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Comment on Shopping around for a new-and-improved backup solution in ~comp
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Comment on AI is bringing my friend out of retirement in ~comp
drmcbludgeon Link ParentIt’s frustrating being in healthcare. I work in an emergency department, and the number of patients coming in and immediately presenting a ChatGPT summary is increasing daily. They won’t even...It’s frustrating being in healthcare. I work in an emergency department, and the number of patients coming in and immediately presenting a ChatGPT summary is increasing daily. They won’t even state why they are coming in- they just shove the phone into my face. “ChatGPT says I have this…”
When the work-up is finished and I’m going through their results, I get fact-checked in realtime by ChatGPT. Then I have to explain why they won’t be receiving extremely expensive and unnecessary testing (PET scans, NM studies, send out labs) for their, for example, viral gastroenteritis. Or worse- they pleasantly inform me that their LLM agrees with me so I must be right with my diagnosis. All thinking has been outsourced to these tools.
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Comment on Fitness Weekly Discussion in ~health
drmcbludgeon LinkI turn 40 in 3 weeks, and I am 7 weeks into a “couch to 5k” type program. The first week was rough (hadn’t run since high school), but I’m already running better than I ever have. I’ve already...I turn 40 in 3 weeks, and I am 7 weeks into a “couch to 5k” type program. The first week was rough (hadn’t run since high school), but I’m already running better than I ever have. I’ve already noticed an improvement in my mood and overall health. My kids (9 and 6) have taken notice and want to run with me. That’s a great reward by itself.
I’m planning on running a 5k around Christmas and hopefully a 10k next year.
I'll preface this by saying I may have done something wrong, but I originally used Borg to backup my NAS to an external drive. NAS mostly holds backups of my BR disks and backup images from the family PCs. It was fine until the repo approached the size of the disk. Pruning wasn't enough to trim the repo size down, so I was stuck in a loop where the backups could no longer complete, and I could not trim the repo size down further. These attempts at pruning would sometimes take multiple days. There were a couple of other "gotchas" that affected this workflow that I can't fully recall at the moment, but I ultimately had to nuke the backup after a few years and start over. I went with Backrest which is a webui for Restic. I have had no similar problems. The repo trims itself as expected and seems to work quickly. I tested file recovery and I was able to retrieve the files without drama.
Keep in mind I am using this to backup a NAS - my root file structures are not changing often, if ever. New directories will occasionally be added to the root, but I am not going to the root level and moving things around.