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And it's relatively easy to get a prescription for since it's a PEP drug for high -er risk sexual activities.

We'll be running an Apache Spark community sprint centered on helping folks get their first PRs into the Apache Spark project on March 13th (Friday) from 12:00-7:00 PM at the Snowf…

Admittedly just one part of the insurance paperwork but we're working on automating appeals at Fight Health Insurance / Fight Paperwork :) ( https://www.fighthealthinsurance.com/ /…

I created a new AI tool ( https://www.fighthealthinsurance.com/ ) to generate health insurance appeals. The code & model are both open ( https://github.com/orgs/totallylegitco/repo…

I think a world without any form of meaningful protection or regulation sounds very dystopian and not like one I would choose to live in under our current capitalist society. Even …

Only the flipside, QSBS shares have some great tax advantages if you think you might have a traditional "exit" at some point.

I did something similar using Racket's (nee PLT scheme) web programming module ( https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/hosc07-sk-mf.pdf ) back with an app that got on slashdot -- ht…

This matches the "cut infra cost by 1` billion" demand he made as well - https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-orders-twitter-cut-i...

If you've wanted to add satellite communication to your IoT project but traditional pricing has turned you off, we're kickstarting a new device (using an existing LEO constellation…

This is so true. Hire a bunch of senior engineers to solve junior level problems and they'll turn the junior level problems into senior level problems :p

Huh I had wondered why I saw so many Python packages blacklist MKL now I know why.

I like the tear-down approach, I wish it was more common for these devices to say what chips they used.

If anyone wants to chat about Spark or related stuff I would totally do that for money.

As an author I _love_ feedback especially things where I can fix it / improve it.

I've been working on a book to teach kids data parallel distributed computing with Python and PySpark (Distributed Computing 4 Kids), if anyone wants an early review copy let me kn…

So they don't do dedicated boxes (sadly), they rent by the rack (including 1gb of transit + 15A power). https://he.net/colocation.html has the info. If you just want a dedicated bo…

If anyone is in the bay area and wants to run physical hardware and peer with folks, FCIX down in the HE facility in Fremont is very welcoming to small networks and doesn't have po…

My partner and I talked about our health (and mental health) in the context of deciding if we wanted to be parents to a kid. I like to think that's a normal enough conversation to …

Apache Beam _can be_ but this person is talking about using it inside of Google (e.g. as the Dataflow API) and with a Google service. I think the comparison is on the money. That b…

So one of the things to remember about Google is the desire to increase attrition of senior employees (e.g. those with the most flexibility to move elsewhere). It's.... weird, but …