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by grahar64 3y ago
My son was diagnosed in 2022 with T1D, I wrote this post about it mostly out of determination to understand how to manage https://maori.geek.nz/the-unreasonable-math-of-type-1-diabet... He is now on Dexcom+Omnipod+AAPS and
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Golang and SQLite on Fly.io with LiteFS: A Quick Benchmark(maori.geek.nz)
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by grahar64 3y ago
Just a quick post about benchmarking LiteFS
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by grahar64 4y ago
As a parent of a Type 1 Diabetic toddler, I want this soooo much. At the moment every 10days we have to pay $100 for a Dexcom sensor. That is like buying a couple new iPhones a year and just throwing them away. A non disposable glucose sens
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by grahar64 4y ago
Another annoying thing about the USA is the willingness to complicate everyones life based on a caveat only affecting a few. Most people are only employed by one job, take the standard deduction, and have no other tax complications. But the
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by grahar64 4y ago
Some places hairstylists are more like contractors who actually pay to get a seat to cut peoples hair in. So tipping is a larger portion of their income.
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by grahar64 4y ago
The night after my first haircut in the US I was like “oh shit” and I googled “do you tip for a haircut” and realized I fucked up. The results were anywhere from 10%-50% tip. The next haircut I got I asked “what is a good tip” and the hair
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by grahar64 4y ago
As a foreigner who lived in the USA for a few years, I always thought the US runs in hidden fees. From tipping, to taxes not in the sale price, to insurances not being able to give a price for a procedure, to hotel fees… I could never actua
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by grahar64 4y ago
Having just come from the cyclone ravaged Gisborne region in New Zealand, where internet and communications have been down now for 5 days. The first thing we did was count all the cash we had, because it is the only way we could buy food an
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by grahar64 4y ago
Dont get me wrong, I love Bazel. But tooling for it to build multi-language multi-billion line monorepos doesn’t exist outside big companies.
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by grahar64 4y ago
They tried that by making a bit available with a remote cloud builder for Bazel. It failed for some reason and they pulled it. I think building something that scales for one big repo is just a completely different problem than making it sca
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by grahar64 4y ago
QGIS is great, used it to cut out laser cut maps as presents for my neighbors. Has a steep learning curve but ton of online help.
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by grahar64 4y ago
Such a good read.
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by grahar64 4y ago
This is pretty great, $25 for course work and lectures and you pay $400 for credits only if you pass and like your grade. Universities should be incentivized for you to pass, not just show up.
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For example, Toyota makes good reliable cars, and saw massive success with the Prius because it was the only good alternative to a full internal combustion engine. Now, years after that success, Toyota has only a very limited selection of f
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by grahar64 4y ago
Great idea!
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by grahar64 4y ago
You shouldn’t have to read code to understand architecture. But I have had so many conversations like “this is the Auth-service, it also loadbalances and stores a bunch of state, oh and doesn’t do Auth anymore”. Then the name becomes active
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by grahar64 4y ago
Yes, and we should change an entire companies culture to make a new hire onboard slightly faster /s
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by grahar64 4y ago
If you work at a company for more than a week you will get used to the names of services and what they do. But if the name of a service becomes a lie because of changing requirements, then it will be an actual hinderance to understanding a
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by grahar64 4y ago
The word “transaction” is so overloaded it would be pointless to use in a system. At a previous company we had to have a glossary of words that you could use instead just so the documentation made sense.
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by grahar64 4y ago
Names are super hard to change. They end up everywhere, service directories, URLS, DNS, infrastructure, package names… It might take a months of work to change a name, just to fix the name of a service which is no longer accurate. Instead m
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by grahar64 4y ago
I agree with this 100% and have seen this play out many times. At one company we named the service “Harry” after one of the employees kid’s. Worked well, and I will fight for such names at any company I work at.
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by grahar64 4y ago
Same series of events happened at my school. 1. Discover net send 2. Discover net send * 3. Get in trouble for using net send * The next step was discovering telnet and the schools smtp server.
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by grahar64 4y ago
If I am doing academic study the fastest way to find good information is to find couple recent studies and cross match their references for common citations. This often ends up in summary papers, foundational papers and papers with well fou
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by grahar64 4y ago
Sure you can have a good dictator, but there is much greater room for a bad one. Carmack (by his own admission) doesn’t want to be a manager, he wants to be a programmer. So he would probably not make a good dictator. He might have had less
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by grahar64 4y ago
Oh, 100% agree. I read your comment in the wrong context from an above comment. As a non-T1D person I can only guess how shit being low or high feels. So listening to T1D people describe how it feels is very useful for me as a T1D parent.
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by grahar64 4y ago
All food rises blood sugar and going low carb can have all sorts of weird effects in BGL. Keto/paleo/low carb is also not fun for a kid. If it takes a bit more work and he is safe he can eat some cake
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by grahar64 4y ago
Yeah. There is a balance between being a normal kid and going for 100% TIR everyday. No carb would help, but what would the trade off be. We let him have cake (without icing) and let him have banana and all sorts of carby food. I understand
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by grahar64 4y ago
Getting algorithms like loop that are available in New Zealand AND have a bunch of evidence for being safe with toddlers is difficult. At the moment we are using CamAPS which has been used a lot in the UK with toddlers but as far as I know
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by grahar64 4y ago
The way I put it is my son is a slice of bread away from hospital at any point during the day. If he has bread and no insulin he will go dangerously high and if left untreated he will need to go to hospital. If he has the insulin and doesn’

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