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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I guess it’s a question of how much hassle it’s worth. I did a messy data recovery of a crashed database for a work client once, but it involved a lot of trial and error and writing special purpose code, plus considerable luck that some things worked better than I had a right to expect. Cost of something like that would be in the multi kilobucks, maybe low 5 figures. We got almost all the data back, though not 100%.

    Maybe just put that HDD aside and replace it with a new one, and deal slowly with recovering the data as you get the time to mess with it. Also don’t do any write operations on the old drive. Maybe copy it entirely to someplace and work on the copy. In fact better do that anyway, HD’s physically crash all the time.



  • I’m not doubting all that stuff is great if Mamdami can make it happen. I’m skeptical that he can make it happen, based on having seen this kind of thing before. Heck, he hasn’t even won the mayoral election yet. I’d give him 50% chance of becoming mayor, based on remembering Lieberman for Connecticut. As for the other stuff, it’s all vague enough to make it easy to claim victory, at least based on what you’ve posted here. So I’d want to see definite success criteria based on measurable results.


  • massive pessimist just for the sake of the world’s most depressing “win” is not a healthy way to live.

    Healthy cynicism my friend ;).

    Plus, nothing is really pointing to this being a bad thing except your own evident misunderstanding of the situation.

    I see a bunch of idealistic goals that don’t look likely to survive contact with reality. But, like you, I wish him all the best as well.

    Is the Green New Deal still around by the way? Same issue, more or less.