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by prirun 5y ago
I don't know if the USPS actually contributes to competition or not. My guess is that it does. Losing them would reduce the number of shipping companies from 4 to 3: Amazon, USPS, UPS, FedEx. https://www.supplychaindive.co
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by prirun 5y ago
From the article: "I often encountered videos that were uploaded again and again, no matter how many times I removed them. One day, a woman emailed me, calmly explained that her ex-boyfriend had uploaded a video of them having sex, and
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by prirun 5y ago
I have never understood these cases. Even if you are able to force someone to work for you, which I don't agree with, you can't force them to do good work. Is the next step to sue someone because "they didn't do work u
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by prirun 5y ago
My insurance broker called at renewal because my rate changed so much. This was my 2nd year with him & this insurance company (Auto Owners). He specifically told me it was because of my credit rating change, and in the AO renewal pape
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by prirun 5y ago
I switched from Google Sites to https://antora.org/ for https://hashbackup.com Antora is a little hard to get started because it invents some new concepts, like "component version", but I thought the o
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by prirun 5y ago
Don't worry, an all-knowing God will get it.
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by prirun 5y ago
I've had a Linode for many years with no problems, and have had to use their excellent phone service once. I tried DO and hated it because they used a zillion 3rd-party services on all their internal web pages (after being signed in) s
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by prirun 5y ago
And for those who think, "F it, I don't plan to borrow money and don't care about my credit rating!", you may want to reconsider. I recently signed up for an Amazon / Chase credit card, hit the $500 limit the first
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by prirun 5y ago
There's also this for the Python fans: https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk
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by prirun 5y ago
Focus on yourself and what you can improve about your own life and the lives of others close to you. If you focus on things outside your sphere of influence (ie, you can't fix it), you will only upset yourself and live in a state of u
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by prirun 5y ago
Accenture has a "rich" history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture#Split_from_Arthur_An... Remember Enron? Oh yeah, sure, they were sep
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by prirun 5y ago
> If it's biological, explain what possible evolutionary advantage being a reclusive puzzle-solving obsessive would have offered in a pre-technological culture - i.e. most of human history. It would make a better hunter?
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by prirun 5y ago
Asymmetry is because of how the channels are allocated to up/down stream: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21007799
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by prirun 5y ago
Here's something that helps me not have regrets: Most of the time, people assume that if they had zigged instead of zagged, things would have turned out much better. But we don't know that, do we? Maybe if we had zagged, thing
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by prirun 5y ago
I don't think it's ridiculous at all. I've had a gmail account for 13 years or so, and year or two ago, they started hounding me to give them my phone number. I never did and eventually they quit bugging me about it. I don&
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by prirun 5y ago
I dunno, with remote work and all, maybe she'll be Speaker from a nursing home. Any rule against that? Can a person be Speaker over Zoom? /s
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by prirun 5y ago
I'd go further and say once you've been a politician at a certain level, you should be banned from being in politics for the rest of your life. Why? Because if a person's total purpose in life is to be a politician, IMO the
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by prirun 5y ago
The last time there was a post about this, I checked my GCP account and realized the credit card was about to expire so didn't worry about it. So I thought I'd be safe if something crazy happened. But no. Google somehow contacte
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by prirun 5y ago
In the early 80's, I worked for our local school district on Prime minicomputers. They supported something like 64 terminal users (up to 96 at one point), payroll, budgeting, student records, 2 simultaneous computer science labs of ma
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by prirun 5y ago
"So what does your evil RAM need to do in order to actually overwrite your good data with corrupt data during a scrub? Well, first it needs to flip some bits during the initial read of every block that it wants to corrupt. Then, on the
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by prirun 5y ago
Do you drink a lot or do a lot of drugs? Should probably stop those. They eat up your time and over the long term are not (IMO) great for your brain. Programming is a brain thing, so you need to take care of it. Anyone who wants to be re
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by prirun 5y ago
Meijer, Kroger, Walgreens, CVS, Walmart, and I'm guessing other stores, all offer vaccines. I did my 3rd shot on a Saturday morning walking into Meijer, no appt. Even in poor families, they have to go to the grocery store. No one I k
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by prirun 5y ago
I ran across some Prime PLP and SPL projects of mine from the early 80's that might be of interest to those who have never seen PL/I code or systems-level code in PL/I. "dutil" is a disk utility I wrote when I was 1
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For the curious: Prime PLP and SPL projects(hashbackup.com)
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by prirun 5y ago
You think unvaccinated are doing this just to make Democrats look bad? That seems like a stretch to me. I think they are doing it because the previous administration completely botched their messaging around the virus - first saying masks
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by prirun 5y ago
I had Time Machine fail on me, and a customer (I'm the HashBackup author) had it fail on him. Details at https://www.hashbackup.com/hashbackup/customers.html search for Time Machine.
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by prirun 5y ago
I almost did this, but they don't have rsync access to the Files space. It's really nice with a static site being able to use rsync to just update the changed files.
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The virus doesn't care who is in office or what their political agenda is. Its mutations are not based on right, left, red, or blue. Its disheartening that so many people want to politicize things that are completely unrelated to poli
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by prirun 5y ago
Used this for many years in the early 2000's for our company with 5 or so customer support agents. Worked great. It was Perl-based then and used a MySQL db to store everything. Never had any maintenance or scaling issues with it. Th
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by prirun 5y ago
Can they report you to a credit bureau and get your credit score lowered? I recently had my credit score lowered, I think because I canceled a Chase / Amazon credit card after only 1 month. Apparently that is a credit faux paus. No

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