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I think the industry terminology separates the provider (a doctor) from the payer (or payor; an insurance company in this case).

I keep a Windows 10 installation around just in case, but over the past few years I've only booted it to install updates. I also have some ebook and hardware config applications that I haven't been able to get working in WINE, which I very very occasionally want to run.

I haven't decided what to do. I suspect I'll end up deleting the Windows partition and just reclaiming that disk space.

This is the question I had about this. The reason this design works per the article is that the GPU memory is inaccessible to the OS, so the decrypted content cannot be stolen.

With a unified memory architecture, is the shared GPU memory inaccessible to the CPU?

It did dip right after, but tourism by number of visitors picked up again shortly after. See e.g. figure 10.2 in https://repository.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:539161/d....

The Governor's office would like you to know that tourism is record breaking, has never been better, and Florida is amazing.

I did dell.com -> support -> drivers & downloads -> type "Inspiron 16 Plus" instead of the service tag and pick the 7640 model from the drop down -> select 'Driver' for download type and 'Storage' for the category.

I'd be pretty disappointed if I put in an actual service tag and nothing showed up. I wonder if it's showing you stuff that's been released since your specific laptop left the factory? This RST driver is dated November 29.

IDK about misguided, but I just went to the Dell website, went to support, looked up the Inspiron 16 Plus model 7640, and promptly found an Intel RST driver [0].

I am not disputing your experience at all, but it is weird to me that we'd need an RST driver to install Windows with an NVMe device; RST is a SATA/AHCI RAID tech, and while it does also do something with the 'optane memory' accelerators that Intel used to sell, I wouldn't have expected it to also make NVMe drives visible to the installer. My own experience is not current at this point, though.

[0] https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetai...

Presumably, we'll find out now that he's being extradited to stand trial here in the US.

The complaint is here: https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/distributions-har...

There's also owntone, formerly forked-daapd. It implements DAAP, which is what iTunes/Apple Music uses.

Works with Rhythmbox, at least. IDK if there is a compatible Android client.

Made me think of Total Recall, which was adapted from "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale," looks like from 1966.

Naively, you'd think that if demographics break down 50/50 between the sexes, then 60% of men being single means 60% of women are single too. But that's not the case; the article says men in their 20s are single at twice the rate of women in their 20s.

I agree that part of that ~30% difference could be women dating older men. But it could also be women dating each other: this[0] Gallup poll from 2023 found that 27% of Gen Z women identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual. Gen Z as noted here doesn't perfectly overlap with people in their 20s, but it seems like this could be another (better?) explanation.

[0]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/611864/lgbtq-identification.asp...

I think it's personality and experience.

Agreeableness and openness to new experiences are 2 of the 'Big 5' personality traits. Some people are very likely to see everything as an opportunity, assume positive intent, and want to give someone a chance. If one thing doesn't work out, it was one thing, and the next thing is completely different. I imagine cold emails work very very well with these people. Lots of these people exist.

I'm not on the same side of the spectrum for either of those traits. I usually see these things as a waste of time I didn't ask for. My own experience with sales people makes me distrustful of their intentions. If one thing doesn't work out, I think all the next things that look like it won't work either. Cold emails don't work for me; case studies, hands-off demos, etc. where I am researching you, I have approached you, and I feel like I am controlling the engagement with you, work better.

I didn't like this number either, but it's more mainstream than you think. For example, from last year: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-yo.... This is an opinion article citing a contemporary Pew Research study that appears to support the 60% number, although it's stated as "63% of men under 30 describe themselves as single" (emphasis mine).

I don't think you needed to imply that someone was an incel.

Ask again later

> Apple-maintained antivirus system called XProtect which works great

Earlier this year it began detecting Apple-distributed iOS simulator bundles as malware and deleted those [0]. This was a major headache for several days as different headless CI systems developed the problem; we could not figure out how to get a 'good' version of XProtect installed in-place and ended up removing and rebuilding machines.

