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by prirun 4y ago
> in the case of the HS760, WD adds a second actuator to the drive, essentially splitting it up into two quasi-independent drives with each half having domain over 4.5 platters (9 surfaces) To me it would make more sense to divide the dr
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by prirun 4y ago
I think there are two separate questions: 1) is there other life in the universe? 2) is other life visiting Earth? Considering the number of stars in the universe and the potential number of planets around those stars, IMO it is extremely u
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by prirun 4y ago
"Idiocracy" is our universe: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
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by prirun 4y ago
> They are cleaning your teeth. This means that they need to have understanding of hygiene and sterilization. There are regularly incidents where someone in a dentists office sterilizes something wrong and some disease gets transmitted.
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by prirun 4y ago
This applies to all kinds of jobs. For example, in Indiana a dental hygienist requires 1 year of college courses and 2 years of dental hygienist courses. IMO this is not necessary to take X-rays and scrape teeth. They are not diagnosing a
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by prirun 4y ago
For Netflix's DVD service, pre-streaming, their recommendation system was awesome. You know, the one where they had the contests and paid $1M to any group that could do better by some percentage? IMO, they don't use anything like
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by prirun 4y ago
I've written a Prime minicomputer emulator, and it has these kinds of flags. In my experience, if you don't do exact hardware emulation, there will be some oddball program that doesn't work. If someone posted their progra
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by prirun 4y ago
I don't think anyone should work over 40 hours a week without overtime pay unless they are owners of the company or are getting 1.5 hours in comp time and overtime is voluntary.
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by prirun 4y ago
Thanks. I thought about that before posting, but it's all on a whois for hashbackup.com anyway so I figure if someone wants to hunt me, I'm easy prey.
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by prirun 4y ago
Great... another drug war that will not work. Instead of prohibiting sale of tobacco (and drugs and alcohol), insurers should refuse to insure anyone taking them in large quantities.
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by prirun 4y ago
Since he's not paying rent for Twitter's office space, why should anyone believe he will give them a cut of ad revenue?
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by prirun 4y ago
Here's are a couple of screen shots: https://www.hashbackup.com/alpha/
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Rip-off Amazon subscription pricing
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by prirun 4y ago
> Why bother having education system if you are supposed to figure everything out on your own? How is nutrition different from math or grammar? 1. To "educate" / program you on what to buy to sustain the rest of your life
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by prirun 4y ago
Software lifetimes sometimes greatly exceed what you expect. 10 or 15 years down the road, you may look at your code, see something unusual, and want to know when it was put there, why, and whether it is still appropriate. You'll be
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by prirun 4y ago
> There are prenups, which I believe would be wise for any couple to create (together), and especially important in this type of arrangement. Judges can override prenups. I just did a little Google research, and just under 50% of prenup
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by prirun 4y ago
But I think a lot of ordinary people selling stuff on eBay will get this form and think "I have to report this to the government as income." And in fact, what I read about it is that if it isn't all income, you write a not
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by prirun 4y ago
There are places that have fees based on income, or their used to be when I was in counseling. The place I went had that, I think mostly for drug and alcohol abuse, but maybe just for everyday counseling too. I wasn't using it so don
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by prirun 4y ago
You have 2 databases to update. Either both have to be updated or neither, because you're installing a new version of a program. Actually, installing the new program should also be part of the transaction! Either the whole thing wor
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by prirun 4y ago
This is what gets me about all the climate change noise: if we truly cared about energy use, then instead of forcing everyone into new electric vehicles and building a completely new network of refueling stations, we should implement the 19
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by prirun 4y ago
One feature I wish filesystems had is transaction support, ie: begin transaction create file X if it doesn't exist, otherwise abort transaction write some stuff to file X open file Y overwrite some data in file Y
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by prirun 4y ago
Banks also charge an outlandish overdraft fee per transaction of something like $35, limited to 3-4 per day. The default for most debit cards AFAIK is to enable overdraft protection. You have to specifically disable it at the bank (whic
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by prirun 4y ago
Some comments have mentioned "What would be the advantage of buying Stripe?" For a company like Amazon, a buyout of Stripe mitigates risk. As the Robber Barons said, "Don't let anyone get between you and your customer.
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by prirun 4y ago
Find a good therapist / counselor, which may take more than one attempt. The first counselor I had, for maybe 3 sessions, was terrible. The 4th session was with his boss, she asked me how it was going, I said I didn't really cli
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by prirun 4y ago
Hmm... I know 2 people that went from obese to normal weight only by cutting down (drastically) their eating. No exercise. One went from 240 to 170 in 18 months (lost around 4 pounds/mo, or 1 pound/week) and is mostly off insuli
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by prirun 4y ago
Proofread (not spell check!) your work when writing about IQ: "and what good is earning all that money when you have no time left to spent it"
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by prirun 4y ago
This is a good step. Now they need to trash that idea of having electronic payment companies send out a 1099K for anyone with $600/yr of online payments (PayPal, Venmo, etc.). I know they put the idea on hold because of backlash, but
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by prirun 4y ago
> are there exercises or skills to help build someones empathetic capacity? Anything I can do (perhaps without involving/telling my partner directly) to help them? Behaviors of my own that I can change to get us going in the right d
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by prirun 4y ago
I don't know anything about poly relationships, but it seems that if a couple with kids are unhappy in their relationship, and adding another adult fixes their relationship issues, then it would be a positive thing for the kids as well
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by prirun 4y ago
COBOL has a couple of nice features for program portability: - Numeric variables are usually specified with pictures and computations are performed with decimal arithmetic. For example, PIC S999V99 is a signed decimal numeric with 2 digits

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