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- Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors 1 day ago:
I’ve used Libre 2 for years, they work reliably. They will usually fail in the first hours of use, but otherwise work well for the 14 days.
Always keep a standard glucometer at hand, because these monitors can be affected by temperature and humidity.
- Comment on The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News 1 week ago:
Heck no. Last time I tried to make an account, someone had to invite you, or you had to prove yourself to them by showing your GitHub as if it was your CV.
Lurking is free, so I went to check what these pro hackers were posting and commenting: many links were already in HN, and the quality of comments was similar. No loss there.
- Comment on The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News 1 week ago:
Any alternative you could suggest? I migrated to HN from SlashDot many years ago, because the discussion was mature, and shitposting/jokes were frowned upon.
To this day I haven’t found something similar.
- Comment on Why do pro athelets get paid millions upon millions of dollars but will be taken off field for something minor? My coach always said walk it off or tough it out. How come its not the same in leagues? 1 week ago:
Basically, pro athletes cost the team dearly, but you didn’t cost your coach a cent.
- Comment on Why do pro athelets get paid millions upon millions of dollars but will be taken off field for something minor? My coach always said walk it off or tough it out. How come its not the same in leagues? 1 week ago:
Then poor Timmy finds out someone spray painted his beloved cybertruck, what a world.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 1 week ago:
All of them? Because it was an artery, those fuckers have no restraint.
- Comment on If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ? 2 weeks ago:
- But Diddlydee, I need to pay my mortgage tomorrow!
- You can go in person. stands and looks across the street The bank there seems to be still in the same place.
- Comment on What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say? 3 weeks ago:
MY GRATITUDE, FELLOW HUMAN.``` - Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 3 weeks ago:
Holy cow that’s a very real danger I hadn’t thought! The industry needs a new trend to reuse all this capacity they built, because AI will likely scale back as many startups fail to reach profit.
Renting your home computer might be the next trend, and it could be gratis at first so people get used to it. Why spy on users when you can actually own their computers?
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 weeks ago:
So the companies should not be trying to hide their use of AI, right? It’s a disclosure, not a penalty.
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 4 weeks ago:
I’d guess the one which seems that it will last more, since you can subscribe to communities of any other instance. You’ll only see a difference if you browse only local posts.
In my case I chose infosec.pub because I want to browse it locally if I want, but my subscribed communities include memes and webcomics for some light time wasters.
- Comment on Insulin 4 weeks ago:
I thought “crash your glucose instantly” would be understood as hypoglycemia, but English is not my native language.
- Comment on Insulin 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure an experienced medic in an emergency could work with it somehow, but for the rest of us living in civilization, insulin that has been outside their recommended temperature range is very dangerous.
Long-acting insulin has crystals that dissolve at body temperature over time, hence it can gradually release insulin over hours. If you break or dissolve those crystals by freezing/thawing/overwarming, the best scenario would be that it became fast-acting insulin, and it would crash your glucose instantly on injection of your usual dose. The worst scenario is that it no longer acts like insulin.
- Comment on How do you objectively tell if a parents "I love you" is actually sincere, if they actually care about you? Or if the words are lies and they don't actually care? 5 weeks ago:
May be both, but universally, actions speak louder than words.
- Comment on Is there a formalized ban appeal process for the fediverse? Do I just direct message a mod? 1 month ago:
Let’s say it’s a double-edged sword. It brings freedom, but encourages insulation and intolerance.
- Comment on Is there a formalized ban appeal process for the fediverse? Do I just direct message a mod? 1 month ago:
This is a disadvantage of the Fediverse: the owner of the instance dictates the rules, and the moderators are as prone to power trips as they are on Reddit.
Be glad you were banned from blahaj, it’s in the top instances of intolerance to group think defiance. If you manage to get unbanned, you’ll be always at risk of another impulsive ban.
Real life is hard enough to add gratuitous drama to it.
- Comment on How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ? 1 month ago:
I think you’d just make Uber Helicopter start sooner.
- Comment on Are platforms like reddit just "internet noise" and bots or just genuinely the darkest parts of humanity? 1 month ago:
Reddit has become a profit-driven cesspool, even more that it was before their IPO and the LLM craze.
It is still home to great communities, so don’t drink from the firehouse, google Reddit+interest and only visit those communities. Subscribe if they match what you need. Ignore the main feed, it’s a perennial garbage dump.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 1 month ago:
Okay, it’s superstition, of which religion is a variant. There’s a very thin line between having faith in the supernatural and worship.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 1 month ago:
Yup. Believing in higher beings from other dimension is just religion with different words. Only when the belief is based on fact and not faith can it not be religion.
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 1 month ago:
Okay Beavis, Butthead, nap time!
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 1 month ago:
What’s a few billion to a TRILLION company? That’s peanuts. Everything is fine fellow citizen.
- Comment on Fictional 2 months ago:
One light year is 9.4607379e+15 meters, so there’s a power of 10 that could give us a unit of length close to 94 cm. That would not be as arbitrary.
But fuck me if we discover the speed of light has not been constant along the history of the universe, the c would be an awful base for cosmic distance, or very long term science.
But don’t worry, humanity doesn’t look like it will exist long enough to do very long term science.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 2 months ago:
Holy cow, it’s a 70s franchise, but I misremembered, even though I watched dubs in the 80s! Technically it’s a 60s franchise because it was born in 1969.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 2 months ago:
I don’t know. Seeing how modern shows like Foundation, The Witcher, or Star Trek Discovery, to name a few, have gratuitously walked over their own canon, I can understand how the producers thought Velma was a good idea for a new Scooby Doo show.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 2 months ago:
It was never about Scooby Doo. IIRC, this was supposed to be an original show, but latching it to a successful 99s franchise must have looked like a sure money maker.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 2 months ago:
You ignoramus. This is what allows us artistic geniuses to freely unleash our gifts to the world, what we call “creative liberty”.
- Comment on snail lyfe 2 months ago:
The next question I’d expect from a little kid would be “why is your hair long?”.
And another why, and another, and another…
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 2 months ago:
We’re still talking about dancing, right?
- Comment on Fear their power 2 months ago:
If my species had 20K sexes, sex wouldn’t be an essential part of my identity. It would be like my fingerprints being part of my personality.