Its been a while since I worked with MATLAB and others. Whats up with GNU Octave these days? IIRC thats what folks were championing 10 years ago when anyone was talking about the problems with MATLAB.
I sometimes run my MATLAB code under Octave (generally needs some minor tweaks to catch up with a few new features) and while I don't hit bugs, I find it is much slower.
I think the MATLAB JIT compiler is probably difficult to match.
Ah, okay yeah that would be really good. It’s hard to find time to hang out with a native speaker if you aren’t already in that country. Maybe this is already possible with ChatGPT?
It would be worth quite a bit, but it would have to be comparable to either rogaine or hair transplant surgery. Hairline surgery isn't worth the money for most men, but they wouldn't even blink paying that much for cancer treatment. If it were comparable to rogaine in price it wouldn't be as much of a cash cow since they're making less per sale and maybe making fewer sales because it cures the problem. And if I remember correctly, we only have finasteride/minoxidil for hair loss because they were originally used for high blood pressure
I am bald, not totally but enough to shave my head. I would love to have simple solution for this problem. And I would pay gladly a lot of money if this would be a one time thing. Or let's say every coule of years. But I have seen friend having his hair transplanted, it is not much hair in one sitting. And after one year of growing that hair, for me it is like meh, I wouldn't bother. He does not take pills as far as I know. To have a good enough hair, you need to have couple of very unpleasant transplantations and take pills with side effects for a long time(maybe for ever).
For me it is not worth the hustle at all. So while I passively lurk for better treatment I shave my head 2 times a week and don't waste energy on thinking what if. I know some people have big mental problems considering hairloss. I am glad I can grow a beard and I am tall, so it does not make me look bad. It is just a different look. There is a lot of baldness acceptance videos going on during this pandemic, for example bald caffe on youtube. I think it can help a lot of people deal with issues. So, not a problem of money but it is a hustle to get it done right.
The few I've read don't hint at much money being thrown at the problem. Books often start by "we know very few about hairs".. not "we have all the data anyone would ever want but the problem is really hard to solve".
Something gives me the feeling someone would have cured cancer/hiv/starvation/mental illness like 50 years ago if it actually caused health problems for people.
This has nothing to do with your original assertion that the lack of cures for male pattern baldness is due to a lack of health problems associated with the condition and not because it remains an intractable problem with hack treatments that have only recently become moderately suitable.
I don't know if this was clear to you, but the link was no associated health problems -> less funding for research -> no available cure. I'm sure hairline surgery would be a lot more popular and people wouldn't balk at the cost nearly as much if the surgery added 20 years to your lifespan
This entire argument hinges on the assumption that male pattern baldness is curable with 50 year old technology. If someone could prove that then they could develop a treatment with 50 year old technology.
What's far more likely is that the 'cure' for baldness will be the merger 21st century technologies including tissue engineering and genetic modification to make perfect and long lasting hair follicles for automated transplantation.
The argument you're presenting is akin to saying that people in the 15th century didn't go to the moon because there wasn't an economic purpose for doing it and not because there is no way to go to the moon with craft made of wood and iron.
I switched to Bitwig, which has a native version for Linux. The workflow is very similar to Ableton Live, with a little bit of extra configuration. As for gaming, it's a case-by-case situation, but Valve Proton is good enough for 80% of the games I like.
