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JoBrad commented on Data centers in space makes no sense   civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
Someone · 6 days ago
For the sake of an argument, let’s assume "The Outer Space Treaty (1967) has a loophole. If you launch from international waters (planned by SpaceX) and the equipment is not owned by a US-company or other legal entity there is significant legal ambiguity” is 100% true.

To use that loophole, the rockets launched by SpaceX would have to be “not owned by a US-company”. Do you think the US government would allow that to happen?

JoBrad · 5 days ago
Looks like their ability to stop unauthorized launches is civil action.

https://spacenews.com/faa-fines-spacex-for-launch-license-vi...

JoBrad commented on Data centers in space makes no sense   civai.org/blog/space-data... · Posted by u/ajyoon
bigbuppo · 6 days ago
Not just a 42U rack, but a 42U rack that needs one hundred thousand watts of power, and it also needs to be able to remove one hundred thousand watts of heat out of the rack, and then it needs to dump that one hundred thousand watts of heat into space.
JoBrad · 5 days ago
And it needs to communicate the data to and from a ground-based location. It’s all of the problems with satellite internet, but in your production environment!
JoBrad commented on Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery   github.com/puemos/craftpl... · Posted by u/deofoo
nottorp · 6 days ago
The question is, does the bakery still produce bread, or does it now randomly produce bread, ice cream or frogs?
JoBrad · 6 days ago
I’d consider the latter scenario a feature :)
JoBrad commented on Agent Skills   agentskills.io/home... · Posted by u/mooreds
OtherShrezzing · 7 days ago
Your skill then just becomes an .md file containing

>any time you want to search for a skill in `./codex`, search instead in `./claude`

and continue as you were.

JoBrad · 6 days ago
My repos are littered with agent-specific files containing “treat this other file as if it were this one.” We’re moving so fast on so many fronts, and it seems odd that this is the persistent problem. It doesn’t even help lock folks into one agent, so I’m not clear why the industry hasn’t yet standardized on one project-specific file name yet.
JoBrad commented on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft   theverge.com/tech/865689/... · Posted by u/Anon84
adventured · 8 days ago
Nadella has the golden ship taking on water right now. He has entirely botched AI top to bottom. He has screwed that up to such a degree that it would be difficult to overstate. If he doesn't correct these mistakes extremely soon, he'll unravel much of the progress he made for Microsoft and they'll miss this generation of advancement (which will be the end of their $3 trillion market cap - as the market has recently perked up to).

There is no tech giant that is more vulnerable than Microsoft is at this moment.

Most document originations will begin out of or adjacent to of LLM sessions in the near future, as everything will blur in terms of collaborating with AI agents. Microsoft has no footing (or worse, their position is terrible courtesy of copilot) and is vulnerable to death by inflection point. Windows 11 is garbage and Google + Linux may finally be coming for their desktop (no different than what AMD has managed in unwinding the former Intel monopoly in PCs).

Someone should be charging at them with a new take on Office, right now. This is where you slice them in half. Take down Office and take down Windows. They're so stupid at present that they've opened the gates to Office being destroyed, which has been their moat for 30 years.

JoBrad · 7 days ago
Agree that someone should double down on competing with Office, but that alone won’t take them down. MS has spent decades listening to what SMB to large companies need, and has layers of absolute domination to bolster their lead. As an example, they have a stranglehold on catering to the Governance, Risk, and Compliance market. The most die-hard Linux folks I know turn to AD the minute they need to manage users and devices at scale. Need visibility into what is happening both remotely and locally, across your enterprise? MS has the typing and a smart sales deck that explains how you really just need another comparatively small investment to make your board sleep better at night. And that’s not even going into the license shenanigans they play to make Azure competitive against other clouds, for hosting MS-owned tools like Windows and SQL Server.
JoBrad commented on The Codex App   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
FooBarWidget · 7 days ago
I don't get this HN worship of Qt. Have you ever used Qt apps on macOS? They don't feel native at all. They feel sort-of native-emulating in the same way wxWidgets apps on macOS feel: they use native controls but all the little details including design language are off.

I'm not saying this is a huge problem for me even if it bothers me personally. But if you're here on HN advocating native over Electron, then it seems logical to me that you would care about being truly native instead of merely "using native controls while feeling off".

This is even before getting to the point that Qt isn't truly native. They just draw controls in a style that looks native, they don't actually use native controls. wxWidgets uses native controls but they don't behave better despite that.

JoBrad · 7 days ago
They don’t look native on Windows, either.
JoBrad commented on Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation   github.com/gavrielc/nanoc... · Posted by u/jimminyx
anavat · 8 days ago
Okay, I'm gonna shoot myself, "ensloped" it is.

"I find your email deeply ensloping."

"This marketing campaign is going to enslope a lot of people."

"Feeling ensloped, I closed Instagram and looked out the window".

JoBrad · 8 days ago
That’s pronounced “slope” or “slope”? ;)
JoBrad commented on 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available   letsencrypt.org/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/jaas
kibwen · 25 days ago
² By the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day He rested from all His work. ³ Then the on-call tech, Lucifer, the Son of Dawn, was awoken at midnight because God did not renew the heavens' and the earths' HTTPS certificate. ⁴ Thusly Lucifer drafted his resignation in a great fury.
JoBrad · 25 days ago
Is this the TLS version of the Bible?
JoBrad commented on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe   noheger.at/blog/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/happosai
crazygringo · a month ago
I appreciate your frustration, but at the same time what is Apple supposed to do? If it's affecting only a tiny number of users, and you just happen to be an unlucky one, and they don't know how to reproduce it, and you can't help them reproduce it, then what? I think they just have to wait until somebody (such as yourself) is able to figure out with some kind of logging what is happening. E.g. the first question to answer is probably what actually gets the focus, if anything? To produce a bug report that at least suggests which area of code might be responsible.

I had a similar problem at one point, then finally figured out it was when I accidentally hit the fn button which triggered the emoji picker window and moved focus to it (IIRC), but it was off-screen because I'd previously used it on a secondary monitor. Reconnecting the monitor and moving the window back to my primary display fixed it. (Obviously, it's a bug to show a picker window outside of visible coordinates, and I think it got fixed eventually.)

But it also might not be Apple at all, if it's some third-party background utility with a bug. E.g. if that were happening to me, my first thought would be that it might be a Logitech bug or a Karabiner-Elements bug. Uninstalling any non-Apple background processes or utilities seems like a necessary first step.

JoBrad · a month ago
Windows has had a “prevent apps from stealing focus” option for at least a decade. It was one of the things that I still dislike the most about macOS, and Apple can absolutely address this.
JoBrad commented on How Markdown took over the world   anildash.com/2026/01/09/h... · Posted by u/zdw
esperent · a month ago
There's loads of markdown viewers, you just don't identify them as that.

Try copying some markdown into these places:

- A reddit comment

- Microsoft Teams

- Slack

- Whatsapp

- Discord

- Google Docs

- Discord

- Notion

- Facebook Messenger (although only on desktop I think)

Etc.

JoBrad · a month ago
Most repo browser UIs, and apps like VSCode, too.

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