bencurthoys

@bencurthoys@universeodon.com

Founder, Monad Ticketing.
Trustee, The Maltings Berwick.
Committee Chair, The Red Balloon Preschool Group.
T1 Diabetes newb.
He/him. Berwick-upon-Tweed. Searchable.

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antlerboy, to random
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Steward Brand's 'How Buildings Learn' — AB+C 107 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOHz8G6gPF8&t=1s

bencurthoys,

@antlerboy I remember watching this on channel 4 in the late 90s and it has stuck with me. Need to give it a full rewatch, if only I had the time.

bencurthoys, to random

I'm really getting the hang of xDrip and prefer it to Libre Link but...

"A man with one glucose monitoring app knows what his blood sugar level is. A man with two is never sure."

bencurthoys, to random

Freestyle Libre is reading 17.7

Highest it's been since the week after I was diagnosed. Panic stations, correction dose of insulin, and the numbers kept going up. So I tried the blood prick.

Blood prick test says 9.9

Joy. Guess I'm replacing this sensor early then.

#diabetes #t1

bencurthoys,

@derivadow Sensor ends in a couple of days anyway, and the incorrect result is at least correlated with the real blood sugar so not useless. So I guess the biggest irritation is that it's uploading incorrect data to the clinic via libre link.

bencurthoys,

@derivadow It seems crazy there's no way of entering an adjustment or calibration, but then I'm not wishing for the horrible ux of having to fill in or scroll past pages of numbers I don't want to have to understand to make it work with some open alternative.

If only it were feasible to build software in which simple things are simple AND complex things are possible. /le sigh

bencurthoys,

@derivadow Looking for something that works on Android I thought I'd try juggluco and this is janky-ass configuration screen is EXACTLY what I was expecting :)

bencurthoys,

@AcidePoulain No, it's not that, my actual blood prick readings are still within range, the libre still 10 points higher 10 hours later.

bencurthoys,

@derivadow Well, got it xDrip+ working...

bencurthoys,

@derivadow I see it can upload data to every kind of cloud service except for LibreLink the one I need, and can integrate with every kind of smart watch except for Garmin, the one I have...

bencurthoys,

@derivadow Sorry I didn't mean LibreLink, I meant LibreView, the one you use to upload data to the nurses.

One thing I'm really unclear on with xDrip is the extent to which is breaks LibreView / requires you to uninstall LibreView / etc.

Right now, with this duff sensor, I have LibreView and xDrip both talking to it, and both seem to have up-to-date data - the LibreView data wildly off because it's not calibrated, the xDrip data approximately ok.

When I replace the sensor, from what I can tell from https://xdrip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install/libre2/#starting-libre-2-sensors, I have to use LibreLink to start the sensor, and then disable LibreLink, and then wait for it to warm up, and then scan it in xDrip, and then tell xDrip that I did NOT start the sensor today.

I'm not sure why I need to disable LibreLink, given that they seem to be cohabiting happily now, or whether it's possible to still use LibreLink (e.g. for LibreView uploads) if I'm mostly using xDrip.

Obviously worried about breaking a sensor by scanning it wrong.

gothnbass, to Goth

Arrival! We're finally at M'era Luna, complete with meds, and the first vodka has been drunk.
In directly related news, Lufthansa is on my shit-list. How does a German company fuck up logistics this badly?
#MeraLuna #Goth #WeCameToDance

bencurthoys,

@gothnbass A Facebook friend is on his way and complaining of difficulties too, having made it only as far as Hanover, via Amsterdam.

ColinTheMathmo, (edited ) to random
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OK, time for a poll.

