Gum disease could lead to tooth loss but the primary way people lose them is through infections due to cavities. The infection weakens the tooth and the jawbone it’s rooted in as well as can lead to loss of the root nerve. At a certain point the tooth is too loose or weak and has to be removed to prevent further infection and/or to treat the existing infection.

Nah, the pharmaceutical companies have covered themselves via reams of fine print. Using any of the GCMs (or pumps for that matter) means signing away all your legal protections and even if it didn’t the companies have billion dollar lawyers that can easily crush any case brought against them. Unless you’re a multimillionaire you literally can’t afford to sue any of them.

That’s the real flaw with the current US legal system (the civil one at least), individuals can’t afford to bring cases against large corporations. Class action cases can make it possible, but even then the odds are in the favor of the corporations and even if you win nobody actually makes anything off of those besides the lawyers. Typically the lawyers take 50% of the judgement off the top and by the time you divvy up the remaining 50% among all the participants it’s at most a few hundred bucks each if even that.

I’m allergic to many of the barriers as well. There is one I found that I’m not allergic to and it does help a lot but it’s not perfect. Near the end of the 14 day period the area the unit was inserted would often start itching and when removed would show signs of irritation.

More importantly though I found the Dexcom units to be worse than the Abbott ones in some ways. The Libre 3 has a fall off where it starts reading fairly accurately and then progressively reads lower and lower over time in a linear fashion. The Dexcom G2 on the other hand would start off somewhat inaccurate which could be corrected using a couple of manual glucose readings, but then as time went by it would get progressively more inaccurate in a random direction and no amount of recalibration using manual glucose readings would fix that.

Dexcom claims the margin of error is 20% and will replace any unit that starts reading outside that range, but at least for me that was literally every unit at some point. Some of them that was right out of the box, some of them that was after 5 days, but it always happened and it was unpredictable. I find the predictable decline of the Abbott units preferable to the random inaccuracy of the Dexcom units. At least with the Libre 3 I can estimate how far off the reading is based on how long I’ve been using it, with the G2 it was a complete crap shoot on whether the reading was accurate or not at any given time.

It was my experience with the libre 2+ and the libre 3. I’ve never used the libre 1 so I couldn’t say if it applies to that one. That said the 2 and the 1 don’t really qualify as CGMs as you need to poll them for glucose readings and I believe they’re limited on polling frequency (something like once every 5 min) so they’re much closer to a traditional glucose monitor than they are a true CGM.

Abbott claims they’re good for 14 days of use but my experience is that they’re worthless after 5 to 10 days. The first 5 days of use they’re about as accurate as the Dexcom units (typically +/- 10%). Beyond that they start to read increasingly low (-50% to -80%) with readings often failing entirely by day 10 or 11. It wouldn’t be a problem if you could replace them after 5 days, but if you do that insurance pitches a fit and refuses to cover more of them because “they’re good for 14 days”.

Unfortunately I am severely allergic to the adhesive Dexcom uses that they claim is hypoallergenic.

WINE is basically an adapter. It exposes a Windows API and calls the equivalent Linux APIs when invoked. That’s less overhead than an emulator which models an entire virtual piece of hardware. When you run a Windows program through WINE your computer is actually executing the code of the program just like any Linux one it’s just calling WINE libraries instead of the Windows ones it normally would.

They would only be obliged to open source any extra code they added to the kernel. If whatever they add lives in user space then it can be closed source (that’s one of the key differences between GPL 2 and 3 and why Linus refuses to use GPL 3). That said the problem with Windows at this point isn’t really the kernel, it’s all the user space crap they built on top of it.

So, the Democrat candidate did better than the last election but still got absolutely annihilated. Woo. Yay. Happy Day.

This is such a non-news story for anyone but a DNC staffer it’s ridiculous. Maybe someone wants to breathlessly report on how much better or worse the green party candidate did last election as long as we’re talking about things that don’t actually make any difference.

