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orclev

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  • China's first real gaming GPU is here, and the benchmarks are brutal

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  • I was basing that on the quote saying it rivals a 4060.

  • 'Not about condoms': Chinese shrug off contraceptive tax

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  • Seems like no matter what country you're talking about the rich would rather do anything but address the underlying problem as that would mean a less extreme wealth gap.

  • China's first real gaming GPU is here, and the benchmarks are brutal

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  • Sounds like it's about equivalent to Intel's latest GPU. Both are running about a little over a generation behind AMD and Nvidia. Meanwhile Nvidia is busy trying to kill their consumer GPU division to free up more fab space for data center GPUs chasing that AI bubble. AMD meanwhile has indicated they're not bothering to even try to compete with Nvidia on the high end but rather are trying to land solidly in the middle of Nvidia's lineup. More competition is good but it seems like the two big players currently are busy trying to not compete as best they can, with everyone else fighting for their scraps. The next year or two in the PC market are shaping up to be a real shit show.

  • Welcome Back to the Office. You Won’t Get Anything Done | The Walrus

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  • I don't know that that's related to WFH, I've been waiting a month now for someone to provision a new server and I'm in office twice a week. If someone isn't doing what they need to it seems they're just as capable of not doing so in office as they are from home.

  • The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription

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  • This is interesting. Do all pills come in blister packs in Denmark? Over in the US it's actually somewhat rare for prescription medication to come in blister packs. Typically over the counter prepackaged medication will come in blister packs, but prescriptions are almost always unpackaged pills in a bottle. The pharmacist counts out the number of pills and puts them in the bottle as well as attaching its label to match the prescription. Prescriptions are typically written based on pills per day and the number of days to either take the medication or else for the prescription to cover. E.G. the doctor makes out a prescription like "take one pill twice a day for 60 days", and then the pharmacist will give you a bottle with 120 pills in it.

  • ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners

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  • Browsers already have the do not track header, it should just honor that. If you have that set it should be an automatic opt out no banner necessary.

  • ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners

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  • Ah yes the classic "You're making me hit you, I don't want to, but you're making me do this". Maybe instead of blaming the flawed attempt at protecting you from abuse you instead blame the ones doing the abusing.

  • ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners

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  • Website operators don't want to have to display cookie banners

    This is false. If they didn't want to display the banners they could literally remove them, there's absolutely nothing requiring them as long as they don't track your behavior. They refuse to give up tracking so they add the banners to annoy visitors and hopefully trick some of them into accidentally opting into tracking. It's an abusive manipulation of a loophole in the GDPR. If they really hated the banners they could just not track you but they rather make it your problem.

  • Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years

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  • Gum disease could lead to tooth loss but the primary way people lose them is through infections due to cavities. The infection weakens the tooth and the jawbone it's rooted in as well as can lead to loss of the root nerve. At a certain point the tooth is too loose or weak and has to be removed to prevent further infection and/or to treat the existing infection.

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  • Nah, the pharmaceutical companies have covered themselves via reams of fine print. Using any of the GCMs (or pumps for that matter) means signing away all your legal protections and even if it didn't the companies have billion dollar lawyers that can easily crush any case brought against them. Unless you're a multimillionaire you literally can't afford to sue any of them.

    That's the real flaw with the current US legal system (the civil one at least), individuals can't afford to bring cases against large corporations. Class action cases can make it possible, but even then the odds are in the favor of the corporations and even if you win nobody actually makes anything off of those besides the lawyers. Typically the lawyers take 50% of the judgement off the top and by the time you divvy up the remaining 50% among all the participants it's at most a few hundred bucks each if even that.

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  • I'm allergic to many of the barriers as well. There is one I found that I'm not allergic to and it does help a lot but it's not perfect. Near the end of the 14 day period the area the unit was inserted would often start itching and when removed would show signs of irritation.

    More importantly though I found the Dexcom units to be worse than the Abbott ones in some ways. The Libre 3 has a fall off where it starts reading fairly accurately and then progressively reads lower and lower over time in a linear fashion. The Dexcom G2 on the other hand would start off somewhat inaccurate which could be corrected using a couple of manual glucose readings, but then as time went by it would get progressively more inaccurate in a random direction and no amount of recalibration using manual glucose readings would fix that.

    Dexcom claims the margin of error is 20% and will replace any unit that starts reading outside that range, but at least for me that was literally every unit at some point. Some of them that was right out of the box, some of them that was after 5 days, but it always happened and it was unpredictable. I find the predictable decline of the Abbott units preferable to the random inaccuracy of the Dexcom units. At least with the Libre 3 I can estimate how far off the reading is based on how long I've been using it, with the G2 it was a complete crap shoot on whether the reading was accurate or not at any given time.

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  • It was my experience with the libre 2+ and the libre 3. I've never used the libre 1 so I couldn't say if it applies to that one. That said the 2 and the 1 don't really qualify as CGMs as you need to poll them for glucose readings and I believe they're limited on polling frequency (something like once every 5 min) so they're much closer to a traditional glucose monitor than they are a true CGM.

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  • Abbott claims they're good for 14 days of use but my experience is that they're worthless after 5 to 10 days. The first 5 days of use they're about as accurate as the Dexcom units (typically +/- 10%). Beyond that they start to read increasingly low (-50% to -80%) with readings often failing entirely by day 10 or 11. It wouldn't be a problem if you could replace them after 5 days, but if you do that insurance pitches a fit and refuses to cover more of them because "they're good for 14 days".

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  • Unfortunately I am severely allergic to the adhesive Dexcom uses that they claim is hypoallergenic.

  • Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

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  • WINE is basically an adapter. It exposes a Windows API and calls the equivalent Linux APIs when invoked. That's less overhead than an emulator which models an entire virtual piece of hardware. When you run a Windows program through WINE your computer is actually executing the code of the program just like any Linux one it's just calling WINE libraries instead of the Windows ones it normally would.

  • Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

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  • They would only be obliged to open source any extra code they added to the kernel. If whatever they add lives in user space then it can be closed source (that's one of the key differences between GPL 2 and 3 and why Linus refuses to use GPL 3). That said the problem with Windows at this point isn't really the kernel, it's all the user space crap they built on top of it.

  • Democrats overperform by double digits in South Carolina election

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  • So, the Democrat candidate did better than the last election but still got absolutely annihilated. Woo. Yay. Happy Day.

    This is such a non-news story for anyone but a DNC staffer it's ridiculous. Maybe someone wants to breathlessly report on how much better or worse the green party candidate did last election as long as we're talking about things that don't actually make any difference.

    If you "outperform by double digits" and still lose by a double digit margin that just highlights how terrible you are, and how fucked we all are. Had they managed to win that seat or even get things close enough that the loss was in question that would be a news story, this is just reading political tea leaves.

  • The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices

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  • I don't expect the current generative AI investors to make an RoI anytime soon. If at all.

    Considering what they've been spending and the fact that not one of them has figured out how to actually make a profit off of generative AI, they're going to be in the red for at least a decade if not forever. This is just the dotcom bubble all over again and in a few years 90% of these companies pushing AI heavily will be bankrupt. Only silver lining is there's going to be an absolute fire sale on old used data center hardware at some point, not that that will make up for destroying the PC sector and our economies in general.

  • Heritage Foundation openly calls for end of European Union

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  • Well anything the Heritage Foundation is against is clearly a good idea, so Europe should be proud that on the whole they're doing a good job. Keep pissing off the Heritage Foundation to keep winning.