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jachriga
·hace 11 meses·discuss
"Journalism" has to compete with the likes of TikTok these days in terms of information availability, and TikTok (and it's infinite scrolling ilk) are not subject to the same principles that traditional journalism has been.

It makes perfect sense that the modern press has devolved to a 24-hour rumor mill; if they hadn't, they'd be even more irrelevant.
jachriga
·hace 11 meses·discuss
Doesn't matter how they wrote it, they put their name on it so it should be treated as if they wrote it themselves.
jachriga
·el año pasado·discuss
(Universal Summarizer by Kagi)

Title: How Long Can SSD Store Data Unpowered? Year 2 Update

- The video provides a two-year update on SSD data retention tests conducted by HT Wingnut, focusing on SSDs left unpowered.

- Four inexpensive 128 GB TLC SSDs were tested: two were heavily used (over 280 TB written), while two were kept fresh.

- A folder with over 100 GB of random data was created for testing, with hash values generated for validation.

- The testing timeline was extended, with the initial data written on September 2, 2022, and the follow-up conducted on November 23, 2024.

- The fresh SSD maintained its integrity, with 100% data retention and no performance degradation after two years.

- The heavily used SSD showed significant corruption, with four files unaccounted for and a performance drop during read tests.

- The audit time for the well-worn SSD increased from about 10 minutes to over 42 minutes, indicating severe performance degradation.

- The fresh SSD's read performance remained stable at approximately 470 MB/s, while the worn SSD's performance was inconsistent and slower.

- Both SSDs showed some error recovery, but the heavily used SSD had 12 uncorrectable sectors after testing.

- The fresh SSD will be re-evaluated in one year, while the worn SSD's corruption raises concerns about long-term data integrity.
jachriga
·el año pasado·discuss
Not that it's a perfect source, but reddit lawyers used to describe the difficulty of proving entrapment by laying out two requirements: (1) you wouldn't have committed the crime if the instigator wasn't law enforcement, and (2) you only committed the crime because the instigator was law enforcement. One or the other is not enough. Like an 'if and only if' deal.

If you aren't aware that it's an LEO urging you on, I don't see why you should be able to argue impropriety. You made the decision as if it were real and would have real consequences.
jachriga
·hace 2 años·discuss
Specifically re: git, I think a more fair comparison (than deep git vs. shallow git knowledge) is about learning how to use automation tools vs understanding the processes that they automate.

Case in point, there is an employee in my office who, after attaining a 4-year CS degree, was unaware that "git" wasn't "GitHub". GitHub is so aggressively pushed on new programmers that they don't even need to know that git exists, much less how it works. Actions that don't have a large colorful button may as well be impossible for someone so thoroughly dependent on tools-in-the-middle.
jachriga
·hace 2 años·discuss
In the "How to work for Mr Beast" leak, the "no doesn't mean no" section absolutely boggles my mind.

For decades (probably centuries!), the phrase "don't take no for an answer" has always been a common sales technique. If the customer says they aren't interested, you don't necessarily just walk away from the sale. You can continue to try. Why wouldn't they have used that extraordinarily common phrase? The paragraph under the header only ever describes the same concept.

Who thought it was appropriate to negate the "no means no" phrasing that has almost exclusively referred to sexual consent for all recent memory?
jachriga
·hace 2 años·discuss
They only hit the 80/20 because of the account-keeping shenanigans allowed by the PBM/manufacturer/plan negotiations. It would not surprise me if the rebate system were completely done away with and health plans had to spend the real amount compared to what they "spend" now, that premiums would go down and/or coverage would go up. I don't believe for a second that there are any such backroom negotiations involving a mostly-invisible 3rd party (the PBMs) that benefit patients in any way.
jachriga
·hace 2 años·discuss
PBMs finally being on the chopping block is 20+ years overdue, and the American public have consistently refused to accept that drug manufacturers aren't solely responsible for high drug prices. Having worked with the JDRF in the past, it's never been a secret that while the list price of insulin has been going up...the net revenue per unit has actually gone down (albeit only slightly). Total profit has been scaling upwards because of a massive push of type 2 patients towards insulin, increasing sales volume.

Knowingly pushing type 2 patients towards insulin when cheaper, better options for them might exist can 100% be blamed on the manufacturers; however, the oft-maligned list price increases have a lot to do with the mostly-secret negotiations between manufacturers, PBMs, and health plans (many of which share ownership with the PBMs). A big effect of those negotiations helps to artificially increase the amount of dollars spent on drugs (on paper) while also artificially decreasing the actual dollars spent, making it easier for health plans to hit the ACA 80/20 rule with elevated premiums.

All of this to say...none of these price negotiations or middlemen entities (I'm counting health plans as middlemen between patients and their drugs...) should be targeted by the FDA, as that's not their responsibility. The FDA should be focused on the clinical side only as much as possible. Much to my chagrin, some amount of credit for PBMs and drug rebates being part of the modern conversation goes to the Trump administration.
jachriga
·hace 2 años·discuss
My (recent) experience with Kayak is that when you do finally pick a flight to book, it only redirects you to the carrier site where you book it manually. This was once for United and once for Delta. Is that interaction maybe carrier-dependent?