<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: pnutjam</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pnutjam</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:48:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pnutjam" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TrumpRx is mostly hot air.
<a href="https://democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/e-c-democrats-trumprx-big-talk-little-savings.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/sites/evo-subsite...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:36:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415778</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415778</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why wouldn't you wait for one your insurance would approve? You're probably paying them thousands every month.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:32:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415738</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"And don't you dare ask for a second opinion, you'll get the doctor that has been assigned to you and accept whatever they tell you."<p>This happened to us with private healthcare. There is basically one specialty group for the procedure my family member needed so any 2nd opinion request just got routed back to the same doctor, "Oh, your Dr X's patient".
Also, we could barely afford the procedure so we missed out on some follow up testing that would have verified things worked properly and basically got blacklisted from that practice so hopefully it's resolved...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:28:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415686</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415686</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "Using an engineering notebook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use a daily log system. I just run this bash script to open my log for the day.
This opens the same file all day, so I can add stuff, and I know how to find old stuff, it's easy to grep, etc..<p><pre><code>    ## create new log file for personal logging

    vi ~/daily_logs/personal_logfile_$(date +%j_%m%d%y)</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:40:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988095</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988095</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, I'm not a frat guy, but don't groups like Fraternities build "Study Guides" that are often just brain dumps of tests with correct answers?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:33:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46421683</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46421683</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46421683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sure, you can work around it; but it blows up the savings alot of people expect when they don't include this in their math.<p>Also, SAN is often faster then local disk if you have a local SAN.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:27:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823204</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823204</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This looks pretty informative.
The terminology can be hard to follow.
<a href="https://medium.com/@bounouh.fedi/understanding-iops-in-aws-with-a-real-world-example-1620a848695b" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@bounouh.fedi/understanding-iops-in-aws-w...</a><p>I/O is hard to benchmark so it's often ignored since you can just scale up your disks. It's a common gotcha in the cloud. It's not a show stopper, but it blows up the savings you might be expecting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:26:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823192</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823192</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The most consistent misunderstanding I see about the cloud, is disk I/O. Nobody understands how slow your standard cloud disk is under load. They see good performance and assume that will always be the case.
They don't realize that most cloud disks use a form of token tracking where they build up I/O over time and if you have bursts or sustained high I/O load you will very quickly notice that your disk speeds are garbage.<p>For some reason people more easily understand the limits of CPU and memory, but overlook disk constantly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:40:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45821790</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45821790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45821790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>half the time, no sugar means sugar substitute. It is definitely confusing.<p>Glad you're hear to tell people they are dumb and they should work around systemic problems instead of trying to fix the system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:33:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45609725</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45609725</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45609725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"At some point OpenAI's investors are going to want their money back."<p>They do now, that's why they are using a shell game to pump up the stock value.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:16:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45461562</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45461562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45461562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "China is run by engineers. America is run by lawyers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The one thing Democrats and Republicans always agree on is "No Progressive's allowed".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 21:26:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45408179</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45408179</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45408179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "A postmortem of three recent issues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yup, these guys aren't the customers anyway. The investors are the only ones they care about because the customers don't come close to paying the actual costs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:38:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288394</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288394</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "In Search of AI Psychosis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/605/transcript" rel="nofollow">https://www.thisamericanlife.org/605/transcript</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:28:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063847</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063847</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "Snapshots of Kids Bike Jumping in the 1970s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I distinctly remember a kid dying by falling off her bike in the late 80's. She was in the class w/ my younger brother but we didn't really know her. It was obviously a big deal at the school.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:03:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44911323</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44911323</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44911323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><to the tune of "all you need is love"></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:34:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867006</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867006</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You mean w/ DNS? or an app?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:43:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44712592</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44712592</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44712592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "An Introduction to Tribalism for the Modern World That Has Forgotten It"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're talking about conservatism. He's talking about American Conservatism. It's just a name, like "Pro-Life" or "Death Tax". It has no bearing in reality. Similar to how the National Socialist Party was not Socialist and most of the world's Communist parties ceased to be Communist long before the stopped calling themselves communist.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:36:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44492072</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44492072</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44492072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "An Introduction to Tribalism for the Modern World That Has Forgotten It"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who said exclusively?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 12:36:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404266</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404266</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "An Introduction to Tribalism for the Modern World That Has Forgotten It"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exactly my point, this has been going on in America for a long time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 12:35:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404256</link><dc:creator>pnutjam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pnutjam in "An Introduction to Tribalism for the Modern World That Has Forgotten It"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>wow:
"Why would a clan that guarantees its own justice ever yield to a system that promises justice to its enemies? To do so is to voluntarily surrender its greatest strengths: the power to protect its own, punish its rivals, and maintain its position in the world. It is not merely a loss of advantage; it is the dismantling of the clan’s very foundation."<p>White nationalism and conservatism in a nutshell...</p>
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