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by CalChris 4y ago
They advertise and they sell the hell out of MA. I called UHC about their Plan G Medigap. They sell both MA and Medigap. I was getting the hard sell for MA on the phone right now today. UHC makes more money off MA and the brokers make more
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by CalChris 4y ago
> If you're in regular medicare, don't you have a government agency filling the same role at the table with you and your doctor? There are no death panels. If Medicare covers the procedure (you can look the procedure up in the
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by CalChris 4y ago
When you sign up for Medicare Advantage, and you shouldn't, you will still have to apply for and qualify for Medicare (65, 40 quarters of work, ...). You will generally pay the Medicare Part B premium ($164.90/mo this year) and an
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by CalChris 4y ago
Russell Paradox violation.
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by CalChris 4y ago
The FA says "One hacker group reportedly let go of 45 call-center operators." No, call center operators are not hackers .
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by CalChris 4y ago
The article is about energy efficiency. Do you get 15-50% better performance per watt from nearly all of your workloads?
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by CalChris 4y ago
Studio = Yale Investment Office, limited partner Producer = VC, general partner leading a funding Writer = Startup CTO, founder Director = Startup CEO It's a little different because studios greenlight and producers gener
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by CalChris 4y ago
No, Hollywood attracts talent broadly. You'll still serve an apprenticeship, reading scripts, ..., but my anecdote is walking across the parking lot on the way to a meeting at Paramount and seeing a US Naval Academy license plate frame
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by CalChris 4y ago
Except maybe Reagan.
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by CalChris 4y ago
> Programmers want to write fast apps. But the market doesn’t care. That's partly because Moore's Law, Dennard Scaling, ... meant that our apps were going to get faster next year regardless. Intel had better marketing than Joe
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by CalChris 4y ago
The DEC VAX-11 instruction set had SVPCTX and LDPCTX for the kernel which made context switch simple. But they were reserved instructions; so they couldn't be used for setjmp() and longjmp() . VAX-11 also had queue instructions whic
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by CalChris 4y ago
General Magic never really accomplished anything. Sun did. GM was more famous for people who worked there than anything else. Did they work on things early? Yeah, so did Ted Nelson. But did they ship product real people used? Not really. I
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by CalChris 4y ago
T-shirt wars. Sun had a t-shirt with their slogan, The Network Is The Computer . So DEC had another t-shirt, The Network Is The Network and The Computer Is The Computer. We regret the confusion .
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by CalChris 4y ago
Unless it's a criminal case, no. nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself
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by CalChris 4y ago
> Assuming this was 1972 Carter was inaugurated President on January 20, 1977.
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by CalChris 4y ago
It took me a while to understand the mismatched bl/ret pairs because I'm used to reading matched bl/ret pairs. This confusion has to be similar to what the silicon is 'thinking': Human, I see matched bl/ret pa
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by CalChris 4y ago
Charts for the Pacific and West Coast of the US from NWS Point Reyes: https://www.weather.gov/marine/ptreyes
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Mariner's Guide to the 500-Millibar Chart(vos.noaa.gov)
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by CalChris 4y ago
SICP shouldn’t be on this list. Few people actually read it and most just worship it unread like a bible. It was Hilfinger’s assigned text in 61A at Berkeley but without any assigned readings. On the other hand, The Little Schemer which
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by CalChris 4y ago
I need a laptop of roughly the build quality of an M1 MacBook Air supported at roughly the level of OSX with a UI more or less equal to Aqua. I tried putting a Mint on a late model Dell a few years ago and swore off Linux on a laptop for a
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by CalChris 4y ago
The chief beneficiary of Bretton Woods was the non-West but I think deglobalization will be seen as simply a disengagement with the non-West. There will continue to be brisk trade between Italy and South Korea. There will be less trade betw
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by CalChris 4y ago
No, you cannot. You can't remap it and you can't resize it. This is part of design assumptions baked into a couple of newish Apple technologies, ASLR and Address Signing.
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by CalChris 4y ago
It's a lot of work to reason about programs in order to reduce copies. A different, cheaper and more feasible approach is to reasoning about alignments and sizes.
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by CalChris 4y ago
This argument is similar to my enforcing 32b cleanliness. Really, that was an issue back in the 90s. But this enforcement happened with the x86_64 to ARMv8 migration, 64b to 64b. So I would like an explanation from Apple for why this now. W
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by CalChris 4y ago
I remember trying this repeatedly with various incantations but always getting: segaddr blah conflicts with pagezero_size Maybe there was an incantation I didn't find. But I did handcraft it and then Apple cancelled even that. N
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by CalChris 4y ago
This was only 'enforced' by the linker on x86. You could handcraft a Mach-O executable to get around it. But it is now enforced enforced by OSX on ARM. I don't see any good reason for this. My own half assed explanation is th
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by CalChris 4y ago
I'd rather Musk left Tesla+SpaceX and concentrated his energies on Twitter+Boring full time.
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by CalChris 4y ago
I won't agree about the American medical system but I'd say that our hospice system is pretty much Soylent Green .
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by CalChris 4y ago
> You cannot sell a ARM processor that implements custom instructions. That was the case if you are an ARM architecture licensee. And of late, that's not even the case anymore. https://www.arm.com/technologies/c
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by CalChris 4y ago
Identical twin here. In high school, we had a brutal geometry problem set. The only people in the school who got it right were my twin brother and I. Pretty cool. We were in separate sections; by then, we really didn't like being the s

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