robbiep

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Comment · 21 days ago
JFC first release of photocraft was 2 October
Comment · 22 days ago
It’s reasonably close to the economic murder/suicide the US has caused with its rubbish crack at Iran
Comment · 1 month ago
As a doctor, that is a great way to report pain. Most of the time we’re asking for ballpark and trend reasons though. If I come and it’s a 3 first time, then a 5, then a 7, that’s good and I can do something about that. If it’s a 8-9 and the patient is in their phone, and it stays 8-9, well the absolute magnitude may be less of a concern to me.

Regardless, if someone comes in and reports high pain I am going to administer strong painkillers (I work in emergency departments)

Comment · 1 month ago
I appreciate you taking the time to reply - that helps a lot. So essentially I get this and plug it into the CN105 port, and then everything will be in home assistant and I can get room/zone temperature control via BLE as well.
Comment · 1 month ago
That’s incredible.

I have an airtouch which I love but my parents have a Mitsubishi system that I’m fairly sure would be compatible, and a large floor space to manage.

Apologies for the question, but for multi zone, you mention that the controller can pick up temperature. My understanding was that temperature is only captured at the intake, not in zones? (I’m familiar with airtouch where I have ?BTLE temperature sensors in the rooms/zones that are paired to my system). But how does this work with a Mitsubishi zoned system? Or am k over-reading the capabilities. (Or is it a similar deal, I just haven’t seen where to acquire these zone temp sensors from)

Comment · 1 month ago
One of the reasons this is such a long bow to draw is that, as you have absurdly reiterated and an earlier commenter posited, this is Lamarckism. If it is true, where are all the sapient reindeer and other animals that have consumed these substances as a species for as long or longer than we have existed?
Comment · 1 month ago
If there are actually people out there walking around thinking that just getting the trains running on time justified the murder of 6 million ‘undesirables’ or many different shades, and this isn’t just some epic troll, then we are way more cooked than I had dared believe. And I don’t think you can hand wave away such large and obtuse generalisations by saying ‘Poe’s Law applies’.

Arguing on the internet has always been a fool’s game, and there have always been people who have made sport of it for the lolz, but honestly, why even entertain such vacuous opinions for outrage’s sake on a forum like this?

Comment · 1 month ago
If you believe that the people who will profit from new, better, more hyped models are the same ones who will act against their own immediate and tangible self interest to try and avert what seems to them to be a far away removed possibility of total disaster, then I believe you are naive
Comment · 2 months ago
Can you be specific about what your bloodwork results showed and what special insights your CGM gave you and what behavioural changes it led to?

My anecdotal experience from doctor colleagues giving CGM to patients is that it does 3/5ths of fuck all to everyone except those with actual insulin dependent diabetes (T1 or T2) because when you get down to it the insights aren’t that great and most people actually aren’t that invested in shifting the dial on their health that much. But I’m fascinated by examples to the contrary

Comment · 2 months ago
What is going on with your account? Years of barely posting, and now lots of poor English highly controversial posts. Is this a sock puppet account?
Comment · 2 months ago
I had to check that, It is 129 million
Comment · 3 months ago
To the best of my knowledge fish eggs are fertilised outside the body
Comment · 3 months ago
There is an api to present the modal and manage the reporting but the developer has to instantiate the showing of it. If you leave that out then it never presents
Comment · 3 months ago
I was trying to understand how to do this, and I formed the opinion that most of the battery providers don’t really allow the degree of ‘on/off’ or ‘charge/discharge’ customisation as might be necessary to make this work? Or was I fooled by the packaged products that are aiming to turn me and my battery and panels into a residential power plant at the whim of the energy company?
Comment · 3 months ago
You know what already detects breast cancer? Mammograms followed by ultrasound.

We have screening programs for a reason. We know the sensitivity and specificity of these. They are widely available in any rich country that doesn’t treat its citizens like shit. There will absolutely be better stuff out there as we progress, with better sensitivity/specificity and lower harm (everything medical has some harm quotient) but I have a hard time wrapping my head around how they will best physics to provide better than state of the art today with this technology (and bow they will beat availability of current screening systems)

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