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Most of the stigmatization of HSV in the US is mostly the result of pharmaceutical companies trying to create a market for HSV antiviral drugs. In the 1980s they ran ads that equat…

Herpes screening is discouraged in the US unless symptoms are present as the widely available IgG tests have terrible specificity. While the false negative rate is practically 0, t…

SDIO is still a fairly common interface that wifi and bluetooth adapters are connected with in embedded systems. Much lower idle power and protocol complexity than either USB or PC…

The problem is that this feature is generally restricted to enterprise customers because VDI systems are such a profitable market. NVIDIA and AMD both only offer this on enterprise…

The trouble is that the RAM chip on the Pi is a high density module that's going to have come under pressure from the datacenter buildouts. An 8 GiB DIMM for a desktop or server is…

It’s been like that for at least a decade.

Almost everything we hate about ARM based systems is the result of everyone in the SoC ecosystem, not just ARM. It's just unfortunate for them from an optics perspective that they'…

Gen 4.0 x16 is 32 GB/s in each direction, but the way this is implemented is not the way you'd go about this if you wanted high performance. Edit: Their benchmarks are also run usi…

Memory on an expansion card isn't gated on PCIe 5, it's gated on CXL support. CXL and PCIe use the same electrical/physical layer but the protocol is very different. The problem wi…

KiCad schematic and board files are all text based with a fairly strict grammar, so you would be able to feed it directly into an LLM. Not that that means the LLM could actually ma…

> AI-users thus become less effective engineers over time, as their technical skills atrophy Based on my experience, I think this will prove more true than not in the long run, unf…

A few things come to mind, but I wasn't even alive then so what do I know XD. On one hand, it seems rather strange, because back in the early days of C (and later C++) there were f…

I went there last time I was sent on a business trip to Japan! It’s a fun little shop. Wasn’t so crowded at the end of October :)

As someone who has also spent two decades wrangling C/C++ codebases, I wholeheartedly agree with every statement here. I have an even stronger sentiment regarding cross compilation…

As someone who works on systems at this level, believe me, it’s a learnable skill. And at least an intellectually valuable one I think too. Even if you never really need the knowle…

Yeah, the 18 months it took me to lose that first 100 pounds was about the most miserable I've ever been in my entire life. Constantly hungry, constantly thinking about food, exerc…

When I was on Ozempic in the US (Bay Area), it was a dial-a-dose Ozempic branded pen. Came with 4-6 single use needles you’d screw onto the end before use, and discard into a sharp…

Yeah I might just have to go get it out of plan. Kaiser covers Ozempic, but none of the Tirzepatide based medications. (Edit: looks like that might have changed) I am a big guy (6’…

I’ve always been more of a savory kind of person myself. I’d take biscuits and gravy or a steak over sweets any day! But I feel you on sugar. Took me a long time to cut sugar cravi…

I’m always kind of envious of the people who were able to lose weight on GLP-1 drugs. I lost a bunch of weight a few years ago, and still need to lose a lot more (430 lb -> 330, go…

To add to what you said, it’s also nice to be able to keep it within one API that’s platform agnostic when possible. Sure we’ve had the ability to keep the pipeline on GPU for awhi…

Comparing JACK and PulseAudio is like comparing apples and oranges. And honestly, JACK by itself is unsuitable as an audio server for general desktop usage . JACK doesn’t support d…

I strongly disagree with the premise. Regardless of how you feel about Wayland, its creation set off _massive_ improvements across the entire Linux graphics stack. For those of us …

The unfortunate reality of building these home-brew CPUs is that almost all of the "medium integration" ICs are long out of production - things like the 74181 ALU slice, carry look…