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* Name: Jake Achée

* Location: Pittsburgh, PA

* Web/Résumé: https://jake.achee.com

* Bio: Network-Engineer-turned-Linux-Admin-turned-SRE, Platform agnostic, not-quite-entrepreneurial. Also: I like python and awk.

* I literally grew up between a trailer park and the landfill. I know my privilege got me out. What's yours gotten you?

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jachee··on Title drops in movies
”One Ring to rule them all

And in the darkness bind them.”

jachee··on Title drops in movies
Fight Club, either.
jachee··on A change of heart regarding employee metrics
I feel very seen.

I’m at my happiest when being grease or glue; when I unstick the stuck, or stick the unstuck. I like to “walk the property”. Find the bugs that are under rocks.

I’m not at my best as a mere construction drone piling on work for work’s sake. That’s soul-killing, for my soul, at least.

jachee··on A change of heart regarding employee metrics
How do you prevent that from recursing infinitely?
jachee··on Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
As former Alaska resident, can confirm. December sunrises are often after 10am, and sunsets before 4pm. Vice versa in summer.

Then you get above the Arctic Circle, and there are days with neither. :D

jachee··on Apple may stop producing Vision Pro by the end of 2024
Apple also have some weapons-grade haters out there. Who’ll take even positive news and use it to be divisive and derisive.
jachee··on The Vision Pro reportedly suspended because of weak demand
The connection to the real world from inside is incredible. You can forget you’re not looking through heavy googles but rather at a screen.
jachee··on Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations
In the mid 90s (yes I’m dating myself here. :P) I had a classmate who was such a big NIN fan that she worked the phrase “downward spiral” into every single essay she wrote for the entire year.
jachee··on Why don't we use awnings anymore (2022)
Humans and vast over-generalizations.
jachee··on Show HN: HTML for People
The five years since then haven’t been enough time to change 12 years of behavior.
jachee··on The Static Site Paradox
CB is roughly 11m wavelength and doesn’t require a ton of power, and doesn’t require any licensing.
jachee··on Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?
Cordial or not, I certainly wouldn’t want to be friends with someone sociopathically “testing” me like that. It’s literal anti-social behavior.
jachee··on Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated
Creating a version of reality is significantly different from conjuring abject falsehoods. There is an objective reality for what (e.g.) a baby peacock should look like, and this AI slop is inherently misleading about that.
jachee··on Hot Take: Don'T provide incident resolution estimates
Scotty Factor[0] is the on-call tech’s best friend.

[0] https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99114/source-of-sc...

jachee··on Pilot flying Helene rescue missions in NC threatened with arrest
a) The pilot was operating altruistically as an individual citizen with no express or implied authority. Thus, not a “cop”. Similarly, the people with whom he was coordinating weren’t acting in any law-enforcement capacity and were actually enabling and organizing actual humanitarian relief. Thus, not “cops”.

b) The fire chief apparently has the authority to have individual citizens arrested, and was abusing that power to stop those humanitarian efforts. Thus, functionally a “cop” and—doubly demonstrated—a bastard.

jachee··on Pilot flying Helene rescue missions in NC threatened with arrest
Worse than he deserved, I guarantee you that.
jachee··on Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub
That’s all well and good if you’re the owner. But you’re not the owner of a computer program that is merely licensed to you for your use. Every game comes with an End User License Agreement that explicitly unambiguously says you don’t own it. [1][2]

Also, executing a copy of a program is violating the “for archival purposes only” provision. Once it’s being executed it’s no longer archival, it’s executive.

1. https://www.nintendo.com/sg/support/switch/eula/usage_policy... 2. https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/...

jachee··on Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub
A proprietary cart has a license that doesn’t include any provisions for installation. Thus, it is only authorized to be executed directly from the cart. So in the specific case I’m talking about, as opposed to your premature extrapolation, yes. Copying the data from a cart to another system that isn’t directly executing the data from that cart is an illegal act.
jachee··on Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub
But that doesn’t allow for this, the original assertion:

> But IP law says nothing about interaction with already-existing copies.

…because it requires a separate copy.

jachee··on Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub
That doesn’t fit the bill, as it seems to only be for “making backup copies”, not interfacing directly with an emulator.
jachee··on Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub
Okay, so how do you plug a proprietary Switch cart into a PC to play your “already-existing copy” on an emulator?
jachee··on Is English a “creole Language”?
Don’t bring Welsh into this. ;)
jachee··on CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you're merely licensing it
> But people expect updates and changes.

This entitled attitude is part of the problem. A game can’t simply be shipped and done anymore. It means the quality can slip, because “we’ll patch it after we ship.” It also means the author has to continue development indefinitely, which means they’re also never done.

jachee··on Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses
> Imagine if Meta decided to run facial recognition on-device and upload the results to their advertising services

More like when they decide to do that. They want to capture and extrapolate any and all data possible from every possible source.

jachee··on Crypto scammers hack OpenAI's press account on X
The value of X is trending towards zero.
jachee··on Uber charges more if you have credits in your account
Like in the article?

> He went a step farther and did something I didn’t: he checked Uber prices “with someone else’s phone” who did not have a balance in their Uber account – and Uber was pricing the route at the usual $20 for them.

jachee··on Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall
Anyone who uses Hallelujah as a Christmas song should be filed with the folks who think Springsteen’s Born in the USA is positively patriotic.
jachee··on Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall
Check out Jason Isabel and the 400 Unit’s cover of Metallica’s Sad But True.

Even if you’re not a Metallica fan, it’s a fannnnntastic song.

jachee··on Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall
For me it was Rufus Wainright’s cover of Hallelujah from Shrek. I agree though, that his songwriting is often most-elevated in someone else’s hands.
jachee··on Why wordfreq will not be updated
Until N ad views are worth more than $X account creation fee. Then the spammers will just sell ad posts for $X*1.5.

I can’t find it, but there’s someone selling sock puppet posts on HN even.

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