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by abraae 7y ago
Yes, it is clearly obvious just from pulse rate when my heart goes out of rhythm.The rate suddenly spikes and becomes highly variable. It's just as obvious when it drops back into rhythm. For me, that's typically a few minutes or
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by abraae 7y ago
Yes, exactly. Not a doctor but my AF responds well to exercise, I just need to keep it below the level that makes my heart go out.
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by abraae 7y ago
For some years I have tracked my AF using a Polar chest band, which dumps heart rate records into my phone via bluetooth. Then I ship it to a server in influxdb and render it with grafana. It's all very non-medically approved but I hav
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by abraae 7y ago
Perhaps I'm off target, but how would this compare to guacamole? We've looked at guacamole as a potential solution to our problem. We need our user to log into a third party system with their username) password. Then we want to ta
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by abraae 7y ago
> Humans will adapt because we have no choice. I throw you into a fire. Will you adapt, because you have no choice?
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by abraae 7y ago
Bad publicity is better than no publicity.
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by abraae 7y ago
Ha, yeah, I wasn't meaning to crowdsource a petrochemical company in my back yard. Not my forte, not that of anyone I know. I'd like to see environmentally aware consumers voluntarily subsidising a synthetic fuel company that woul
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by abraae 7y ago
I've wondered if we could crowdsource synthetic fuel production to compete with fossil fuels. It would be very attractive to drive the oil companies out of business with a frontal assault. Of course it would depend on having enough con
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by abraae 7y ago
I did some consulting for a Telco on their billing run. It ran on a very, very large computer for its day. The run typically took 16+ hours, sometimes as many as 22 hours, leading to some very white knuckle moments when it threatened to del
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by abraae 7y ago
According to this https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/71445 : > Electric power is the product of voltage and current. If there is no external circuit, there can be no current and thus no electric power can be deliver
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by abraae 7y ago
It's electricity. Break the circuit and it stops flowing.
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by abraae 7y ago
> Errrm, except that's not the case whatsoever. It absolutely is often the case. You have cited one article about Pepsi's bottled water coming from a tap. That does not make it universally true at all. Bottle water around here
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by abraae 7y ago
Not totally useless, they help the less experienced understand what dimensions they should be thinking about: - fast vs slow - big investment vs little - strong customer service vs Google-like "for the masses" customer service - f
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by abraae 7y ago
To address your unrelated tangent, as a pedant (as I think many techy types are), I personally appreciate the extra effort put in to qualify the statements. Your "you’re 100% right that all bottled water is functionally identical"
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by abraae 7y ago
> When to we get wankipatent? (short for wiki-anti-patent of course) Warning - in some countries this has an unsavory meaning.
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by abraae 7y ago
Rick says in one of his videos that he and some of his buddies have got old copies of the original source (separated) tracks, and they kind of pass them around between each other. I find that pretty amazing given the litigiousness of some i
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by abraae 7y ago
It is sometimes for good reason. More often though, it's just the apocryphal story of the monkeys and the ladder that informs the organisation's behavior: > This human behavior of not challenging assumptions reminds me of an
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by abraae 7y ago
Unless the dev team is super responsive, and well resourced, reporting bugs can soon feel futile for support. Then they become susceptible to internal fake news,e.g "I heard someone in Dev say they'd never fix that, it's too
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by abraae 7y ago
Yes indeed, if only they would "inform end users of the change". Unfortunately that would require that end users a) read such information (given the truism that "users don't read"), I would ouputr this at a vanishin
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by abraae 7y ago
It's a spectrum. Sitting in a cafe yesterday, I overheard some people talking casually about flying the entire family up to Rarotonga to see a concert. A wealthy relative recently flew from the Philippines to Tokyo and then returned ag
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by abraae 7y ago
Tourism should be much harder. Make your way to your destination by bike, yacht, even if it takes a year to get there.
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by abraae 7y ago
We started a new SaaS company last year. We use Java + Oracle from the get go. Last company was very reliant on Oracle, we ran the entire business on a single Oracle instance for a couple of decades. We had our share of adventures, but over
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by abraae 7y ago
Why does sequestration involve burning wood? Isn't it easier to leave the carbon in wood form and build e.g furniture, buildings, structures out of wood, and leave the carbon there?
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by abraae 7y ago
Vietnam.
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by abraae 7y ago
You're thinking about this very much from a techy point of view. We have a similar value prop with our platform (we store PII including actual identity documents). It's not about making it impossible for users to download and stor
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by abraae 7y ago
Copy pasting the same comment over and over does not help make your point.
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by abraae 7y ago
I started a new company recently and we are a major user of the same back end in our platform that our customers use. I can say that hopefully never again will I work on a system where the users are remote and isolated from Dev. The benefit
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by abraae 7y ago
There are many rules and regulations that need to be cut through. Staying with friends in Hawaii, I asked where we could drop our towels. They said they had to go into the drier, it was against the rules to have clothes drying on the balcon
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by abraae 7y ago
Why bother. Motivated community will just use their own encrypted tech to communicate.
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by abraae 7y ago
Rather, it was contributed to by government inaction.

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