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jawngee··on Radical diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, new study shows
Yes, being insulin dependent means you would require taking insulin like a type 1.

Only a doctor can tell you if you need to go that route though. I'm assuming they make that decision based on your HbA1c being high or going higher despite being on a metformin, diet and exercise regimen.

You want to avoid this.

As a very tired parent of a type 1 diabetic I beg you to do whatever you can about your situation. You are lucky to have type 2 because it's something you can do something about. You have choices. You should exercise those choices.

jawngee··on Radical diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, new study shows
Amen to this.

I'm a parent of a T1D and if I had a dollar for every time I've heard "My cousin cured his diabetes with diet!" I'd be a very rich man.

Or, and this may sound petty, but listening to someone equate their struggles as a type 2 with the struggle of a type 1 makes my blood boil. I would gladly swap my son's type 1 for type 2 any day of the week.

jawngee··on Radical diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, new study shows
Type 1 is an auto-immune disease. Type 2 is not and cannot become type 1, though you might become insulin dependent at some point.
jawngee··on Books I read this year
As someone who has been living in Vietnam for the last 7+ years, my bullshit meter is pegged to maximum.
jawngee··on Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code
Came to say the same thing. DF and DF 2 are still some of the best multiplayer experiences I've had.
jawngee··on Acid reflux drug linked to more than doubled risk of stomach cancer
Same story here. Aspirating bile is the worst, that awful soap taste, the burning when breathing.

For me, cutting gluten and fried foods out of my diet entirely minimized my stomach woes. The gluten thing came about after I was tested for antibodies when my son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. So, lucky, not lucky I guess.

jawngee··on Spaces: Scalable Object Storage on DigitalOcean
A lot of storage services have S3 compatible APIs. Minio, Google Cloud Storage (when in interop mode) also can be accessed with S3 libraries/SDKs (you have to change the endpoint for it to work).

And they aren't 100% compatible. I believe that DO doesn't support headObject, bucketExists and creating presigned upload URLs.

jawngee··on The Future of HHVM
Twig, Smarty, Blade
jawngee··on Qantas wants to fly from Sydney to New York or London nonstop
No, I had just had a kid and was sleep deprived for the two days leading up to the flight. Once I fall asleep, I can sleep through anything.
jawngee··on Qantas wants to fly from Sydney to New York or London nonstop
I got a DVT on a flight from Saigon -> NYC. Fell asleep for 9 hours with my leg folded under me.

DVT is gone now, but still dealing with the repercussions. I ended up getting Schamberg's disease as a side effect of Xarelto, so both of my legs look like they're covered in a rash. I have some vascular inefficiency issues in my left leg that become prominent if I sit for more than 30 minutes.

Good times /s

jawngee··on Where Is Nokia Now?
Hmm. First phone I loved is a toss up between the Treo 600 and the Startac, though leaning mostly towards the Treo. I still miss that keyboard.
jawngee··on ARKit
ARToolKit isn't markerless like ARKit though.
jawngee··on Ask HN: What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?
Vietnamese dong?
jawngee··on My Hackintosh Hardware Spec
I use an orico BT-104 dongle and have working handoff, iMessage, etc. Wasn't a hassle at all, just plugged it in.

iMessage was actually a bit more work because you need to generate a "serial" for your clover config, otherwise it'll generate a new one on every boot.

jawngee··on Bangkok plans to ban all street food by year′s end
Vietnam is doing a scaled down version of this in Saigon.

They've been clearing the sidewalks in District 1 for a few months. Not only booting street vendors but sometimes even ripping out construction that was built on top of the sidewalks.

We call it Vinapore, Vietnam's sad attempt at becoming Singapore II.

jawngee··on PHP 7 Virtual Machine
https://github.com/groue/GRMustache

https://github.com/groue/GRMustache.swift

jawngee··on What the Hackintosh community wants in the new modular Mac Pro
I use mine every day for work.

If you build using Clover only, you can upgrade as soon as Nvidia releases new web drivers (for point updates) straight through the App Store.

