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by cduzz 8mo ago
Feynman did physics and told stories. He was very serious about his physics and wrote that stuff down. Someone else wrote down his stories. His stories were probably often not entirely accurate, and whomever wrote down his stories also pro
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by cduzz 9mo ago
Out of curiosity... I said "medicare sets fee schedules" and you respondeed "nobody takes medicaid" Presumably you know the difference between them?
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by cduzz 9mo ago
Insurance companies basically mirror the reimbursement policies put in place by medicare. I'm sure most providers would gladly take lower reimbursement from a single provider over the chaos and pain driven by insurance companies right
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by cduzz 9mo ago
Buddy. That's 2.3 billion in ONE QUARTER of 2025, on a revenue of 115 billion. In a quarter. There are four quarters in a year. $5 trillion is how much is spent in all of healthcare in the USA for the whole year. UnitedHealth's
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by cduzz 9mo ago
I've lived in cities where the city ran the utilities; they were generally way cheaper than the utilities from PG&E. The USPS is obligated to deliver letters at the same cost to everyone in the country, and they do a pretty okay jo
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by cduzz 9mo ago
So, let's look at UnitedHealth Group; do they deliver health care? If there were single payer, what would their role be in the healthcare delivery process? Apparently they made 2.3 billion in profits on 113 billion in revenue in Q3 of
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by cduzz 11mo ago
My question about the safety of "FSD" or whatever autonomous cars is -- how much safety reputation can you burn in a new market that offers huge convenience? Which is more important, being first or being best? Apple's famous
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by cduzz 1y ago
Right -- I think it's quite clear that if you're relying on the free minio you need to look elsewhere or peer up with some others and fork it. And any adoption of a critical piece of software needs to have a risk calculus associat
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by cduzz 1y ago
I haven't used minio in years, and when I did I only fiddled around with it, but my recollection of it is that it's about the simplest build chain imaginable. Install modern golang, build minio, get single binary. Anyone relying
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by cduzz 1y ago
That certainly seems reasonable -- that the immune system needs practice or otherwise it will start using its ammo on other "hey that's me!" stuff and cause auto-immune diseases. But I also have to wonder if the kids with aut
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Atlassian announces EOL for "datacenter" products(atlassian.com)
4 points by cduzz 1y ago|2 comments
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by cduzz 1y ago
So they say: Data Center end of life will take place on March 28, 2029 Data Center subscriptions and any associated Marketplace apps will expire on this date. To make this transition as smooth as possible, we’re winding down support in phas
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by cduzz 1y ago
First, I guess I'll just invoke Sturgeon's law[1] -- almost all software, especially if you don't really understand it, is crap, and probably the software you understand is also crap, you're just used to it. Good softwa
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by cduzz 1y ago
It's pretty easy to run docker on macos -- colima[1] is just a brew command away... It runs qemu under the hood if you want to run x86 (or sparc or mips!) instead of arm on a newer mac. [1] https://formulae.brew.sh/formu
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by cduzz 1y ago
Oh, I understand why those old-time sysvr3.2 and sysvr4 systems would default to # backspace / @ kill -- even in the early 90s most places that ran unix had a weird zoo of different keyboards that would randomly put the backspace (or d
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by cduzz 1y ago
No escape key? No problem! Ctl-[ to the rescue. If you really want to puzzle the kids let them loose on an old hpux or irix box where # is remapped to backspace and @ is remapped to kill... That's a lovely terminal; makes me wish I&
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by cduzz 1y ago
I don't think you ever get enough of a temperature difference just by having a passive black pipe in the sun, to do any useful work besides potentially keeping someone warm in the winter. You could do useful work if you concentrate th
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by cduzz 1y ago
Again, I'm confident that this is not a viable business, and certainly in no position to make it a viable business even if it was... But places that make windshields keep forms around and make runs of windshields even for low volume ca
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by cduzz 1y ago
Car companies tend to make the engines and the sheet metal body parts themselves; the tool and die setup to stamp out the sheet metal is enormously capital intensive and there aren't services to stamp up a bunch of sheet metal for you.
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by cduzz 1y ago
Right -- this is why I use the analogy of TSMC -- chip fabs are also extremely expensive, for similar reasons. What are the relative costs of the making die set, the press, and setting up and doing a run of stampings, and the facility and e
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by cduzz 1y ago
I wonder if there's some business model like a mixture of send-cut-send and TSMC where a "FAB" agrees to stamp out 3000 fenders/doors/roofs and ship them to the customer (who then puts together the cars and paints t
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by cduzz 1y ago
I wouldn't say "super computer" chip (or at least "supercomputer")... I've read the definition of a supercomputer as "some computer that takes specific domain, compute-bound problems and turns them into IO
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by cduzz 1y ago
Technically almost all homes have a wonderful energy storage system already -- their hot water heater tank. One can imagine a setup where you've got a hot water tank and a mixing valve that allows you to heat your water up to some very
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by cduzz 1y ago
I think that the ability to learn adjacent skills (and I'd call fintech and physics PhD adjacent) is a function of domain expertise. For instance, if I were running an automotive body shop I'd put the expert hvac technician sligh
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by cduzz 1y ago
I think that "polite" and "honest" and "direct" are orthogonal. It is possible to be direct, honest, and polite. You should consider the possibility that you're mistaken in linking "rude" with &q
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by cduzz 1y ago
Were you ever a kid? Kids (kid being someone from 16 to 30 without children of their own, ideally also without substance abuse problem and a home they can sleep in without fear of being assaulted) have nearly infinite energy, capacity to ab
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by cduzz 1y ago
Every ten years I fiddle around with DNS and look for these weird names where the top level domain resolves to an actual address. It's funny to refer to these as "dotless" since you still need a dot, on the end, to "cano
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by cduzz 1y ago
But, are you looking at what's going on, with the on-again / off-again tariffs announced on discord or whatever, and thinking, "oh, lordy, I can finally rebuild my dream factory in Missoula!" are you? If I had a specific
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by cduzz 1y ago
I worked for a couple summers as a "relay operator"; in the USA there is (was? give the hateful time I suppose...) a law, "Americans with Disabilities Act" to the effect that people unable to do a thing should be able t
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by cduzz 1y ago
Do you have balanced trade with your gas station? With your dentist? The double entry book keeping has to balance after all. Oh, you use money, and each party has their own ledger. Maybe your dentist is taking advantage of you, but it i

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