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Comment · 11 hours ago
Shit, if broadcom did this to their codebase the world would be a better place. Their stuff is crap, and it's everywhere. It's unclear if they even use source control. Our guys spent ridiculous amounts of time backporting our submitted fixes into their releases.
Comment · 3 days ago
"I am a meat popsicle."
Comment · 3 days ago
"WISeR has resulted in delays and denials of care, operational chaos, and reports of patient harm"

It sounds pretty par for the course for non-AI as well. What criteria is the EFF using for its evaluation or the program, Medicare's own internal metrics?

I'm actually amazed this stuff even works enough to do a bad job. Getting data into an LLM out of the Medicare system is something I assume would have taken at least a quarter or two.

Comment · 8 days ago
I love western civilization
Comment · 9 days ago
Well the human brain just just a bunch of electricity and cascading neurons.

None of that means they can't be useful tools, but when they fall down, we should remind ourselves of why that is, etc etc.

Comment · 10 days ago
In this era, a ruling by a district court is irrelevant.

What do the Supremes say?

There have been a lot of doctrinal changes over the last few years, and lots of courts haven't gotten the memo.

Comment · 14 days ago
That's not a common side effect, and I've been watching GLPs for years. In fact, it's more likely to cause divorces due to, you know, becoming more attractive.
Comment · 14 days ago
If you're getting it compounded it may be time to switch providers.

Seriously, in the first week you should feel a bit of nausea at .25mg. After 2-3 weeks you should see something, either weight loss (most) or gain (some).

Or you could be one of those who have no effect, which sucks. I'd go over your process with your provider, from storage to injection.

Comment · 14 days ago
The last set of updates seems to have fixed my sync issues. I have no idea why this is so hard, except maybe their team architected things incorrectly.

I believe the readings go to their cloud first then the app reads from there, which is one of those things that makes you realize hardware guys shouldn't design software.

Comment · 15 days ago
And yet it's so remote that who is going to stop you?
Comment · 15 days ago
FYI cable networks (upstream) are essentially token ring.

In fact, broadcast ethernet is essentially token ring, except instead of a token it just grabs the wire. Only one machine can grab the wire at a time. Switches hide that from most people.

Comment · 15 days ago
Tell that to the people raking in billions (ie: google)
Comment · 15 days ago
Direct deals are different than programmatic.
Comment · 15 days ago
Not sure why this guy is getting a lot of shit. I play at adops, but I haven't done much with it since we set everything up.

Ads drive the internet. Sorry, but it's true. And you, the technical people, have no real idea of the scale. I don't like ads, but was amused when I had to turn off all my blockers to get stuff done. Many people in the adops world dislike ads, but money.

The point he's making is simple: the ad networks are not responsible for the ad payload. And you might argue the point, but your arguments are worthless. Even finding the entity responsible for the payload will be difficult, and they're probably overseas. Are you going to sue them? No, you're not. Can you actually prove damages, even if you did decide to sue? Probably not.

The structure in the article sounds nefarious, but it's literally the adtech stack. The only thing the company must be doing that's abnormal is tracking all the users in one specific IP range and associating it was a company, likely with their emails. I never touched the targeting section of the stack, but I presume that's possible but not "normal."

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