Hacker News: dbbljack

New comment by dbbljack in "Continuous Glucose Monitoring"

dbbljack — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:35:43 +0000

if you don't need alerts for extreme high/low, i don't see the value of cgm monitoring... starch/grain/sugar spikes insulin, protein gives gentle raise within 3-5 hours, fat does next to nothing and does in around 7-9 hours. mixing a bunch of fibre/fat/protein into your starch and sugar makes the insulin spike less intense...

what are you guys learning about your super special non diabetic bodies that you can't learn with a $5 book of glycemic indices or a casual afternoon reading basic diabetes dieting advice?

New comment by dbbljack in "Continuous Glucose Monitoring"

dbbljack — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:27:38 +0000

highly interesting!

New comment by dbbljack in "What happens when clergy take psilocybin"

dbbljack — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 06:27:16 +0000

counterpoint: you only get your first time, one time.

New comment by dbbljack in "How to live on $432 a month in America"

dbbljack — Sat, 24 May 2025 04:07:13 +0000

i'd have to do a lot of research to find a cheap rural area that I would be able to exist in after sundown.

New comment by dbbljack in "Clojuring the web application stack: Meditation One"

dbbljack — Wed, 21 May 2025 11:43:08 +0000

back it up with literally ANY data, please.

New comment by dbbljack in "High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers"

dbbljack — Mon, 12 May 2025 11:19:06 +0000

especially when you can get the same $60k by getting two promotions at walmart (associate -> team lead -> coach)

New comment by dbbljack in "Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app"

dbbljack — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 04:10:07 +0000

the microphone symbol should be animated while listening.

New comment by dbbljack in "School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study"

dbbljack — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 10:17:41 +0000

is it so impossible to include a model number in your query?

New comment by dbbljack in "FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor"

dbbljack — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 18:48:32 +0000

you guys sound like yuppies, using a CGM to come to the conclusion that rice and soda cause sharper insulin spikes than proteins, and exercise is good for you! Could have gotten the same info from a $10 book of glycemic indices or a $20 traditional glucose test kit. If you aren't diabetic, a CGM is widely useless and you're just manually deriving basic facts about metabolism you could have just... read.

New comment by dbbljack in "The Year of Ozempic"

dbbljack — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 01:18:14 +0000

good maybe this will take the heat off of CGM/FGM tech, which is a waste of silicon and batteries for healthy individuals to use.

New comment by dbbljack in "D.C.'s ban on cashless businesses takes effect"

dbbljack — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 09:08:55 +0000

that i can't steal from the other side of the planet.

New comment by dbbljack in "An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper"

dbbljack — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 06:43:41 +0000

great observation. this sculpture of a samurai folded from a single sheet of paper indeed is not "normal" oragami.

New comment by dbbljack in "Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist"

dbbljack — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:58:11 +0000

this seems really great for people who want vim in the... actually wait we all have browser extensions already.

New comment by dbbljack in "The cost of a standard unit of insulin"

dbbljack — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 22:13:09 +0000

flash glucose monitor...

New comment by dbbljack in "GPT-3 Has Learned to Code, Blog and Argue"

dbbljack — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 17:00:00 +0000

medical students could use this to practice difficult end-of-life conversations with a chatbot

New comment by dbbljack in "How to use Reddit to get your first users"

dbbljack — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 20:54:33 +0000

fishing for someone to ask about your product feels just as disingenuous as posting from a brand account but reddit slurps it up.

New comment by dbbljack in "Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores"

dbbljack — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:06:21 +0000

When I first got the personalized coupons I called Meijer and asked them who they bought my address from, they refused to answer.

New comment by dbbljack in "Merge tag 'inclusive-terminology' into Linux kernel"

dbbljack — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 14:29:00 +0000

I wonder how male/female connectors made it this far into the inclusive-language wave, haven't seen a single mention of them.

New comment by dbbljack in "De-escalating social media conflict"

dbbljack — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 20:53:26 +0000

ok what happens when the president says something like

"the sky is red, dems are better off dead (marked as mistake made, replies disabled)"

New comment by dbbljack in "Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]"

dbbljack — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 06:32:50 +0000

I'm not sure if any of that is true or if any of it leads logically to a need for affirmative action in the ranks of the entertainers.