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Comment Re:Overprescribed (Score 1) 106

Rapid weight loss might be the cause of NAION?

Why not? Its natural variability is 2-10 cases in 100000 people per year over 50 years of age. With error bars like these, the association can be just a pure statistical fluke.

The FDA doesn't simply wake up and spin the Wheel Of Warning Labels to see who gets screwed with that mandate today. You have to earn it.

You might note the wording in the FDA announcement. Go on, read it.

Comment Re:Overprescribed (Score 3, Insightful) 106

These drugs are handed out like candy today and now seeing more and more side effects

Not really. So far we're seeing more and more positive effects of GLP-1 agonists. NAION is rare, so it's not even clear that GLP-1 drugs are to blame. It might as well be something else, like increased physical activity or rapid weight loss.

Comment Re:Speed? (Score 1) 47

Even just for archiving, I would have thought tape would be too slow for the volume of data involved in AI farms.

LTO-9 writes at 300 megabytes per second for uncompressed data. So 2-3x of that for things like text. And unlike HDDs, this is sustained and constant. A tape library with 3-5 tape drives can easily saturate a 40G network.

Comment Re:I'm not sure about the AI decomps (Score 1) 109

You won't be able to get the hardware much longer.

Why? You don't need anything exotic to run reasonably-sized models locally. I'm using Qwen 3.8 Flash Next on a machine with two 32 Gb VRAM AMD GPUs and 128 Gb regular RAM at 100 tokens per second. It just finished debugging a bug in the iSCSI bridge for a tape drive.

Comment Re:Cops were actually well behaved, shockingly. (Score 0) 132

Sorry, on mobile now and it's difficult to look up. You can search for the number of arrests and the number of lethal shootings during an arrest by race. Black people have far more interactions with police per capita, but each interaction is less likely to result in death than for other races.

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