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joncp··on Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
Nice work!

I do wonder, however, whether people really have issues with perf on any terminal emulator in 2026

I’ve been living in Terminal.app / zsh / tmux / vim for 15 years and have never once thought “this is slower than I want.”

joncp··on Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes
Whoa, nice reminder of how filthy rich I and almost everyone I know are.
joncp··on 2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update
I'm not sure why there's so much negativity in this thread. The listed requirements were already basic table-stakes security standards. IMO, anyone not encrypting all user data at rest, requiring MFA, etc. is bush league.
joncp··on Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down
I’d love to find a way to do something similar with neighboring dogs.
joncp··on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
... and a car to haul all that stuff, and time to drive to the nearest Costco.

It really is a luxury that a ton of people can't afford.

joncp··on Poisoning Well
That’ll end up in an arms race where you refine the gibberish to be more and more believable while the crawlers get better and better at detecting poison wells. The end state is where your fake pages are so close to the real thing that humans can’t tell the difference
joncp··on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
> That is achievable in physical security, but not in cybersecurity.

Not with physical security either, I'm afraid.

joncp··on Fern Hollow Bridge should have been closed years before it collapsed
They sort of do have that power. They have the ability to lower the max vehicle weight and eventually it gets lowered to where no real traffic can go over it. Grady talked about it in the video.
joncp··on The flip-flop on whether alcohol is good for you (2023)
because one doesn't tend to get drunk on pie and then go beat up your wife or run over a pedestrian with your car. Is it biblical? No, but people rank sins by social impact out of habit.
joncp··on Show HN: Peanut Butter Spinner
You can also just use a hand mixer with only one beater inserted.
joncp··on Show HN: Kubernates in Node.js
Cheekily forging forward with Atwood's law! I love it!
joncp··on U.S. opens UnitedHealth antitrust probe
And has Optum conveniently forgotten to ship refills, but only for the expensive drugs? That happened to my wife on multiple occasions.

Or maybe they've rejected refill requests until right before your supply runs out, such that you have to go days without your meds while the new supply is shipped?

Optum is the shadiest shitshow I've ever dealt with.

joncp··on Oracle extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037
> customers so inept that...

I used to think like that until I got to see some legacy systems in action. Sometimes it just makes financial sense to keep paying Larry and avoid a big rewrite.

joncp··on Ten Simple IT Security Rules for Early-Stage Startups
You’re assuming that everyone in the office is a coworker.

I recommend Deviant Ollam’s YouTube channel for an entertaining way to expand your assumptions

joncp··on New Photonic Chip Is the Full Package
We’ll call it “spacecadet’s law”: every online discussion will eventually end up talking about the bubble-du-jour.
joncp··on Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like podman is by and for linux devs. Once you move to Mac or Windows, you give up podman's main benefit of running containers without a daemon since you're still having to run a VM.
joncp··on Unix Time reaches 1.7 billion
I remember where I was when we hit 1,000,000,000. My coworkers thought I was strange for thinking it was significant.

... two days later all hell broke loose.

joncp··on I've overlayed stays on a light pollution satellite map
It's goofy on FF/Mac too. Not flashing but oddly distorted.
joncp··on An ultra-quiet electric leaf blower
> Cool tech, but the GTM strategy will make or break them

I'm having trouble seeing what google tag manager has to to with it.

joncp··on Jupe: Off-grid shelters that pop up anywhere on Earth
This feels like the Juicero of tents.
joncp··on US Government issues first-ever space debris penalty to Dish Network
Exactly. Some sort of escrow to guarantee that what goes up will eventually come down. Without that satellite operators could go out of business and dissolve without cleaning up their messes, much like mining companies have historically done.
joncp··on Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens (2022)
Even better: just uninstall the apps and only use the sites via mobile web. The benefits: you'll never see a single notification from apps you don't have, they'll never be able to eat your battery, openings for tracking are much reduced, and the slightly less awesome UI of the web version will somewhat reduce the dopamine hit you get from interacting with them.
joncp··on Runme – Interactive Runbooks Built with Markdown
Another is that it looks like runme is written in Go instead of python. It's a single executable I can drop onto any new machine instead of futzing around getting a particular python version installed before doing any work.
joncp··on The worlds largest Online Toaster Exhibition
It's cute that they're based in Essen, Germany.
joncp··on Why Is the U.S. So Good at Killing Pedestrians?
I’ve noticed the same in Seattle. There’s also a more “I dare you to hit me” attitude in a lot of my fellow pedestrians than in other cities I’ve lived in. I’m sure that has at least something to do with it too.
joncp··on Woman with untreated TB finally in custody – held in “negative pressure” room
Pierce County has quite a few anti-vaxxers.
joncp··on Amazon corporate workers plan walkout next week over return-to-office policies
> The corporate workers were okay with hearing about the warehouse workers peeing in bottles

Were they really? No Amazombies I know felt that way. You're going to need a source for such a claim.

joncp··on Seattle's new airport terminal can’t fit planes it was designed to handle
So, nobody built a scale model or 3D simulation before they built it IRL? Or is the article leaving something out?
joncp··on Estes Rockets Model Scale 1:100 Replica of SpaceX Falcon 9
Apples and oranges
joncp··on Ask HN: How do you know if leaving your 1st software job will make you happier?
What if switching jobs came with no overhead? That is, what if you could decide one day to change jobs and you'd be going to a different job the next day? Would you do it? Sure you would. At worst, you'd find out that your original job was great and you'd go back there.

The reason I pose that question is that I've found that for me the hardest thing about switching jobs is the overhead of switching: I have to do uncomfortable things for a while: grinding leetcode, switching to a salesman mentality where I'm selling my skills, risking lots of rejection, etc. The thing is that it's always been worth the hassle. I've gotten a raise every time. I've met people I respect and like every time. I've also learned things that I didn't know existed at every new job.

If you go through a couple more jobs and find you miss your first employer then you can at least go back there with a better resume than you had when you left.

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