Hacker News: Adirael

New comment by Adirael in "Show HN: The App I Built to Help Manage My Diabetes"

Adirael — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:38:16 +0000

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.

New comment by Adirael in "Musk Issues Ultimatum to Staff: Commit to Hardcore Twitter or Take Severance"

Adirael — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:18:39 +0000

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

New comment by Adirael in "Ask HN: Freelancer Rates in the US"

Adirael — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:15:28 +0000

15 * 30 * 4 * 12 = 21600

New comment by Adirael in "Apple downloads ~45 TB of models per day from our S3 bucket"

Adirael — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:03:26 +0000

I can see the Twitter post without issues.

New comment by Adirael in "Cars took over because the legal system helped squeezed out alternatives"

Adirael — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:03:20 +0000

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.

New comment by Adirael in "New partnership changes everything for the DIY diabetes community"

Adirael — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 10:41:34 +0000

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!)

New comment by Adirael in "New partnership changes everything for the DIY diabetes community"

Adirael — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 10:38:18 +0000

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.

New comment by Adirael in "Insulin Pumps, Decapped Chips and Software Defined Radios"

Adirael — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:36:08 +0000

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.

New comment by Adirael in "OpenSCAD: Software for creating solid 3D CAD objects"

Adirael — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 09:43:03 +0000

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.

New comment by Adirael in "Uncontrollability of a bricycle (2014) [video]"

Adirael — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 08:45:59 +0000

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

New comment by Adirael in "My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app"

Adirael — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 13:59:36 +0000

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)

New comment by Adirael in "What is a Dog?"

Adirael — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:31:05 +0000

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

New comment by Adirael in "You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]"

Adirael — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 11:33:46 +0000

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

New comment by Adirael in "EpiPen Price Rise Sparks Concern for Allergy Sufferers"

Adirael — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:22:50 +0000

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.

New comment by Adirael in "Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars"

Adirael — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 21:39:04 +0000

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.

New comment by Adirael in "The Web We Have to Save"

Adirael — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 10:45:04 +0000

Illustrations by Tim McDonagh :)

New comment by Adirael in "Apache Cordova: after 10 months, I won't using it anymore"

Adirael — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 11:47:33 +0000

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.

New comment by Adirael in "Happy 10th birthday to us"

Adirael — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 19:59:36 +0000

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.

New comment by Adirael in "A Self-Made Billionaire Uses This Easy Trick for Decisions"

Adirael — Tue, 19 May 2015 11:19:18 +0000

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

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

New comment by Adirael in "Study: Chicago red light cameras provide few safety benefits"

Adirael — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 13:13:47 +0000

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.