jachee

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by jachee 6d 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
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by jachee 6d 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.
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by jachee 9d ago
Guess what high-frequency trading is.
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by jachee 9d ago
I learned to type `ls` properly the first time, every time , shortly after installing `sl`.
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by jachee 12d 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].”
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by jachee 15d 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.
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by jachee 18d 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 writ
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by jachee 1mo ago
Yes.
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by jachee 1mo 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.
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by jachee 1mo ago
What if I told you there’s an existing protocol for doing Really Simple Syndication?
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by jachee 1mo ago
It can’t be destroying evidence if there’s no case or charge being pressed for which that material would be evidence. “Entering the country while in possession of a device storing binary data” isn’t a crime.
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by jachee 1mo ago
It’s been pretty flimsy armor lately.
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by jachee 1mo ago
“We’re sorry, Carol.”
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by jachee 2mo ago
There is no Epimemetic Division.
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by jachee 2mo ago
What’s the equivalent term for “safety” that’s used by others?
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by jachee 2mo ago
Chicago does it one way and AP does it the other. I definitely prefer it un-spaced, though, personally.
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by jachee 2mo ago
At no point did (or will) I defend the surveillance state.
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by jachee 3mo ago
Paintballs are even better, environmentally and effort-wise. Especially if the propellant tank is pressurized using a solar powered compressor. (Theoretically, of course. I wouldn’t advocate destroying private property.)
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by jachee 3mo ago
My default layout has function keys as basically an "fn" key plus the appropriate number. I thought I was going to miss the dedicated keys way more than I do in practice. If I were starting from scratch, and really had a function-
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by jachee 3mo ago
I love my moonlander, don't get me wrong, but I've also recently gotten a RealForce R3, and I love it, too. Very nice for a daily driver work keeb.
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by jachee 3mo ago
Not within the given time period. Only two there.
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by jachee 3mo ago
What if I told you that prison is also corporal punishment?
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by jachee 3mo ago
Nah… 2.5x diff. :P
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by jachee 3mo ago
That was two $500/mo servers, not $2500/mo.
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by jachee 4mo ago
The hole (like in IRL golf) has a flag in it. :) The Overview button helps get an idea of where to go.
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by jachee 4mo ago
Therein lies the rub: they didn't buy them... They pirated digital copies of them. See, e.g.: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libge...
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by jachee 4mo ago
I haven’t had that yet. I tried again this week, and CoPilot Plan Mode read the same 5-line markdown file 18 times over the course of 5 minutes of churning on a simple request, then provided zero value over what I posed in the request itsel
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by jachee 4mo ago
Nah… they killed WMR in it, which I need for the only reason I’m running Windows in the first place: iRacing in VR.
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by jachee 4mo ago
Good, Fast, Cheap. Pick any two.
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by jachee 4mo ago
That sounds like a your-system issue. I hit Win+E (admittedly on an old Win10 box) and it instantly pops up an explorer window.

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