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by prirun 3y ago
To me, doctors are not as big of a problem as hospitals. In my area, nearly all doctors are now hospital employees. Doctors don't have the independence they used to have with their own practice: as employees, they have to do what the
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by prirun 3y ago
I got started many years ago with "SQL For Dummies". It was actually a pretty great book for getting started. Then, go to sqlite.org, read every page on the site, including the file format, read posts on the forum, read the sour
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by prirun 3y ago
Did they pay taxes on their gift? If not, they committed a crime IMO. Probably FTX paid the taxes, but maybe no one did, in which case the parents owe it.
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by prirun 3y ago
Thanks! I never look at my Desktop and so never noticed it. I deleted the original, moved backup today, and there is nothing on my Desktop about Relocated Items. That could be because I removed it, like an Apple smart link thing, or mayb
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by prirun 3y ago
Thanks very much! I had no idea about this, but doing a find command as root did indeed find my backup. It was at: /System/Volumes/Data/Users/Shared/Previously Relocated Items/Security/hbbackup I do
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by prirun 3y ago
Google archive storage is $1.20/TB/mo. I just had a customer recommend it to me (I'm the author of HashBackup). He said he's been using it for over a year and pays around $3/mo for 2.5TB. One gotcha: the minimum
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by prirun 3y ago
My upgrade to Monterey (MacOS 12.x) broke my Canon D530 printer driver. Re-installing the driver didn't help. Now I have to print to a PDF, copy that to an old Snow Leopard 10.6 machine, and print from there. FYI, Snow Leopard is 1
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by prirun 3y ago
Buffering is also a factor in your test program. If you had done some kind of flush after echo, there wouldn't have been a 3 second delay before job B saw job A's output. The reason you saw the "42" output immediately
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by prirun 3y ago
I get my teeth cleaned every 3 months because I've had trouble with lichen planus. Costs me $270/yr, including the cost of dental insurance. 19000/270 is 70 years. I think I'll stick with going to the dentist more oft
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by prirun 3y ago
Relevant: https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/could-kkrs-ownership-of...
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by prirun 3y ago
> It's already likely all those rules are separated in modules Have you seen much COBOL code? I had some dealings with a public school budgeting and payroll system back in the 80's, and I can tell you, it was a complete mess,
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by prirun 3y ago
I took my nephew to King Kong in 2005. There were a group of 5-6 teenagers sitting at the middle top of the theater who talked and laughed throughout the movie. In the final scenes where he had her at the top of the building, they started
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by prirun 3y ago
These animals went extinct for a reason, likely related to maladaption to the environment. Does it strike anyone else as a bit crazy to try and resuscitate them?
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by prirun 3y ago
Depends on how the 9 hrs of downtime is distributed. It could be 6480 5-second outages (packet loss). There are 3650 10-hour workdays in a year. If those 6480 5-second dropouts occur during waking hours, you're looking at 2 5-second
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by prirun 3y ago
When they were competitors, before the merger in 2015, they built stores next to each other. Rite Aid did the same thing with Walgreens drug stores. Then after the merger, they ended up with redundant stores in the same location. Duh! h
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by prirun 3y ago
Another thing happening is that phone calls to book appointments are sometimes being charged as televisits. I had service lines on one of my insurance EOBs with names of people I didn't recognize and the billing description was "
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by prirun 3y ago
> I suspect if you made your oatmeal with milk instead of water, it would help a lot, but I can't do this from being lactose intolerant. I dunno about that: milk contains a lot of sugar. Water doesn't. You could add 3 tbsp of
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by prirun 3y ago
My small city of 50K is soon to be home to an $800M 700K sq ft Meta data center that will employ 100 people. I don't think the planners involved in these deals care much about risks, like the power company might have to petition the st
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by prirun 3y ago
Correction: only the first 100GB egress fee is waived. If you're a big AWS user, it's still gonna hurt, a lot.
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by prirun 3y ago
> Climate change has made that much harder. A warming world is more dangerous and unpredictable. In the 1980s, the US experienced roughly three disasters a year that did at least $1 billion in damage. Now the annual occurrence is closer
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by prirun 3y ago
Corporations already expect salaried employees to work "whatever hours are necessary to get the job done", ie, often more than 40 hours a week. Assuming this remains true, people will be working 20% less for a 25% pay cut, and st
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by prirun 3y ago
We'd be better off if we untangled religion from all debates. Let people believe whatever fairy tales they want and have gatherings based on them, but stop giving preferred tax status and leave it out of informed debates.
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by prirun 3y ago
I don't see much difference between AI fakes and real politicians who lie through their teeth to get elected.
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by prirun 3y ago
From the article: > I once cared for a woman in her sixties who had severe chest and abdominal pain from a bowel obstruction that had ruptured her colon, caused her to have a heart attack, and put her into septic shock and renal failure.
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by prirun 3y ago
I had a flaky internet connection for a while, where it would have a few seconds of dropout maybe every hour. It was annoying as hell, especially for remote ssh connections. It turned out to be a bad cable from my house to the Spectrum bo
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by prirun 3y ago
I don't know the answer to this question, but isn't it possibly better (less dangerous to society) for a pedophile to have a computer screen that generates pictures to satisfy his cravings, regardless of how disturbing they may be
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by prirun 3y ago
I have been using NameSilo for years, since it was just a couple of guys, and am very happy with them.
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by prirun 3y ago
> Japan company aims to reduce accidents by checking elderly for potential dementia I don't think elderly drivers are nearly as big of a problem as drivers on their phones. Let's fix the big problem before worrying about a lit
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by prirun 3y ago
eBay sued BiddersEdge for trespass to prevent scraping its listings, and won: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_v._Bidder%27s_Edge
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by prirun 3y ago
I assume in a war the shipyards would be bombed.

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