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It's the American PBMs that make their money on the difference between the list price and the price they sell it for. Higher list price means more profit

This was repeated over and over in the hearing. And apparently the regulation of PBMs (changed about a year ago) hasn't resulted in PBMs taking up cheaper drugs


An interesting article on this found thanks to your help with search keywords:

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/5-things-to-know-ab...


This article is almost unbelievable. This whole thing seems like an incredibly complex racket comparable to cryptocurrency securities fraud.

You mean the difference between wholesale price of the manufacturer and the negotiated discount by the PBM right? Your use of pronouns obfuscates who you're talking about.

Sigrok is awesome. The pulseview UI is pretty much perfect for configuring decoders

The only downside is the stability issues (fast crash to desktop). Happens pretty much every time I use it. Still the best tool of its kind


PulseView shouldn't be crashing a lot at all, honestly. Were you running the nightly or the 0.4.2 release? The 0.4.2 release is rather outdated, I'm working on making a new release soon to fix that.


I tried some different versions and ended building from source. Currently on commit ls from the 14th of march

The most consistently crashing behavior has been when trying to import or work with csv or vcd data (pure 0/1 data)


The code generation has been pretty good upstream for many years now. It's easy enough

The hardest part of adding full support for RISC-V is to support the hardware floating point ABI. It's incredibly complicated for likely no real world reason. It will likely require a ton of code still to make freepascal fully compliant

The software and ABI ecosystem of RISC-V is what made me personally lose my love for it. The ISA is great


> It's incredibly complicated for likely no real world reason

Can you explain or link to somewhere to read about this? Isn't psABI quite simple?


Sure. It's the section here https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-elf-psabi-doc/blob/ma...

It's that structs of two simple fields need to be passed in registers. And more specifically that this rule is relevant for mixed integer and floating point fields.

It's a very specific rule that requires a ton of code to implement compared to the integer calling convention. And again like the weird AMD64 convention likely invented to squeeze out a theoretical few cycles that never occur outside microbenchmarks


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