Seen elsewhere:

"If I flip a coin 100 times and it lands heads every time, what will it most likely land on the next flip?"

bencurthoys,

@ColinTheMathmo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_TfdNAXOwE

bencurthoys,

@ColinTheMathmo Anyway, if we stick h = 100 and t = 0 into

bencurthoys,

@ColinTheMathmo which is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checking_whether_a_coin_is_fair because I'm not doing it from first principles.

bencurthoys,

@ColinTheMathmo then we get the probability density function f(r) where r is the true probability of observing a head as 101 r^100, which is another way of saying that r is so close to 1 that it doesn't matter =)

bencurthoys, (edited )

@strife @ColinTheMathmo You are given a coin about which you have no information other than, when tossed 100 times, it came up heads 100 times, and your assumption based on that single fact is that the coin is fair?

bencurthoys,

@strife @ColinTheMathmo Currently, there are about 29 billion coins in circulation in the UK :

https://www.royalmint.com/corporate/circulating-coin/uk-currency/mintages/

Suppose that ONE double headed coin was added to that circulation.

Have a think about what's more likely - that you've found the double headed coin at a 1 in 29 billion chance, or that a fair coin gave you 100 heads in a row by chance...

raiderrobert, to random
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A software user’s hierarchy of needs:

Working -> Correct -> Performant -> Delightful

bencurthoys,

@raiderrobert but then the software developer's sales team bang on and on about the delightful features they think they need to sell the system, and you spend all your time building delighters for them to show off in demos, and you don't have time for anything else, and eventually the system stops being performant, then it stops being correct, then it stops working.

bencurthoys, (edited ) to random

I have a requirement to store durations in a Sql Server database. I'm currently just storing it as "ticks".

The problem is, if what you're representing is a rule that says "Tickets for the show go on sale 90 days before the show start date time", and the show starts at 18:00 just AFTER the clocks change, then 90 days represented as 90 days x 24 hours x 60 minutes x 60 seconds x 1000 milliseconds = lots of ticks means that the show will go on sale at 17:00 or 19:00 and not 18:00, because when the clocks change you get a day of either 23 or 25 hours.

Which is a pain.

bencurthoys,

I don't want to create loads of separate columns because I repeat this duration as a pattern in many different tables. So I am looking at creating a user defined data type for durations, that will allow me to store ticks and days and months and years conveniently together (When I'm storing the duration of a membership that is supposed to last one year I don't want it to go off-by-one on leap years).

bencurthoys,

I am surprised to see in Microsoft's example of a "Point" UDT that it's implemented by storing strings in the underlying database, and building and parsing those strings:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/clr-integration-database-objects-user-defined-types/creating-user-defined-types?view=sql-server-ver16

bencurthoys,

Now, in my use case, I'm going to be scanning a large-ish table of performances, and a table of on sale rules, and putting them together in order to work out which performances are supposed to be on sale right now.

So my question is, just in case anyone has actually used this, so I don't waste lots of time trying it out for myself: does parsing all those strings not absolutely FUCK performance? #sqlserver #mssqlserver #clr

governa, to random
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Canonical's interview process step by step

https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/15kj845/canonical_the_recruitment_process_really_is_that/

bencurthoys,

@governa Obviously that wanted to be really really sure that they only hired people with a really really high tolerance for bullshit.

I wonder why that could be?

rodhilton, to random
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I watch movies when I work out, but I don't work out for 2 straight hours so I watch them in little episodes, takes a few sessions to get through a whole movie.

One of the greatest tortures is when a movie is released that I want to watch at the gym, but I still haven't finished with the one I'm in the middle of so I have to wait.

This happens often but I am being uniquely tortured by the fact that Spider-Man Across the Multiverse is out and I'm still in the middle of... The Meg 2.

bencurthoys,

@rodhilton It is ok to have a dnf pile.

bencurthoys, to random

Back dealing with the UK mandatory pension bullshit. Our company has two employees, myself and my brother, who are both also shareholders and directors, and neither of whom wants a poxy automatic-enrolment pension.

How long is it going to take me to complete my mandatory re-enrolment and re-declaration of compliance?

Probably fucking days.

bencurthoys,

@clenpen If you own a big business, the Tories have your back. If you work for a big business Labour and the Unions are in your corner. If you own or work for a small business, no one gives a fuck about you.

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