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New comment by petemc_ in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

petemc_ — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:53:37 +0000

Persona do not seem to be competent guardians of such a trove of private information.

https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona

New comment by petemc_ in "Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal"

petemc_ — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:01:15 +0000

I initially thought this was by David Beazley, the python/rust guy.

New comment by petemc_ in "Show HN: I made a script that gives me fake calls to escape boring moments"

petemc_ — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:46:19 +0000

Linking to a screenshot posted on twitter is a terrible way to share code.

New comment by petemc_ in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

petemc_ — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 07:16:42 +0000

Unrelated to the article, and I can't seem to reply to the comment, but clicking on the archive.today link while I'm on holiday in Italy gives me a warning that it contains child pornography.

https://imgur.com/a/PXNY7vp

New comment by petemc_ in "When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it"

petemc_ — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:10:00 +0000

When managing large numbers of Dell rack mounted servers, a flea power drain is something you become very familiar with.

New comment by petemc_ in "After 155 years, the Campbell Soup company is changing its name"

petemc_ — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:02:54 +0000

Growing up, people with the surname Campbell often got the nickname soup or soupy.

New comment by petemc_ in "The Impact of the Kaspersky Ban"

petemc_ — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 23:29:13 +0000

Perhaps Augury.

New comment by petemc_ in "MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5"

petemc_ — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:58:17 +0000

In case you haven't read it - https://folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html

New comment by petemc_ in "Revenue is easy, profit is harder"

petemc_ — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 18:08:26 +0000

Unless you have some information you're not sharing, this is a pretty horrible thing to say.

New comment by petemc_ in "Tether ownership and company weaknesses revealed in documents"

petemc_ — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 02:02:36 +0000

Coffeezilla is great but Bitfinex’ed [0] has been calling out tether for longer.

[0] https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed

New comment by petemc_ in "Why Northern Ireland has no flag"

petemc_ — Wed, 18 May 2022 08:23:15 +0000

That, or they are avoiding debt collectors by not being on the electoral register.

New comment by petemc_ in "Citrix to be acquired for $16.5B, will be merged with Tibco"

petemc_ — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 19:55:30 +0000

Worked for a company that Citrix acquired a few years ago. They seemed to have went all in on something called Kepner-Tregoe. I left shortly after my week long training course, which I didn't get much out of other than a stay in a nice hotel. As I was leaving they were downsizing and one of their techniques was to match 2 people together and say "We will be comparing your performance against each other for the next 6 weeks, after that, the worst performer will be fired". Pretty awful.

New comment by petemc_ in "Tell HN: Full macOS reinstall because Apple ID"

petemc_ — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 16:30:45 +0000

I had a Ship of Theseus moment after getting my laptop repaired by Apple. They pretty much had to replace everything except for the bottom case, so when I went to sign in with my apple id I got a message saying "we have sent a message to your other device". But there was no other device. Took over a month to resolve and I also kept getting the annoying pop up message asking me to check the ID.

New comment by petemc_ in "The secret Thinkpad powerbutton code to bring dead laptops back to life (2007)"

petemc_ — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 20:44:34 +0000

Sounds the same as what Dell call a flea power drain.

New comment by petemc_ in "The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans"

petemc_ — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:10:50 +0000

Been a while since I read both books, but other than a vaguely similar shape, what makes the Affront clearly a juvenile version of the dwellers? I read the wiki you mentioned and there is a story suggesting an early version of contact rescued them from dweller hunts, but no mention of where this idea came from. I'm a huge fan and believe I have read everything Banks has written and do not recall the story.

New comment by petemc_ in "On Repl-Driven Programming"

petemc_ — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:44:58 +0000

Not a keystroke and I'm probably being captain obvious, but I use pythons execfile for this.

New comment by petemc_ in "Show HN: Greg – a simple “cal” clone written in C"

petemc_ — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 17:46:53 +0000

Whoops! Should have had my coffee before commenting. Cheers.

New comment by petemc_ in "Show HN: Greg – a simple “cal” clone written in C"

petemc_ — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 15:30:39 +0000

Nice, it even has the missing weeks in September 1752..

  $ wapm install zamfofex/greg@2020.10.10
  Package zamfofex/greg@2020.10.10 installed successfully!
  → Installed commands: greg
  $ cal 9 1752
     September 1752   
  Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
         1  2 14 15 16
  17 18 19 20 21 22 23
  24 25 26 27 28 29 30

New comment by petemc_ in "A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee (2016)"

petemc_ — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 08:04:15 +0000

Second this, eons is also amazing.

New comment by petemc_ in "500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court"

petemc_ — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 12:17:26 +0000

But then you play someone using similar strategy and you meet the nash equilibrium.