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New comment by minkeymaniac in "Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It"

minkeymaniac — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:49:12 +0000

I assume they mean.. have the test and then act upon it with diet/exercise/medicine to prevent the heart attack If you never had the test, maybe you don't know you are at risk and don't make any changes and then you get the heart attack

New comment by minkeymaniac in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

minkeymaniac — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:48:35 +0000

How long before we see this here --> https://killedbygoogle.com/

New comment by minkeymaniac in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

minkeymaniac — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:33:44 +0000

who can forget this scene... https://youtu.be/zJs9p-VNORw?si=sLF7ve6AhrQw8fNn&t=245

New comment by minkeymaniac in "No Stack Overflow, No Autocomplete: What Coding Felt Like in the 80s"

minkeymaniac — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:46:41 +0000

I remember using usenet newsgroups (outlook express anyone :-) The Wrox books had a mailing list where you could reply or ask questions by email... I used those a lot.. in the beginning to ask and in the end I was answering more and more

New comment by minkeymaniac in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

minkeymaniac — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:08:54 +0000

B (with the bird) brings back 100 guilder vibes. https://europost.nl/winkel/bankbiljetten/nederland-ba/nederl...

New comment by minkeymaniac in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

minkeymaniac — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:18:11 +0000

I just downloaded llama. ran this llama-cli -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-1b-it-GGUF

I am getting [ Prompt: 91.3 t/s | Generation: 171.8 t/s ]

This is on a GPU (RTX 4060)

Is this decent?

New comment by minkeymaniac in "The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)"

minkeymaniac — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:41:33 +0000

Same is true for Croatia.. food from Slavonia (near Zagreb) is very different from the coastal regions (Istria and Dalmatia)

New comment by minkeymaniac in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

minkeymaniac — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:05:14 +0000

Windows 2000 Professional was the non server edition no? That's the one I was running AFAIK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000#Editions

But you might be right by meaning consumer is non business user.. I also ran ME for about 2 weeks lol

New comment by minkeymaniac in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

minkeymaniac — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:55:21 +0000

And crazy themes I had the matrix one with the "dodge this" sound instead of a ping... good times

New comment by minkeymaniac in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

minkeymaniac — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:51:34 +0000

The different kernel for 95/98 was NT 4... Windows 2000 was unified, same UI for Consumer and Server

New comment by minkeymaniac in "5NF and Database Design"

minkeymaniac — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:36:09 +0000

Normalize till it hurts, then denormalize till it works!

Kevin Rose Back at Digg

minkeymaniac — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:18:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kevinrose.com/p/rebooting-everything

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592130

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by minkeymaniac in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

minkeymaniac — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:08:26 +0000

7 was a rewrite, from c to c++, also went from 2k pages to 8k pages

New comment by minkeymaniac in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

minkeymaniac — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:06:04 +0000

2000 for sure had instead of triggers.. I used them :-)

New comment by minkeymaniac in "1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History"

minkeymaniac — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:12:32 +0000

It went down 89% Between 1929 And 1932, it took 25 years to close above 400 again. https://denisgobo.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-long-did-it-take-... Of course with Dollar-Cost Averaging you will be buying at the low until as well

New Anthropic model wrecking cybersecurity stocks

minkeymaniac — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:43:27 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/DenisGobo/status/2037524649374806059

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47542568

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Chip Selloff Deepens After Google Touts Memory Breakthrough

minkeymaniac — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:40:25 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-breakthrough-spurs-chip-selloff-022926567.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47531029

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by minkeymaniac in "I put my whole life into a single database"

minkeymaniac — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:02:41 +0000

The step count in NYC stands out like One World Trade Center compared to the rest of the building when looking at the skyline ;-)

New comment by minkeymaniac in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

minkeymaniac — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:07:53 +0000

I listed some hard drives on Friday on eBay.. most of them refurbished... within 5 minutes got a message from a person who wanted them all... shipped them an hour later

New comment by minkeymaniac in "LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions"

minkeymaniac — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:22:35 +0000

I can confirm.. open up linkedIn.. hit F12 and watch the error count keep going up and up and up

Screenshots found here https://x.com/DenisGobo/status/2018334684879438150