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jacheeon Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia

Pilot Unions should go on strike until ATC is properly staffed at every level, since Regan made it illegal for ATC themselves to go on strike.

jacheeon Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill

“Impossible to get a man to understand a thing, when his paycheck depends on his not understanding it.”

jacheeon Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule

Oh, and I forgot to mention the ironically-named (so much of their stuff is ironically-named…) “SAVE” Act, that’s set to disrupt the process even further by having “AI” purge voter registration rolls.

jacheeon Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule

The ones where they’re going to send brownshirts to intimidate voters in blue states? The ones they’re going to try to disrupt like Dallas County last night? The ones they’ve trying desperately to Gerrymander to lock down their dictatorial power? Those elections?

It really feels like they’re trying hard to change the rules so that they’re the only ones who can win, to be just like their idol/puppeteer in Russia.

And it feels like an external intervention is one of the only things that may help.

jacheeon MacBook Neo

Less-so if you do it in Safari than using a non-Apple browser.

jacheeon Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule

As an American, I’m really starting to feel that way.

jacheeon NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays

SpaceX also has a nepo-billionaire’s disposable hobby budget, while NASA’s has been cut to the marrow.

jacheeon We Will Not Be Divided

I’m not the one saying “you lot only do words”, this one is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193041

jacheeon We Will Not Be Divided

The first 17 of those are all variations on “make words”. :P

jacheeon NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays

First Time NASA did that was how we got Apollo I and lost three astronauts.

They learned a few lessons, but then 1986 they let “getting things perfect” slip a bit more. It’s happened a few times since.

Personally, I’d rather not lose any more astronauts.

jacheeon We Will Not Be Divided

It’s 5am on a Saturday. What millions of actions do you suggest, O just-as-wordy-yet-holier-than-thou HN commentor?

jacheeon We Will Not Be Divided

Okay, if you have big actions to show off, then show us how it’s done.

You step up and start shooting at the heartless monsters running the first (US armed forces) and second (ICE) most well-funded militaries in the world. Go ahead. We’ll be right there behind you.

(Yeah, I’m burning some hn karma for this, I imagine.)

jacheeon Why is Claude an Electron app?

Why create Windows when MacOS exists?

Why create Linux when UNIX exists?

Why create Firefox when Internet Explorer exists?

Why Create a Pontiac when Ford exists?

Why do anything you think can be done better when someone else has done it worse?

jacheeon 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?

The entire reason "storage vendors prefer" 1000-based kilobytes is so that they could misrepresent and over-market their storage capacities, getting that 24-bytes per-kb of expectation-vs-reality profit.

It's the same reason—for pure marketing purposes—that screens are measured diagonally.

jacheeon Kiki – Accountability monster for people who are easily distracted

…and off-by-one errors.

jacheeon Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?

Not everyone sees the HN frontpage every day, and sometimes especially-esoteric things spend a fairly short timespan on there.

jacheeon Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?

>>> That makes a lot of sense for regular ssh sessions, where privacy is critical. But it’s a lot of overhead for an open-to-the-whole-internet game where latency is critical.

Switching to telnet instead of SSH might be an option.

jacheeon NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives

Very few mayors have as many constituents as NYC, though. So of all mayoral inaugurations, this one has among the most potential people thinking about it, even disregarding how on-the-national-stage the election played out.

jacheeon Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?

I probably need to learn Go.

jacheeon 8-bit Boléro

    LOADING. . .
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    > RUN

jacheeon JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet

And by “suspicious of” you mean “bigoted against”.

jacheeon Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros

The Invisible Hand demands its tribute. It’s giving us the Invisible Middle Finger again.

jacheeon Cloudflare was down

Update title to “Tell HN: Cloudflare was down”

jacheeon Cloudflare was down

Management is always going to take too long (in an engineer’s opinion) to manually throw the alerts on. They’re pressing people for quick fixes so they can claim their SLAs are intact.

jacheeon 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

How about Assembly?

jacheeon Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable

There is exactly one game keeping me from running Linux as my main OS… and that’s iRacing.

Sadly, they won’t (not can’t…) ship the flag in EOS (née EAC) that enables anti-cheat support on Linux. It would work, but they just don’t have the resources to support a whole other family of OSes.

So, between that and the abject murder of WMR for my Reverb G2, I’m stuck on Win10 for the foreseeable.

jacheeon WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model

Alas, that's just the nature of precipitation maps. When radar is the only true source of what's coming down where, you're a the mercy of the laws of physics, and we don't have a large enough array of stations to give hyperlocal-quality coverage to every locality.

Making it vague-ish was a design choice to help curtail complaints of inaccuracy while still giving near-enough-to-accurate information to be useful generally speaking.

jacheeon WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model

Apple integrated the hyperlocal darksky stuff into their native Weather app. It had a few growing pains, but it's as good as it ever was, imho.

jacheeon The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed

Yeah… just in the use of those glorified nicknames tells me a lot about the author’s standpoints, and dictates the size of the grain of salt I take their opinions with.

jacheeon YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'

Zenni Optical is the antidote. Even my too-blind-for-Zeiss-VisionPro-inserts prescription in the highest refractive index lenses is under $100 for a full pair.