<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: radiojosh</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=radiojosh</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:10:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=radiojosh" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radiojosh in "Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your VaporView extension looks amazing!  I can't even fathom how to get that far along in extension development.<p>Do you have any links or resources you could direct me toward that were more helpful than Microsoft's basic how-to pages for learning VS Code plugin development?  I attempted to build a VS Code extension, but the attempt fizzled out.  I managed to make some progress in creating the simplest of UI elements and populating them.  I'm particularly interested in building a GUI-based editor of JSON / YAML where a user can select a value from a prepopulated dropdown menu, or validating a JSON / YAML file against a custom schema.  Any help or advice you could provide would be appreciated!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:21:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41925965</link><dc:creator>radiojosh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41925965</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41925965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radiojosh in "Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you have any links or resources you could direct me toward that were more helpful than Microsoft's basic how-to pages for learning VS Code plugin development?  I attempted to build a VS Code extension, but the attempt fizzled out.  I managed to make some progress in creating the simplest of UI elements and populating them.  I'm particularly interested in building a GUI-based editor of JSON / YAML where a user can select a value from a prepopulated dropdown menu, or validating a JSON / YAML file against a custom schema.  Any help or advice you could provide would be appreciated!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:18:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41925924</link><dc:creator>radiojosh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41925924</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41925924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radiojosh in "Why don't we know how antidepressants work yet?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think one of the biggest problems is that psychiatrists have to step through a procession of different drugs in an order specified by insurance companies.  Cheap to expensive, traditional to exotic.  And the most traditional drugs at this point are SSRIs, which have very mixed evidence for their effectiveness.<p>After being dragged along through an endless series of different SSRIs, I finally found a psychiatrist who runs a genetic test prior to treatment.  And wouldn't you know it, I have a gene that makes SSRIs ineffective if you're a Caucasian, and yes, I'm Caucasian.<p>The test also says that I'm an ideal candidate for methylphenidate, that I barely feel CBD, and I'll have a hard time with all but the most exotic antidepressants.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2024 05:23:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40959044</link><dc:creator>radiojosh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40959044</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40959044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radiojosh in "The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I worked at "The Only Sony Only" store in St. Louis when this TV came out.  I delivered and installed equipment among other responsibilities.  I might have delivered two of these particular units.  I believe it was actually like 305 pounds.<p>This television had a couple of interesting traits.  Sony flat Trinitrons were apparently the only true flat CRT televisions where both the outside AND inside of the tube were flat.  This is why they were so heavy - the flat glass had to be thicker to withstand the vacuum inside.<p>It was a high definition television, but it was 4:3 aspect ratio.  They sold a 34 inch CRT that was the only 16:9 CRT they offered at the time.<p>Additionally, the size of the 40 inch tube apparently left it extra vulnerable to stray magnetic fields.  CRT screens all respond to magnets by producing rainbow colored distortions, but the 40 inch was extra sensitive.  We delivered one to a house and turned it on only to find that the screen colors were distorted.  I'm not sure how we figured it out, but we realized it was the proximity to the metal floor beam, so we moved the TV to another spot in the room and the color distortion went away.<p>For context, you could get an HD 65 inch rear projection wide screen television at the time that only weighed 265 pounds.  I delivered both the 40 inch and the 65 inch up a flight of stairs.  Those moving straps that hang from your forearms were not yet popular.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2024 04:05:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40764696</link><dc:creator>radiojosh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40764696</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40764696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radiojosh in "Bouba/kiki effect"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the best TED talks ever given, by VS Ramachandran - a video describing some of the fundamental mechanisms of the brain.  This video was the first time I heard Bouba and Kiki, but there's so much more going on in this talk.  It's wonderful.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:26:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40701520</link><dc:creator>radiojosh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40701520</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40701520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radiojosh in "Taking away iPhone made daughter a better person"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As soon as the author talked about the zebra stripe scars on the daughter's arm, I knew it wasn't about just the phone.  As soon as the author said that their daughter went from Pink Floyd to stereotypical duck lips and peace signs, I decided they were completely full of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:53:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40674650</link><dc:creator>radiojosh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40674650</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40674650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radiojosh in "Decade of the Battery"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In what way could you possibly interpret that writing as "strange"?  That was an excellent, straightforward response.</p>
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<p>This seems huge if you can do it.  I'm guessing a company like Intuit pays top dollar for job candidates with a double major in finance and computer science.</p>
