jpwgarrison
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11 months ago
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on: EmptyEpsilon open source spaceship bridge simulator
You can get by with 3 or four people. A few can be kids! It is intended to be played in person, but we started playing it remotely for "team building" in mid 2020. It works great over the internet, if everyone is technical enough to run two clients: one for your station and one for the "main" screen. If you have multiple monitors it works well. We've found all remote or all in person work well, and mixed makes comms frustrating.
jpwgarrison
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3 years ago
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on: Show HN: TaskTXT, plain text task-timing notepad
Looks cool! I did a quick skim of the website and privacy policy. It was quick, so maybe I missed it, but where are the notes stored? How are they protected? Are the contents of the notes considered Personal Data as relates to the privacy policy?
jpwgarrison
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5 years ago
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on: HN was down
A wise colleague recently explained to me that if you build HA things HA from the start, it's only a little more than 2x. If you try to make an _existing_ system HA, it's 3x at best. HN is not a paid service, they can be down for a few hours per year, no problem. We're not all going to walk away in disgust.
jpwgarrison
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5 years ago
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on: Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail
A mix of mutt for triage and reluctantly, the gmail web interface. I think I have tried every real client available and been disappointed in many different ways?
jpwgarrison
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5 years ago
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on: Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail
Mailmate at
https://freron.com/ is fantastic. My only gripe is that it is Mac-only, so I can't use it on my work desktop. (linux)
jpwgarrison
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6 years ago
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on: Omni Group Layoffs
99% of all businesses are planning on at least two really bad quarters coming up. Very few have cash reserves to cover shortfalls. If you’re planning out the rest of the year, and you were already in a little trouble, you have to cut expenses immediately.
I’m not sure Omni is as tied to quarterly planning/reporting; but for those who are, and are on the regular calendar schedule, this all happened just in time for a lot of the potential Q1 end of quarter sales to dry up as everyone tightened up.
jpwgarrison
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6 years ago
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on: I think Catalina 10.15.4 broke SSH
Same here, 5 digits and a hostname = no problem. There must be some other factor(s) in play.
jpwgarrison
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6 years ago
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on: BSD vs. Ubuntu motd(5)
You do probably want swap, but the comment you are replying to is talking about a swap _partition_ and that is not the only way to do swap. Using a file instead makes it easier to change the size of your swap, some people prefer that.
jpwgarrison
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6 years ago
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on: Facebook is using the iPhone’s camera as users scroll their feed
https://puri.sm/ makes great laptops with hardware switches. I have one, love it, and reluctantly accept that this market will always just be the same ~1400 nerds.
jpwgarrison
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6 years ago
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on: Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project
Put more simply, it is about increasing total addressable market.
jpwgarrison
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6 years ago
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on: Seattle looks to rein in state policy used to push back on big projects
jpwgarrison
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6 years ago
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on: Thunderbird 68.0
It looks like keyboard shortcuts don't work here? I tried the new Thunderbird, but it looks like you (still) need an extension to change keyboard shortcuts and none of them work with v68 even if you don't mind third party extensions.
jpwgarrison
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?
> It's like you try to peel back a single layer of why people believe what they believe and there's nothing there.
I'd like you to consider that something in your manner of "peeling back" is causing people to block you out
If I get the impression someone has pre-judged me or is generally disagreeable, I don't feed the bear. I just don't care what they think and if looking dumb gets me out of that conversation quickly that is fine by me.
jpwgarrison
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6 years ago
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on: Doing work locally minimizes problems with Electron apps
> like disabling selecting text when you shouldn't be able to
This is the worst thing in computers. Why would you EVER _block_ the ability to select text? I am engaged enough to want to select something you made! Embrace that, don't stop it!
jpwgarrison
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6 years ago
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on: Show HN: Notational Velocity for Vim
jpwgarrison
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6 years ago
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on: Alpine Linux Docker images have NULL for root password
So you can justify using k8s and shine up your resume!
jpwgarrison
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7 years ago
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on: FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
Yeah, if you have a hacked iMessage client you probably could retire from bug bounties. At any rate the bug in question would pale in comparison to a rogue iMessage client.
jpwgarrison
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7 years ago
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on: Is Your Cat 6 Cable a Dog? (2013)
I buy a lot of cables for work. A few years ago I tried to order a new batch from my supplier and they told me they now had CAT6 for the same price, but thinner. So since 2015 or so we've used CAT6. But never in lengths that matter, just in-rack patch cables. Initially I didn't really care about the diameter. Later we ran out of space in the cable trays where we had some older, thicker stuff and swapping it out made a tactile, physical difference. IMO 5/5e/6 is a wash anyway, if you need distance you probably just need fiber.
jpwgarrison
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7 years ago
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on: Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private photos of up to 6.8M users
Sadly, this is the moment that those photos stop being private. I get that this is hard for the general public to understand - but at this point, uploading anything to Facebook = obfuscated, maybe, but not private.
jpwgarrison
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7 years ago
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on: Snowboarding for Geeks
Me three! I can't imagine going back to soft boots. The initial cost is more but boots and bindings last far longer.
