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New comment by cursuve in "Show HN: Doomscroll the Goverment's UFO Files as One Gigantic Microfilm"

cursuve — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:27:13 +0000

Same! This is really fun!

New comment by cursuve in "Show HN: Mac Juice Monitor – Bluetooth battery levels in the macOS menu bar"

cursuve — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:57:18 +0000

Thanks for sharing! This looks useful!

New comment by cursuve in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

cursuve — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:00:55 +0000

They are rather well funded for a non-profit and the reserves in the endowment fund are very healthy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...

https://wikimediafoundation.org/who-we-are/financial-reports...

New comment by cursuve in "Dual Income, No Kids: What We Know About 'DINKs' in the U.S."

cursuve — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:49:22 +0000

This is so logically full of holes I don't even know where to start...

Having children is hard. Life is hard. Avoiding having children is shirking your duty to have a hard life. Dogs shouldn't make you happy because that is coping with life's hardships. Having children, which is hard, is the path one should take to wantonly endure hardship. If you choose not to, you are pathetic...

What if I didn't have a dog or cat, and still chose not to have children? Still pathetic? What if I had children, and hated every minute of it, but fulfilled my duty to endure the hardship... AND still had a dog I love? What if I really really enjoy lemonade - should I avoid that because it brings me joy, but life is inherently supposed to be hard, therefore I am coping and pathetic?

This is such a mind-boggling judgmental stance on what life is and should be and what others should do with their agency over their own lives.

As I said to the wantonly miserable OP who started this bizarre comment thread - godspeed to you! I'd wish you a nice life, but I don't want to go against your philosophy that one should invite hardship into one's life, so... Have a miserable life?

New comment by cursuve in "Dual Income, No Kids: What We Know About 'DINKs' in the U.S."

cursuve — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:43:48 +0000

Wait... So because I chose a life of not struggling to raise a child and I love my dog; I'm pathetic? What a warped-ass world-view. Maybe I just have no desire to have kids and am enjoying the life not having children warrants me - including pathetically loving my dog. Eff off with your judgements of what I chose the path of my life to be. And, hey, godspeed on your struggle-bus. Apparently it warrants you some entitlements and status, or something...

New comment by cursuve in "Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025"

cursuve — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:19:39 +0000

Genuinely curious: What would such an alternative provide to the market? Would it be cheaper, last longer, be some medium that offered different performance/longevity characteristics? There is flash storage which provides some tradeoffs with price (especially now!) and performance. Spinning disks seem to be in a sweet spot of relatively cheap adequately performant with an acceptable lifetime/failure rate for a lot of needs... What market need is missing? (Again - not trying to debate, I am genuinely curious as I am not in the storage industry at all.)

New comment by cursuve in "Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems"

cursuve — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:45:34 +0000

Agree. I gave it a shot recently after being a hater of MS browsers since the 90's and am actually very happy with it. I love the Workspaces and syncing features. Arc had something similar, but Arc started to stall out remain frustratingly buggy. Edge is now my go-to...

New comment by cursuve in "Amazon to pay $309M to U.S. shoppers in settlement over returns"

cursuve — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:27 +0000

Glad to see some personal validation, here. I encountered bizarre clawbacks from Amazon on five different occasions in 2025 from returns - one of them four months after the return and refund. They'd often claim they expected a certain item, but received a different one. After reaching out to their CS department they'd tell me it was a mistake, refund me, tell and not to worry about it - all just to have their returns team charge me yet again for it a few weeks later...

New comment by cursuve in "Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis"

cursuve — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:03:15 +0000

Oh boy.

New comment by cursuve in "Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis"

cursuve — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:56:15 +0000

I certainly feel the two party system has really hampered us and largely contributed to where we are today. I never feel actually represented, yet nearly every candidate has to align themselves officially with one party or the other and tow that party line. Sure there is individual variance between representatives, but it's still mostly within a set of boundaries the party is more or less okay with. It sucks, and is often why the "just go vote" ethos feels about as inept as any other action or non-action I can take...

New comment by cursuve in "Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis"

cursuve — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:50:51 +0000

Can two things not be true at once? There are indeed "illegal immigrants", AND the current methods of enforcement are some straight up gestapo-BS in which themselves also illegal and warrant non-compliance. Why is this an either-or?

The America I grew up in is fervently against kings, as a defining principle, and put the lawmaking powers purposefully in the hands of not the president, but in the representatives of the people. Unless you straight-up buy Nixon's view that "[...] when the president does it… that means that it is not illegal.", and maybe you do, this view doesn't pass any kind of scrutiny what-so-ever...

New comment by cursuve in "ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court"

cursuve — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 15:49:55 +0000

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

The New Colossus, Emma Lazarus, 1883

New comment by cursuve in "Show HN: Entitlements, metering, and teams for Stripe powered by Planship"

cursuve — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 01:11:30 +0000

We struggle a lot with this general problem in our current setup...

Doesn't Stripe have their own entitlement system built in? Does this interact with that directly?

New comment by cursuve in "An implantable device could enable injection-free control of diabetes"

cursuve — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 07:07:55 +0000

I like how you think you just found the cure to Type 1 Diabetes...

It doesn't work like that. People on keto/carnivore still need insulin to digest the protein and proteins will still eventually elevate the blood sugar.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9416027/