jachee
Joined 18 years ago
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Comment · 2 days ago
Not deskilling all of us. Some of us with greybeards are immune to the hype train.
Comment · 6 days ago
> I don’t want these prices to be considered the new normal
“Oh, ho, ho… you sweet summer child.” —Capitalism
Comment · 6 days ago
Root-cause analysis suggests blaming the monopolists hogging all the silicon fab.
Comment · 18 days ago
Canonically, a hit is more likely if you use four chords:
Comment · 1 month ago
37PPD is triple the Index’s density.
What in the world are you using as your benchmark to call 37 “dogshit”?
Comment · 1 month ago
Waylon and the Duke boys were “straightenin’ the curves” and “flattenin’ the hills.”
You were close, though. :)
Comment · 1 month ago
The musical number I recall best was a medley mash-up of the Bridal Chorus and the Funeral March.
Apparently it’s called “Twang” or “Tenlem” depending on the port. I had the DOS version: https://youtu.be/Z2zN6ljRNnU?t=3523 (timestamped)
Comment · 1 month ago
There’s a whole network of “archive.<something>” sites under the “archive.today” umbrella. I’ve seen .is .ps .md .ph and .at, at least.
Comment · 1 month ago
Guess what high-frequency trading is.
Comment · 1 month ago
I learned to type `ls` properly the first time, every time, shortly after installing `sl`.
Comment · 1 month ago
“It is difficult to get [an AI] to [omit words, which are counted as tokens], when [it’s company’s] paycheck depends on [it] not [omitting words].”
Comment · 1 month ago
> we're not talking about a product that kills its users
Yeah, it just pushes the ones with the tendency to do it themselves.
Comment · 1 month ago
I got my Claude (client, not Code) to behave better by adding “I’d prefer answers to be succinct as possible—bordering on gruff, even. When I want more depth or explanation, I’ll ask.” to its settings literally this morning.
It made it write more like a dev than a marketing agent.
Comment · 2 months ago
Yes.
Comment · 2 months ago
The right wing doesn’t want to run the government, they want to occupy it so it doesn’t run except to enrich themselves.
* 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?