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gilgoomesh commented on Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows   medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/wglb
janalsncm · 19 days ago
For a disease which (to my knowledge) can’t be slowed down or reversed, I think it’s a fair question why we would want to detect Alzheimer’s. Maybe there are other reasons, but my suspicion is that we will be able to, and an easy detection method significantly widens the pool of subjects to study later on.

If it turns out that driving a Prius on Tuesdays slows down Alzheimer’s, a larger pool of subjects would allow us to figure that out.

gilgoomesh · 19 days ago
For 20-ish% of Alzheimer's patients, the Shingles vaccine may be a treatment. This has been suspected for a few years now but has received recent confirmation studies.

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/news/2025-11-18/promising-rese...

gilgoomesh commented on Google Public CA is down   status.pki.goog/incidents... · Posted by u/aloknnikhil
brikym · 25 days ago
I am too. But I just loaded up a new youtube page and it's completely white except for a few menu buttons.
gilgoomesh · 25 days ago
It seems to be back, now.
gilgoomesh commented on Launching the Handmade Software Foundation   handmade.network/blog/p/9... · Posted by u/DeathArrow
moogly · 2 months ago
gilgoomesh · 2 months ago
I read that but it doesn't define handmade. It gripes about large frameworks and rewriting in different languages but doesn't say what handmade is or how it addresses anything.
gilgoomesh commented on Launching the Handmade Software Foundation   handmade.network/blog/p/9... · Posted by u/DeathArrow
gilgoomesh · 2 months ago
Do they define "Handmade"? I couldn't find a definition.
gilgoomesh commented on Apple Creator Studio   apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/lemonlime227
bluesounddirect · 2 months ago
So can i use this to purge the liquid metal from MacOS 26 ?
gilgoomesh · 2 months ago
You got Liquid Metal? I'm stuck with Liquid Glass :-(
gilgoomesh commented on Apple picks Gemini to power Siri   cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple... · Posted by u/stygiansonic
robotresearcher · 2 months ago
For some context with numbers, in mid-2024 Apple publicly described 3B parameter foundation models. Gemini 3 Pro is about 1T today.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/apple-intelligenc...

gilgoomesh · 2 months ago
That 3B model is a local model that eventually got built into macOS 26. Gemini 3 Pro is a frontier model (cloud). They're very different things.
gilgoomesh commented on Approachable Swift Concurrency   fuckingapproachableswiftc... · Posted by u/wrxd
astrange · 2 months ago
> The design goal of structured concurrency is to have a safe way of using all available CPU cores on the device/computer.

That's parallelism. Concurrency is mostly about hiding latency from I/O operations like network tasks.

gilgoomesh · 2 months ago
Network operations are "asynchrony". Together with parallelism, they are both kinds of concurrency and Swift concurrency handles both.

Swift's "async let" is parallelism. As are Task groups.

gilgoomesh commented on How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)   bbc.com/culture/article/2... · Posted by u/1659447091
gilgoomesh · 3 months ago
> Charlie Brown may have been as popular as any character in all of literature

Was he? Maybe this is true inside the US but from outside the US, I've always viewed the character as a peculiarly American artefact – something I was aware of but never really read or watched. This seemed to be reinforced by most major Charlie Brown titles seemingly tied to other American customs like Halloween and baseball.

gilgoomesh commented on Apple reports fourth quarter results   apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
perfmode · 4 months ago
Declining Mac sales aren’t concerning because Macs are high quality. People can skip generations and use their M1s for years.
gilgoomesh · 4 months ago
Mac sales are up 12%, year over year. It's Apple's fastest growing hardware category. They're just going to be lower next month (year over year), due to the release cycles being different.
gilgoomesh commented on Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux   tomshardware.com/software... · Posted by u/jamesgill
seabombs · 4 months ago
Proton/Wine is so good these days. Rarely have I had an issue running a game in the last 3 or 4 years. Sometimes EA/Ubisoft games that have their own special launchers don't work immediately, but ProtonDB and the Proton GitHub issues are great resources to get them going.

I remember when Cyberpunk 2077 came out it didn't work at first, but the Proton and Glorious Egg Roll devs got it running within a few days. Legends.

Even many games that support native linux run better under wine.

gilgoomesh · 4 months ago
> Even many games that support native linux run better under wine.

The same is often true on macOS, too – running games through CrossOver is often better than the native port. The reality is that there simply aren't enough professional game devs on Linux and macOS platforms to polish that last 20% and make all the difference.

u/gilgoomesh

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