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pkayeon Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It

Based on 2022 data, rates are lower is US compared Japan, Russia, Italy, France and UK.

https://www.wcrf.org/preventing-cancer/cancer-statistics/col...

Maybe that implies more dyes, additives, pesticides, supplements in poultry/beef/pork in those other countries?

pkayeon Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It

I think that article is from 2009. Need something more recent. Also it mentions that as countries become high-income economies, the incidence rate increases.

pkayeon We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

I know Claude Code now has /usage to see cache hit rate. I usually have >97% also.

pkayeon Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful

From what I've read Claude Duet will not purchase anything without manual approval.

pkayeon Reviewers rarely talk about reliability. Owners bring it up twice as often

There are lots of Camry from 2008 to 2017 which has paint delamination issue. Ours is from 2012 but it only started getting noticeably worse near the end of the warranty period and I never heard about it because it was during the pandemic and our dealer went out of business. Toyota didn't publicize the issue till the end.

pkayeon Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to a quarter of its workforce

Plenty of tech companies hired a lot during the pandemic. Even with these layoffs they will still have a higher employee count that before.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/num...

pkayeon PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says

I think Facebook switched to their own language Hack a decade ago.

pkayeon "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math

So Carpenters are okay but plumbers and electricians are not.

pkayeon Submarine cable resilience

Not vacuum but an inert gas: https://www.thefoa.org/tech/ref/fiber/Hollow-core-fiber.html

pkayeon OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI

Trades will be impacted when a lot of people compete for those jobs and their wages go down.

pkayeon Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

I just use auto mode but there is also some config settings for more fine grain control. The model could even help you customize them.

pkayeon Profit Margins of the Largest Companies

Must have been using NI instead of AI.

pkayeon As A.I. Makes Law Firms More Efficient, Clients Ask: 'Where's My Discount?'

can you say no to an AI diagnosis in that case?

pkayeon Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

I'm a kidney transplant patient myself. Your cells have HLA markers to distinguish your own cells from foreign cells. That is to prevent your immune cells from attacking your own body. This also makes it harder to find a organ match.

The reason I needed a kidney transplant is because of an auto disease called IgA Nephropathy where the IgA antibody has a small defect that causes the rest of the immune system to attack it and the whole mess clogs up the kidney filters over time.

pkayeon More floating point alternatives

Floats are actually rational numbers with denominators of power of 2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyadic_rational#In_computing

pkayeon Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

I want to see how much be the fine will for this data leak.

https://www.dw.com/en/cyberattack-in-berlin-14-million-files...

pkayeon Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing

Doesn't GitHub already have rate limiting especially if you are not logged in?

pkayeon How big are factorials?

There is a algorithm call Prime Swing Factorial that can compute large factorials exactly in arbitrary precision math using prime factorization. Like 10000000! in under second depending of how optimized the math library it. Probably like 100x faster than the normal method.

pkayeon Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

I believe 80186 was for embedded systems.

pkayeon GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet

I think the new US GPS satellites have ability to do a spot beam of increased strength in a region of interest.

pkayeon Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI

> Blue collar workers and service industry workers aren't in immediate danger of being replaced by AI, so there is a cushion period in which there is still a large number of people who have jobs.

There will just be a lot more workers competing for those blue collar and service industry jobs in the future which will drive down their wages.

pkayeon Get your Windows license refund

Dell probably gets money from other companies for the additional bloatware software installed on Windows system.

pkayeon AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

I have one of those I got second hand also. :)

pkayeon AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

Public libraries destroy unsold book donations all the time. I often tried to give away some old books I have online and nobody wants them. Some of these books have some nostalgic value to me so I hate to see them just get destroyed so they just lie in my shed.

pkayeon Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

I have a feeling Fujitsu took the blame for mistakes done by the Post Office in order to get future contracts. The contracts are padded to pay fines and damages.

pkayeon Mozilla says stricter antitrust measures against Google 'threaten Firefox'

They could fund Lady Bird browser. Less legacy code to worry about. Run it lean like Blender.

pkayeon Lovable raises $400M Series C

That looks pretty good. How did you do the graphics?

pkayeon Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

They don't do request based pricing anymore. Its just token based (1 credit = $0.01) plus some bonus credit based on which plan you subscribe. So for example a $39 plan get $70 of credits.

https://github.com/features/copilot/plans

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-06-kimi-k3-is-now-avai...

pkayeon Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

GitHub Copilot does have Kimi K3.

pkayeon FDA report reveals where Taylor Farms sent its lettuce–and it raises questions

The article mentioned about California. Based on California public health officials, most of those were traced to recent international travel or visits to taco bell in affected states.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/california-cyclos...