The only issue is SceneKit based apps.

jawngee··on What the Hackintosh community wants in the new modular Mac Pro
My main desktop is a hackintosh.

It took maybe an afternoon to build, and then a few more hours to get running. It's been running solid ever since.

Everything works (thunderbolt 3, usb 3, sound, airdrop, iMessage, handoff, etc) except you can't use apps that use SceneKit. So iBooks, Xcode instruments and SceneKit editor don't work. You can get them to work, by using Apple's drivers, but its a pita.

Some people claim the new nvidia pascal drivers work for SceneKit, but I've not upgraded to a 1080 yet so I can't confirm.

This is my build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/gwV6qk

jawngee··on High prevalence of diabetes among people exposed to organophosphates in India
Side note, gluten intolerance and diabetes type 1 often go hand in hand. When my kid was diagnosed, they tested both of us for a whole bunch of things. I came back gluten intolerant and he, luckily, did not. Celiac is another thing that often coexists with T1D.
jawngee··on The TSA's Selective Laptop Ban
Hmm. I live in Vietnam and fly out of country once or twice a month and I've never been asked to take an iPad out of my bag.

I fly SGP, SGN, BKK, TPE. SGN did have me remove my shoes last time I flew though, which was a first.

jawngee··on What is Instacart really charging? the breakdown
There's a character limit for submission titles.
jawngee··on Xiaomi's global vice president Hugo Barra is leaving the company
I have a Mi 5s Plus. It's pretty good build quality, screen is nice, camera not so much.

MIUI is pretty good too. I'm not an Android user though, so my experience is somewhat limited with regards to what else is out there.

jawngee··on Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X
I've done the same and it's a great way to go. If you stick with known components in known configurations, it's easy to get working. Relatively anyways.
jawngee··on How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists
It's not competitive at all to a hackintosh.

I have an i7 overclocked to 4.6 GHz, 64GB of RAM, 6GB GPU and it was almost $1400 cheaper. It took maybe a day and a half to put together (the last PC I put together out of parts was a pentium). Everything works, including Thunderbolt 3.

It's also way better looking, imho.

jawngee··on Is Sugar Killing Us?
Because it is related to more than diet. There is a ton of literature on all of the different factors that induce insulin resistance (assuming you are talking about type 2). Diet, lack of exercise, genes, pollution, stress, chronic inflammation, the list goes on.

And there isn't a type to look like. The idea that only obese people have type 2 is ignorant at best.

Consider yourself lucky you have type 2, you can control it very easily if you choose to do so. I would gladly swap my son't type 1 for type 2 any day of the week.

jawngee··on UpCloud: Better than digital ocean?
This feels spam-ish.

No datacenters on either coast is a deal breaker.

jawngee··on Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’

    Could diabetes be analogous to Parkinson's? Diabetics 
    generally have lost the ability to process carbs (usually 
    by eating too many);
No.

I'm assuming you are talking about type 2, which has nothing to do with the ability to process carbs but instead resistance to insulin. This is caused by so many different factors like genes, medications, stress, smoking, high intake of certain types of fats, lack of exercise, white rice, pollution, etc.

You can't be talking about type 1 because you'd be absurdly wrong if you were.

Source: parent of type 1 diabetic

jawngee··on Ask HN: Insultingly Bad Bonus, Bay Area, Cause for Concern?
I think you are commenting from your non-throwaway account.
jawngee··on Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM
No problem here, though I haven't submitted anything to the store, but I can't imagine its an issue.

The only thing that isn't working is handoff, but you can get a card that enables that.

jawngee··on Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM
This is why I built a hackintosh last week. 64GB, 4.5ghz OC, 6GB CPU. I'll keep trudging along with my 2012 MBP when I travel, but considering I work from home 80% of the time it was more important to optimize that time.

FWIW, building one is far easier than it used to be. Everything is working great, took me about an afternoon to get it there. Watching Photoshop open as quickly as Sublime text will never get boring.

Edit: This is my build if anyone is interested, http://pcpartpicker.com/list/gwV6qk

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