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New comment by bluesounddirect in "What it's like to have your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

bluesounddirect — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:53:35 +0000

For my wife, when on lantus and novolog ( no pump ) the overnights were always high blood sugars . The pumps definitely help , but in retrospect she also stopped eating gluten around the same time. The no gluten diet helped a lot .

Side bar having been around the dexcom for 10 years now . The old/original audible alarms were easy to understand. Low crescendo for going low , low repeats for low alarm and the reverse for high events. With the x2 and g6 i literally have no idea what the beeps mean anymore. This alarm fatigue is bad and i wonder if this contributes to the authors issue too. Was there some warning she missed?

New comment by bluesounddirect in "What it's like to have your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

bluesounddirect — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:43:42 +0000

also it didn't give here 40 units the pump failed .

New comment by bluesounddirect in "What it's like to have your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

bluesounddirect — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:43:00 +0000

My wife is a t1d and has the same pump. It sucks their support staff has no idea how the thing works or what its failure modes are. My wife once had her x2 tell her it gave here a 40 unit bolis out of the blue . This would have killed her. While in the er support from x2 said something like "there is no way for it to do this .. you must be wrong.. are you reading the display correctly .." All in all the x2 plus dexcom was supposed to be a closed loop cgm plus pump. It rarely cuts insulin delivery on low blood sugar, or it does it way too late to matter .

New comment by bluesounddirect in "IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry"

bluesounddirect — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:29:36 +0000

I would like to believe this is a cover story for IBM to make parts for the DoD latest weapon . I would like to imagine its a cover to make parts for some new government super computer. But its IBM its probably nothing even close to that . Its more likely a nice way to get the stock back at $315 and make nothing.

New comment by bluesounddirect in "NYC*Bug May 2026: The Design of Unix Shell, with Stephen R. Bourne"

bluesounddirect — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:13:08 +0000

The NYC BSD Users group presents SRB for a fireside chat.

NYC*Bug May 2026: The Design of Unix Shell, with Stephen R. Bourne

bluesounddirect — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:13:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anr2UAs7ifY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130674

Points: 1

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New comment by bluesounddirect in "IBM Announced VMware Replacement"

bluesounddirect — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:03:37 +0000

IBM announced today its VMWare replacement Red Hat Openshift Virtualization Service . Designed to give users a landing zone for existing VMware VCF workloads and a path to Containerization .

IBM Announced VMware Replacement

bluesounddirect — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:03:37 +0000

Article URL: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-05-12-ibm-announces-red-hat-ai-inference-and-red-hat-openShift-virtualization-service-on-ibm-cloud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107669

Points: 2

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New comment by bluesounddirect in "Demand for autism care is soaring"

bluesounddirect — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:21:32 +0000

I am a bit older and i grew up in New Jersey, and it wasn't much different. My teacher once told me she was going to cut my finger off because i always counted with them . Punk rock saved my life .

New comment by bluesounddirect in "Head of FEMA defends claim that he was teleported"

bluesounddirect — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:19:54 +0000

https://archive.ph/ae60a

New comment by bluesounddirect in "National Grid: Live"

bluesounddirect — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:40:49 +0000

Any way to do this for the part of National Grid that operates in New York and Massachusetts?

New comment by bluesounddirect in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

bluesounddirect — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:22:29 +0000

I agree, CNN has always had a weird angle to its bias. I am by no means a FOX news nut . I really think a lot of american "news" now is similar to How The WWF ( World Wide Wrestling Federation/ World Wrestling Entertainment) isn't a Sport. CNN , FOX, MSNBC/MSNOW , Newsmax etc aren't news but unfunny entertainment.

New comment by bluesounddirect in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

bluesounddirect — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:39:24 +0000

Yann is going to sell you the opportunity to sell people the opportunity of better AI .

New comment by bluesounddirect in "[dead]"

bluesounddirect — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:18:02 +0000

Also teach your kids to read using "The Science of Reading " . Not guessing, not looking at pictures for clues . Phonics, steps and patience.

New comment by bluesounddirect in "SmartOS"

bluesounddirect — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:19:54 +0000

I ran a fairly large SmartOS with project-fifo.net as the controller for a number of years . We also had the amusing time with Pluribus networks switching too. When they started they were also a Illumos based switchos . Bhyve on illumos came out of Pluribus and happened partly due to a number of FreeBSD users heckling the "SUN GODS" over why the official kvm port was a piece of shit .

In any case in the 6 years os smartos we never had any dataloss from failed disks, sure fifo and smartos had their warts but lx-zones works amazing well and i think we got Garrett D'Amore to go back to BSD land for some time . In the end we had to jump to VMWARE when Heinz gave up on fifo.

snarl/howl/chunter

https://project-fifo.net/ https://www.arista.com/en/support/pluribus-resources

New comment by bluesounddirect in "Apple Creator Studio"

bluesounddirect — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:10:11 +0000

liquid metal / glass whats the difference its all shiny and amorphous.

New comment by bluesounddirect in "Verizon outages reported across U.S."

bluesounddirect — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:08:06 +0000

I feel like vzw abandoned sane things like otp for k8s ai and blockchain ( or whatever nonsense tech goes here ). otp was probably deemed antiquated and too hard to maintain.

New comment by bluesounddirect in "Apple Creator Studio"

bluesounddirect — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:03:35 +0000

So can i use this to purge the liquid metal from MacOS 26 ?

New comment by bluesounddirect in "Show HN: I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage"

bluesounddirect — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:44:13 +0000

SOB now i am going to be texted by some AI trying to scam me . Fantastic!

New comment by bluesounddirect in "Military satellites dogfighting as tensions escalate in orbit"

bluesounddirect — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 03:59:21 +0000

https://archive.is/day7d