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New comment by vlabakje90 in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

vlabakje90 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:21:39 +0000

That overlooks the 27 million uninsured Americans. Uninsured cancer patients are more likely to be diagnosed at a late stage, less likely to receive treatment, and have substantially higher mortality than insured patients.[1] They also have worse survival, even after accounting for cancer stage.[2] So excellent U.S. outcomes among those who access care don't rule out preventable deaths caused by barriers to accessing it.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25092774/ [2] https://doi.org/10.3322/caac.21732

New comment by vlabakje90 in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

vlabakje90 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:48:21 +0000

And neither are in the Western hemisphere.

New comment by vlabakje90 in "OpenTrafficMap"

vlabakje90 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:52:23 +0000

OpenStreetMap has traffic lights (at least in my municipality in the Netherlands) so it might be usable for this purpose.

Also, https://routeplanner.fietsersbond.nl/ has options for different route types including an option to avoid traffic lights if a reasonable alternative is available.

New comment by vlabakje90 in "Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model"

vlabakje90 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:24:21 +0000

I think this is simply a result of what's in the Claude system prompt.

> If the person becomes abusive over the course of a conversation, Claude avoids becoming increasingly submissive in response.

See: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-pro...

New comment by vlabakje90 in "Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm"

vlabakje90 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:26:58 +0000

You'll enjoy this one:

“Parachute Use to Prevent Death and Major Trauma When Jumping from Aircraft: Randomized Controlled Trial.” BMJ, vol. 363, 2018, k5094. https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094

New comment by vlabakje90 in "A plastic made from milk that vanishes in 13 weeks"

vlabakje90 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:36:56 +0000

The first documented use of the word coconut milk in English dates from 1698 ( Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 20, page 333) and the use of almond milk goes quite a bit further back, to at least 1390 (The Forme of Cury).

New comment by vlabakje90 in "AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data"

vlabakje90 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:03:58 +0000

They absolutely can. Millions of people can recite the Quran verbatim, word for word. That's 77797 words. There is even a title for those people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafiz_(Quran)

It's not far fetched to think that people could recite books just like an LLM. I don't know why they'd want to, but that's neither here nor there.

New comment by vlabakje90 in "OLED, Not for Me"

vlabakje90 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 06:15:56 +0000

Others can fix it too and they have. See:

https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype

https://github.com/CoolOppo/GDI-PlusPlus

I use MacType and it works really well. You can tune many more things than with ClearType.

New comment by vlabakje90 in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

vlabakje90 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:24:35 +0000

Someone managed to boot a machine from a file system on Google Drive.

https://ersei.net/en/blog/fuse-root

New comment by vlabakje90 in "Copenhagenize Index 2025: The Global Ranking of Bicycle-Friendly Cities"

vlabakje90 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 16:43:36 +0000

Is was like that in the Netherlands about a week ago. It really doesn't make a difference.

New comment by vlabakje90 in "ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones"

vlabakje90 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:11:17 +0000

Al Zawahiri's Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner argued that spectacular attacks should provoke U.S. overreach, bleed it economically, and expose its weakness. That was published in 2001. After 9/11, but only by two months.

New comment by vlabakje90 in "Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation"

vlabakje90 — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:16:40 +0000

According to the specifications the max power draw is 1650W. All of that is converted into heat so it's like a small space heater.

New comment by vlabakje90 in "In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip"

vlabakje90 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:05:11 +0000

It thought it was an interesting analogy, so I looked up the size of a typical sugar crystal. It's between 450 and 600 microns. So these chips are 3 to 4 times smaller than that even.

New comment by vlabakje90 in "Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack"

vlabakje90 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:20:51 +0000

Going by the definition given in the wiki you’ve linked, a Sybil attack is about creating many fake identities to gain disproportionate influence in a network. A 51% attack in blockchain terms is specifically about controlling the majority of the network’s mining/staking power to override consensus.

So I'd say they're not exactly the same.

New comment by vlabakje90 in "BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia"

vlabakje90 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 06:52:54 +0000

And who would want to save money, right?

New comment by vlabakje90 in "We fine-tuned Llama and got 4.2x Sonnet 3.5 accuracy for code generation"

vlabakje90 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:49:40 +0000

Chain of Thought. When I see people using abbreviations like this I sometimes jokingly wonder what they do with all this time they're saving.

New comment by vlabakje90 in "Does Your Code Pass the Turkey Test? (2008)"

vlabakje90 — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 08:40:29 +0000

Not every other country in the world only uses ASCII, Ivory Coast is officially called Republic of Côte d'Ivoire.

New comment by vlabakje90 in "A “meta-optics” camera that is the size of a grain of salt"

vlabakje90 — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:44:17 +0000

The cameras themselves might not, but in order to get a decent picture you will need to apply demosaicing and gamma correction in software at the very least, even with high end cameras.

New comment by vlabakje90 in "Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison"

vlabakje90 — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 15:01:12 +0000

100mg psilocybin is several times a heroic dose, but 100ug is far below a microdose. Do you mean 100mg of dried mushrooms?

New comment by vlabakje90 in "Hack GPON – how to access, change and edit fibre ONTs"

vlabakje90 — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 06:50:08 +0000

Mandatory in the Netherlands, since last year.