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Comment by patagurbon | Hacker News Reader

This is the Omnipod 5 when using the Android app as the controller. I received the email this morning.

This is indeed a pretty terrible bug. I'm hopeful the confirmation screen prevented any real harm from being done.

E: I can reproduce. It seems to happen around 1 in 10 entries for me.

  >I'm hopeful the confirmation screen prevented any real harm from being done.

I hope so too, but I doubt it.

Confirmation screens are notorious for becoming habituated and then ignored. Yes, even important ones.

https://alistapart.com/article/neveruseawarning/

Yep, when you use something a few times a day it's very easy to get interface blindness. I use a t.slim myself and catching something like .10 and 10 is going to be very, very easy to miss. Probably need a leading zero like 0.10 to make it stand out. And even then most the time I'm clicking the conformations to get on with my life and do something else.

Do you know what version of the app you have? I've not been able to reproduce it yet on 1.0.91 (Following the steps as I saw at https://twitter.com/Tims_Pants/status/1730515134731182490)

I'm very curious to see this in action. Are you able to get a video of it showing typing in the dose and showing the confirmation screen missing the decimal point?

Both the Omnipod and Dexcom apps prevent screen recording. Possibly for user privacy, but I'm suspicious of that. I don't really have a way to get a second video recorder at the moment.

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