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New comment by secabeen in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

secabeen — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:39:52 +0000

Yes, but it's a different group of Americans, and the ones who are currently thriving in this broken system will fight tooth and nail to preserve their way of life.

New comment by secabeen in "Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study"

secabeen — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:07:08 +0000

And most of that income is salaries to existing healthcare administrators. Quickly ending the employment of the people working those jobs would be a significant shock.

New comment by secabeen in "If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken"

secabeen — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:03:53 +0000

Yeah, the only place I use SLOG is with Optane devices in front of SATA/SAS flash. Anything that needs the speed of SLOG shouldn't be on rust anyways.

I would be in a different world if my system was backing banking or other loss critical data. For all my workloads, losing 5 seconds of writes in a crash is NBD.

New comment by secabeen in "If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken"

secabeen — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:01:48 +0000

I schedule scrubs during idle time (10pm Friday - 6am Monday), so the metadata hit doesn't affect usage, but YMMV if you don't have an idle time. I also don't generally let them get that full.

If I was building the array new, I'd probably use a special VDEV for metadata, but they didn't exist when I built my last one of these.

New comment by secabeen in "If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken"

secabeen — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:52:23 +0000

Every 100+ TB ZFS pool I have is optimized for streaming reads/writes. IOPS are rarely a binding factor at these sizes.

New comment by secabeen in "Dupes took over the world"

secabeen — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:55:38 +0000

In this case, Fanatic is the long-form version of the word "fan" used in the expression "sports fan".

> Fanatics, Inc. is an American sports platform that consists of several businesses, including licensed sports merchandise, trading cards and collectibles, sports betting, special events, and live commerce.

--Wikipedia

Debian launches competing General Resolutions on LLM usage in Debian code

secabeen — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:48:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041395

Points: 15

# Comments: 1

New comment by secabeen in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

secabeen — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:38:02 +0000

I thought this, but random updates and changes for my apps in dev mode got too annoying; switching to full root has made my apps stable and turned off the prompts to upgrade the OS. It was worth it.

New comment by secabeen in "Back to Kagi"

secabeen — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:39:52 +0000

Do they even expose much cross users? One of my sports apps has a Family Plan, and my "family" is three other players who organized ourselves on FB. We split the cost evenly and it saves us like 50% each. I don't even know their names.

New comment by secabeen in "Dupes took over the world"

secabeen — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:16:06 +0000

That's because Fanatics took over the jersey manufacture and cut the quality. Fanatics sucks in all sort of dimensions.

New comment by secabeen in "Newly retired couples may lose $16,900/year in Social Security in 2033"

secabeen — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:32:13 +0000

Indeed. The worst case scenario with no action is a ~30% cut in benefits; that's a long way from a 100% benefit cut.

New comment by secabeen in "Newly retired couples may lose $16,900/year in Social Security in 2033"

secabeen — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:31:04 +0000

Sure, if nothing is done. The trust fund redeeming its bonds is little different than the congress appropriating money for Social Security benefits; both come out of the current revenue of the USG. When the trust fund no longer has any bonds to redeem, there's nothing stopping congress from continuing to transfer money into Social Security to pay benefits at existing levels. They'll just have to vote on it rather than it happening automatically.

New comment by secabeen in "Amazon seller reveals glimpse of shadow bribery market"

secabeen — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:41:57 +0000

My rule of thumb is that every not-heavy product has about $7 of shipping costs baked in somewhere. For cheap items, there isn't enough markup to cover those costs, so they are usually higher priced than at retail. If it's $50 or more, there usually is, and the amazon price will be competitive or better than retail.

For heavy things the shipping ding is bigger, but they also usually cost at least $30. No one bothers to sell $5 items like 50lb bags of basic sand on amazon.

New comment by secabeen in "My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable"

secabeen — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:42:37 +0000

I jailbroke my TV to put the sunshine client directly on it, and it works great.

New comment by secabeen in "LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach"

secabeen — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:57:41 +0000

Generally yes, if you want to use a Customer Relationship Management system like Salesforce. Customer names, contact information, and info about what they bought from you is table stakes data for CRM is it not?

New comment by secabeen in "Supreme Court Empowers Prison Guards to Violate Religious Rights with Impunity"

secabeen — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:29:10 +0000

Yep. Nor does it prevent states from passing laws putting individual liability on guards who so flagrantly violate inmate rights. It's just not something that the Feds can do.

New comment by secabeen in "10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module"

secabeen — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:41:31 +0000

FS has a reprogrammer, called the FS Box. Works well.

New comment by secabeen in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

secabeen — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:20:09 +0000

> $10000+ for a ticket that originally costs around 2k should be illegal. Most of these tickets will go unsold I'm sure.

I'm not so sure. See this article in the Washington Post where multiple season pass holders they talked to sold their seats for $5k+ quite quickly: "His tickets fetched more than $8,000 each within the first few hours of going up."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/06/08/knicks-seas...

New comment by secabeen in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

secabeen — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:08:15 +0000

Alma and Rocky if you want fully free or have a lot of machines. RHEL if you are okay with registering with them; they give ten machines free access to their updates for each Registered account in their system.

RHEL is definitely the most stable major distribution. Alma and Rocky are essentially downstream clones of RHEL.

New comment by secabeen in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

secabeen — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:52:22 +0000

I know this is a common argument, but I would love to see some hard data about expenditures on administrative staff in Universities. Every time I look for this, I find that the expenditures on administrators has mostly gone up in the Health Care sectors of Higher Education. Instructional, student affairs and research administrators are up modestly.

Do you have any sources or citations to support the broad claims about increases in administrators or broad surplus revenue? As non-profits, if tuition is going up and all other fund sources are flat, then expenditures have to go up as well, there is no owner's profit to absorb excess revenue.

The best data I has is from the Education department, see the last part of this chart (Expenditure per full-time-equivalent student in constant 2022-23 dollars):

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d23/tables/dt23_334.10.a...