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I test drove a 1 series in 2018 and it still worked like that

I worked for nearly two years on a skunkworks project spearheading the use of ML.NET in a part of the company that was run by classically trained data scientists using classic data science tools. You can imagine the pushback. On the upside, I worked with some of the nicest people I've met.

I also briefly worked in an extension team for a company, as a part of a huge hiring wave of about 30 people at once. The team on the customer side was really cool and I was excited for the project. However, suspiciously little work was given to us, I was one of the lucky few to have something to do every day, but it all just seemed like filler. After a month, the CTO of that company gathered all of the new hires in a meeting and sheepishly declared that they've overestimated the scope of work and their budget and they're firing all the new hires with 1 month notice.

That sounds like a two for one deal - your partner doesn't need to pay for the treatment, you just share a passionate kiss and now they too have the improved bacteria

Sleep underground during the day, crawl out at sunset and work through the night

If only everybody everywhere voted for left-wing parties instead of right-wing populists...

I wonder how the age at diagnosis affects your approach. I see people like this guy or Scott Hanselman going "science the sh*t out of this" and minmaxing their health, but AFAIK they were diagnosed as adults. I was 4 when I was diagnosed and even though I know I could do something to try to improve my results, my approach ends up just being intuition, winging it and trying to think about it as little as possible. I'm left wondering if I have internalized powerlessness over this matter.

Still better than telling you they want to hire you, then ghosting you for 2 weeks, and when you finally send a kind reminder, replying that "if you have other opportunities, feel free to go ahead"

I like putting it at the end of scripts that take a long time, it's hard to miss the script having completed this way

Is it just me or does .NET have the most sane standard library for dealing with dates? Until you get into timezones that is

The new Fleet code editor they're pitching as a competitor to VSCode works with separately running language servers, maybe there's a hack waiting to happen there

VSCode's file explorer tree is way too dense, though, the indents are not big enough by default

And be used as factotums if the investors ever notice they're good at getting things done. The amount of times my dad was asked to drive 5 hours somewhere to deliver a giant stack of paperwork to a local administration office to secure a building permit...

I don't like this guy's vibe, but I'm left wondering if we aren't stuck in a heroic mindset, while thinking like a villain is just more efficient. It feels profound, uplifting and _right_ to challenge yourself, but after you've completed your inner journey, how far ahead are the vipers who only learned only to strike and perfected only their viciousness?

Isn't subjecting oneself to feeling miserable kind of the point of religious fasting?

It feels surreal to hear this crap translated into English

Pray it doesn't regress any further

In the repo with the code, linked to from a sensible wiki that serves only as an index

It's all WebAssembly

My master's was in Convolutional NNs for language processing. I had zero prior knowledge and my advisor recommended I watch Karpathy's lectures[1] to get up to speed

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkt2uSq6rBVctENoVBg1TpCC7...

This sounds like Stig facts

Da ba dee, da ba da

Unix hacker approach to corporate drama, I like it.

Watch out for postpartum depression. If you see symptoms, do not hesitate to seek psychiatric care immediately. Do not fight back if the psychiatrist suggests a stay at a facility, it's the best chance to adjust medication and get back to normal as quickly as possible.

The original Mindstorms connectors were actual bricks, about the size of two stacked 2x2 plates

I feel sorry for you, man. I have T1D as well, but pump supplies + CGM work out to something on the order of $200 a month in Poland. I am not even sure how much exactly, because I don't bother to count since it's not big money for me. Still a lot given the median pay, and you still have to buy the pump out of pocket, but nowhere near what's going on in the States.

My favourite combo ever was infinite 5/5 dinosaurs

I'd start by replacing "1 hour daily" with "4 uninterrupted hours every weekend". 1 hour is not enough for a focused deep dive into anything.

If you wanted 0.66 units and got 66 units, I am pretty sure you would die. I would count on the tissue around the infusion site not having enough throughput to release it all into your system at once and swelling up. This would mean the problem would spread over a few hours, but it would be an extreme emergency anyway.

To put it into perspective (at least with my insulin to carb ratio, it varies from person to person), if you wanted to drink a regular sized can of coke, you would dose 3.3u. 66u is therefore enough insulin for 20 cans of coke.

Another way to put it is that 10g of sugar ~ 1u of insulin. You'd have to eat 660g of raw sugar.

There is a medication called Glucagen which is used to treat severe hypo. It works by triggering release of stored glucose from the liver. The thing is, from what I've quickly googled, a typical 1mg dose is usually only enough to raise your blood sugar by about 100mg/dl, and then your store is depleted and further doses have no effect. With my insulin/carb ratio, I would only need about 2.5u to reduce my blood sugar by 100mg/dl.

All of a sudden it feels scary to think that the reservoir in my pump holds about 300u of insulin...

I nearly died in my sleep 2 years ago from about 10 units unexpectedly releasing into my system from swollen tissue left behind by a broken infusion site. What the author describes is potentially lethal.

The thing is, there is no such thing as a lethal dose of insulin per se. If you want to eat half a large pizza and wash it down with a can of coke, you'll likely dose 15 or more units. But dose the same amount and end up not eating your meal and you are in extremely big trouble within half an hour.

Blazor Server is even better for corporate intranet applications. Building monitoring/operations apps is insanely easy when you can just connect your UI components directly to a singleton state on the backend. I wouldn't even consider anything else if my job was to make an app for a group of users who all sit in the same room.