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New comment by frumper in "Excommunicated devs making games with AI"

frumper — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:54:18 +0000

I'd accept punch cards.

New comment by frumper in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

frumper — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:16:26 +0000

The Catholic Church is made up of people and people do all kinds of things and make all kinds of choices in life. As others have pointed out, it's very possible to talk about the struggles of your community without calling out Bob in the third row.

New comment by frumper in "Americans want heat pumps – but high electricity prices may get in the way"

frumper — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:56:29 +0000

That explains why many tradesman here are always driving new trucks.

New comment by frumper in "Amazon plunge continues $1T wipeout as AI bubble fears ignite sell-off"

frumper — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:31:36 +0000

I agree, all kinds of grocery stores have failed over the years. Kroger's just isn't a good example of a failing store for a lot of reasons. They aren't a stellar investment, but they are also up from 1 year ago and 5 years, so investor's don't look like they agree with your summary of the business.

New comment by frumper in "Amazon plunge continues $1T wipeout as AI bubble fears ignite sell-off"

frumper — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:14:02 +0000

https://massmarketretailers.com/kroger-delivers-solid-quarte...

They didn't lose money because of their grocery operations. Those margins have increased slightly.

New comment by frumper in "LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra"

frumper — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:05:10 +0000

Even off-brand ones now are lasting longer than the ones 10 years ago. It used to be a problem, now I rarely change any bulbs.

New comment by frumper in "America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws"

frumper — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:57:05 +0000

That is a self reported survey of households that doesn't lend itself to capturing all of the people. One, participants need to respond, which a busy and tired person isn't likely to do. Two, it doesn't define job, so if you don't think of your side hustle/gig work as a job, then you won't say it is. In the survey, if you did answer, and you do have 2 jobs, but you didn't work both in the exact week that you were surveyed, then you also aren't counted. IRS data, ADP private payroll estimates are much higher, but have their own issues.

New comment by frumper in "We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole"

frumper — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:28:20 +0000

Stackoverflow was never about getting the best code and neither are LLMs. People ask questions to figure out how to do something. If an LLM provides an answer that doesn't work, then they will just ask it to do it another way and hope that one works. Experts will always be in high demand, but on the other side there are a lot of jobs that just want a working product, even if it's not well made.

New comment by frumper in "Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games"

frumper — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:48:06 +0000

Replacing voice actors is literally using ai instead of creative people.

New comment by frumper in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

frumper — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:40:28 +0000

In California, at one point, you could get a few thousand rebate, if you were in the Central Valley, and additional few thousand rebate. Some local cities gave rebates on top of that, and the federal tax rebate on that. Buy a $45k Model 3 and get back $13k-$15k just for buying it. Rebates like that are going to play havoc with resale values. On top of that, new Tesla's went down in price over the past several years. I think as these incentives taper off we'll see more of a stable drop off.

New comment by frumper in "Four Million U.S. Children Had No Health Insurance in 2024"

frumper — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:43:34 +0000

If a child isn't covered by medicaid for income reasons, then CHIP is a program that kicks in to cover kids at higher income levels. These are all federally backed state run programs though so it's going to be hard to figure out exact details and surely someone is slipping through some cracks. Some states combine the programs, some have both. They can vary on the income levels. There is also some level of transition as the paperwork can be cumbersome, unclear and confusing, so kids may be kicked out of the programs while these processes play out, usually with retroactive statuses of eligibility.

New comment by frumper in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

frumper — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:19:06 +0000

Trading in your new car at 4 years old sounds like bad math no matter what car you buy.

New comment by frumper in "Bank of England flags risk of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks inflated by AI"

frumper — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:26:05 +0000

Also, FICA cap goes off gross and a 24% rate is based off AGI, just to muddle the numbers even more.

New comment by frumper in "Bank of England flags risk of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks inflated by AI"

frumper — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:59:21 +0000

If you're at a 24% marginal rate then you're at least approaching the point you stop paying Social Security taxes. Sounds like you just need to work a little more to keep 12% more of your money. It's funny how making more money reduces your tax rate. You just don't make enough to benefit.

New comment by frumper in "US economy added just 22,000 jobs in August, unemployment highest in 4 yrs"

frumper — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:31:27 +0000

When do we start paying back the debt? The US is still borrowing to pay its expenses.

New comment by frumper in "Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial"

frumper — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:27:16 +0000

Everyone defines normal differently and people are quite good at judging those that are not their normal.

New comment by frumper in "Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome"

frumper — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:50:16 +0000

It's interesting about the leukemia one. They're also more likely to survive it than children without Down Syndrome and less likely to get a second cancer.

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2017/11/408906/survivors-childhood...

Aside from that, it is actually hard to paint an accurate picture of today with historical data for people with Down Syndrome as the childhood Trisomy 21 strategies have improved and been implemented in the past 20-30 years. 60 years ago kids with Trisomy 21 were moved into institutions. Kids 30 years ago got some basic treatments to keep them alive. Now kids get all kinds of screenings for hearing, vision, thyroid, heart conditions before problems develop. Turns out it's very difficult to grow, learn and thrive when your thyroid doesn't work, or your cardiovascular system wasn't circulating enough oxygen.

There are more struggles for sure, including intellectual disabilities, but many more kids are doing significantly better than their past generations. It costs more, is more work, but like the parent poster said, my experience certainly isn't extreme. We go to more doctor's appointments, have IEP meetings, and she's in speech therapy. She's generally been pretty healthy, happy and very active.

It was scary when she was born. We were given a pamphlet with a list of things similar to your first link. The reality though is she's more likely to have those than the general population, but some of those things are very rare. 100x very rare is still rare. Having all of those issues would be even more rare. The greater point though is that any kid can have those issues too.

The epilepsy link seems to conflict with what I've seen. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31391451/ https://www.downs-syndrome.org.uk/about-downs-syndrome/healt...

Both of those put it closer to 10% sometime in their life, with about half of those at birth.

New comment by frumper in "Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome"

frumper — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:09:52 +0000

> if they're a first child, they're the only one due to this

Are you saying people don't have more kids after having a first kid with Trisomy 21?

New comment by frumper in "Apple introduces AppleCare One"

frumper — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:03:57 +0000

Many insurance policies also have deductibles as an added cost if you actually need to use it making it even less valuable for things you can afford to fix/replace.

New comment by frumper in "Show HN: I made an app to create personalized stories for children in 5 minutes"

frumper — Wed, 21 May 2025 15:42:59 +0000

Media for kids has been filled with soulless junk long before AI stepped in. You've always needed to find trustworthy sources to filter through it.