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by prirun 2y ago
There is a list of 6 disadvantages of WAL mode on the SQLite site: https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html
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by prirun 2y ago
I had a situation with HashBackup (I'm the author) where I needed a map-like data structure that could get rather large (hundreds of MB to a few GB) with big backups. In Python, storing this data in a dict was not really feasible beca
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by prirun 2y ago
> Anyway, I'm staying with my old gas Honda until it dies which is probably never with proper maintenance and eventually restoration. I would have stuck with my 2003 Honda Accord too, except that some woman, probably talking or text
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by prirun 2y ago
Netflix ad plans are more profitable than premium plans: https://colemaninsights.com/coleman-insights-blog/advertisin... Everything eventually ends up as paying + ads. Cable TV started out justifying the $35/mo f
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by prirun 2y ago
IMO, checksums at the filesystem and higher level are only useful for maybe detecting software problems, not cosmic ray RAM bitflips. ECC RAM is the only way to reliably detect random RAM bit flips. Without ECC, if you read a block of data
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by prirun 2y ago
> So people who don't conceptualize themselves as athletic, they may have insecurities if not outright skepticism, aren't going to last I have always been thin and tried to start workouts on my own several times over many years
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by prirun 2y ago
See the movie "The Corporation", which compares corporations to psychopaths; they're very similar in that corporations don't have a conscience. Corporations, IMO, should not be involved in politics at all - only real peo
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by prirun 2y ago
I power mine off whenever I get a weird, unexpected text. As a security precaution, I also disable text previews on the lock screen. Not sure it does any good, but it can't hurt.
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by prirun 2y ago
My sister doesn't see ads on Prime Video, but I do. My theory is that I order more stuff from Amazon than she does, so get enough value from the free shipping aspect that I'm not likely to cancel my Prime subscription, even thoug
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by prirun 2y ago
Author of HashBackup here. To use modern block-based backup programs for large databases and VM images (similar situation), you must use a very small block size for dedup to work well. For VM images, that's 4K. For databases, it&#x27
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by prirun 2y ago
Author of HashBackup here. Duplicity is very old backup software that uses the "full + incremental" strategy on a file-by-file basis, like tape backup systems. The full backup must be restored first and then all of the incrementa
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by prirun 2y ago
We need to ban plastic water bottles: https://www.shop-without-plastic.com/blogs/how-much-do-contr...
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by prirun 2y ago
Might want to check into this to do your SQLite db copies: https://www.sqlite.org/draft/rsync.html
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by prirun 2y ago
HashBackup author here, been using SQLite for about 15 years. Doing a vacuum after a large number of deletes might make sense. The only real purpose of vacuum IMO is to recover free space from a database. Vacuum may also optimize cert
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by prirun 2y ago
THis was a good article, pointing out many differences in Swiss vs US society that are factors explaining why both countries have similar gun ownership rates yet the US has more gun violence. In the conclusion, it states that "reducing
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by prirun 2y ago
I'm sorry this happened to a kid. But the "Youth Poisoning Protection Act" says: "To ban the sale of products with a high concentration of sodium nitrite to individuals, and for other purposes." It doesn't say
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by prirun 2y ago
> The first step to changing a less-favorable consumer view is with "pricing and packaging that creates more value than you can replicate anywhere else in the marketplace," he said. This is a fantastic goal. If they actually i
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by prirun 2y ago
IMO, the US govt should stop all student loans and make the universities fund the loans. Then the universities would have an incentive to make sure students graduate with degrees & skills that will allow them to pay back the loan. THey
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by prirun 2y ago
Those in power are usually either corrupt from the get-go or end up that way. Best example I know of is the power given to governors and the President to pardon crimes, even after a jury trial. Blatent corruption.
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by prirun 2y ago
For anyone having trouble swallowing, I'd highly recommend trying to find a doctor who will help you with self dilation therapy (ESDT). I had my throat dilated 4x with an OR procedure, it only lasted about a month before starting to c
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by prirun 2y ago
> AT&T obtained the right to renew the support services for ‘up to’ two more years > AT&T is exercising that option for at least one more year > it would “take years” for AT&T to “devise alternative solutions” to its re
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by prirun 2y ago
We made a mistake granting corporations "personhood", and now want to repeat that mistake.
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by prirun 2y ago
I think the car manufacturers became truck manufacturers because: 1) it allowed them to bypass the 70's fuel economy regulations, which applied to cars but not trucks (nor SUVs) 2) their profit margin was higher on trucks than cars
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by prirun 2y ago
> IMHO, baseline languages like Python are great for writing down what you already think but terrible for iterating on your understanding, and 95% of our work as engineers is (should be?) changing our understanding of the problem to fit
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by prirun 2y ago
Without commenting on whether it's a good feature or not, this morning I had the pop-up ad for this new feature displayed in my Fastmail web page. However, it was positioned on the screen so that the "Got It" link at the bot
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by prirun 2y ago
Title suggestion: Big Tech wants AI to be regulated in their favor , tolimit competition. Onerous regulations are great if you have a humongous legal staff, as long as the regulations don't interfere with your business plans.
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by prirun 2y ago
"One in five young people around the world is currently a NEET, according to the International Labour Organization. In the U.S., this jumps to about 11.2% of young adults." One in five is 20%, so it's not a "jump" t
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by prirun 2y ago
"Young talent, more inclined toward flexible work arrangements, may view federal employment as an unattractive option, leading to a significant loss of fresh perspectives and innovative ideas." Yeah, unlike in the House, Senate an
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by prirun 2y ago
I wrote COBOL back in the day. It'd be easier IMO to learn COBOL than to deal with a transpiled Go program for the rest of eternity. COBOL is not that hard. What is hard is having systems with hundreds of thousands of lines of code,
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Is a solution to spam phone calls to answer it?
2 points by prirun 2y ago|4 comments

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