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New comment by diabeetusman in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"

diabeetusman — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:07:03 +0000

Assuming, of course, that one's body _does_ naturally produce insulin. I'm glad it and other artificial sweeteners exist and are as prevalent as they are.

New comment by diabeetusman in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

diabeetusman — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:48:27 +0000

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

New comment by diabeetusman in "Free software scares normal people"

diabeetusman — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:53:33 +0000

To add on to this, there's no standardized way of indicating what needs to be typed out and what needs to be replaced. `foo --bar ` might be a good example command in a README, but I had to help someone the other day when they ran `foo --bar `, not realizing they should have replaced the < and > as well as just the text.

New comment by diabeetusman in "Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss"

diabeetusman — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:06:05 +0000

It's 3 years old, but this video [1] goes over Tesla's electric brake booster (and its lack of vacuum)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRZ8XDNz2vU

New comment by diabeetusman in "Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship"

diabeetusman — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:03:40 +0000

Normally yes, but the L1 Lagrange point always would have an unobstructed view of the sun. Granted, L1 is a lot further away than LEO (~3x the distance to the moon), so that makes it harder and more expensive to get to

New comment by diabeetusman in "Cuttle – a MTG like game using a standard 52 card deck"

diabeetusman — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:05:46 +0000

The repo for the site is here: https://github.com/cuttle-cards/cuttle

New comment by diabeetusman in "How Mihoyo's monetization works"

diabeetusman — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:15:21 +0000

Why'd you disable right clicking and highlighting?

Edit: If you're not the author of the post, feel free to ignore :)

New comment by diabeetusman in "Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends"

diabeetusman — Wed, 01 May 2024 16:48:59 +0000

I typed "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", clicked "Check Everything", I get a brief spinner, and

    [plugin:vite:import-analysis] Failed to parse source for import analysis because the content contains invalid JS syntax. If you are using JSX, make sure to name the file with the .jsx or .tsx extension.

or nothing happens

Edit: if I open the editor, type the same text, and then click "Fact Check", I get the same error

New comment by diabeetusman in "MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan"

diabeetusman — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:19:58 +0000

"According to a 2022 study from the Environmental Protection Agency, the average weight of a car is 4,094 pounds."[1]

Going from 1 person of 200lb to 4 people totaling 800lb (in a 4,000lb car) increases the damage by less than an additional car (4,800 / 4,200) ^ 4 = 1.71

[1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/average-car-weight-140033718....

New comment by diabeetusman in "I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy"

diabeetusman — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 19:47:04 +0000

Found another one here: https://www.amazon.com/khalery-Apologies-Encourages-unethica...

New comment by diabeetusman in "United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections"

diabeetusman — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 02:27:49 +0000

Not sure why you’re bringing up autopilot— the MCAS system runs even when the autopilot is disabled.

Edit: Also, how does the fault lie with the airlines? Boeing didn’t document the existence of MCAS in the flight manual or training materials.

New comment by diabeetusman in "We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score"

diabeetusman — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:24:59 +0000

Sorry, which video? Your [0] doesn't go anywhere :)

New comment by diabeetusman in "Intermittent fasting may negate need for diabetes drugs, small study suggests"

diabeetusman — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 21:53:36 +0000

I'm not seeing the reasoning behind intermittent fasting in particular as opposed to losing weight in general. Couldn't the title just have equivalently been "losing weight may negate need for [type 2] diabetes drugs"?

New comment by diabeetusman in "In defense of linked lists"

diabeetusman — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 23:40:28 +0000

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you're describing an Unrolled Linked List [1]? If so, neat!

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

New comment by diabeetusman in "A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA says"

diabeetusman — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 04:57:23 +0000

And < and > increase and decrease playback speed, for what that's worth

New comment by diabeetusman in "uBlock Origin 1.41"

diabeetusman — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:54:41 +0000

I actually found this useful the other day when I was shopping online on a bugged website. After I applied a filter, the loading spinner wouldn't go away, even after it had finished loading the filtered results.

I blocked the loading spinner element and the website worked perfectly after that.

New comment by diabeetusman in "Covid-19 is 10 times deadlier for people with Down syndrome"

diabeetusman — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 22:09:25 +0000

I'm not sure anyone here is saying that anyone should be aborted, but rather that people should have the choice to abort if that's what they decide.

New comment by diabeetusman in "AirPods Max"

diabeetusman — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:17:17 +0000

I'm not an audio engineer or a musician but I got custom IEMs and they were a great decision for me. My ears don't work with the majority of in-ear style audio devices out there for some reason-- my left ear is fine but everything falls out of my right.

Back when I flew a lot, I could have my IEMs in but not listening to anything and I could barely hear the engines. There was a crying baby behind me and I didn't know until I took them out (while listening to music almost as quietly as my phone would go).

It goes without saying, but they're also incredibly comfortable too.

New comment by diabeetusman in "Google makes breaking change to publishing Sheets as data"

diabeetusman — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:29:32 +0000

Created issue. A short description of the issue:

Private Sheet public CSV export requires authentication when set not to

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. create a private(!) Google Sheet

2. set public CSV export publication

3. access the endpoint without credentials

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? If you see error messages, please provide them.

You should receive a CSV file, you get HTML5 login form.

Please provide any additional information below.

Setting the Sheet to Public with a link fixes the problem, there's an obvious bug with the permissions taken from the Sheet, not the Export.

New comment by diabeetusman in "US Insulin prices 8 times higher than in other nations"

diabeetusman — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 19:52:18 +0000

Yes, in general it's worse across the board. It takes longer to start working and continues working longer, both things you want to avoid in short-acting insulins.