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These open source projects, written by people who actually have Type 1 are light years ahead of doing what I want a closed loop system to actually do. The medtronic 670 is so unusable. I can't say enough good things about OpenAPS AAPS (android) and Loop(iphone). For those living in the US, we are forced to use a very old medtronic pump because it's the only way with a programatic means to control the pump's basal and bolus actions.

I view this is interesting research about medicine that has nearly zero usefulness for actually treating diabetes in humans. Since this is a technical audience, if you're diabetic I can't speak highly enough of the opensource efforts combining a cgms (like a dexcom) with a pump and then software running on android or iphon or raspberry pi to create a "feedback loop" to slowly but usefully bring blood sugar back to desired range. For more see: For an overview https://diyps.org/2017/08/09/what-you-should-know-about-clos... iPhone version call Loop https://loopkit.github.io/loopdocs/ raspberry pi https://openaps.org/

Americans hate hate hate public transit. If you are “successful”, you show it by having a car. Transit stations are almost always in the worst location, because a good location has such high land value it’s financially impossible to justify just a public transit station.

Also, Unlike japan where stations can also be commercial spaces resulting in both revenue and making the transit location super popular, in the us transit locations of course have to be public land and government can’t be seen profitable leasing out said land (unless it’s for a sports team :p)

While appreciate this catalog of options this is a lengthy article about different visualization libraries and there are no actual images of what they look like.

It sounds as if a switch was replaced so network connectivity was lost for 40 seconds (a partition if you will). The network recovered but during the 40 seconds a lot of "things" had to queued and processed and things cascaded out of control. Whenever people talk about CAP they seem to spend time thinking about behavior when there is a partition, and that's neat an all, but the real challenging parts come when the partition is healed, and people don't seem to spend enough time thinking about that mode of execution.

Aside a small number of exceptions US citizens hate using public transit themselves. This is reinforced by how public transit stations are always on the most undesirable real estate. If you’re successful you have a car, only the poor/unsuccessful/unusual don’t have 1 or more cars in their household.

No, I don't think they will. Ever.

I think there are elements of the video game field that will never change - e.g. Riot games is "edgy", or everyone wants the glamour of working in video games, so never ending crunch will always be the schedule.

As a people style thing I’ve encountered two broad types of engineers - the intuitive types, and the detail types. Neither type is wrong but it’s a different set of desires and interests. The detail type wants to ponder every corner case and every possible use (that the specific engineer cares about). The intuitive type can find this infuriating. They’d rather just build it and learn as they go. They have aesthetic tastes and feelings about different layers and they just go with their gut. I’ve seen both types be very effective. An intuitive type with good taste Will just have a sense of what to build and roughly why, but with many specifics left open. A detail type who is good can get to the neatest parts of a problem(maybe even rephrase the problem a bit differently) and solve it well, so well that it builds a foundation that everything else fits into easilt and with less grief. I think for both types a key aspect is being curious about the right things. Everyone has a different list of things they find interesting and other things they find to be grunt work and/or limiting as you said. Being aware of your own list of these is useful. Adding things to the list that the industry will hire you for could be called career management

I think it's also a cultural thing. Americans do _not_ like public transit. They'll tolerate it maybe (though they will complain about how taxes are too high, the transit itself costs too much, and how it's inconvenient).

If you are successful, if you're happy, you own a car and you drive. As a example, if you've lived in LA just imagine how humorous it would be if a successful person you meet at a party or dinner said "yup, I took the bus to get here".

Only the low income and undesirables are forced into using public transit. So station locations, and transportation that feeds into the public network will always be second or third tier.

In Japan they have the ridership and society generally thinks good thoughts about their public transit.

You can almost feel the author’s desire to really condem the magic leap hardware and was almost disappointed to find an enjoyable AR experience

I did like the very real comment “I guess you find what works and move from there”

I think we might have a different definition of "Few pros do ... color work.. on Linux". Have you worked at Sony, Company 3, Dreamworks, Lucasfilm, Pixar, or Deluxe?

The account cramforce has locked comments on the github page reporting this bug

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/6210

Graphviz is fantastic. I'm pretty sure you can still read your .dot files into OmniGraffle (for when you need to add a lot of color and annotations). I also think its power comes from being to be turned into a callable library useful in several other languages (python). Also I can't imagine using a service that hosts my private data in order to build a layout... but maybe that's just me.

