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mcfedr commented on $3T flows through U.S. nonprofits every year   charitysense.com/insights... · Posted by u/mtweak
diyseguy · 6 days ago
I recently had to get surgery at a local hospital with a cross on top and named after a saint. As I waited for my appointment, I noticed the walls were covered with quotes from donors. The lady who was working the desk was an unpaid volunteer from a local church. Out of curiosity, I looked up the financials for the hospital and saw that the board of directors and various executives (around 12 people) were pulling in multi-million dollar salaries. Of the $3B they had raked in from donations that year, they allocated around $300M to a program to help the local people in some ambiguous way. No mention of what happened to the remaining donations. The bill for my treatment was $60K, thankfully insurance covered most of it. Rather seems like charity washing an otherwise ordinary corporation including exploiting gullible people for free labor...
mcfedr · 6 days ago
wait, are you saying a hospital that charges 60K for surgery is a charity?

because it cheaper than other options or what?

mcfedr commented on Put the zip code first   zipcodefirst.com... · Posted by u/dsalzman
loloquwowndueo · 6 days ago
US-centric. I typed a Mexico postal code (it’s five digits) and got routed to somewhere in Maine. So - yeah the whole “I can tell you’re in the US just by the zip code” premise is entirely flawed.
mcfedr · 6 days ago
the first words on the site - this is for American sites...
mcfedr commented on OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III   openciv3.org/... · Posted by u/klaussilveira
mcfedr · a month ago
wow, look at me stuck in the world of freeciv (civ 2)
mcfedr commented on What came first: the CNAME or the A record?   blog.cloudflare.com/cname... · Posted by u/linolevan
mcfedr · 2 months ago
everything about this reads like an excuse from a team that doesnt want to admit they screwed up

nitpicking at the RFCs when everyone knows DNS is a big old thing with lots going on

how do they not have basic integration tests to check how clients resolve

it seems very unlike cloudflare of old that was much more up front - there is no talk of the need to improve process, just blaming other people

mcfedr commented on What came first: the CNAME or the A record?   blog.cloudflare.com/cname... · Posted by u/linolevan
kayson · 2 months ago
> However, we did not have any tests asserting the behavior remains consistent due to the ambiguous language in the RFC.

Maybe I'm being overly-cynical but I have a hard time believing that they deliberately omitted a test specifically because they reviewed the RFC and found the ambiguous language. I would've expected to see some dialog with IETF beforehand if that were the case. Or some review of the behavior of common DNS clients.

It seems like an oversight, and that's totally fine.

mcfedr · 2 months ago
its pretty concerning that such a large organisation doesnt do any integration tests with their dns infrastructure
mcfedr commented on Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far   burkeholland.github.io/po... · Posted by u/tbassetto
bayindirh · 2 months ago
Well, the first 90% is easy, the hard part is the second 90%.

Case in point: Self driving cars.

Also, consider that we need to pirate the whole internet to be able to do this, so these models are not creative. They are just directed blenders.

mcfedr · 2 months ago
i like to think of LLMs as random number generators with a filter
mcfedr commented on Freight rail fueled a new luxury overnight train startup   freightwaves.com/news/how... · Posted by u/Ozarkian
comrade1234 · 9 months ago
I live in europe and have taken overnight trains to various destinations and they've all been nice - quiet, smooth, good food, decent nights sleep...

I've also taken them in Egypt and Morocco and they were loud, jerky, and smelly...

When I see pictures of trains in the USA they look very old and look like the locomotive is actually pulling the train vs providing electricity to each individual car's motors. This was the problem in Egypt and Morocco - the engine accelerate and all of the cars get jerked and when it slows down all of the cars get jerked again, making it hard to sleep.

mcfedr · 9 months ago
Quality of the rails makes a big difference, take the train from Ukraine to Poland and it's suddenly super smooth once you cross over into the EU
mcfedr commented on How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS   webkit.org/blog/16929/con... · Posted by u/Kerrick
politelemon · 10 months ago
I'm still not convinced that the contrasting colour should be the browser vendor's decision, it won't always be right or predictable. Will this be a definitive deterministic standard across all browsers? Instead this function feels like a tool to help UX teams during design phase.
mcfedr · 10 months ago
Choose is a strange word here. There is an algorithm that calculates the color.
mcfedr commented on How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment   electrospaces.net/2025/04... · Posted by u/Harvesterify
mcfedr · 10 months ago
Why are your police not investigating this? The guy is actively breaking the law
mcfedr commented on Company built its own rail terminal in NYC to avoid relying on trucks   fastcompany.com/91324241/... · Posted by u/JojoFatsani
mcfedr · 10 months ago
Only Americans call trains old fashioned

u/mcfedr

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