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by prirun 5mo ago
I pay $5/mo to Vultr for a VM that runs continuously and maintains 25GB of state.
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by prirun 5mo ago
I never got a surprise bill myself, but reading a few cases like this motivated me to cancel my GCS account and remove my CC. Now if I try to use it it fails immediately with an error. As author of HashBackup, I know people are using it wi
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by prirun 5mo ago
Part of the settlement might prevent them from launching a similar game for X years. Wouldn't be unheard of.
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by prirun 5mo ago
The flamingo on Qwen's unicycle is sitting on the tire, not the seat. That wins because of sunglasses?
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by prirun 6mo ago
Private insurance companies still do not cover pre-existing conditions. How? By not writing insurance to individuals except during ACA open enrollment. I know this because I tried to get private insurance before going to Mayo Clinic, bec
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by prirun 7mo ago
I released the first version of HashBackup in November of 2008, mainly because the subject was complex enough to remain entertaining for me. My original vision was to create an online backup service with my business partner at the time, bu
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by prirun 8mo ago
There are big economic differences and expectations between when I was growing up in the 60's and now. My parents married right out of high school, which was pretty much the norm I think. I lived on a dead-end street where nearly ever
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by prirun 8mo ago
I wrote a Prime minicomputer emulator in 2005, mostly on a lark because I grew up on them in high school and college and they were pretty advanced for their time, with token ring networking, remote call file systems before NFS, lots of Mult
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by prirun 8mo ago
Check healthcare.gov for health insurance.
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by prirun 9mo ago
I doubt Microsoft gives a minute's thought to government monopoly concerns. One of their "punishments" after the monopoly lawsuit was to give schools free copies of Microsoft Office products. Teachers and administrators ado
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Google AI generating regular expressions = fail
1 points by prirun 9mo ago|0 comments
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by prirun 9mo ago
I think the main reason it isn't recommended for all ages is that it wears off. If you get it before 50, when your immune system starts declining, you might end up getting shingles when you're 60 or 70. Insurance companies used t
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by prirun 9mo ago
This is called "balance billing" and the No Surprises Act usually prevents it, especially in emergency cases. https://www.healthinsurance.org/glossary/no-surprises-act/
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by prirun 9mo ago
I recently read that on average, people are happy about 42% of the time, maybe up to 50%. And this applies whether you are single, married, with kids, no kids, etc. So the first thing I'd do is realize that half of the time, you&#x27
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by prirun 9mo ago
The bad thing is, I'm still getting this today and have not done another Firefox restart. Guess I need a new search engine now. Jeez. Sort of unbelievable.
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Firefox restart and tabs = Google says I'm a robot
5 points by prirun 9mo ago|2 comments
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by prirun 10mo ago
My Mom had a washer that did this. I told her to unplug it to soak overnight. That worked, but she hated that thing, sold it, and took my sister's older washer that didn't have any "we know better than you do" features
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by prirun 10mo ago
I loved Netflix when they had the DVD service and the recommendation competition because it actually suggested shows I would enjoy. Once they started producing their own stuff, recommendations no longer worked: they just promoted whatever c
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by prirun 10mo ago
Internet/TV bills can be negotiated, but it is usually something you have to do annually and most people, rightly so, hate it. The companies make it hard to do, so most people would rather pay an extra $5-10 rather than spending an ho
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by prirun 10mo ago
Stopping payment sounds good, but may not work for a couple of reasons: 1) if you have payment auto deducted from a bank account, getting that stopped is not always straightforward. My bank told me they couldn't actually block ACH tra
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by prirun 11mo ago
Backblaze erasure-codes customer data across 17 (I think) servers, so customer data is probably not accessible. Yes, it would be better if they zeroed the drive, but Google says that will take 14-30 hours for a 10TB drive. For drives tha
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by prirun 1y ago
I'm the author of HashBackup. IMO, silent bitrot is not really a thing. I say this because every disk sector written has an extensive ECC recorded with it, so the idea that a bit can flip in a sector and you get bad data without an I&
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by prirun 1y ago
I boot Finnix and use dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx to wipe out drives. Most drives can be wiped out overnight. That fable about needing multiple passes is not true: https://datarecovery.com/rd/why-d
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by prirun 2y ago
Just as one data point, I have a diabetic friend on insulin and under a doctor's care who was put on a CGM and told by the doctor "if the meter reads 150 or higher, don't eat". Sometimes this meant not eating for a day.
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by prirun 2y ago
"We ﬁnd that for smaller n≲ 262144, JesseSort is slower than Python’s default sort."
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by prirun 2y ago
I switched from Android to iOS because Google forced updates to my phone somehow, even though I had internet access disabled. I only used it as a phone: no email, web browsing, etc. My phone (Blu R2) was a few years old, and after the upd
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by prirun 2y ago
This poem was set to music by Randall Thompson as part of Frostiana, a collection of Frost poems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3bUzZmoIRA
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by prirun 2y ago
I tend to use "catch and re-raise with context" in Python so that unexpected errors can be wrapped with a context message for debugging and for users, then passed to higher levels to generate a stack trace with context. For situat
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by prirun 2y ago
> I worry that the cost of exterminating people algorithmically could become so low that they could decide to start taking out small fries in batches. My guess is that the cost of taking out a small fry today is already extremely low, an
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by prirun 2y ago
The ACA lets people get healthcare insurance who are not otherwise eligible for it, for example: part-time workers, independent contractors, employees of companies with fewer than 50 employees, temporarily unemployeed (fired, laid off, swit

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