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<p>That seemed rhetorical.  I'm hoping it was intended ironically.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2024 04:42:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40497390</link><dc:creator>radiojosh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40497390</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40497390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radiojosh in "Cloudflare took down our website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This has always been my concern about establishing a presence online.  I've considered blogging about my experiences at work or the cool stuff that I've built and it feels impossible for me to know when I've crossed a legal boundary.  How do I know for sure if I'm sharing proprietary stuff or confidential stuff.  The lines of legality seem to get blurry real quick.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 13:56:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40482217</link><dc:creator>radiojosh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40482217</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40482217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radiojosh in "It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, the company I work for has millions of dollars tied up in Pure storage arrays.  We evaluated Nutanix and I just stopped listening after they said they don't support external storage.  Huge missed opportunity for them.</p>
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<p>> I think this might also be related to whether the kid grow up with parents they can trust and are able to explain the reasons behind "rules" to them.<p>I think you hit the nail on the head here.  Even if a parent's advice is sound, a child may not trust the source for other reasons.  If the parent's own behavior defies their advice, if the parent is overbearing, if the parent's expectations are unreasonable, if the parent never listens to the child...  Shitty parents can make it extremely unpleasant to do what is right.  And we haven't even gotten to actual trauma.  People often have difficulty functioning in society when fear and anxiety are a part of their everyday life because their parents were abusive.  And the thing is, traumatized people might <i>really</i> want to do the right thing, but they can't and they don't know why.</p>
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<p>It is my understanding that some people who don't exercise at all have a hard time controlling their appetites, and then when they introduce moderate exercise, they find it much easier to keep their eating in check.  I think it's synergistic.</p>
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<p>I think it's partially killing off perpetual ownership, but I think I heard they're also killing off a lot of individual SKUs.  So you may not be able to get ESXi outside of a full vCloud Foundation subscription, which also includes NSX and Aria and a bunch of other stuff...</p>
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<p>Where have your technology acquaintances gone instead?  It seems like the entire Internet is declining in quality.</p>
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<p>Probably as good at delivering shareholder value as anyone.  Probably just didn't want to play ball when investors started asking him to strip out all the value to the customer and put the screws to the employees and purge anything and everything that might be mistaken for humanity and goodness.  They love to do that shit and then pretend their new hollowed out strip mine is "lean".</p>
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<p>That isn't NATs fault.  That's a dynamically assigned IP address.  You can pay for a static, or you can use Dynamic DNS to work around it.  If you didn't have NAT, you'd have a static IP by default, but again, you'd be paying for all those extra IP addresses you need.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2023 02:25:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38741086</link><dc:creator>radiojosh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38741086</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38741086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radiojosh in "Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't understand your first point about firewalls, but port forwarding on a consumer router is no more difficult than opening a port on a firewall.  Either one can be overcomplicated by a badly designed interface.  See Uniquiti Edgerouter for an example.<p>I know gaming consoles can be a pain with NAT, but is that NAT's fault?  That link you pasted about the Nintendo Switch is literally just an article about setting up port forwarding.<p>And that NAT slipstreaming issue is just a vulnerability caused by complicated protocols.  Saying that a fundamental network technology is bad because its implementation is flawed doesn't make sense.  I guess we should throw away x86-64 because Intel Skylake processors had side channel vulnerabilities.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2023 02:23:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38741074</link><dc:creator>radiojosh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38741074</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38741074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radiojosh in "Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How exactly does it break the spirit of the Internet?  The spirit of the Internet is that we run out of IPv4 addresses and everyone who uses the Internet has to learn IPv6 and be an expert on firewalls?<p>I can't tell if you're being elitist because your defacto position is that everyone who uses the Internet has to be a cyber security expert, or if you're just being obtuse because a couple of Google searches will usually set you straight on setting up port forwarding through your router.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2023 17:01:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38736101</link><dc:creator>radiojosh</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38736101</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38736101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by radiojosh in "Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a terribly uninformed take.<p>ISPs charge for public IP addresses.  Do you want to be charged for a large enough block of public IP addresses to cover every networked device in your house?  Because that's what you get when you don't use NAT.  And if it weren't for NAT, the Internet would be running out of IPv4 addresses (it already is, sort of), so you'd either deal with much higher prices for IPv4 addresses, or you'd have to learn IPv6, which is WAY harder than dealing with port forwarding through an IPv4 NAT.<p>Not to mention the premium you'd pay for a router with an actual firewall, and you had better make sure you understand the firewall.  Port forwarding on a working router is generally a lot easier than a firewall.<p>If it was really impossible to set up inbound connections to your server, it was either a problem with the router or a problem with your ISP.</p>
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