Jake Hayes (u/the_jake)

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Took me 3 hours to delete one 'duet' video off my phone

My buddy sent me this 47 second duet thing where someone 'sings' over a blender noise. Went to delete it and got stuck in a loop of auto-playing suggested clips for 3 hours. Had to restart my phone in a Starbucks parking lot to finally kill the app. Anyone else lose a whole afternoon to that stupid recommendation algorithm?

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c/cult-watch-weekly•

the_jake•5d ago

One comment from a survivor on my hot take made me rethink the whole doc

I posted a long theory about the NXIVM finale in here last week, and someone who actually left the group pointed out I was blaming the victims by focusing on 'why they stayed'. Tbh, that stung, but it changed how I watch any cult doc now, so is it fair to critique the people inside, or should we only talk about the leaders and system?

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c/archaeology-discoveries•

the_jake•18d ago

Stop calling every buried pile of rocks a 'ritual site'

I've seen three different posts this week alone about Iron Age roundhouses being labeled as ceremonial spaces just because they found a few animal bones or a pottery shard near the entrance. I spent 6 years working on a dig outside Bath, UK, and our team proved a 'shrine' was just a grain storage pit with a broken quern in it. People jump to the coolest explanation without checking the stratigraphy or asking if the bones show butchery marks, not offering marks. Why do we keep romanticizing the mundane, and has anyone else run into this on their own sites?

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c/astronomy-photos•

the_jake•19d ago

Stacking 200 frames with the wrong dark frames for 4 months

I was shooting nebula shots and always wondered why my stacked images had this faint blue gradient no matter what I did. Last week I realized my dark frames were taken at ISO 800 but my lights were at 1600, total rookie mistake. Has anyone else had calibration frame mismatches mess up their processing for way too long?

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c/digital-art-showcase•

the_jake•1mo ago

Spent 4 hours fixing a layer mask issue that should have taken 20 minutes

I was working on a digital portrait in Procreate last night and my layer mask just would not cooperate. The blending was cutting off half the face and I couldn't figure out why. Turns out I had the mask set to black instead of white, and it took me until 1 AM to notice that tiny detail in the color picker. Has anyone else had a simple setting waste hours of their time like that?

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c/auto-mechanics•

the_jake•1mo ago

The way people forget to bleed brakes after changing pads drives me crazy

I'm seeing more and more posts where guys swap pads and rotors but skip the bleed. You can get away with it sometimes but not when you push that caliper piston back. That old fluid goes right up into the ABS module and causes problems down the road. I worked on a 2014 F-150 last month where the owner did his own pads and two weeks later the pedal went soft. Ended up needing a full ABS bleed at my shop that cost him $150 because of air trapped in the module. Does anyone else run into this or am I just seeing the same few folks making the same mistake?

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c/double-standards-exposed•

the_jake•1mo ago

Just realized my sister gets a free pass on yelling at her kids but I'm the bad guy for raising my voice once

She screamed at her 7 year old in the Target parking lot last Saturday and nobody blinked. I told my nephew to stop running into the street a little too loud and my mom called me aggressive. Has anyone else noticed their family having totally different rules for different people?

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c/credit-repair-housing•

the_jake•1mo ago

Finally got a lender to count my rental payment history after 3 tries

Sent my bank statements and rental receipts to three different mortgage brokers over the last 6 months and the third one actually listened. Has anyone else had luck getting their on time rent reported to the credit bureaus?

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c/debunk-this-article•

the_jake•1mo ago

Finally called out a fake quote in a viral article that had 50k shares

I used to just scroll past those clickbait articles with bold quotes from 'experts' and take them at face value. Now I run the quote through Google Books or a quick news archive search first. Last week I found a story claiming a famous economist said something in 2018, but the earliest mention was from a random blog in 2021. Took me about 10 minutes to prove it was completely made up. I posted the receipts in the comments and the article got flagged for review. Has anyone else noticed how often these articles just invent quotes out of thin air?

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c/alarm-system-installers•

the_jake•1mo ago

I finally overheard something at a supply house that made me rethink my whole approach to wireless sensors

I was picking up a panel at ADI last Tuesday and heard two guys talking about how they had three false alarms in one month from a new housing development. One of them said the builder used cheap metal siding and it was blocking the signal path from the sensors to the panel. That got me thinking about how I never check building materials before I start an install, especially on new construction. Has anyone else run into signal issues from metal studs or siding that caught you off guard?

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