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by prirun 4y ago
If one SSD has a failure rate of 5%, 4 SSDs will have a failure rate of 18.6%. If the 4 devices are in a RAID0 for convenience (don't have to figure out where to put files), there is an 18.6% chance of losing all data vs 5% with a 16TB
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by prirun 4y ago
I stopped reading after this: "Let's take the business of drug dealing for example, where due to your research you find the vast majority of people are caught via compelled police informants." If that's true, why are dru
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by prirun 4y ago
Health: - Dr. Ekberg: https://www.youtube.com/c/drekberg (2M subs) - Dr. Berg: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrEricBergDC (8M subs) Car repair & detailing: - Chris Fixx: https://www.you
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by prirun 4y ago
Kinda shocks me that a large company, say Ford, would entrust their proprietary, core software to a cloud service. Microsoft, Amazon, or Google could decide on a whim they want to be in the car business (or any business) and would have a
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by prirun 4y ago
> it is still very difficult to predict whether the genetic changes that are done will have only the desired effects This is true universally IMO.
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by prirun 4y ago
It didn't cost $11K to design and build a prototype. According to the article: "The city’s Department of Public Works famously decided no city in the world had ever placed a trash can on its sidewalks that would meet San Francisc
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by prirun 4y ago
The article states that Sony disabled OtherOS before the USAF got their cluster built, and Sony was recalling and warehousing the PS3s that had the OtherOS feature. The USAF had to negotiate with Sony to acquire these older PS3s that still
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by prirun 4y ago
We should handle recreational drugs, no matter how hard, just like alcohol. No one complains that alcoholics are not seeking treatment. Why should we give a shit if addicts don't seek treatment? Why should we force drug addicts into
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by prirun 4y ago
> He was adamant that he wanted to see butts in seats, across the company. Engineers? Not special. (We were working until the early hours of the morning, nearly every day). He might see my butt in a seat that week, but he damn sure would
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by prirun 4y ago
I think Clarence specifically omitted inter-racial marriage from his list of future targets for obvious reasons: his wife Ginni is white. "It's okay for me, but not for thee"
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by prirun 4y ago
Are you sure it's related to working out? I'd stop workouts for a week, and if you still have trouble sleeping, at least you'll know it isn't related to your workout schedule. https://www.independent.co.uk&#x
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by prirun 4y ago
trying again
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by prirun 4y ago
Isn't it the government's job to promote competition and regulate / prevent monopolies and oligopolies?
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by prirun 4y ago
Nim, last I used it a couple of years ago, stopped at the first compilation error. It's not such a bad idea considering errors are usually fixed one-at-a-time. I'd gladly trade a little compilation speed and ability to continue p
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by prirun 4y ago
IMO, the FCC should: 1. make payments to local governments in exchange for monopoly access, illegal. 2. strike down laws that prohibit local governments from providing internet service. 3. stop forcing these speed minimums that also come wi
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by prirun 4y ago
Most of the TV channels are shit, so it makes no sense to reserve so many channels for them, especially as people are cutting TV service and switching to streaming.
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I am not a religious person (agnostic), and especially not keen on organized religion. From the SC decision: "Petitioner Joseph Kennedy lost his job as a high school football coach in the Bremerton School District after he knelt at mi
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by prirun 4y ago
> So if you learn Go, you'll never be able to use it to interoperate with e.g. your Python program to speed it up. Never done it myself, but: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2020/07/extending-python-wit
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by prirun 4y ago
The Prime minicomputer architecture, from the 80's. Competed with Dec VAX, Data General Eclipse, etc. The Prime architecture was based on the Multics design from a group of guys hailing from Honeywell and MIT. I worked on Primes for
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by prirun 4y ago
Yogurt is easy to make in an ordinary pan too: 1. Turn your oven light on 2. Heat milk to 180F (I heat on Hi to 165F while stirring then turn it down), hold it there for 10 mins. Shoot for 180F but it's not a big deal if it goes to 19
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by prirun 4y ago
My eyesight isn't so hot because of chronic shingles in my left eye. On a 13" 2015 MBP: SF Mono Medium 18pt, antialias disabled, Use bold fonts enabled. Light beige text on a chalkboard green background. Character spacing .911,
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by prirun 4y ago
Object Lock may be useful to protect backups from deletion, but ransomware is now relying on the threat of data exposure more, where Object Lock makes no difference: https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/25/rans
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by prirun 4y ago
Rather than focusing on how to get people back in the office, the execs already know the things they should work on: > How do you build a compelling culture remotely? > the majority of people seem to want to be remote when we survey t
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by prirun 4y ago
And if applicants say "I don't have any"? Or applicant creates a fake one?
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They should have looked into consistent or jump hashing.
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IMO, young kids need a phone that only has family numbers on it for texting or phone calls. No internet.
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It's quite possible that at today's prices, they will save $400M/yr, and in the future, as cloud vendors raise prices, bringing it in-house will save them $800M/yr.
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My degree is in Applied Math & Computer Science, at an engineering school, but the CS aspect was rather lame and the applied math part was basically useless for computers. But I got the piece of paper, which was my main goal. So like
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by prirun 4y ago
I've had good luck with these, taken one in the morning and one at night. https://www.amazon.com/Probiotics-Formulated-Probiotic-Suppl... Now, instead of taking the probiotics, I make yogurt from whole milk (it's
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by prirun 4y ago
I did some testing with Nim a couple of years ago for HashBackup. Here's one of the db_sqlite issues I created: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/13559 I had much better luck with tiny_sqlite: htt

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