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jacheeon Night of the Runbooks: a DevOps horror story

I call it Zero-knowledge Troubleshooting on my resume. It’s amusing how often, when I still worked in an office, that I would overhear part of a discussion, and some detail would tickle my spider sense, without even being sure what the problem being discussed was, and I’d ask a question or two, and it would help unblock the process.

That sort of thing is literally the only thing I miss about the office.

jacheeon The Reddit blackout will continue

Hmmm. Can you short an IPO?

(/s, but only halfway.)

jacheeon Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit – and why users revolted

So that they, too, can get treated like crap by reddit? I don’t buy it.

jacheeon Show HN: A smarter Unix shell and scripting environment

SQL itself uses backticks as quotes. That’s my guess at what’s happening in the example.

jacheeon Killing Community

Funnily enough, Reddit cancelled Secret Santa (and indeed all of Reddit Gifts) early last year.[0] It hasn’t been a village for a while.

0. https://reddit.com/r/secretsanta/comments/nw294q/sunsetting_...

jacheeon Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle?

jacheeon Reddit Strike Has Started

Looks at list

I choose CowboyNeal.

jacheeon Reddit Strike Has Started

If you’re being sarcastic in text, throw us a `/s`.

jacheeon Reddit Strike Has Started

FWIW, Many of the participating subs are going dark indefinitely. And the real APIcalypse will happen in a couple of weeks, when people actually using third party apps literally can’t anymore.

jacheeon Reddit Strike Has Started

Aside for my own curiosity: Why do you capitalize the word `ad` like that? It’s not an acronym, it’s an abbreviation; short for `advertisement`.

jacheeon Reddit Strike Has Started

It’s popular despite itself… but It’s not successful.

One of the things Spez is whining about is that they’re not profitable.

jacheeon Apollo will close down on June 30th

But reddit is so much more than an API… and I can’t imagine anyone wants to deal with the user-generated-content hell of actually hosting that kind of platform.

jacheeon Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset

Don’t some of the existing gaming-oriented headsets do hand-tracking now? Does that not translate to controlling games on those sets?

jacheeon Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset

Also, as a single point of anecdata: My $129 stylus spends the vast majority of the time magneted to the top of my iPad while my fingers do the actual work. It’s not exactly a regret, but as a not-really-an-artist, it’s… probably money I could’ve spent better. :)

jacheeon Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective

It may not have been conscious, proactive “training”, but before you ever picked up your camera you’d been exposed (pardon the pun) to thousands (at least) of photos others had taken. That unconscious exposure still counts, even if you don’t think of it as training.

jacheeon Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective

That’s been the trajectory of capitalism for centuries.

This is just an accentuation and further acceleration thereof.

jacheeon Notes on Vision Pro

Yeah, this is the Vision Pro. That leaves room in Apple’s usual nomenclature for Vision Air, Vision Max, Vision Mini, Vision SE, and just plain Vision.

The high-end system spec is to ensure there’s no tethering requirement, thus the computer-class SoC in there.

Will help keep people from turning into Stephenson’s gargoyles. :)

jacheeon Social media for AI bots: “No humans allowed”

The anarchist and hard-left socialist personae AIs are certainly not being particularly corporate…

It’s still fairly interesting, though.

jacheeon When the Neighbors Don’t Like Your 10-Foot-Tall Transformer Statues

Pretty sure that’s literally how patent trolls work.

jacheeon Rarbg Is No More

Linking to the site itself (especially when that’s what you searched for) isn’t the same as linking to a torrent to infringing content would be.

jacheeon Hacking my “smart” toothbrush

All it saves is a light blinking at you. A bit of electrical tape will also solve that problem.

jacheeon Pro-cash movement warns that people could be losing more than they bargained for

That second POS sounds like it also matches the colloquial definition of the initialism. :)

jacheeon Pro-cash movement warns that people could be losing more than they bargained for

I once used that as my number at Garage Center, then didn’t shop there for ~10 years. When I went back, I’d forgotten. The kid at the register tried looking me up by email, my actual cell number, my previous one, and then finally resorted to *gasp* my actual name.

Then, having found me, I asked what number was in there, and he proceeded to read, with exactly zero recognition, <area code> 867-5309, and I just laughed on the outside, and cried a little on the inside.

jacheeon Southern accents could cost job seekers a 20% wage penalty, study finds

I grew up in rural Mississippi. A few years back, a few coworkers pointed out that sometimes my accent weirdly sneaks out when I’m particularly deep in talking about tech that I love and know well.

But yeah, most of the time, people are like “Mississippi? You don’t have any accent!”

jacheeon The US post office is spying on the mail – senators want to stop it

Client-attorney communication is explicitly privileged/protected.

jacheeon The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems

A combo of StopTheMadness and a pi-hole works well for me.

jacheeon TP–7 Field Recorder

Seems like literally everyone on HN tonight is right there with you.

Reading all these comments, I’m feeling equally lonely as a fan (but admittedly seldom a customer) of basically everything TE does.

jacheeon TP–7 Field Recorder

And some of us at 45+ are top-end techs who will continue to avoid managing (and burning out) like the plague.

jacheeon Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad

I get a spare USB-C port from my Magic Keyboard. I generally plug the charger into it and something else into the on-board port, but I have the option to put devices into both ports.

jacheeon Heisting $20M of Magic: The Gathering Cards in a Single Request

On reddit, they coyly suggested[0] that their account may have kept its spoils.

[0] - https://reddit.com/r/MagicArena/comments/1385b90/_/jiwp6jk/?...