Hacker News: mirthflat83

New comment by mirthflat83 in "Semaglutide improves knee osteoarthritis independant of weight loss"

mirthflat83 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:00:38 +0000

In theory, yes, but until these medications become generic, it will continue to cause huge losses for insurance companies. The cost of these medicines alone is worth more than premiums

New comment by mirthflat83 in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

mirthflat83 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:12:09 +0000

Well, don't you think you're getting a ton of value because they're selling each of their dollars for 0.2 dollars?

New comment by mirthflat83 in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

mirthflat83 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:01:54 +0000

You just don’t pay. Hospitals eat the cost.

New comment by mirthflat83 in "Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe"

mirthflat83 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 21:44:58 +0000

Wow. I was wondering why SMS autofill wasn’t working on my Arc browser.

New comment by mirthflat83 in "Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting"

mirthflat83 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:15:19 +0000

Made some 12v-2x6 custom cables for fun and 99% sure the melting problems are from the microfit female connectors themselves. A lot of resistance going through the neck

New comment by mirthflat83 in "Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin"

mirthflat83 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:28:30 +0000

Do you have any tips on knowing how the value is a result of CRC32 and/or the polynomial/initial value used?

New comment by mirthflat83 in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

mirthflat83 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:12:38 +0000

You do know that USA stands for United States of America, right?

New comment by mirthflat83 in "Merging Remix and React Router"

mirthflat83 — Thu, 16 May 2024 00:57:47 +0000

I feel the exact same way.

New comment by mirthflat83 in "Who profits most from America's baffling health-care system?"

mirthflat83 — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 18:02:53 +0000

> versus inflation

New comment by mirthflat83 in "Fark redesign is now live (2007)"

mirthflat83 — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:11:10 +0000

/u/spez is a mod at /r/programming

New comment by mirthflat83 in "Slide to Unlock"

mirthflat83 — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 01:03:39 +0000

This made me laugh out loud

New comment by mirthflat83 in "Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)"

mirthflat83 — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 17:19:27 +0000

Or “Beer”.

New comment by mirthflat83 in "FauxPilot – An open-source GitHub Copilot server"

mirthflat83 — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 19:33:14 +0000

Copilot before today was based on GPT-3

New comment by mirthflat83 in "The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4"

mirthflat83 — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 20:19:21 +0000

Mine says “No, I’m not using gpt-4. I’m using Bing’s own natural language processing technology to chat with you.”

New comment by mirthflat83 in "Common Beginner Mistakes with React"

mirthflat83 — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 02:43:08 +0000

I knew it guys, I knew it. I knew a comment like this would be the most voted comment.

New comment by mirthflat83 in "FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank"

mirthflat83 — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 01:12:30 +0000

Lmao, just like FTX

New comment by mirthflat83 in "The rise and fall of Bootstrap and how Tailwind became the go-to CSS framework"

mirthflat83 — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 18:14:02 +0000

I do not agree with sentiments like these. It's almost as if saying Rust is a C dialect, so it would be much more valuable to learn C itself.

New comment by mirthflat83 in "Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren't based on WebKit"

mirthflat83 — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:31:06 +0000

Yep. We will end up with a singular “standard” set up by Google.

New comment by mirthflat83 in "Programs are dead, and JavaScript has killed them"

mirthflat83 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 11:04:53 +0000

Learning React, Node.js, and Tailwind doesn’t mean that you’re not learning HTML, JS, or CSS…

New comment by mirthflat83 in "TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia"

mirthflat83 — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:57:21 +0000

What a passionate comment about Apple. I guess some people are just this invested in Apple enough to write book-long comments on every single thread even tangentially related to Apple.