Yeah I was looking at that. But I have prediabetes / insulin resistance, and in my local area, nobody cares until your pancreas completely kicks the bucket. Prevention of disease isn't really a thing here. That's why I went out and bought my own sensor, just to see what was going on. It was useful for seeing like, wait why did my blood sugar spike after breakfast? Oh I didn't realise overcooked oats were high gi. I changed it to raw oats in warm milk which is much smoother on the graph. But I would never qualify for that device because my problems don't show up on the 3 month A1C test. And after I optimised the 3 foods that were more spike-y than the rest, I had no use for the inaccurate glucose monitor.
Zarobi
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I used one for a while. It kept waking me up saying I was dying from low blood sugar at 2.4mmol (43mg/dl). Turns out if you sleep on it, it stops working, but the location means sleeping on my left side or my back causes it to fail.
Then, during the day, it says I'm at 9mmol (162mg/dl), but when I finger prick test to confirm it's only 7.2mmol (130mg/dl).
I just took it out after 6 days because it was completely inaccurate in my case. Maybe it's just incompatible with my biology or something, either way it was a waste of money for me. Makes me wonder if it has a similar problem as those finger pulse monitors, where it only works for certain skin types?
In my experience, "sleep experiments" are practically impossible if you live with any other humans. Your schedule kind of has to follow everyone else's, otherwise you end up lying awake in bed for hours with a eye mask and earmuffs while everyone else is stomping around lol
Humans slept twice in history because it made sense at that time. During winter, it was dark for 14 hours, which is way more sleep than what most people need. It also made sense to wake up and tend to the fire etc.
Humans in other situations, even modern hunter gatherer tribes, are very flexible with sleep. Some sleep through the night in one block, staying up later. Some wake up very early. Some take shifts or wake up multiple times during the night. It's a relatively modern concept that every person must sleep exactly 8 hours in one block; the reality is everyone's circadian rhythm is different. This was a beneficial trait for most of our history; it helped survival if a few people were awake during different times of the night.
The problem is, that we now all have clocks in our pocket, and time-based obligations. You can't go to bed at sundown, because you're probably still at work at that time, and haven't even eaten yet. You can't sleep in, because you have to get ready at 5am. If you wake up during the night, it's just a loss of sleep hours, there's no fire to tend anymore. As a society, we've also decided that sleep is a waste of time, and tried to replace it with caffeine.
I dunno what the solution is, but it's definitely a problem.
Mmm directly at fart level
Your double-down sarcasm is too powerful for us
I always used to quietly rebel against my boss when I did web development work. I'd spend the time making the pages actually accessible to screen readers and tab navigation and such. Even fixing my coworkers' code to be compliant.
I always thought it was a fun minigame, and it didn't even take that long. Little things like, icon buttons also need a text label, tabbing needs to follow a logical layout, shortcuts to jump to different parts of the page, actual tables and description lists.
I used to get in a lot of trouble for "wasting time" because "no blind people are using our software." Years later an audit happens and my boss is shitting himself. We get a passing grade for accessibility. I never got any recognition for it, but he stopped yelling at me for wasting time after that and just let me do my thing.
I think at the time, nobody realised how valuable a written transcript of 14 years of verified human conversations would become. "It's just internet comments." But it grew into so many people with unique problems and solution and discussions. Sometimes I imagine if we could somehow read and search that many people's conversations from 1000 years ago
But we need to take into account that the folded 2 ply becomes an effective 4 ply, so you're getting more ply per penny
That sounds nice. Wish we had an ADA, wouldn't even need to change the acronym lol
Yep. Stuff like The Ring girl, the slit mouth girl, along with the ancient ones like Yukki Ona, all sorts of Yokai exist. It basically encompasses all ghosts and fairy tales, though many are taken very superstitiously and seriously.
In my experience, those laws aren't followed much in reality. The biggest sites, sure, but most smaller sites are a mess under the hood. As long as something is "technically usable", even if very awkward and annoying, it's often hard to sue or anything like that. Maybe it's different in other countries though, I live in Australia.
Next time you use a website, try only using your keyboard to navigate it and accomplish your task, and you'll see what I mean. It's a rough test of how much they value accessibility. For example, many websites disable the border around what you're highlighting, so you have no idea what the tab button is about to click. Or popup windows don't actually change your tab selection, so you have to tab through literally the entire page in the background to get to the popup window. Stuff like that; technically usable but annoying as hell.
The people I've spoken to in real life (outside of Reddit and fediverse bubbles) are more interested in France changing their systems to Linux of all things, which rather surprised me. In their minds, that move gave it a lot of legitimacy.
Linux needs to change from "scary thing that sounds hard" to "easy thing that just works". If more big names adopt it that will help a lot. Projects like ZorinOS are also a great bridge.