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New comment by ransom1538 in "In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life"

ransom1538 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:36:40 +0000

"Trump administration’s freezes to federal science"

Nytimes can't help itself. love it.

New comment by ransom1538 in "Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons"

ransom1538 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:44:32 +0000

"~$50 Billion"

Are you saying people would rather have an apartment? It would house 250,000 people for 10 years. But the slime is cooler.

New comment by ransom1538 in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

ransom1538 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:06:35 +0000

hahaha

New comment by ransom1538 in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

ransom1538 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:06:11 +0000

With AI now, I am suprised we are not seeing many new os systems built. Have fable build a secure OS..... hm...

New comment by ransom1538 in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

ransom1538 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:20:13 +0000

Burn (radiation). Cut. Poison (chemo). Your picks for cancer. IMHO Eat less. Remove all sugar and vitamins. Go a week without food. Give your body time to kill the weak cancer cells before they grow exponentially.

New comment by ransom1538 in "The darker side of being a doctor"

ransom1538 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:25:44 +0000

"I have lost control of my days. I had worked in a hospital where I was oncall 24/7, 12 days out of 14. I had fortnightly weekends off."

Medicine is ran by a bunch of creepy boards. "ACGME Review Committee for Dermatology." For example gets together and votes on how many Dermatologist we get, fun fact it doesn't go up much.

$They were so kind to add 400 more Dermatologist$ in the past decade to the student pipeline.$ What could the rea$son be?

What I would do if you are a doctor and don't hate humans - ask these boards to let more people in (hopefully Americans, but Americans have an uphill climb getting accepted with the flood of fraud applications from around the world).

New comment by ransom1538 in "Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived"

ransom1538 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:41:25 +0000

True. When someone on the internet sends me a vfp file... i just open it in my IE6.0 no cares given.

New comment by ransom1538 in "MCP was always a bad idea?"

ransom1538 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:48:24 +0000

MCPs just misses what AI is. If you think MCP is a good idea you are confused what is going on. AI is beyond MCP. MCP is SOAP of AI.

New comment by ransom1538 in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

ransom1538 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:09:05 +0000

I haven't heard of the term "chaining zero-days". Now as a SRE I wont sleep.

New comment by ransom1538 in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

ransom1538 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:32:46 +0000

Siri: "Sorry I don't understand"

New comment by ransom1538 in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"

ransom1538 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:21:22 +0000

This is what Columbus saw:

"The captive women told the Spaniards that Carib men traveled by canoe to neighboring islands, killed or captured men and carried away young women. Chanca says the women were kept as servants and concubines. They further alleged that children born to these captive women by Carib men were eaten, whereas children born to Carib women were raised."

IMHO People had it rough before missions. These particular natives left right there and were ready to sign up!

New comment by ransom1538 in "New $100K H-1B Visa Fee Pushes Tech Jobs Offshore"

ransom1538 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:56:14 +0000

Wait? People do not know this? This war was lost a decade ago. Google employs more than 4,100 H-1B visa holders.

New comment by ransom1538 in "David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models"

ransom1538 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:01:00 +0000

"If it's true, it makes them evil."

Hitler level evil.

New comment by ransom1538 in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"

ransom1538 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 01:18:53 +0000

Those are rookie numbers. The other 39% are just too good for you to catch.

New comment by ransom1538 in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

ransom1538 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:28:13 +0000

Yes. We need to respect all laws. I am strongly uphold the Peruvian Naval Law here in Michigan.

New comment by ransom1538 in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

ransom1538 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:58:46 +0000

Now GITHUB gets to experience debugging the GHA in prod. From my experience, good luck.

New comment by ransom1538 in "DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says"

ransom1538 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:39:24 +0000

Last night a jam was canceled in Brazil: "bee-conservation musical". People say it's a waste of US tax payer funds (USAID), but they don't understand the real cost. 600 people are now suffering from PTSD and attending survivor therapy after being deprived of the bee-conservation musical. Our homeless can wait, the "bee-conservation musical" must go on.

(Europeans: this is sarcasm)

New comment by ransom1538 in "Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are getting built"

ransom1538 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:21:18 +0000

You are a voice a reason.

New comment by ransom1538 in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"

ransom1538 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:38:35 +0000

"Because people that enjoy programming for programming's sake don't want an LLM to do the programming for them - isn't it obvious? "

How do we filter out these people during an interview?

New comment by ransom1538 in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

ransom1538 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:46:20 +0000

Malaysia prison. Man I would weigh things out.