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New comment by pjjpo in "A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days"

pjjpo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:15:24 +0000

Ouch - "every Mac" from the original post is a hallucination then.

I can live with the writing style when the topic is interesting (here it was for me) but complete untruths are much worse.

New comment by pjjpo in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

pjjpo — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:00:20 +0000

Both Andreeson and Elon knew exactly how to take advantage of the times to make money. Both are true "failed" billionaires, Netscape and "PayPal" as the examples. Latter in quotes since Musk didn't contribute much more than getting fired immediately.

So yes, you are the stupid, and the world has not gone towards better, or even different.

New comment by pjjpo in "Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssembly"

pjjpo — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:50:12 +0000

Definitely don't recommend that since it works when it does and doesn't otherwise. Most users will not end up happy trying to make it work since the alternative is more common.

This isn't a fault of TinyGo itself, it is just targeting a space that doesn't really prioritize embedded but got picked up for that just because. But without fixing this Wasm ecosystem issue, compiling Go to Wasm will never be a real thing.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/issues/59

New comment by pjjpo in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

pjjpo — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:46:53 +0000

I really agree with a lot of this but also think it may be hitting a bit too hard. It may be most applicable to engineer founders.

My anecdote is that, after a few stings with non-technical founders, a doc etc will not improve the chances to reach PMF and prototypes that they can understand can improve the chance.

Outside of the startup context, I have also seen prototypes (hand written way back when that was a thing) resonate with FAANG directors much more than brainstorming.

I am very much for not just vibe it, and the biggest risk of prototypes is they lend to just directly launching broken systems to production. But I think this is a different topic than reaching PMF.

New comment by pjjpo in "Evacuation of U.S. troops from Mideast base sends community groups scrambling"

pjjpo — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:11:43 +0000

Schools getting blown up is also a bummer. Everything about this situation and maybe the world is a bummer.

As soon as we stop treating these as bummers, there is literally nothing stopping a cycle of destruction. There may not be anyways, I don't know but giving up on empathy entirely seems even more dangerous than being bad at it.

New comment by pjjpo in "Untaxed Wealth of Richest 0.1% Is More Than Assets of World’s Poorest Half"

pjjpo — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:45:31 +0000

The article focuses on offshore accounts but as far as I know, buy - borrow - die doesn't require offshore accounts.

New comment by pjjpo in "My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned"

pjjpo — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:03:53 +0000

Ah looks like this was deleted (again?) overnight. All makes sense now.

New comment by pjjpo in "My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned"

pjjpo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:36:54 +0000

I randomly found that post on the top page of Google just searching for "Gemini Live" interestingly enough. Does it mean the post was deleted and then restored? Trying to make sense of this whole thread which is arguably more confusing than the Reddit one.

New comment by pjjpo in "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'I think we've achieved AGI'"

pjjpo — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:13:12 +0000

This is the problem. He does interview extremely influential people, even state leaders like Modi.

The content is not great but many people will buy it just from the name power alone. Unfortunately he seems to be a truly influential person.

New comment by pjjpo in "Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew"

pjjpo — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:02:58 +0000

While I have some vague recollection of homebrew feeling slow in the past I don't know when - I want to say well before Nov 2025. And recently absolutely no such feeling, and great features like auto update handling, etc just working. It's really good stuff.

Python has powered Linux package management to reasonable result for a long time, Python itself is ironic for having tricky platform constraints that ended up being best solved with uv's excellent rust solver. For homebrew I would personally not stress over a Rust frontend - but if it keeps some of the FUD out then maybe it's worth it!

New comment by pjjpo in "Woman in Labor at Florida Hospital Brought in Zoom Court for Refusing C-Section"

pjjpo — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:03:35 +0000

I also needed to reread that paragraph a few times but it seems a law professor was commenting on the case with an expression of what the hospital could have been thinking, not that anyone actually said anything about being a bad mother.

New comment by pjjpo in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

pjjpo — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:50:25 +0000

There are those times we may be seeing the source of LLM language training. I had the same reaction of sounding like one but agree it's likely not.

New comment by pjjpo in "Boss-CSS: I created another "CSS-in-JS" lib"

pjjpo — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:16:45 +0000

> I wouldn't be able to count on my 2 hands how many times I've Googled the term tailwind line-height, because of course, it's leading and I keep forgetting that.

Me too! Some being text, others font, is one that constantly trips me up.

New comment by pjjpo in "Reverse engineering the KakaoTalk app so I can build a Beeper Bridge"

pjjpo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:36:06 +0000

Salts are fixed - so if you salt with, i.e. the email address, any attacker will also do that. The key derivation strategy of password managers is already known. Especially in a browser, salting strategy cannot be hidden so it's a known factor. As sad as it is, for those without good hygiene, either they are at risk of compromise, or tie identity to a device and are at risk of losing access entirely. There is currently no magic solution.

New comment by pjjpo in "Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win"

pjjpo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:50:59 +0000

I was looking forward to good UX accessing HBO through Netflix. Too bad, but looking forward to good UX accessing HBO, and paramount (?) some day down the line through Netflix when this converges.

New comment by pjjpo in "Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic"

pjjpo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:45:52 +0000

There is no bad guy in geopolitics, just the other guy.

New comment by pjjpo in "Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic"

pjjpo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:42:14 +0000

Don't need to use China even, Microsoft, or Palantir, etc will continue to support the US military, likely using Google technology in the process (Guava, gRPC maybe?, k8s assuredly? etc).

Sorry but if you truly believe in technology not using in bad context, the only way to avoid it is to change careers. The issue with news like this is it's hard to actually trust the protesters, they probably are happy to clear their conscience personally while continuing to reap the benefits of living in the tech industry. Have your cake and eat it too.

Sometimes people do quit - they're probably the ones you want to hire if you care about ethics. Most don't though.

New comment by pjjpo in "Reverse engineering the KakaoTalk app so I can build a Beeper Bridge"

pjjpo — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:13:13 +0000

Password managers generally send a hash but for almost all services I would say plain text password is standard, I would definitely go with something like firebase or auth0 vs rolling your own auth in most normal situations. The poster is explicit about not knowing anything about security though so all good.

New comment by pjjpo in "Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail"

pjjpo — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:52:06 +0000

I think the main issue people have with this comment is the word "recent" and to a lesser degree "U.S.". All countries have done anything to further their goals regardless of any common point of agreement, some times framing within that framework, sometimes not. This is not a recent or US-only phenomenon, it's the definition of geopolitics.

I'm all for an alien invasion uniting us but not sure when that will happen.

New comment by pjjpo in "How vibe coding is killing open source"

pjjpo — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:13:34 +0000

One issue I found is that for new projects, it is much harder to market now. shownew is flooded and subreddits have turned up their spam filters high so quality projects will have trouble getting eyes without significant social activity before wanting to share. So the bar for introverts writing (not vibing) good OSS feels like it has gone up in an unfortunate way.