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by brian_cunnie 3y ago
My annual checkup uncovered that I was a raging type II diabetic with an A1c of 8.7 (higher is worse, 4-6 is normal). I changed my diet. Cost to my insurer over the last eleven years? ~$600. My friend Leroy Nova didn't find out he had
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by brian_cunnie 3y ago
After 15 years of playing rugby, where pain is an ever-present game mechanic, I will say this: My hardest season was the one where I had shin splints. You'd think the concussions, the hematomas, the separated ears, the stomped feet, th
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by brian_cunnie 3y ago
Don't forget that Intel had an incumbent advantage: the IBM Displaywriter used the 8086 processor [0]. IBM was already familiar with integrating Intel microprocessors into their equipment. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by brian_cunnie 3y ago
> fats vs proteins vs carbohydrates There's a Stanford professor who did a study comparing low-carb vs. low-fat diets. The surprising result: both groups lost weight. My take (speculative): both groups cut out a lot of processed foo
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
AWS Lambda is basically cgi-bin. Except, of course, they re-branded it as an exciting new technology, which I think was a clever move on their part.
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
Only one email from Google Cloud? That's weird: I got four when my Wells Fargo debit card was compromised on 2/28/2023. - 2023-03-04 "Your Project: nono is at risk of suspension" - 2023-03-04 "Action required:
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
> It has historical roots in excluding Jewish students I'm glad the Ivy (Penn) that I graduated from over thirty years ago was enlightened enough to admit good students regardless of whether they were Jewish. Or Asian. > athletic
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
> I see a method that sounds like that and a 429 and I have a pretty good idea of what is going on Yes, you're a seasoned HTTP developer. The comment isn't meant for someone like you. It's meant for the other developers on
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
> then that person can refer to the VCS blame (e.g. git blame) logs to find what _should_ be a detailed commit message explaining all of the 'in the moment' reasoning for why and how the code was written Agreed, they "_sho
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
> I very rarely see a comment which is genuinely both well placed and useful Your experience is different than mine: I write software which interacts with cloud (Amazon AWS, Google Compute Platform, VMware vSphere), and a well-placed com
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
I agree: I'm 58, and I'm not as sharp as the twenty-year-olds, thirty-year-olds, and even forty-year-olds that I pair-program with. To be more specific, the younger developers seem to have a certain mental elasticity that is now b
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
> Bitcoin is used increasingly as a tool against French colonial CFA Franc in Africa To quote hn_zorba [0], who replied to a similar comment you made: > There's no mention of CFA Francs in that article? Also the bitcoin experime
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
If you have an business account, migration is non-trivial: It's not uncommon to have hundreds of shared folders of secrets accessible by hundreds of teams. The meta information (which user account belongs to which team, which team has
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
True. When Nextel was bootstrapping in the 90's, a VP said, "We have to buy gas for the car now. Later we'll buy the seat belts"
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
> psychiatric meds you can get on and off safely at any time Maybe you can get off them safely, but not always easily. My alcohol/drug recovery group is filled with people who couldn't easily get off them, like my friend N., wh
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
> They [the police] really don't care I don't think it's something you can lay at the feet of the SF Police Department. I asked Pete McLaughlin, SFPD (retired), why the police don't go after bike thieves more aggressi
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
> When the cops don’t show up to take a report In San Francisco I didn't need the cops to show up to file a report--I filled it out online! It's easier than ever to file a report these days.
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
Sometimes the code isn't clear because the reason for the "if" has nothing to do with the code and everything to do with externalities. For example, I wrote a DNS server that had to take into account that on many Linux system
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
> An issue is more valuable than a commit message Watch out! An issue is more ephemeral than a commit message: The issue might not always last, but the commit message will. If, say, a project is re-hosted from GitHub to an internal GitLa
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
> author is a bit stuck in his own head ... passingly mentions obscure terms for no reason My sentiments exactly.
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
Agreed. I couldn't finish watching it because of the excessive cuts.
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
My mother's cable provider, Optimum Cable, routes DNS traffic to their own DNS servers. To make matters worse, they engage in gratuitous blocking; for example, they won't resolve addresses of private networks (192.168.x.y, 10.x.y.
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
I'm a die-hard Hetzner fan, too. I have personal servers on AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, GCP, and Vultr, but I think my Hetzner server is my favorite & provides the biggest bang for the buck. Oh, and I'm American, I speak Englis
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
This article focuses on thievery at the expense of vandalism. I leave my bike locked up outside overnight in San Francisco [0], and with three sturdy locks I'm not worried about thieves, but the vandals are another story. Ten days ago
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
> ... signals the decline of the local government police forces. I don't think it's something you can lay at the feet of the SF Police Department. I asked Pete McLaughlin, SFPD (retired), why the police don't go after bike
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
> if someone has lost their motivation to live, that is the fault of the community around them, and it’s the responsibility of society to fix the failures that led to that loss of motivation Sometimes it's not the community that fai
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
IANAL, but I don't think they can introduce child pornography charge in the espionage trial--they severed the two trials, and the ex-CIA coder hasn't yet been convicted of child pornography (it's the later trial), so it doesn
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
I use Comcast IPv6. I've had the same IP address IPv6/60 for about six years now. One gotcha is that when I replace the firewall, I gotta make sure I keep the same ethernet MAC address to avoid re-IPing on the IPv4 side (the line
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
Agreed. He works hard to make the world a better place.
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by brian_cunnie 4y ago
Good catch!

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