Hacker News: padjo

New comment by padjo in "US – Iran negotiations end with no deal reached"

padjo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:33:34 +0000

He could literally throw him under a bus and not suffer any legal consequences. It's probably 50/50 whether or not senate Republican would vote to impeach him after that.

New comment by padjo in "US – Iran negotiations end with no deal reached"

padjo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:33:26 +0000

What direction do you reckon support has been trending in the last month?

New comment by padjo in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

padjo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:13:49 +0000

I salute your can-do spirit and your will to customise your tools to your preferences.

I also think you're an animal and need to be stopped before you do more damage to perfectly well designed machines.

New comment by padjo in "The Seasons Are Wrong"

padjo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:05:54 +0000

I had never even heard the idea of seasons starting on the solstices or equinoxes before. What a bizarre way to look at the year.

New comment by padjo in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

padjo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:15:02 +0000

It was the early 2000s though, $17 got you like a weeks worth of snacks back then.

New comment by padjo in "The Intelligence Failure in Iran"

padjo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:25:43 +0000

Read the last line of the article again.

New comment by padjo in "The Intelligence Failure in Iran"

padjo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:42:41 +0000

It's certainly making all that Venezuelan oil seem economically viable.

New comment by padjo in "The Intelligence Failure in Iran"

padjo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:39:37 +0000

Yeah this almost frames it as an honest mistake when it was actually a fait accompli. The decision to invade was made and some pretext was generated.

New comment by padjo in "Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?"

padjo — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:08:20 +0000

> That money could go to... I don't know... feed people? Just one example.

Or even keep it in NASA and do something where we actually learn something new. It's crazy to me that we've still only sent one craft to Neptune and it was nearly 40 years ago.

New comment by padjo in "LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer"

padjo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:19:36 +0000

Also: stop installing random extensions

New comment by padjo in "CEO of largest public hospital says he's ready to replace radiologists with AI"

padjo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:24:06 +0000

CEO said a thing. https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/

New comment by padjo in "GitHub's Historic Uptime"

padjo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:42:49 +0000

It feels like they launched actions and it quickly turned out to be an operations and availability nightmare. Since then, they've been firefighting and now the problems have spread to previously stable things like issues and PRs

New comment by padjo in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

padjo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:58:19 +0000

MS burning trust with people to do some stupid marketing is on the fewer assumptions side of Occam's razor.

New comment by padjo in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

padjo — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:12:09 +0000

Yeah there's no way a fax actually gets printed for this. I worked in an admin role like this 25 years ago and incoming faxes went straight to PDF on a network share even back then.

New comment by padjo in "So where are all the AI apps?"

padjo — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:00:43 +0000

At least one of them is sitting on a raspberry pi in my house. Rather than pay a subscription for a workout tracker app or learn and configure a bloated open source one, I built my own in a few hours with Claude with the exact feature set I want. Its been a joy to use.

New comment by padjo in "Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution"

padjo — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:48:38 +0000

They certainly behave as if they do.

New comment by padjo in "The three pillars of JavaScript bloat"

padjo — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:32:56 +0000

It's a case of Chesterton's fence. Having built complex apps pre-react, I wouldn't be in a hurry to go back to that approach because I have first hand experience of running into the problems it solves.

New comment by padjo in "The three pillars of JavaScript bloat"

padjo — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:23:57 +0000

Nope. Just a reductio as absurdum that you decided to counter by asking that I maintain higher standards of debate than you.

The notion that atomic architecture came about because people are stupid and performative is not really useful. Its fairly misanthropic and begs the question why it became so prevalent in JS specifically.

New comment by padjo in "The three pillars of JavaScript bloat"

padjo — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:18:09 +0000

Interesting that rather than try to bolster your claim you resorted to a logical fallacy to justify it.

New comment by padjo in "The three pillars of JavaScript bloat"

padjo — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:06:22 +0000

A third argument is that it was because of aliens from the planet Blotrox Prime. But I suppose without evidence we'll just have to accept that all three theories are equally probable.