Adirael

I don't know, I understand the advice and I guess that's probably one of the reasons Loop (https://loopkit.github.io/loopdocs/) is not on the App Store. If they had turned their project into another data-logging platform we wouldn't have commercial closed loop systems.

Do salary employees in the US not have a set amount of hours they have to work per week/month/year?

15 * 30 * 4 * 12 = 21600

I can see the Twitter post without issues.

It does, mostly because Europe is not a country. In Spain you can't drive until you're 18 and they'll take your license away if you're found to blame, even though not forever.

The diagram is a bit old. I use a closed loop system (Loop) and I just carry a RileyLink that bridges RF-to-BT so my iPhone can talk with the pump.

No cables at all (and no infusion set cord if you use an Omnipod pump!)

There are a few variants on how to do a closed loop system. OpenAPS is phone agnostic and everything runs on a RaspberryPi.

I myself use Loop. It's an iOS app that uses a RF-to-BT bridge to talk with the pump and intercepts the CGM reading from the official Dexcom app (there are forks that support different methods, being the Dexcom source the "official" one). The bridge is the size of a 9V battery, I never stopped to see which processor uses but it's probably 8 bit.

Each system support different pumps, sometimes people want to use one but are stuck with a different one to be able to use their pumps.

What ISF does your kid have that a single unit will kill him/her? A single unit is barely noticeable on the graph for me.

I've been using Loop for a few weeks now and the improvements in quality of life are so huge that any concerns I had about safety went away. Reading the docs, which are a great example on how documentation should be written, helped a lot with that too.

I've tried to like Fusion 360, but the login screen the first time you boot it up turns me off. It's also slow as hell on a top of the line iMac, and that's with very small projects.

I like OpenSCAD a lot, but being productive there outside of very simple (squarish) designs is hard.

That's countersteering [1]. I find it very hard to explain but it's something that most people on a bicycle (at speed) or a motorcycle (again, at speed) do naturally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersteering

Since there doesn't exist a good panel without Smart TV capabilities, what I do is just don't give them access to the network. Everything runs through an Android Box connected to an HDMI or a PS4 when I want to use Netflix (I never managed to make it work on the Android box)

Mine sometimes will also whimper while dreaming, but I guess that's part of the freedom too

There's an option on the browser that will set the appropriate headers. Fallback is the OS language.

I wonder why glucagon isn't done in the same format as EpiPens are. I'm a T1 diabetic and I have one glucagon vial at work and one at home. In the case I go low (barely responsive low) someone has to go grab it from the fridge (it needs to be there) load the syringe and use it on me.

When people sleep over I teach them how to use it and I do something like a show and tell at job from time to time so new people know about it.

I bought a new (to me) motorcycle last week. It's a 2008 and it has loads of electronics (compared to my old bike). One of them is an immobiliser that deactivates when it detects a transponder inside the key.

The motorcycle comes with three keys: a red one and two black ones. The black ones will turn on the motorcycle but can't be copied. The red one can be copied and is intended as backup in case you lose the black ones. If you lose three the only way to turn the motorcycle on is to get a new ECU from the manufacturer.

I guess most modern cars are the same.

Illustrations by Tim McDonagh :)

Solr and Cordova are on different realms, I don't see how that's relevant in this discussion. FWIW I've used Solr a lot and it's great for faceting and geometric search.

Bandwidth have been going down for years. I don't think they release numbers but the community in imgur is pretty active. There's a lot of people browsing imgur directly (they have a voting system, comments...) and know nothing about reddit.

They have a lot of direct traffic to compensate for the cheap hotlinking.

The "spilled coffee" case was not a frivolous lawsuit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaur...

Some are there because they need to be, some aren't. In my country most of them aren't there to keep you safe but to have a revenue stream.

I know a couple of signals that are there to just make people slow down, and they work even if a lot of us know that there's no radar there.

I drive a newish Golf and all the tech available with the car was vastly overpriced. You want MP3? 800 bucks please. I just swapped the head unit for an aftermarket with all the things I wanted (with was just a BT receiver).

Right now I could just get a DIN2 system with Arduino and plug an OBD-II to the car to get info from the central unit, but what I have works for me.

Careful with that IRPF "discount". In the end of the day you have to pay what you have to pay, they just let you pay less monthly. I was bitten in the ass this way my first year operating, I had to pay more money than I had in my bank when the tax season came.

Following years I started tributing at a 20% which resulted in the state owing me a bit (not much, nobody wants to lend interest free money).

I tried to do this, but I just don't like working with Windows (or Linux). I don't like their current line of hardware, nothing fits me. iMacs: too rigid, I wan't my own screen. Mac Pro: too expensive, too powerful. Mac Mini? Soldered RAM, 5400RPM drive. If I max it out it's cheaper to get an iMac.

I ended getting a PC and throwing OS X on it. It's a pain in the ass when things break but it works for me. I would love a more upgrade-friendly Mini with desktop and not laptop hardware, even if it has to be bigger.

I had a bad habit of using it to remove style from pasted text. Shift+CMD+V (or something like that, muscle memory) does the trick, but I didn't know that a few years ago.

It's not that bad as it was a few years ago. I updated mine today to Yosemite and it was painful but bearable. I bought my hardware with osx86 in mind, it doesn't give me much trouble.

No crashes. Noise and power consumption are dependent on what hardware you pick. I was waiting for the new Minis but seeing them I think I'll just keep my i3, RAM, SDD and get a smaller form factor motherboard and keep using the hackintosh.

I don't use taxis very often but I've never found a stereotypical taxi driver in the 10-20 times I've used them (I live in Madrid). They were all polite, their cars were clean and had no music/radio or it was set to a low volume.

I don't think it's manipulative, it does feel like a relationship, even if it is one-sided. The feeling is different from watching a TV show, it feels more personal, more real.

I guess that depends on the podcast. I feel like I have a relationship with the guys from Back to Work [1], they talk about a lot of personal stuff and I feel like I know them a little. I appreciate that a lot, it makes me trust them (and thus, I trust the products they advertise).

I don't know, but he ended giving up the code for free. I would've gone solo in that situation.

I like beer, don't care much about liquor or wine but won't turn it down. I like to open a can of beer at night while I code a bit before going to bed and sometimes I go for a beer after work. I may drink around 0.8 beers per day.

I do abuse coffee, I think I'm in need of a tolerance break

I'm in Spain.