turmacar

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[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

$10 no.

If that book enabled sick people to continue living another year, and they started out charging $2000 and gradually increased that to $10000 while the book production cost remained at $2, there would begin to be many ethical questions.

You're right that the per-pill cost is only the start of what it takes to develop / test / manufacture / distribute / market the pill. But the first two are done by the time the pill comes to market and the last is minimal because you have a captive market, people who have the cancer the pill is treatment for.

Increasing the cost year after year, because you have a captive market of people that will die without your product, should raise significant ethical and legal questions. Especially because large parts of the research and testing are publicly subsidized anyway.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The FCC is currently trying to apply Fairness Doctrine to late night shows in retaliation for them having James Talarico on.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's 3D compared to pinball videogames from the 70s/80s, which were decidedly not. It actually looks like a pinball game that could exist, the ball moves relatively realistically, and has paths that go 'over' the main play field.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The site seems to autoredirect to idlewatt.foundagent.net? Which is something to do with HIPAA vendors.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Veritasium(?) has a video about jerry cans that boils down to "Surprise! The Germans over-engineered the crap out of these!" and how most modern ones aren't as good because its significantly cheaper to make ones that just look similar.

Still better than the plastic ones usually but you kind of have to hunt for the older style at this point to get the best of the best.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Which is the point. It's not good, it meets the spec.

Sometimes the spec means it's overbuilt compared to a civilian version. A lot of the time someone not-the-government is willing to pay more for different features than the spec.

An AR trigger going to a 19 year old just out of basic does not need to be match quality. Most of them suck as marksmen. Most of them will rarely shoot a rifle after basic because their MOS doesn't require it, and they don't need a good (read: more expensive) trigger to qualify for basic competence.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Gain of salt because it's the university's press release but seems like a really cool machine learning project.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My question is if that number is set/used separately in all those places why isn't it defined somewhere more centrally. It's silly that you need to update so many files for such a simple change.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

It's isolated forest and mountains. There's along history of self-described neo-nazis making compounds and trying to succeed from WA/OR/ID to be a white ethno-state.

Spokane is a purple dot in the wilderness but most of it's police/representatives live in the county and vote deep red.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

FWIW apparently for polo it's the people that own the horses that need to be wealthy, because horses, and you have to have a lot of horses. The riders are usually doing it for fun and/or because they're good enough to get asked back.

This is going off the Jon Huertas episode of Once We Were Spacemen podcast so you know, grain of salt.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

With VSCode say, it gives you a live diff for every change. Loads the file you're working on and any in the project it thinks it needs into context. Streamlines the process while (assuming you're not insane enough to set it to auto accept everything) keeping you in the loop to review changes.

Absolutely needs babysitting because if it twinges on the wrong stackoverflow post from 10 years ago or whatever it'll start asking for root access to modify drivers instead of modifying the php.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Just to run the joke into the ground.

Dude was so tech illiterate he didn't know you could change the laptop power settings for it to not go to sleep when the lid was closed. Was bragging about toting his laptop around half open and pushing himself as an advanced AI tech bro. Which, who knows, he might be. They all seem to have grifted an insane amount of money with no actual knowledge.

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