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I'm not trolling. I actually want to know the answer, although my comment may feel less than diplomatic.

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tomcam··on Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It
Tangentially related: I'm about to turn 65 and would be punished if I continued to pay for my own healthcare. My Obamacare/ACA insurance here in the state of Washington costs me $70K/year with premiums, deductibles, meds, etc. That's just for me and my wife.

And you know what? It's totally worth it to me. This year I had 4 operations+10 ER visits and my wife had 3 brain surgeries+radiation and 2 ER visits. About $2 million worth of treatments, quite good care overall. So I'm willing to continue paying for private insurance. I am fortunate I can pay for it and would like not to make you good folks pay for it.

But Medicare won't let me without penalizing me permanently more an additional 10% for every year I don't go on Medicare. Luckily Washington has phenomenal Medicare. But it would be nice if I weren't punished for trying not to be a burden to the dwindling population of taxpayers.

tomcam··on Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights
I think that's this week
tomcam··on Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights
I believe GP is making the point that tokens are expensive atm so we are better at conserving them (the scroll back part), but soon it'll be so inexpensive or even free that we won't bother.
tomcam··on Emacs Turns 50
Which means that Stallman is, what, in his early 70s? Which means that I'm... uh-oh...
tomcam··on Root shell on Samsung TV
Underrated comment
tomcam··on Lula wins election after final votes tallied
> Lula was allowed to do every "electoral crime" they barred Bolsonaro from doing in 2022. They even extended voting time, a move that directly benefiting him, and also ruled illegal back in 2022.
tomcam··on Root shell on Samsung TV
Your cavalier anti plank control attitude is what’s wrong with Americans
tomcam··on Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened
Brilliant! I'd get the pay per view just to see the judge's face when you made this proposal. Also you have balls of steel.
tomcam··on Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]
Tangentially, ravens sound like humans doing a bad imitation of ravens
tomcam··on I paid people to try and follow my README
Great idea! I don't understand this heartfelt statement:

    I took notes by hand (fuck feeding the machine) and spent several hours being told what incorrect assumptions I'd made
What does it refer to?
tomcam··on A Modern Web App in C
They use this framework: https://learnbchs.org

Their example is:

    #include <err.h> /* err(3) */
    #include <stdlib.h> /* EXIT_xxxx */
    #include <stdio.h> /* puts(3) */
    #include <unistd.h> /* pledge(2) */ 
    int main(void)
    {
      if (pledge("stdio", NULL) == -1) 
        err(EXIT_FAILURE, "pledge");
        puts("Status: 200 OK\r");
        puts("Content-Type: text/html\r");
        puts("\r");
        puts("Hello, world!\n");
        return EXIT_SUCCESS;
      }
tomcam··on The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients
That really sucks. My heart goes out to you.
tomcam··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
That's exactly what I do. I'm fortunate enough to use the latest preview version, which is known to us beta testers as Notepad With Microsoft Copilot™ and only uses up about 2% of my phone data for telemetry per day (Preview 1.0.912 actually used over 14% daily lol). Plus they got working set size down to 11 gigs and disk usage down to 36.3 gigs.
tomcam··on Behold the pawpaw
Thus began the legend of Leatherface
tomcam··on Behold the pawpaw
Can’t grow them here in Seattle. Keep trying and failing.
tomcam··on Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
> I guess I am dating myself!

at least you never have to worry about who pays

tomcam··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
> Unlike the Navier-Stokes equations

deep cut

tomcam··on Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
The home page for Foxscript is perfect IMHO. Loads fast, well written, easy to understand, looks great.
tomcam··on Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
wouldn't you like to know
tomcam··on Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business
> You could Google this and find a thousand articles about it.

Such articles are frequently by the people who would benefit the most from them and usually lack specifics. My favorite version of this is to do a web search for "fastest growing hobby in the world". Lots of hobbies are the fastest growing hobby in the world, it turns out.

tomcam··on Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
I would be insulted. My wife is a Grey. She permanently morphed out of reptilian form 222 years ago.
tomcam··on Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
I'm a sniper so this feature is mission-critical to me
tomcam··on San Francisco Onion Futures Company
At last, the final piece of my retirement portfolio drops neatly into place
tomcam··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Those posters all look pretty damn good to me. Thanks for that page. Super helpful for me and I need that right now.
tomcam··on Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
Like you've never worn an ass helmet
tomcam··on Devil's Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55k-lb stones 11 miles for UK stone row
I’m beginning to conclude that about 47% of all ancient activities in England consisted solely of either moving comically huge rocks around, or attempting to convince the remaining 53% to do their fair share.
tomcam··on Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
I am sick of underachieving beavers. Go us! Seriously, that would require statutory change here in Washington state. I live in a rural area with salmon waterways all over. Farmers just quietly clear the way for them, because it's illegal to make any changes to the waterway even if it's trash thrown out of cars.
tomcam··on Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
You handled GP's post much better than I would have.
tomcam··on Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
I couldn't detect it from my casual read. English is almost certainly OP's second language so it seems much more forgivable.
tomcam··on 507 Mechanical Movements
I don't approve. I can't find a donation link.
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