If you “outperform by double digits” and still lose by a double digit margin that just highlights how terrible you are, and how fucked we all are. Had they managed to win that seat or even get things close enough that the loss was in question that would be a news story, this is just reading political tea leaves.

I don’t expect the current generative AI investors to make an RoI anytime soon. If at all.

Considering what they’ve been spending and the fact that not one of them has figured out how to actually make a profit off of generative AI, they’re going to be in the red for at least a decade if not forever. This is just the dotcom bubble all over again and in a few years 90% of these companies pushing AI heavily will be bankrupt. Only silver lining is there’s going to be an absolute fire sale on old used data center hardware at some point, not that that will make up for destroying the PC sector and our economies in general.

Well anything the Heritage Foundation is against is clearly a good idea, so Europe should be proud that on the whole they’re doing a good job. Keep pissing off the Heritage Foundation to keep winning.

Reading the quote it doesn’t sound like she was necessarily talking about Charlie Kirk. What was actually said was very ambiguous and there are a few different ways it could be interpreted only one of which would be in reference to Charlie being a grifter while the others wouldn’t. It’s certainly interesting and a decent chance it was a freudian slip, but the article title doesn’t really seem justified. It acts like this is some huge bombshell when it barely qualifies as a footnote.

like, minus all the plagarism and energy use issues.

Pretty sure that’s the primary thing everyone takes issue with. If you removed that most people wouldn’t have as big of a problem with it. There is still a social issue at play in terms of the potential damage generative AI can do to the job market with no real safety nets or long term consideration for the consequences to society and the economy, but most people aren’t even getting that far.

You would think that but there have been many examples of placeholder textures getting missed and ending up in shipped games.

Well, I guess on the bright side we might finally see the utter waste of resources that the TSA is eliminated. Guess this is one of those “a broken clock is right twice a day” situations. Not many wins to be had under this administration, but if this happened it would be one of the only positive things.

I was wondering how this fucked Ukraine over since comrade Trump was apparently supporting it, then I got to this part:

But they added that significant differences remained over the future status of the Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia.

So this is just the same deal Trump has been pushing all along that would see Ukraine surrender half its territory to Russia just with some extra fanfare added to it. Europe needs to ditch the US and do the same deal but with Ukraine kicking Russia out of all of its territory. Any deal that cedes territory to Russia isn’t a peace deal it’s a surrender.

It definitely wouldn’t. Outside of requiring an existing user to vouch for someone (which would drastically reduce the reach of the platform) or doing some kind of extensive interview over video (which would have serious privacy concerns and also massively discourage people from signing up) there aren’t really a lot of options for preventing bot accounts. Even then botters could hack legitimate accounts and use them as puppets.

For anyone who hasn’t read the article it wasn’t a bomb and isn’t enough nuclear material to make a bomb. You could maybe use it to make a dirty bomb, but there are almost certainly better options for that (E.G. scavenged radioactive sources from medical devices). It was a fairly standard radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) of the type used on many deep space probes and rarely on satellites as well as somewhat famously by the USSR in a lot of their remote installations. It’s not enough material to really make anything out of, but frustratingly it is enough to be very dangerous to anyone that found it and didn’t know what it was. There was a famous case some years back where some scavengers found one of the old Russian RTGs in an abandoned base and carried it off before they all became too sick from radiation poisoning and died.

The really disgusting part is that actually works (if you’re primarily selling to other corporations). Most of the most popular pieces of corporate software have the common trait that they do tons of stuff really poorly and nothing well. They get picked by the bean counters because the bean counters don’t care that it’s a fucking trash fire of a UI, they’re just looking at the list of other software they can remove because this new software does the same job significantly worse. That or they’re just mesmerized by the giant fucking bullet point list of “features”.

I’m convinced at this point they’re letting the vibe coders write the OS updates. It’s the only reasonable explanation for how they keep breaking core OS functionality that shouldn’t even be getting updates.