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It doesn’t make much sense as 20 liters is 2000 times 10 ml, also.

He doesn’t actually have the authority to rename the department. That would be up to Congress.

that style of game came and went fairly quickly, for good reasons.

The whole upgrade to Windows 11 was forced on me by Microsoft, basically using trickery. I opened windows update and it said there were some updates… Did not make it clear at all that it would be taking my system from Windows 10 to 11. I thought it was just installing security updates. I would’ve had to change it anyway when 10 support ended, but I still had about four months and wanted to wait.

Pretty interesting. I knew someone years ago who made batches of borosilicate glass with this stuff. It’s difficult to work, unfortunately. The glow effect fades if you work it too much. I still have a bunch of his glow glass.

remove the p/ at the end and it works.

Many early 80s 8-bit console games worked this way. I'm thinking of games like Transbot for the Sega Master System. There are a few different levels, with various enemy configurations and scenery, but it has no ending and goes on forever without any real changes.

We could, I guess, with some biochemical wizardy. Insulin does more than just reduce blood glucose, though. It allows the glucose to enter muscle and brain cells to be used for energy. People with Type 1 need just as many carbs and as much energy as other people, of course, it's just that their body can't use it properly. Insulin does have the drawback of being a fat storage hormone though. Such a device sure would be great for people who indulge in too many carbs!

I've heard that AAPS is more sophisticated. I'm definitely not too happy with the Tandem system. Some people say they get better levels with Control IQ, but I don't. The T:Slim does have the ability to set basal rates for different times of day, and takes as input your insulin to carb ratio, correction ratio, weight, and tracks IoB. I don't think the insulin on board algo is very good... it starts decreasing before I see any effect on my glucose, and dissipates quicker than I expect. They base it on insulin lasting 5 hours, I think, but it seems to calculate less time. It's not a 'learning' algorithm either afaik.

The lack of carbs is perhaps the worst for me. Even if I track then on the Dexcom app, it doesn't use them. The automatic boluses are often wrong. When I had it anywhere near my real ratio, it would 'predict' I was going over 160 and automatically dose me. So, say I was at 85, and had 15 grams of potato chips. My glucose would rise quickly and as it went over 125, 140, the system would predict it was going up past 160 - or who knows, since it doesn't know how many carbs I ate. So then it would dose me with say, 1.1 units, which was enough to take my glucose -back to 85-. That sent me in loops a couple of times... 85, eat, up to 145, automatic bolus, back to 85, eat, up to 145 - very annoying when it happened at night. I had to set my carb ratio so high that the automatic boluses are now insignificant amounts like .16 units. It also doesn't notify you on your phone about automatic boluses, which has caused me major problems when I'd also manually correct. The automatic basal reduction (Basal IQ) is useful though.

Anyhow, I'd love to try AAPS but I don't have an Android phone. I also used to follow someone on Twitter who was developing his own software that he said removed the need to pre-bolus at all. Not sure about the details though.

That’s already the concept of insulin pumps. The problem currently is that subcutaneous insulin takes too long to work to be very precise, and also, pumps don’t have a concept of carb intake. They try to predict whether automatic doses are need based on trends. Also, typical blood glucose for a non-diabetic person is 85 mg/dL. This is fairly close to the line of hypoglycemia, which is under 70, so automated pumps aim to keep glucose somewhat higher. For the Tandem T:Slim, it attempts to maintain 110, for instance. I am not familiar with most of the drugs listed there but I suspect their action would be far too slow to work very well in that regard.

FB has an entire team of very well paid people whose entire job is to tweak this algorithm. Presenting relevant content is the whole concept. I suspect where it goes wrong is chasing “engagement” at all costs despite whether it’s emotionally pleasant to the viewer. FB doesn’t care if I actually like the content they present - just whether it keeps me on the site longer. That is, I believe, a poor choice since, at least in my case, it led me to stop using their service.

They were people I was connected to as part of my line of trade.

