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Who Deserves Amphetamines?(thepointmag.com)
3 points by epilys 3y ago|0 comments
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by epilys 3y ago
The difference is the pancreas reacts immediately to changes and has no practical delay for its effects, same concept as PID controllers in engineering.
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by epilys 3y ago
I'm on the Medtronic 780g hybrid loop and it's actually working. If I eat nothing and have no intense physical activity the CGM curve is a stable straight line.
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by epilys 3y ago
Note that as with every insulin-pump system, it still has two major pain points: - subcutaneous insulin doesn't act immediately, as it would if it was injected in the blood directly. it peaks in an hour and then wanes off at 3-4 hours.
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In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)(web.stanford.edu)
3 points by epilys 3y ago|2 comments
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by epilys 3y ago
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Co...
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by epilys 3y ago
There was a time you could just walk around with a radio receiver and spy on everyone's phonecalls (IMEI stingray). Iirc it's not possible/that easy anymore with LTE.
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by epilys 3y ago
So this is basically a *safe* optimization, since the index will always be valid and there's no need for the compiler to do a check and unwrap, panic. This is how unsafe {} should be used. Sometimes some things are true but the compile
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by epilys 3y ago
One of my most favorite demoscene tracks is `Beams of Light` by TRSI. It's 4 channels, the front two show an animation video in an oscilloscope at X-Y mode and the rear two are the music. It's very impressive: https://w
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by epilys 3y ago
I once replaced a faulty SMD fuse on a laptop motherboard; I used tweezers and a microscope. Could I have done such a repair with a pick and place theoretically?
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by epilys 3y ago
What is the security issue here? In any case memory references don't work like that in web assembly: they are objects the runtime manages. This isn't assembly, despite the name. Your pointer UB will be inside the sandbox and nowhe
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Jitter: Generate portable language VMs from high-level specifications(gnu.org)
6 points by epilys 3y ago|2 comments
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by epilys 3y ago
> GNU Jitter is a software automatically generating a portable, very efficient language virtual machine with performance close to native code, starting from a relatively high-level specification provided by the user.
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by epilys 3y ago
An article in Cree posted here in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30807401 Submission link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/%E1%90%8A%E1%90%A...
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by epilys 3y ago
I read somewhere, don't remember where, that xeyes can be used with xwayland to see if a window is wayland or X11: because the cursor position is private in Wayland windows, the xeyes will stop moving.
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by epilys 3y ago
In the 6th century CE, a whale called Porphyrios terrorized and sank ships near Constantinople for nearly 50 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyrios_(whale) Porphyrios harassed ships in the waters of Constan
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by epilys 3y ago
I thought this was universal (in Greece) until I moved in the city center of Athens. I now only see stray dogs as an exception, e.g. in tourist-heavy, central places. I genuinely have no idea if it's the state's responsibility. Ca
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by epilys 3y ago
It's worse than that in reality. The runtime is supported by the great wasmer employees. The rest of wasmer is in a constant state of bullshitting themselves and the public. Look what year they started, how many years it has been since
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by epilys 3y ago
OpenType is basically turing-complete via glyph shaping. There's an explanation here: https://litherum.blogspot.com/2019/03/addition-font.html
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by epilys 3y ago
Very cool use of XSLT is rendering an RSS feed as html if viewed from a browser. So if someone clicks on your feed icon, they don't get an .XML download but a webpage instead: https://pitsidianak.is/blog/feed.xml
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by epilys 3y ago
> Older, used LTO drives are actually quite affordable They are, but If I'm not mistaken you need a SAS controller, and those go for ~1k euros in my area, even used.
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by epilys 3y ago
tried to build it, but it has some unorthodox ideas of filesystem structure; this gist I found gives a quick summary how to install it all in a single folder: https://gist.github.com/baruchel/0653cc7c041d58d21b202c8e94e
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First-time PC user can’t work computer (1995)(youtube.com)
5 points by epilys 3y ago|0 comments
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My pay went from $240k to $0(mstdn.social)
243 points by epilys 3y ago|180 comments
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by epilys 3y ago
I'm awestruck with the dedication to detail, craftsmanship and quality of the design. And the creativity. I'm so glad the author chose to share this publicly.
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by epilys 3y ago
The reason is actually well known. It even has a name: imperialism.
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by epilys 3y ago
The prose is incredible. I find myself agreeing with the author of this opinion piece: it's Jane Austen at sea https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/28/why-patrick-ob...
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by epilys 3y ago
My non-anglosphere anecdote: I love it for the bromance. I don't think anyone cares about the English except the English themselves.
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by epilys 3y ago
I get 24 hours tops without wifi. Huh?? I thought it was normal, will contact support.
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by epilys 3y ago
You didn't read my comment correctly, didn't say it tastes better. It's just that lactose free being the exception and not the norm prevents lots of people from enjoying it. I don't have intolerance, it's quite rare

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