rate-packet-gener...</a></p>
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<p>My condolences.  I read that other hacker news post (was it a couple months back) from the (ex?) engineer...</p>
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<p>Now that you know, can you conceptualize reasons why each pattern might be a correct preference?  Among those reasons, which would you prefer as a system?<p>^^^ THAT is how an Interview Question should work around this factoid.</p>
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<p>Presently it seems to be unlikely to find an inexpensive (<150 USD) router that will run OpenWRT, supports modern wifi modes, and is reasonably fast.<p>I settled for a MikroTik model when replacing my mom's router.  It almost fits the criteria.  I can even port forward via SSH on it.<p>The one thing it won't do natively?  IPv6 6RD, the cursed legacy ISP junk CenturyLink has for IPv6 on DSL or, according to some posts I encountered looking for a solution, their rare fiber runs.<p>So now it has a script I found online, triggered to run every 10 seconds because the PPPoE interface doesn't provide an 'on change' event hook.  If the IPv4 address has changed the script tears down and puts back up the IPv6 address on the 6in4 tunnel and lease blocks.</p>
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<p>I think the entire point is so that many with devices that will never see updates can still continue to use those devices.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:27:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140780</link><dc:creator>mjevans</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140780</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mjevans in "The American Grilled Cheese Sandwich Essay (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Real mayo is an emulsion of eggs and oil.<p>Miracle Whip?  What's the sugar content on that label and the other ingredients.  Is this even sold as food like thing or is it more of a candy condiment like 'chocolate sauce'?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:39:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119068</link><dc:creator>mjevans</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119068</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mjevans in "The American Grilled Cheese Sandwich Essay (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Take a bread that makes a good toast (to you).<p>Take a cheese that is soft, mellow (unless you really love pungent) and melts well under heat.<p>Combine such that the bread ends up perfectly toasted and the cheese in the middle melted at the same time.<p>I sometimes wonder if a sufficiently buttered initial toast side would make for a good inner face for the cheese to go against such that the sandwich might hold up for that much longer.<p>PREVENT the sandwich from sitting face down on any surface and eat while still quite warm.  When I still at these frequently I'd either do it myself or ask for the sandwich to be plated such that the exposed surface area was maximized to allow the steam to escape and prevent soggy sandwiches.</p>
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<p>Ask, what is the function of grammar in language?  I would argue two major functions.  Forcing an encoder to marshal ideas into a coherent structure.  Preserving the integrity of that structure when communicated and decoded.<p>Grammar sounds off?  Was the message correctly understood; is there enough left to apply error correction and regenerate the intended message?</p>
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<p>That's what I don't understand about the lack of building more power plants.  Of all types.<p>Yes, people should make efforts to not waste electricity (use more effective lights, etc). However the demand is _never_ going to go down.  Progress utilizes more energy.  Make stuff more efficient, or less expensive, and people will do more things, or more people will do things.  That's how quality of live goes up.</p>
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<p>DC is super weird that way... The actual velocity of an electron down that line is, offhand, extremely slow compared to the speed of light.<p>Think of DC more like you're trying to pump a frozen ice mixture drink (trying to avoid any of the major brand names) down a straw.  If you melt it, that's loss to heat.  If the pressure gets there that's DC current.<p>The AC vibrations are the same thing except it's like the lever action on a steam locomotive.  Translating the motor's spin into a back and forth wave in the line.<p>This is why AC is rather useful for making other things spin or vibrate to the point of being emissive.</p>
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<p>This sounds a lot like the firewall technique of port knocking.  Poke this thing to enable a ruleset, then another thing in that state for a different ruleset, etc.</p>
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<p>I feel this article's premise too much.  That's exactly the sort of clock I wanted to get my mom as a gift.<p>Why is it so dang impossible to find a not trash simple LED clock that's 'large print', 'the right color', and not annoyingly too bright?<p>A deluxe model might include a day of the week bar or dot and a month / day in month number (smaller than the time, mostly people care about the time)</p>
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