Two other alternatives: The best one for network-bounce / sequence diagrams.. great for when you need to explain all the bounces in your mulit-tiered web app https://www.websequencediagrams.com/ and http://sverweij.github.io/mscgen_js/

Looking at the map I suspect it's still the case a good many of the these cables end up trunking into the same building / using the same power and can be described as very much being in a "shared risk group".

You think you're buying a backup link resilience and you're paying lots of money to a different carrier, but one proverbial backhoe or one block looses power and oops you end up with a network partition.

Agree fully. Personal projects let you experiment, they let you try things out to see just how hard or easy building that set of features you were contemplating is.

Now, if you personal project is intended as a gateway to your bootstrapping of commercial venture you _must_ make completely different choices in what/how you build (lean, and minimum useful/viable project) tec.

Are other astronomers confirming the origin of these FRBs? There's this example, where an unexplained signal turned out to be caused by a microwave oven: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-ov...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peryton_(astronomy)

Why not have a real discussion about the environmental differences that influence interests and expectations. American society has very clear gender roles and expectations. Why are girls by age 6 conditioned to think "math is hard". Why are men encouraged to "crush it" or "kill it" and promoted if they do so at work, and yet if a women took a similar approach she would be criticized for being too pushy or bitchy.

I'm reading this and I just can't help but laugh. Let's say a company decides to do a "stay working here interview" and then the developer points out the things they would like to work on and the ideas they want to develop - things that they are interested in and excited. These ideas and work projects are going to be prevented because the organizational flaws are inherent in the company and pretty much unsolvable... if the company wasn't structurally awful they would have found a way to make the projects happen.

There's a lot doctors just don't know.

You should always be your own advocate, and you should always consider the treatment plan suggested by your doctor and ask questions. Note, please understand I _not_ telling you to be a dick. Doctors have a tough time of it and are expected to give "solutions" that make the patient happy. However, I say prescribed treatments should have an expected range of observable effect(s). Also treatments almost always have additional side effects. Ask about both of these.

Others have already said, but doctors can and do get things wrong.

I broke a collar bone. In the course of recovery I've seen three different physical therapists and while their suggestions overlapped some, there was a wide range of recommended exercises and stretches. One of them was great and super effective, one was meh, and one was down right useless.

But after a short while the problems go away because, well source safe means you'll never have access to those files again and sourcesafe itself will become unusable solving both problems (someday you'll have to buy a new computer due to OS rot, but that's expected)

It appears the emotional power of "money" coincidences with zealotry. It must be exciting to have your money tied into something that could split. If the split does happen and both forks keep running won't the world economy of bitcoins simply doubled? I assume someone will provide an exchange to move to/from bitcoin-zeal vs. segwit2

Think about how much budget and time and resource and nasa-career-path risk it would take for a manager at Nasa to ask for taking on a restoration project like this. Not going to happen.

Better images of the actual list described: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4145360/400-year-old...

Nice writeup. I think the people who are good at twitch streaming are charismatic and/or funny. Being entertaining is awesome, but isn't necessarily the same as being good at reasoning through problems or engineering good software.

As a watcher of such streams, be they game session I wonder how people don't see something and go crazy because they can't actively participate - the author does mention that some people will have contributed pull requests by the end of the session. :)

This looks most promising. I've always longed for an online collaborative version of OMNI graffle (they have such nice gradients and document themes and their UX almost always does what you want).

The details aren't completely spelled out here but SGX looks to be an interesting extension of the idea of "virtual machine per block of code" https://software.intel.com/en-us/sgx

It appears a runtime per-site-per-use license is required though.

When intel had the floating point division hardware bug they recalled chips. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

I wonder if intel will do something like that again or if the industry as a whole is more tolerant of unreliable / buggy behavior and will just live with it. Examples of Apple just telling people that the poor reception strength was their own fault / changing software to hide problems / etc.

The slide deck contains words like ideate... I wonder if these slides will _inspire_ VCs in the bay area and/or the show Silicon Valley... as I understand it they did raise a lot of capital and even if they are forced to give 1/2 of back that's a pretty good return for not doing any actual work.

Does anyone remember CygnusEd? To this day nothing I use scrolled as nice as that text editor did. Such fluid scrolling. Sigh.