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pbrumm

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About pbrumm

Making Payer Price transparency data available to those who need it.

https://aftertransparency.com

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    So google is accusing an AI company that has a customer who is paying them money to develop software that caused damages. Sounds like the AI company could be liable? If I am paid b…

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    Comment #46838847

    There is wal-g that moves the wal files to s3 and you can spin up any number of instances off of that. Works great for catching up secondary servers

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    Comment #46174052

    Have you tried switching it to a job queue where the GPU instances try to keep themselves busy. That way you can auto scale the gpus based on utilization. I find it easier to tune …

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    Comment #45315317

    I wonder how many audio conversations were overheard and uploaded during that moment. Seems like an attack vector for forcing your devices to start recording the mic and transmitti…

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    Comment #44962644

    If you have optimized your math heavy code and it is already in a typed language and you need it to be faster, then you think about the GPU options In my experience you can roughly…

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    Comment #43489890

    Here is a quick test The table of contents points to a single Json object that is 20ish gb compressed https://www.anthem.com/machine-readable-file/search/ All stock libs will fail

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    Comment #41347636

    I think it is somewhat like git's creation story. Sometimes a senior dev sees a tool that is close to ideal but needs to work a little differently than what the industry has built.…

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    Comment #38204871

    Insurance price transparency can have 16gb of compressed JSON that represents a single object. Here is the anthem page. The toc link is 16gb https://www.anthem.com/machine-readable…

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    Comment #33056929

    There are some exciting ways to continue using the heroku build packs and Google cloudbuild to host on gcp. You can maintain git push deploys costs can be pretty inexpensive. The p…

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    Comment #29530209

    I enjoy being lefty. My grandfather was trained into being righty except for golf, so I noticed early on how things were not made for me and I had to do extra work. My father uses …

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    Comment #28989116

    sounds like we could use this for user attestation. And be protected from DNS or BGP hijacking

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    Comment #28593971

    The tailscale client can be queried to convert from tailscale ip to email. This could be used to track who is using the VPN service and to sign them into the protected web app. Gra…

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    Comment #28217194

    Dell precision 54xx laptops with linux are pretty nice but my more recent one had thunderbolt issues and the support didn't live up to the "linux first" support I was expecting. I …

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    Comment #27983028

    Fast walking with some hills is great. It also reduced my stress quite a bit as after 20 minutes I would stop contemplating/planning and just walk. Doesn't matter the weather and m…

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    Comment #23283940

    It may take volume first. But you can negotiate with stripe to get better rates. You take on more of the risk though.

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    Comment #21759253

    $400 for the wheels

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    Comment #17876850

    I don't think they could fit another video or unrelated image in that article. Are people posting content here just to get the ads traffic?

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    Comment #17515536

    maybe. We haven't had any issues with it over last year. The comcast outage last week probably affected more customers.

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    Comment #17515351

    well written. Things I would add to the Good side. - ability to commit to multi year cpu/ram without upfront costs - they can live migrate your vm to new physical hardware, so no n…

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    Comment #17287786

    easily displaying many dashboards within your office is something that I haven't found any off the shelf solutions for. Our office has 20 tv's with chromecasts all displaying speci…

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    Comment #17286854

    you should look at chromecasts for this purpose. You can control them with code, for example. https://github.com/Raven24/rbcast This also allows your team to easily cast to them wh…

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    Comment #16792860

    I use the precision. my biggest issue was with getting encrypted drive setup. the trick was to use the dell recovery image to install with encryption. this works but leaves the mac…

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    Comment #13126864

    Very interesting. I did loose track of the 4 steps and was confused on how to finish the project.

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    Comment #12990297

    what helped me was being more aware of the position of my hands during sleep. if I slept with my wrists in a bent position that tended to cause issues during the day with typing. K…