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New comment by unrented7977 in "The US techlash is real"

unrented7977 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:26:11 +0000

Hate to break it to you, but we've lived in this reality for a long, long time. Cancer drugs are outrageously expensive and insurance companies have an explicit pattern of delaying in hopes the patient dies before they have to pay out.

New comment by unrented7977 in "Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine"

unrented7977 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:48:11 +0000

Don't make fun of people you think are ignorant, it's a pretty shitty look

New comment by unrented7977 in "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead"

unrented7977 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:05:41 +0000

Speaking from experience, it cost mW about a week or two per year to maintain GitLab for the startup I worked at.

My personal GitLab on the other hand really does take only a day or two per year.

That said, a week or two per year is just what it costs to maintain any one thing period. I spent about that much time maintaining PCs in the office, or my personal proxmox setup. It's not onerous at all.

GitLab is super bloated and a little sucky to admin, but it's not too bad all things considered. I'm admin in my new job's GitHub org and it sucks a whole lot more to maintain.

New comment by unrented7977 in "LinkedIn cracks down on automated content with AI detection button"

unrented7977 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:16:18 +0000

They'd still have a job board with the world's most useless search algorithm

New comment by unrented7977 in "Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md"

unrented7977 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:48:13 +0000

It's astonishing how often Anthropic choose to self-own. They're giving AMD a real run for their money in "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity"

New comment by unrented7977 in "Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker"

unrented7977 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:11:29 +0000

You disassemble and analyze any software you have access to, and then you put Wireshark in between the software and the device. You watch the bytes being sent to the device and trace their path backwards through the software. Eventually patterns become visible and you can start making guesses about how things work.

New comment by unrented7977 in "U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues"

unrented7977 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:09:58 +0000

Gold is a fantastically useful element. It's vastly more useful today as our knowledge and application of chemistry has improved.

It's probably more in demand as a commodity today than it ever has been.