I think they mean microblogging as a format

Yes. Everything is monitored, and it sucks. We’ve internalized it even, you can’t so much as have a hobby without dumping money into it to signal you take it seriously

Sure, but the R&D is largely subsidized because it’s a common good. Pharmaceutical companies generally take over when it’s already a pretty safe bet… It could fall through during clinical trials, but they don’t pay for the massive R&D they did traditionally. Sometimes they even just buy the patent

There’s overhead, but the vast majority is just profiteering

Ah. Laws vary by state, mixing and matching manufacturers is illegal in my state, the manufacturer must be on the bottle along with a description. I’m less certain about the expiration date thing, but I believe here they require them all to come back to the same batch in case there’s an issue (including improper storage of the bottle or something)

I’ve been told this is how it works by a pharmacist when they were having trouble filling my rx, and we were talking about controlled substances in particular

What do you do with expired meds, does the pharmacy eat the loss?

Do you mix and match pills with different expiration dates to fill a prescription? From different manufacturers?

I’m genuinely asking. What I described is how things work here, and while our healthcare system is insane, this is one part that makes sense to me

I think you’re misunderstanding what I’m saying.

Yes, the companies need to sell the pills for a certain amount to make a profit, due to infrastructure and overhead. The R&D is a whole complicated thing, let’s just lump it in as overhead and put it aside

The pills themselves cost basically nothing to produce each, a batch will cost money but normally they’re consistently pumping out huge batches

So, most manufacturers have programs to retrieve pills. If you have 4 pills at the end of the roll, they can be reclaimed so patients can get a complete strip, because the pills themselves cost so little. They do the same if you end up with a small number of pills left in the big bottle, you can’t mix batches because of expiration dates and expiration. So you send them back, and they give the pharmacy a credit

The r&d costs come from government grants these days

Yes, a sterile lab is expensive, but like normal business expensive. It’s very achievable to build, drug cartels manage it just fine. Universities and YouTubers have no problem doing it with pretty modest funding

Yes, there’s overhead. But the pills themselves? The materials and production cost is cents. They themselves cost basically nothing

That’s why other countries can afford to sell them for cents - they really are that cheap to make

Pills aren’t really precious resources… They cost like cents to make, aside from a few very expensive special ones

The expensive part is all markup

Huh… Well this story is starting to increase in credibility

I wouldn’t call it a genius either, it’s just all over the place. Sometimes it’s scary good and predicts your next move, most of the time it’s just okay, sometimes it’s annoyingly bad

Uh… Sorry but no, LLMs are definitely fast enough. It works just like auto complete, except sometimes it’s a genius that pulls the next few lines you were about to write out of the ether, and sometimes it makes up a library to do something you never asked for

Mostly it works about as well as code completion software, but it’ll name variables much better

I’ve heard “join the discord” pretty often too

Why I signed up to go through this hellscape

Have you heard of Slate? They sound a lot like what you’re looking for

But like… You could just make it physical. Put a couple extra leads on the PCB, charge the capacitor, and let the button close the circuit mechanically. You might have to do a couple tests, but that’s better than having storage with a delete button on it

What does a delete button add? It’ll take minutes. Might as well put an e-stop button on your desk that connects to your computer by USB

It’s basically security theatre

I mean, you could probably pick two strategic pins and fry the wells… You might have to do a few of them to make sure that your hit every bank. If you blow through the insulation between them, I can’t imagine any method could recover the data. And it shouldn’t take much current

The liquid thing was just because… You know, solid state drive

Why are you wiping the data? Why not just slag the whole chip… Hard to read an SSD in liquid form

I mean, it could just be a capacitor. It’s easier to fry something than make it delete itself

He really wasn’t. He had been out of the writing process for multiple seasons, they had him recording off site

The cracks have been showing for years now, I won’t deny he has an energy to his voice acting, but the replacements are fine. The problem is the writing

No, humans can’t, scholars can. Most humans could learn historical materialism to the level they could pass a course on it, but the vast majority can’t apply this type of analytical lens in practice.

It’s a matter of disposition, the ability to look at a situation from multiple angles and question your beliefs about it isn’t something that can be taught, only learned. You can walk someone through it step by step over and over, even train them to go through a process when prompted, but without a certain disposition they’ll never actually use this ability without promoting