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pneumatic1··on Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately
Can you say more about the plastic left behind? Polyurethane coating on the cannula?
pneumatic1··on Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately
Not diabetic myself but managing my little kids T1. If we could go from one poke every 10 days to 0 pokes, I am all in. Skeptical of the accuracy as well though especially for someone who is too young to fully participate and not fully hypoglycemic aware.
pneumatic1··on Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately
https://www.biocentury.com/article/653947/science-spotlight-...

NNC2215 explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVTS_J7Xmxs

pneumatic1··on Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
I understand the entire comment and it literally could not be about anything other than managing diabetes.
pneumatic1··on The case for not sanitising fairy tales
My 4 year old and I just finished Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He sometimes got a little nervous when the other kids disappeared, but he loved the story. Charlies virtue was so obvious to him. We just brought home a stack of more Roald Dahl from the library.
pneumatic1··on Fire for Water: A tribe in California is helping to reshape fire management
I used to be a wildland firefighter for the USFS and was stationed on a forest where two districts were split in half by a reservation where the land was managed by the BIA.

Driving from one district to the other you could see the health of the forest change almost immediately when you crossed a border.

BIA land had lots of healthy and appropriately spaced trees, wildlife, tall grasses. USFS land had dead grass and trees packed together, 10 snags for every healthy one.

pneumatic1··on How photos were transmitted by wire in the 1930s
Amazing. Stuff like this is why I come to HN.
pneumatic1··on Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024?
1. Presenting/public speaking 2. Frontend development 3. Mobile app development
pneumatic1··on Ask HN: Podcasts, Discord servers, etc. for serious theological discussion?
Thanks for the suggestion! I’ve actually done this as well with impressive results. I started to become wary of hallucinations about more obscure topics, but I agree it’s very valuable.

You’re right though I’m looking for something more. I guess I’m looking for a macro-theological “church” and I’m not sure if that exists.

pneumatic1··on Ask HN: Did you change career paths after 30?
I was 29 when I got my first job writing code. Before that I was a wildland firefighter and then a carpenter. I taught myself to code at night over the course of 2 years. Got an MS in Data Science a few years after that. Now I’m doing software engineering, data engineering, and data science in a domain I’m super interested in. So it worked out really well. I’m pretty much right where I wanted to be when I wrote my first line of JavaScript at 27. My advice is to totally immerse yourself as much as possible in whatever field you’re trying to get into and start to think of yourself as someone who is already a part of that community.
pneumatic1··on Retirement savings simulator
This is driven by drug overdoses of working age people.
pneumatic1··on Training Video for Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center (1973) [video]
The re-did the entire campus. The main building is now called Bell Works. It's really nice. https://goo.gl/maps/w9thDue2V7C1wQuL9
pneumatic1··on Humans have pumped enough groundwater to change the tilt of the Earth
In the next Austin Powers movie, Dr Evil will try to accumulate so much mass in one place that earth flies off its orbit.
pneumatic1··on U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves over internet cables
Incredible. Thank you.
pneumatic1··on U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves over internet cables
Yea I was hoping to get recommendations with a 'human who reads Hacker News' filter.
pneumatic1··on U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves over internet cables
Book recommendations on this topic? International internet infrastructure in general, not China/US relations.
pneumatic1··on WHO: No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health
That does not mean it's beneficial.
pneumatic1··on Ask HN: Why haven't bookmarks been re-invented?
I made a page on my personal website that shows unread bookmarks. I can add bookmarks by text message or bookmarklet in a browser. Check a box once I've read it to remove it from the list.
pneumatic1··on Tell HN: Thanks and hats off to all the non software engineers
I agree with the sentiment but imo software 'engineer' isn't wrong. It is in the sense that it's obviously unrelated to motors/engines but the word comes from the Latin ingeniator; to contrive or devise.
pneumatic1··on Bipartisan Legislation to Ban TikTok
Hard to see this becoming law though. They must have influence in DC by now.
pneumatic1··on Ask HN: Getting into AI?
This is an excellent and not-often-suggested course: https://bloomberg.github.io/foml/#home
pneumatic1··on Gore-TEX, a lightweight, waterproof fabric made from the expanded form of PTFE
https://epi.dph.ncdhhs.gov/oee/a_z/genx.html

One is called GenX and Chemours (DuPont) has been poisoning the city of Wilmington.

pneumatic1··on My Overemployment Story
$440k for 2 jobs and a 3-month contract so $195k/job. For a front end dev w/ 2 yoe?
pneumatic1··on A lobbying blitz made sports betting ubiquitous
Article doesn’t mention the influence of Harry Reid who worked to maintain the monopoly of Las Vegas.
pneumatic1··on Ask HN: How did you stop drinking?
I had to let(make) it become part of my identity.

“I’m a person who doesn’t drink alcohol.”

“People will know and perceive me as a person who doesn’t drink alcohol. This is fine because it’s true.”

It’s the same as being a person who doesn’t do a thing that you already don’t do.

You can tell people you feel healthier without it and it’s just your preference. Most people won’t pry further. For some reason, Europeans tend to be more confrontational with me about it. You don’t need to share details about binging and lack of self control with anyone unless you want to.

pneumatic1··on AWS us-west-2 issues
what happened to stop.lying.cloud?
pneumatic1··on The anatomy of an ML-powered stock picking engine
Have you looked into Kelly criterion?
pneumatic1··on The first computer mouse (2017)
Thanks for sharing. I'm not surprised by this.
pneumatic1··on Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird
Yea this is possible. I can’t remember exactly how but I installed Dropbox on both computers and put the Thunderbird profile in there. Iirc the profile directory was getting conflicting writes from each computer. But it ended up working somehow.
pneumatic1··on Using the Silver Reed SK840 Knitting Machine
At my last job I made an app that takes a bitmap as input and returns it converted to a coded pattern that's readable by a knitting machine along with knitting instructions.

The machines I made it for were 25-30 years old and my patterns would end up loaded on floppy disks. I played with some new machines though and tbh was pretty unimpressed with the progress. Nike and Adidas knit like all their shoes so I think the machine manufacturers are just all-in on that.

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