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New comment by ompogUe in "Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI"

ompogUe — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:27:37 +0000

What I remember is the big box book stores coming to town and putting the independent and smaller stores out of business. While I did appreciate having access to stacks of modern computer manuals, it didn't last long: once the mom-and-pops were out of business, the big box stores pivoted to converting half of their floor space to selling candles and pillows.

New comment by ompogUe in "Echoes (Live at Pompeii) (1972)"

ompogUe — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:22:18 +0000

Gratuitous Beastie Boys homage: "Gratitude"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdJ5e70Q8mw

New comment by ompogUe in "I’ve banned query strings"

ompogUe — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:18:39 +0000

Something I discovered looking back at some old sites: "pages" defined by URL params don't always make it into the Wayback Machine.

New comment by ompogUe in "If Apple makes an iPad Neo, it's all over"

ompogUe — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:17:28 +0000

The only Apple product I still have is a 2010 ipad 1. Only use it as a clock, violin tuner, and workout timer, but am amazed it's still going like an old volkswagen.

New comment by ompogUe in "Paul McCartney to celebrate 50 years of Apple with concert for staff"

ompogUe — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:46:59 +0000

I wonder if Paul remembers that his company (Apple Corp.) had several trademark lawsuits[1] against Apple Computer over the name. Which is why System 7 had a alert sound called "sosumi".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer#S...

New comment by ompogUe in "Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp"

ompogUe — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:31:23 +0000

So, Google's browser says downloading a tool to download files from Google's servers is "Suspicious"? Not surprising.

New comment by ompogUe in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

ompogUe — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:12:04 +0000

^This. A large % of jurisprudence is in just trying to keep up with how tech disrupts society.

New comment by ompogUe in "Bubble Sorted Amen Break"

ompogUe — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:56:49 +0000

Reminds me of Motown's James Jamerson [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jamerson

New comment by ompogUe in "Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta's Ray-Bans"

ompogUe — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:24:22 +0000

I thought the AR UI in "Rainbow's End"[1] made more sense than hand gestures: with digital clothing, all of our movements become controls. And we each train our inputs according to our own slight tweaks and movements. Also, pretty sure this book was a big impetus for Google, Meta, etc to get started with AR, drones, and self-driving cars.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End_(Vinge_novel)

New comment by ompogUe in "GrapheneOS: Microsoft Authenticator does not support secure Android OS"

ompogUe — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:57:51 +0000

I only use authenticator with an old phone next to my work computer. No sim card, minimal apps. Don't do work apps on my main phone, especially InTune.

New comment by ompogUe in "I Don't Like Magic"

ompogUe — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:35:04 +0000

>> Abstractions often really do speed up production, but you pay the price in maintenance later on.

> What? I don't know what this means. Good abstractions allow us to better maintain code. Maintaining something that hasn't been structured into appropriate abstractions is a nightmare.

100% agree with this. Name it well, maintain it in one place ... profit.

It's the not abstracting up front that can catch you: The countless times I have been asked to add feature x, but that it is a one-off/PoC. Which sometimes even means it might not get the full TDD/IoC/feature flag treatment (which aren't always available depending upon the client's stack).

Then, months later get asked to created an entire application or feature set on top of that. Abstracting that one-off up into a method/function/class tags and bags it: it is now named and better documented. Can be visible in IDE, called from anywhere and looped over if need be.

There is obviously a limit to where the abstraction juice isn't worth the squeeze, but otherwise, it just adds superpowers as time goes on.

New comment by ompogUe in "YouTube is silently deleting uploaded SRV3 (styled) subtitles"

ompogUe — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 03:35:43 +0000

Not sure on their reasoning, but subtitle files _are_ an attack vector:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-one-batt...

https://mashable.com/article/subtitles-hackers

New comment by ompogUe in "jQuery 4"

ompogUe — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:08:34 +0000

Standardized selectors was the big use case for me

New comment by ompogUe in "The $200K Developer Dream Is Over – Here's the Reality in 2026"

ompogUe — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:22:29 +0000

I do as well, and agree 100%.

Funny story, the lead on our Eastern European team told me a while back that he had to tell his team:

When the North Americans ask at the beginning of a meeting "How's it going?", they do NOT really want to know how you are doing. It's just social lubrication before getting to work.

Before that, we were getting to learn that their mother in-laws in town or different medical issues.

New comment by ompogUe in "Ask HN: What's your opinion on a VR/XR business?"

ompogUe — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:02:24 +0000

I've had my domain and some business ideas ready for 20 years now (since Rainbow's End).

Still waiting for the ecosystem to mature a little more and the "early" movers to consolidate the APIs. Also, I love my job so not super motivated.

The only business "secret sauces" I know are creativity (market value depends on what you're selling) and implementation (if what you're selling works). Customers will follow.

IMO: Go For It! The more the space matures, the better for all of us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End_(Vinge_novel)#Aug...

New comment by ompogUe in "The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster"

ompogUe — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:00:54 +0000

They also try to do it by design: The Menil Collection in Houston keeps their storage on the top floor to avoid damage from Hurricane flooding.

New comment by ompogUe in "Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)"

ompogUe — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:25:03 +0000

I like this workflow a lot, actually. Docker is great and all, but depending on the project, Vagrant helps "keep it simple".

Thanks

New comment by ompogUe in "Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)"

ompogUe — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:41:28 +0000

Keeping in mind with Vagrant: if you are using a synced_folder in your host as a source folder in the VM, those files in the synced_folder will be modified on the host.

New comment by ompogUe in "Dymaxion Chronofile"

ompogUe — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 13:44:29 +0000

Additionally, he later concluded that the tool of politics was a total waste of time to do that work. He then focused solely on science and design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_science_revolution

https://archive.org/details/operatingmanualforspaceshipearth...

New comment by ompogUe in "Who invented the transistor?"

ompogUe — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:01:00 +0000

Computronium! Kurzweil goes into this in the Singularity is Near.

I've always wondered if Warlock from the New Mutants was made of it.