thejohnconway

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by thejohnconway 8y ago
As a creator on Patreon, I find this disturbing. I've had problems battling through captchas to log in, but I didn't consider the supporter side. I wonder what's going on there.
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I can see why that might seem ambiguous, but I've never heard anyone refer to an electronic message as a "letter". A letter is always in physical form. "Character" has its own ambiguities (am I a character in this
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I like Sargent, and have seen a lot of his major works in person. I suppose I’m using a pretty high threshold for “great”, which I’d reserve for the top tier. My point was that the artistic worth of a painting is not tightly correlated to t
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The technique of the greatest painters is often not particularly difficult to copy. In my late teens I considered doing replica paintings to make money. I did a few, and I was somewhat surprised at how good they looked and how easy they wer
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Cost seems to be the major factor. I believe the NHS doesn’t supply them for this reason. That said, CGMs cost about £150 a month. Worth sacrificing just about any optional expense for I would say.
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I’ve been using Dexcom for about 6 months, and it’s taught me that the situation was utterly hopeless without it. I’ve figured out a few patterns like the huge nighttime sugar spike with fatty dinners, but overall I have unpredictable react
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We already have continuous blood sugar monitors that are good, and work with Apple Watch. The invasiveness of the patch is not a big deal in my opinion given the benefits.
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I’m Type 1 and I agree with him. Injections are not a problem worth solving for me. It’s the constant mental grind of tight-rope walking blood sugar through balancing food, insulin, exercise, and random body events (that you never quite fig
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by thejohnconway 8y ago
I think the iPhone XR and iPhone XS is a fairly glaring overlap that seems pretty confusing. The MacBook and MacBook Air are also confusing - despite its name the MacBook is smaller, it’s more expensive, but lacks touchID. Apple don’t make
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I guess it shouldn't be surprising that a list of SaaS companies are mostly in the surveillance economy, but it is a little depressing that only a few aren't in the business of collecting consumer data.
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I've been using DDG for a couple of years now, and have a different experience. Usually when I'm frustrated by the the result in DDG, I try the same search in Google, and find that the results are no better! Google image search an
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> Sometimes I think that is what philosophers are doing - feeling clever - perhaps as a defense against some negative inner problem (psychology is an outgrowth of philosophy after all). All science is an outgrowth of philosophy. It'
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Weighting is done to make the sample more representative, because voluntary samples are always demographically biased. You can argue that the way they weight is wrong in some way, but it’s purpose is exactly to address representativeness of
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I’m an artist and I have the new iPad Pro. It’s the best piece of hardware I’ve ever owned, and the drawing experience the best I’ve had (better than a Wacom Cintiq). But I do have to agree with the sentiment that it’s software is a major p
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Apple as discontinued a fair number of software products, just off the top of my head: Aperture Shake Sherlock iSync ClarisWorks/AppleWorks (iWork seems to be a different beast) HyperCard WebObjects iDVD iChat (iMessage was never an A