[0]: https://eclecticlight.co/2024/05/03/did-xprotect-remediator-...

> and most people don’t even know exists.

This part is for sure correct.

I don't think it was absurd, just unrealistic.

I replied here because I felt like it, but thanks for your feedback.

That's not what I was asking, but I think I didn't word my question very well.

I think Smart TVs cost more to produce than they could, because they include hardware for automated content recognition and other ad/data-related functions. I was asking what would happen to TV prices if manufacturers did not include this hardware.

And I think I can answer my own question. A few years ago Vizio claimed to earn roughly twice as much from ad sales and data collection versus device sales to consumers [0]. So I guess that even if Vizio could build an otherwise-equivalent TV more cheaply than they do now, if they did not do ad sales and data collection then those TVs would have to cost over 3x more than what they sell for now to maintain margins. Which is not going to happen.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22773073/vizio-acr-adver...

This comment was flagged and I vouched to reply.

This general issue should be of concern to everyone, because we're starting to see 'smart monitors' from the big vendors as well. More people need to be aware of what's going on so they can make an informed choice about if and what to buy. Maybe most people really don't care about this. But I'm personally not interested in a future where the only affordable displays - tv or computer - spy on me to inform advertisers.

What is the up-front price impact of these ad services? Or, what would a representative 'smart tv' cost if the vendor only needed to accommodate apps and upscaling/pq stuff, and did not need ACR on the TV and the backend infrastructure to support it?

I think we're told the advertising stuff is really beneficial because it makes the products available at a lower price point, to more people. Is this really true?

Hypercorrection.

I think it's historically been OK to refer to any person using they/them/their. More recently, even in progressive circles I think, it's still OK as long as you don't have information about the person's preference that would make neutral pronouns offensive to them. Basically, it's fine until you know it's not.

It's true that all the supporting pictures in the article are of women, and you're likely right that all the demonstration models were probably women. But the machine is not gender-specific, the process of using it doesn't seem like it would be gender-specific, and the author was generalizing a series of demonstrations instead of a specific demonstration with a specific model. The subject of the sentences/paragraph you're concerned about - 'the demonstration model' - is itself gender neutral. For all of these reasons I think it makes sense why they/them pronouns were used here. Not strange or controversial at all.

Is that true?

Off the top of my head I think GDPR in the EU might have something to say about this. I don't know if those protections exist anywhere else or not.

In the US, people get very upset about things like traffic cameras, and public surveillance in general. Those are usually data-for-punishment vs. data-for-profit (...maybe?), but people here resist things like data recorders in their cars to lower car insurance.

At least to me, being unhappy about Niantic's behavior here does not seem the least bit unusual.

Sarcastically, no one should.

Unsarcastically, a lot of people believe user data belongs to users, and that they should have a say in how it's used. Here, I think the point is that Niantic decided they could use the data this way and weren't transparent about it until it was already done. I'm sure I would be in the minority, but I would never have played - or never have done certain things like the research tasks - had I known I was training an AI model.

I'm sure the Po:Go EULA that no one reads has blanket grants saying "you agree that we can do whatever we want," so I can't complain too hard, but still disappointed I spent any time in that game.

What do you do when duplicate serial numbers start showing up? I'm assuming you won't know who was issued which serial number, and if it's truly randomized you wouldn't even know where they were sent.

I wonder if they bought these on purpose, or if the monitors were provided by their employer. That looks like an office.

It's hard to sympathize with someone buying one of these in 2024 and then being outraged that it wants to do ad tracking. 'Smart' monitors are so easy to avoid right now, they are all clearly marketed as such and it's still the case that premium 'dumb' monitors are available in every category.

I'm in the same city as Mike and have been a Cox customer for 15+ years. While I have had problems, for the most part I've been satisfied. I've not historically been a top-speed-tier customer though. They are running some kind of promotion right now where they've moved me from 500Mbps to 1Gbps for 12 months at no charge, and it's the first time where I've not gotten really anywhere close to the advertised speed (not even 500, now). I'm not sure what this accomplishes for them; maybe they'll cut speeds in half next year and try to suggest I just got accustomed to faster speeds.

