gorb314

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by gorb314 3y ago
If I were in your situation (which granted I am not) and mood swings related to blood sugar was a concern, I would pick up a simple finger-prick blood testing kit. It is fast, safe and most of all very accurate. That would then either put m
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by gorb314 3y ago
Just my two cents, but as a type 1 diabetic: I either want very accurate blood sugar readings, or none at all. And from what I know about people who don't suffer from diabetes: there is almost no reason to try and find out what your bl
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by gorb314 4y ago
I saw this post too; I didn't mention it here because it is not an officially documented file format structure. An open and documented format is almost always a better alternative, IMHO.
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by gorb314 4y ago
Not a feature, but an advantage: From what I can tell (I have only used PureRef so far) is that BeeRef has a open file format. For someone with their own image tagging system, it is hard for me to export an image query to PureRef. Having an
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by gorb314 4y ago
Thank you! The website is [1] A good example of a project page would be [2]. It shows the complete scratch build of a model tank, and is one of the more detailed step by steps. [1] https://www.vigilantesculpting.com [2] https:
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by gorb314 4y ago
My blog is about my hobbies: drawing, painting, sculpting and modeling. As I blog about my projects and their progress, my static site generator will aggregate posts tagged with the same project name, so that the project's page will sh
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by gorb314 4y ago
Yeah, I'm not 100% sure about syndication. Something server-like, but my blog is static (as are many others), so perhaps syndication is the only way?
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by gorb314 4y ago
Great suggestion, I'll check it the indieweb link
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by gorb314 4y ago
So I was thinking about the fediverse and blogging, and if we already have blogs then why not publish them using ActivityPub? As in, using your fediverse account to follow blogs instead of just other federated accounts. I know there is an r
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by gorb314 5y ago
Do I understand correctly? This basically means that instead of "Need more power? Use OpenGL." we will be able to "Need more power? Write a shader." ?
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by gorb314 5y ago
I think this is an interesting research direction. From my perspective though, being a T1, what I want is an even faster acting insulin than we already have, with a shorter "on" time. To explain: the shortest acting insulins we ha
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by gorb314 7y ago
We once went hiking in a newly opened area close to Mt. Kosciuszko, which had previously been decimated by fire. The new growth was so thick and high, it took us 6 hours to walk 5km (3mi), all the while hunting for the pink tags left by the
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by gorb314 7y ago
Yup. And wasn't there a similar thing in Neuromancer, with a gang of members wearing such urban camouflage?
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by gorb314 7y ago
Why don't you let the hobbyist decide what he or she thinks is safe to hack on. As a T1D myself, having to spend about 50% of my waking life second-guessing what my endocrine system is up to (with the same system screwing with my cogni
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by gorb314 7y ago
Boeing as a whole might not be "evil", the same way VW as a whole is not "evil". So going after the whole of Boeing may not be the right thing. At the same time, some high-up people in VW are paying for the emissions-che
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by gorb314 7y ago
Are you looking for Hyperswitch[0]? I've been using it ever since I needed to start using a mac. [0] https://bahoom.com/hyperswitch
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by gorb314 7y ago
I've got a related question: I'm looking for a (BASIC) programming book I loved as a kid. I can't quite remember the title, but it was something like "Programming for kids from 8 to 80". Googling for it doesn't
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by gorb314 7y ago
This article brings to my mind the joke about the physicist and spherical chickens in a vacuum.
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by gorb314 8y ago
Oh yes! Good times! I still have my copy somewhere.
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by gorb314 8y ago
I agree, even as a young kid with no idea how make the speaker even go beep (I was young, ok?) hearing the music/speech coming from Mean Streets was amazing. Everything else up to that point was just beeping and blipping... IIRC the vo
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by gorb314 8y ago
I am not a cryptologist, not a lawyer, and only a marginally capable software engineer. But I think we've had the option to send personally encrypted end-to-end messages for a while now. (Open)PGP anyone? So instead of using Signal, or
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by gorb314 8y ago
This book changed my worldview too. For me more the idea that the world is how you perceive it, that events and objects have more than one aspect, property or interpretation.
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by gorb314 8y ago
I like the basic script template that the author provides. However, when I start development of new code I always use a script that starts off with traceback and pdb, something like this: #!/usr/bin/env python impo
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by gorb314 8y ago
Interesting: are you saying that people with Type 2 that progressively get "worse", will eventually become Type 1 diabetics for the exact same reason? Forgive my asking again. I am a Type 1 diabetic, since age 7. I know that it is
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by gorb314 8y ago
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe one develops Type 1 in this case from general organ failure, not simply because the pancreas itself is being exhausted.
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by gorb314 8y ago
Nice work... I've ported this algorithm to Python, but mine is nowhere as succinct as yours (or the original). For my needs, I require the meshes to remain watertight (if the inputs are watertight), and this specific implementation do
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by gorb314 8y ago
Constructive Solid Geometry using BSP trees. There is a javascript implementation [0] which is where I saw it the first time, it is about 500 lines of fully commented code. The algorithm is so simple, I absolutely love it. Basically, when p
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by gorb314 8y ago
From my understanding, poka-yoke addresses the problem where "[...] the mistakes are allowed to reach the customer". In software, we know that the later a bug is caught, the more expensive (in terms of time / resources) it is
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by gorb314 8y ago
I think musl libc [1] has good quality code. If anything their build system is great. It makes the code much easier to navigate. [1] https://www.musl-libc.org
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by gorb314 10y ago
I'm the author of libb64[1], which (ab)uses the switch statement in a similar way to implement a base64 encoder and decoder. This was inspired in turn by "Coroutines in C"[2], written by Simon Tatham. [1] http://li

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