Same here. There was nothing I could do to get my feed to not be full of provocatively insulting and irritating political posts. I’d unfollow, unfriend, block, say “show me less of this” and so on. But when I’d unfriend some person, very next thing on my feed would be political content I didn’t like from some totally random person on my friend list who I’d never interacted with. Meanwhile I’d notice that people I actually knew in person had life events I’d want to know about - got married, took a nice vacation, had children even, and FB had never showed me stuff like that! So I just stopped using it entirely. Then when I went back after a few years, the site demanded my driver’s license. So guess I will just never sign in again.

It seems rather inefficient since most users will only have one model of toothbrush.

Blockbuster does still exist and the trademarks are owned by Dish Network. The sole remaining franchisee is in Bend, Oregon.

I always heard those called “sploofs”. Also, exhaling through dryer sheets and filling a room with that fragrance is a pretty horrific idea. It also doesn’t really work… parents or whoever would come in and be uh, why does the room smell like a ton of dryer sheets?

Ordering items from the system where you are buying products from a local Walmart store for pickup or delivery works very well. I find their Amazon-style marketplace chaotic, high priced and fairly useless, though.

Yep. I check out Instagram and reddit primarily on my desktop. I don’t have apps for any of that on my phone for many reasons, including privacy.

It seems to agree with your comment, though not sure what they intended.

I switched back and forth for a few generations and came to the opposite conclusion. I bought a Samsung phone because I thought it had a better camera than the matching generation of iPhones. Turned out the camera app itself was inferior and I didn’t like the processing of the photos. I also hated the duplicate Samsung/Google apps and that it forced horrific things like having a Facebook app and other carrier-installed things onto my phone.

You can disable Siri entirely, as far as the voice interface.

I had a Galaxy with the curved glass on the side of the screen. It did absolutely nothing useful for me at all, and then, surprise, ended up getting cracked on the curved edge.

I wish I had the Logo and BASIC programs I wrote for the c64 in the early 80s. I still have the disks, so there's vague hope. Even more, I'd love the animations and images I made on the Amiga later in the decade, but that's more unlikely.

Why do people not have to do anything remotely like that for alcohol? It’s almost a cliche of course, but worth noting in this context since alcohol is addictive, destructive to physical and mental health, and commonly provokes violent and antisocial behavior.

It appears the substitution only affected the text of the link, not the destination.

Perhaps worse, in the places I’ve lived the main communications from emergency services and law enforcement are posted on Twitter.

They are mentioned many times in the article. Powernext and Bluenext.

There is something called reactive hypoglycemia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_hypoglycemia

It can occur for various reasons. Personally, I was developing adult onset type 1 (LADA) for a couple of years before I was diagnosed and I had all sorts of effects. While it was of course mainly effects of chronic hyperglycemia and shortage of insulin, I also had some episodes of hypoglycemia. Now that I’m on insulin, I’m very familiar with hypoglycemia resulting from an imbalance of exogenous insulin and carbohydrates. However, I looked back and realized this happened to me a few times before I was on insulin. I recall waking up a few times at night, sweating and shaking, and having a strong urge to consume food. I’d drink some juice or eat chips, feel better in 20-30 minutes and go back to sleep. This occurred after drinking alcohol, which makes sense as alcohol intensifies the effect of insulin and also prevents your body from releasing chemicals which raise your blood glucose level. I didn’t think much about it at the time but now I can see it was related to T1 onset.

My understanding is that essentially the body’s systems which regulate blood glucose are disrupted. This happens a with type 1 in general - not only problems with the system that produces and releases insulin to lower blood glucose by allowing it into cells, but also the part that does the opposite and release glucose to raise blood glucose levels. Sometimes the glucose-raising system doesn’t work at all while other times it’s inappropriately in overdrive. The same is true for the insulin releasing/glucose lowering system as it fails.

Unfortunately, like BPA, they will likely replace it with something just as harmful but less tested, since chemical regulations in the US work on a blacklist and not a whitelist.

There is a variety of habanero developed in Oregon that look just like a regular one but have almost no heat. Unfortunately they don’t have the same fruity flavor or tartness as typical habaneros, or really much flavor at all.