Support is challenging when you need it. You usually have to talk to multiple people before your problem is resolved. For example, last time I got a new modem I had to be handed off twice before I got to a level where they could 'reset my registration,' and I definitely got the figurative stink eye over the phone for not renting their modem (which, is probably why it didn't "just work"). They usually try to sell you something like wiring insurance as well, and really like to emphasize the potential cost to you if they feel like they have to roll a truck. Fortunately, I've only had perhaps 3 support engagements (1 truck) in that 15+ years. Otherwise I'd be a lot less satisfied.

I'm hopeful that the various fiber providers 'coming soon to my area' will help with this. AT&T is here but not cheaper - they force you to rent their equipment - and I don't want to be an AT&T customer. At the very least it might stop Cox from raising rates $3-$6 a year.

It's only if you qualify as a 'covered expatriate' though. I'm not a lawyer or an accountant but a plain reading of the standard suggests the vast majority of Americans would not be covered.

https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i8854#en_US_2023_publink100...

I think the key would be how they arrive at the net worth numbers. If it's just a calculation of all your assets as if they were sold at FMV, ~90% of the US is below the net worth threshold.

https://dqydj.com/net-worth-percentiles/

The average tax liability standard looks like it would take 5 years at $600K+ of adjusted gross income, too. Plenty of people would meet this standard. Most people would not.

I think there's a balance that some people don't appreciate. Hacking your health has some additional risk vs. some external system or process; your health is often irreplaceable, and you might not get a second chance if you screw it up. I think you should be a little more careful with DIY pharma than you would other things. And I think you should be very careful about evangelizing it to other people.

It is the case that some people get so wrapped up in overcoming authority that it becomes the driving factor behind what they support and what choices they make. It's essentially the same thing you say you're disgusted with: it's not about figuring out how and why, it's wanting to be right and the authority to be wrong. The exact same behavior, just from the other side of the fence. Call this a strawman if you want, but I'm still asserting it's fact.

This is why I don't immediately see groups like four thieves vinegar as positive. I don't know if the stuff they're doing actually works or not. I suspect that you don't know this either. It might work. They assert that it's simple and just use their stuff and boom, daraprim (or whatever). But what happens if it doesn't? The result is not a failure to adapt some device to do something it wasn't intended to do, or get data from a device the manufacturer would rather sell, it's direct impact to your health.

Specific to their microlab, my immediate questions are around sanitizing or disinfecting it. I have skimmed the documentation and parts list. They recommend using 'water'. There's no discussion about distilled vs. deionized vs. tap water. There's nothing here about ensuring the mason jars and tubing are clean to any particular standard. I haven't seen any discussion yet about cleaning the reactor between batches, in terms of ensuring there is no residue from the prior batch. I sure hope I've just missed it, or this is called out as a 'human tasks' in each recipe. Contamination is ok (ish) with a Coca-Cola Freestyle machine at McDonald's. You can tolerate your Coke tasting like 8 other drinks. I don't think it's OK when making sofosbuvir.

I think you should be able to do just about whatever you want to with your own body. Please be careful. But I don't think you should be able to set yourself up as a counterculture medical authority and not have people ask questions about it, especially because a lot of people _won't_ ask questions.

Note this is less about Android being worse than iOS and more about the play store and Google services not being available in China, so people can't install the Microsoft Authenticator app from a trusted location.

My immediate thought is that Sun beat both of these guys to market with the T1 20 years ago. Not exactly the same thing, but I wonder how close to the same idea they are; the line seems to have stopped with the M8, which is a 32c/256t part from 2017.

patio11 (bitsaboutmoney) invests in the banks he uses, and then is able to call investor relations when he's having trouble with that bank.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/banking-in-very-uncer...

Edit: ignore comment conflating visa workers with offshoring.