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by prirun 5y ago
"The mission of the Amazon Developer Platform team is to accelerate Amazon.com shopping experience development via empowering and delighting developers." Ugh. I hate that everything has to be delightful now.
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by prirun 5y ago
B2 is $5/TB/mo, so that's $60/year. I wrote this little program: c = 500 i = 0 while c >= 60: c -= 60 c *= 1.07 i += 1 print 'broke', i At a conservative 7% interest, $500 inv
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by prirun 5y ago
I had to "forced upgrade" my 2003 Accord last year to a 2018 Acura RDX SUV (dumb woman on her plowed into me at an intersection). It's a decent vehicle, but it's the base model and doesn't have all the camera shit.
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by prirun 5y ago
The whole idea that companies "own" you, no matter what they pay you to work for them, needs to go. If you own the company and want to dedicate your entire life to it, that's one thing. When you only work for a company, even
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by prirun 5y ago
When (not if) we decide to part ways, how will we do that? Best advice I ever got was from our lawyer during the formation of our C-corp when we outgrew our partnership: "It's important to decide how you will split up now, while y
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by prirun 5y ago
I agree this is a good idea, but history has shown that if there is a pile of money sitting somewhere, governments blow it, just like many states have blown through public retirement funds. The fundamental problem is that people running gov
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by prirun 5y ago
It doesn't matter. For most people in the US, there is no real competition, only a duopoly. Here in southern Indiana, near Louisville KY, it's either Spectrum (Comcast) or AT&T. Spectrum has cable, AT&T has DSL (some lo
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by prirun 5y ago
I'd rather pay $25/mo for 25Mb symmetrical with low latency. Now I have 20Mbit down/1Mbit up with Spectrum. I'm grandfathered on the Time Warner "Everyday Low Price" plan. I downgraded from 50Mbit service wit
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by prirun 5y ago
I'm pretty sure in the US the barriers are also commercial, ie, Epic (a huge hospital software company) is not going to make it easy to do digital transfers of their patient data to non-Epic computer systems. Only the small-fry softwa
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by prirun 5y ago
I think we need to quit calling it AI, and instead call it AS: Actual Stupidity
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by prirun 5y ago
Fax usage has not dwindled at all for hospital medical records; it's still the primary way of transferring records from one hospital to another if they don't have the same computer software running the hospital. It's ridicul
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by prirun 5y ago
I'm not promoting the PL/I language, although I did do significant work with it back in the day, including the Prime operating system which had huge chunks written in a system-programming version of PL/I. PL/I likely ne
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by prirun 5y ago
I moved some bonds to Wellington Fund early in 2021 and got hit with it in December. I wasn't expecting a big capital gain w/o selling and am also re-thinking whether I want to be in this for 2022.
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by prirun 5y ago
I read your article before posting, and it says: ----- void foo(char a[..]) meaning an array is passed as a so-called “fat pointer”, i.e. a pair consisting of a pointer to the start of the array, and a size_t of the array dimension. ----- I
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by prirun 5y ago
Be careful using target date funds in a non-retirement account subject to taxes: https://www.mymoneyblog.com/vanguard-target-retirement-funds...
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by prirun 5y ago
> The US population will get smaller as the baby boomer generation is larger than its successive generations. That’s almost the definition of negative market growth and in some cases (health care) it is. And all that money the boomers ha
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by prirun 5y ago
And that only changes when the ones with strength in numbers - us - realize that if we all do the right thing and protest bogus DMCA takedowns, the ones with money can't win. I received a "you are violating our patent" letter
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by prirun 5y ago
For strings, you need more than the allocated length: you need the current length too. Otherwise you end up with: - O(n) algorithms that are constantly scanning strings looking for a zero byte - strings can't contain zero bytes - st
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by prirun 5y ago
PL/I, created in 1964, had strings. Real strings, where the compiler knows the length even when it gets passed around and is declared char(*) var in the receiving function. You can't have buffer overflows because the compiler and
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by prirun 5y ago
Unless it has changed, a DMCA notice works like this: 1. Someone files a DMCA takedown against you 2. The service you are using notifies you and takes down the content 3. If you assert that you are not violating DMCA, the service must put t
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by prirun 5y ago
I moved from Gmail to Fastmail recently, because Google Sites forced me to move from V1 to V2. However, in their defense, they gave me over a year's notice to convert my site and I still didn't do it. They made it read-only afte
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by prirun 5y ago
I have a free Google Gmail account and can use all those free features. I never signed up for G Suite or Workspace. I think the problem is when a personal domain name is used. I'm glad I moved from Gmail to Fastmail a month ago. Aft
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by prirun 5y ago
And they will be doing the same thing when getting paid.
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by prirun 5y ago
Fastmail discounts for longer terms. I'm on the 30GB plan because of a custom domain and it was $90 for 2 years in Nov 2021, or $3.75/mo. Now I see it's $95 for 2 years so they've had a recent price increase apparently
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by prirun 5y ago
> It feels like yesterday that I was excited to cross the 100-employee threshold, yet here we are just a few years later approaching 600. For a password manager? Damn.
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by prirun 5y ago
I'm the author of HashBackup. I'd advise against using Amazon Glacier for pretty much anything, because retrieval requires a lot of mental, financial, and procedural gymnastics (4-hour delays, spacing our retrievals to keep costs
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by prirun 5y ago
It's important that your wrists stay straight. If you bend your wrists and type, it causes inflammation of the tendons. So when you see people standing up typing with their wrists bent, let them know it's not a good idea! If you
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by prirun 5y ago
The thing I hate most about Amazon Prime is that I added shows to my watchlist that were free at the time, then when I went to watch them later, they cost. IMO, Amazon makes things free until they see if they're successful, then switc
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by prirun 5y ago
I paid $8700 for a tower 25MHz 486 back in the day. Sheesh!
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by prirun 5y ago
I think part of the equation is whether you are earning and spending money designed to eventually make money (supposedly), or whether you have a consulting business with nearly zero revenue and (say) $5000/year in expenses, ie, you hav

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