Hacker News: eltondegeneres

New comment by eltondegeneres in "Segagaga Has Been Translated into English"

eltondegeneres — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:25:30 +0000

The article says "Something important that should be clarified before we move on is that machine translation (specifically a combination of DeepL and ChatGPT 4o/4.5) was used during the initial hacking phase for testing purposes. Once it was time to translate the game proper, multiple human translators then took over."

Fan translations have used Babel Fish or similar during the development process for decades. If the final script isn't AI translated I don't see any issue with that.

New comment by eltondegeneres in "Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

eltondegeneres — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:25:24 +0000

Unless the membership pages is locale-specific, I believe the Patron level fee is actually €240k, not USD.

New comment by eltondegeneres in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

eltondegeneres — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:10:07 +0000

> Masad, 38, has felt obliged to speak out about Gaza ever since, calling out those in tech who, in his view, have supported Israel’s “genocide” of the Palestinian people.

This sentence would be better without the scare quotes. Something like "calling out those in tech who support what he views as a genocide."

New comment by eltondegeneres in "US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low"

eltondegeneres — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:49:09 +0000

This is an example of a passport issued by a recognized sovereign entity without any associated territory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Ma...

New comment by eltondegeneres in "The old SF tech scene is dead. What it's morphing into is more sinister"

eltondegeneres — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:55:17 +0000

> It's possible to be gay and be far-right

It's not uncommon either. Ernst Röhm comes to mind, but there are plenty of contemporary examples too.

New comment by eltondegeneres in "The extraordinary rise in the wealth of older American households"

eltondegeneres — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:18:33 +0000

~"Minimum Wealth Cutoff for the 99th to 99.9th Wealth Percentiles" in that link reads to me as 1 in 1,000 households have a net worth over $13 million, not 1 in 100.~

edit: seems like I'm wrong

New comment by eltondegeneres in "The extraordinary rise in the wealth of older American households"

eltondegeneres — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:38:37 +0000

The survey defines the top one percent as "Net worth of $13,390,060 or more," which sounds greatly skewed versus what I assume is a lower median net worth at the 99th percentile. I don't think 1 in 100 Americans have over $13 million in assets.

New comment by eltondegeneres in "The Mira Pro Color is Boox's first color E Ink monitor"

eltondegeneres — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:12:33 +0000

Constant violations that they refuse to address. afaik they've never released any of the GPL code they use.

New comment by eltondegeneres in "CINC Is Not Chef"

eltondegeneres — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:08:23 +0000

You could use Chef in local mode and pull down the cookbooks from s3 or something.

New comment by eltondegeneres in "CINC Is Not Chef"

eltondegeneres — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:23:38 +0000

IMO Ansible is easier to get started with, but less powerful than Chef.

New comment by eltondegeneres in "Giving Up a $250k Salary to Retire Early Is Hard"

eltondegeneres — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:15:19 +0000

Someone in the article's comments asked about working part time and the author responded "veterinary academia doesn’t really understand <1.0 FTE." Is the same true of FAANG-ish companies? Can you (officially) work part time in a big tech job?

New comment by eltondegeneres in "US Park Service erases ‘transgender’ from website commemorating Stonewall riot"

eltondegeneres — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:27:08 +0000

The actual headline appears to be "US Park Service erases the word ‘transgender’ from website commemorating Stonewall riot"

New comment by eltondegeneres in "GitHub Linux ARM64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories"

eltondegeneres — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:33:20 +0000

Your landing and product pages don't mention macOS, only the pricing page, but the docs make it look like the macOS runners are the same price as Github's.

New comment by eltondegeneres in "I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research"

eltondegeneres — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:34:18 +0000

I didn't watch this talk but I read the article it's based on.

When an Iraq War supporting Tory like Niall Ferguson criticizes the US military for being both bloated and stretched thin by underfunding, it gives away that the critique is just disingenuous contrarianism.

New comment by eltondegeneres in "WordPress Is in Trouble"

eltondegeneres — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:01:05 +0000

Kirby is only source-available, not open source, and requires a paid license for usage. I think that's a deal breaker for a lot of Wordpress users.

New comment by eltondegeneres in "Nutrient levels in retail grocery stores"

eltondegeneres — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 20:59:24 +0000

> If you walk into a booth and that vendor is selling over 5 types of produce, there's no way they all ripened at the same time. They may not even all be grown by them. Once, he actually saw a vendor at Boston farmers’ market selling carrots from Target! He could tell from the packaging because he used to work for them.

I don't think this is true. In California and New York City, vendors at farmers markets can only sell what they grew themselves, unless they get an exemption for a specific product and prominently label the product as grown by a third party, specifying the third party (usually things like cranberries grown by one vendor in the fall). Very occasionally you'll see foods like apples in plastic bags with supermarket labeling, but that's because the farmer packages and sells the produce directly to the supermarket.

New comment by eltondegeneres in "System Intiative is generally available"

eltondegeneres — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:10:08 +0000

Can you review the changes async or over email?

New comment by eltondegeneres in "System Intiative is generally available"

eltondegeneres — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:50:40 +0000

How do you control/diff System Initiative resource changes with git? I'm not a fan of GUIs for infrastructure stuff since it's usually harder to review, automate, and roll back to a version other than N-1.

New comment by eltondegeneres in "[dead]"

eltondegeneres — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:03:29 +0000

That's probably a safe assumption since the previous article on this blog is "Save time generating code with ChatGPT."

New comment by eltondegeneres in "Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line"

eltondegeneres — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:24:17 +0000

Is there a reason why you'd want to save archival material in a proprietary format? Wouldn't it be better/easier to use wget with the `--warc-file` flag?