mmcallister (u/mmcallister)

mmcallister commented on Remembering Steve Jobs macrumors.com/2025/10/05/... · Posted by u/ksec

iaw · 5 months ago

I know this wont go over well but I think it's important to remember: Steve Jobs did not treat his pancreatic cancer when he was first diagnosed and it was treatable, he instead sought holistic/alternative medicine treatments[1]. He leveraged his vast wealth to get a replacement liver [2] that at the time was known to only extend his life. That liver could have gone to someone that did not have such a negative prognosis and possibly saved their life for a lot longer than it did Steve. He used a chunk of his remaining time to work on his last yacht.

He was a great product person but I don't think that excuses all of the horrible things he did as a human.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/food-for-thought/201...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/24/liver.transplant.prior...

mmcallister · 5 months ago

> Steve Jobs did not treat his pancreatic cancer when he was first diagnosed and it was treatable

That's his choice, it's _his_ cancer after all

> I don't think that excuses all of the horrible things he did as a human

I think this is a bit of a leap. He's done some bad things sure, but the only ones you mentioned were...working on a yacht, using alternative medicine and getting a liver transplant

mmcallister commented on 『 0x61 』- Panasonic and OpenBSD = <3 x61.sh/log/2025/07/030720... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

somat · 8 months ago

I have a lenovo x131e I still use as a daily driver, It's getting up there in age, but I will be very sad when it dies, mainly because of it's perfect openbsd compatibility, sleep/resume works flawlessly, and it has three physical trackpad/trackpoint buttons for that sublime X11 experience.

mmcallister · 8 months ago

I have one of these too, and I honestly can't fault it. Runs Arch + i3 and they're very cheap in Australia since the education department handed them out in schools.

Once things get too sluggish for me I'll see what hardware hacks I can do to bring it back (I also wouldn't mind swapping the charging port to USB-C), but until then it works well for my needs.

mmcallister commented on A succinct email in just a subject line rubenerd.com/a-succinct-e... · Posted by u/Tomte

mmcallister · a year ago

I always found these incredibly rude, in my experience it's typically senior management, and specifically those who like to really make you feel like a nameless "human resource"

Though I haven't seen it in recent years with (better) workplace messaging platform, like Slack

mmcallister commented on Making Markets on Kalshi rlafuente.com/post?post=2... · Posted by u/andes314

mmcallister · a year ago

It's interesting that sigma is static and defined ahead of time, how do you determine the initial sigma?

mmcallister commented on 418 I’m a teapot developer.mozilla.org/en-... · Posted by u/csomar

averageRoyalty · a year ago

Usually in one of these threads, someone links the iiNet coffee cam. Here you go:

https://coffeecam.iinet.net.au/coffee/history/

mmcallister · a year ago

iiNet was probably the best job I've ever had, certainly the place where I learnt the most, and had the most fun.

The coffeecam was cute, acb - the one primarily responsible for the coffeecam - also had American candies for sale around it (at least when I worked there at Hay Street)

mmcallister commented on Show HN: I made a Sonic runner game in JavaScript jslegend.itch.io/sonic-ri... · Posted by u/JSLegendDev

defrost · a year ago

Are you training an AI @ Sendler.ai to make insipid low value comments on days old threads in order to astroturf this account for later boosting of your submissions?

I mean, it looks like that: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ramiborni99

but that's surely a mistake on my part?

mmcallister · a year ago

Given the answer to their question on how it's written is quite obvious in the provided link, I'd say if they are using an AI it doesn't appear to be parsing the content and maybe only the titles?

mmcallister commented on Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain restoreprivacy.com/proton... · Posted by u/gulced

kube-system · 2 years ago

You could encrypt the source IP on all your outbound TCP packets, but it might not work very well.

mmcallister · 2 years ago

a minor point but you can't _encrypt_ source IPs, you can only obfuscate or more accurately, proxy.

mmcallister commented on Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant semafor.com/article/01/10... · Posted by u/thm

happyopossum · 2 years ago

> standards. It isn't like they are simply reading a spec out of an existing document and coding up a conformant program.

Err, yes - that’s what 98% of modern TCP/IP development work is. There aren’t frequent new RFCs for TCP - it is established, standardized, and stable.

mmcallister · 2 years ago

The other 2% keeps engineers fairly busy, I imagine. Custom congestion control algorithms come to mind

mmcallister commented on Official guide for organizing Go projects and modules go.dev/doc/modules/layout... · Posted by u/dondraper36

mmcallister · 2 years ago

Compare and contrast this with the Go Standards project-layout repo example[1] - which ironically is not a standard at all.

Personally I prefer a bit more rigidity in how the project is structured (/pkg/, /pkg/internal/, /cmd/) since it is more opinionated and requires less thinking. Typically my repos won't just have a Go backend but also a frontend too, and supporting assets, as well as documentation (designs, decisions, etc.)

[1] https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout

mmcallister commented on RFC 9454: Update to OSPF Terminology, Changed Master/Slave to Leader/Follower rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc945... · Posted by u/Sea-n

mesebrec · 3 years ago

I've never really understood why the internet at large uses BGP instead of more advanced protocols like OSPF.

mmcallister · 3 years ago

OSPF is an interior routing protocol that transmits link state. Link state based routing algorithms aren't a good fit for interconnected networks