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UomoNeroNero commented on In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip   hitachi.com/New/cnews/060... · Posted by u/julkali
rwmj · 5 days ago
The most amazing thing about this (and another tiny RFID chip that was on HN recently) is not that you can print them on wafers, but that you can cut up the wafers and handle these tiny dies. Imagine you manufactured sugar, but had to manipulate each sugar grain separately.
UomoNeroNero · 5 days ago
This is the really interesting Thing!!!! And: how they can have different ROM content (code) for each chip
UomoNeroNero commented on Objects should shut up   dustri.org/b/objects-shou... · Posted by u/gm678
SuzukiBrian · 20 days ago
My brand new car has a feature called forward attention warning which is driving me insane. It is essentially a small camera located at the steering wheel column which emit a series of high beeps and have an eye icon blink in the dashboard if the car doesn't think I am looking forward.

Cases in which this can happen. - I orient myself before overtaking another car on the highway or motorway. - I position my hand wrong on the steering wheel and the camera can no longer see me. - I put on sunglasses when I am driving against a low sun.

It can be turned off, but if you live in the EU it is required to enable itself once the car has been turned off/on.

It will also happily warn me if it thinks I am speeding based on errornous gps data. This feature also turns itself back on once the car has been turned off.

UomoNeroNero · 19 days ago
I’ll keep my stupid, non-digital 2010 car running until the day I die. They’ll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands. I’d rather register it as a vintage car and keep driving it.
UomoNeroNero commented on Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine   bbc.com/news/articles/cx2... · Posted by u/brudgers
mrlonglong · a month ago
First class candidate for the Darwin Awards.
UomoNeroNero · a month ago
It's awful to say, but sometimes it's interesting to see natural selection at work.
UomoNeroNero commented on Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses to the same meals   examine.com/research-feed... · Posted by u/Matrixik
nomel · 3 months ago
Do you see any relation to physical exertion of the day before/after? What about mental signals, like "I'm going to be walking a bunch tomorrow"?
UomoNeroNero · 3 months ago
I am a developer and i work from home. In my experiment i ruled out “any kind of movement” :-D (no, i am not a bag of fat, only a lotto e “not in perfect shape”). But. I can confirm that lot of stress and lot of coffe have a big and misurable effect.
UomoNeroNero commented on Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses to the same meals   examine.com/research-feed... · Posted by u/Matrixik
blindriver · 3 months ago
I've been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and wear a CGM. I find that my blood glucose spikes much later than what is suggested. For example, I might eat a meal and my blood glucose doesn't spike until after 2 hours. When it spikes, I see the body react with insulin and it drives my blood sugar levels down, so I'm not sure if I actually do have T2D or if this is just how my body works.

Another thing I've noticed is that if I eat a very rice-heavy meal, my blood sugar levels may rise throughout the night. I don't think this is insulin-resistance but rather my body digesting the rice. You can't expect the body to digest all the rice in 2 hours, can you, there certainly must be parts that are protected from the stomach acid until much later in the digestion process. So that feeds into the high blood sugar levels overnight in my opinion.

I think if anything, CGMs have opened up the idea of what diabetes really is and how different bodies handle blood sugar. I think I'm borderline T2D, not full-on T2D despite what my doctor says, and I've started wondering if my blood sugar has always been high, but normal for me. On average it's about 120 mg/dL, but I do see my body react properly to new sources of blood sugar and drive it back to "normal" levels, so the idea that I have insulin resistance doesn't make sense to me.

UomoNeroNero · 3 months ago
I’m diabetic and manage it with a CGM and insulin pump (HbA1c at 6.8 after many years of struggles).

For convenience and my experiment, I eat practically the same meals at lunch every day, precisely weighed, always starting from very similar morning glucose levels, and strictly respecting timing and consistency.

I NEVER get the same response. Never. It’s an experiment I’ve been running on myself for a year. It’s useful for me, but for the diabetes team following me, “that’s not possible, there must be other factors, it doesn’t show, it’s the ‘CGM algorithm’” (a mystical object no one knows anything about, except that it’s supposedly intelligent).

This study is interesting. I hope this kind of information, this doubt, trickles down into the medical community. Even though I don’t have much hope. Maybe in years and years.

UomoNeroNero commented on US Judge invalidates blood glucose sensor patent, opens door for Apple Watch   patentlyapple.com/2025/02... · Posted by u/walterbell
tehjoker · 6 months ago
does anyone with relevant scientific background know how accurate this kind of sensor could potentially be?
UomoNeroNero · 6 months ago
I manage my diabete with a "sensor" (Dexcom), an insulin pump, and a "loop device." I would NEVER use Apple Watch for therapy, and I don't think Apple wants to step into this minefield. BUT I guarantee you that having your glucose level as an (instantaneous/statistical) data point is a game-changer. There are "pre-diabetes" phases where even mild monitoring (and an alert) can be essential. And for those already in the tunnel, knowing you can have an additional "backup" alarm for hypo/hyper is very interesting (though, thinking about it, another alarm… no, better not :-D).
UomoNeroNero commented on Apple lashes out at iPhone porn app maker and the EU rules allowing its download   apnews.com/article/apple-... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
lapcat · 7 months ago
Right, because of course children are incapable of browsing the web.
UomoNeroNero · 7 months ago
Any teenager looking for porn find a way to gets porn. Nothing can stop them.
UomoNeroNero commented on Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence   vatican.va/roman_curia/co... · Posted by u/max_
kittikitti · 7 months ago
I just want to appreciate how well written and thought out this was. I have spent countless hours reading over ethics on AI, especially from Big Tech sources, but this note is leaps beyond. I compare this to the disastrous letter that effectively knee-capped American AI all while proposing flimsy AI ethics within about 500 words (https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experime...). This should be another red flag when America's $500 Billion Stargate project is being led by people including Sam Altman and Larry Ellison, who are singing doomsday prophecies while the Vatican is making sincere efforts to understand AI.

I'm really caught admiring this and think this may very well be the AI Magna Carta. There are so many gems and while many of the sources are based on Catholicism, there is also an incredible depth of research, even going into "On the foundational role of language in shaping understanding, cf. M. Heidegger." The note also builds upon numerous different discussions from the Vatican including this supplemental one, https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2024/ju...

UomoNeroNero · 7 months ago
Mamma mia. Yes, I totally agree with what you wrote: this is a landmark, profound, historic (and very courageous) document.
UomoNeroNero commented on Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence   vatican.va/roman_curia/co... · Posted by u/max_
kittikitti · 7 months ago
I just want to appreciate how well written and thought out this was. I have spent countless hours reading over ethics on AI, especially from Big Tech sources, but this note is leaps beyond. I compare this to the disastrous letter that effectively knee-capped American AI all while proposing flimsy AI ethics within about 500 words (https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experime...). This should be another red flag when America's $500 Billion Stargate project is being led by people including Sam Altman and Larry Ellison, who are singing doomsday prophecies while the Vatican is making sincere efforts to understand AI.

I'm really caught admiring this and think this may very well be the AI Magna Carta. There are so many gems and while many of the sources are based on Catholicism, there is also an incredible depth of research, even going into "On the foundational role of language in shaping understanding, cf. M. Heidegger." The note also builds upon numerous different discussions from the Vatican including this supplemental one, https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2024/ju...

UomoNeroNero · 7 months ago
One may or may not appreciate the religious aspect, but the Vatican has always been a hub for “refined thinkers.” And when it comes to establishing an (initial) point of discussion on such an ethically significant topic, I believe that the amount of thought distilled into this page has been considerable.
UomoNeroNero commented on People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/XzetaU8
aziaziazi · 7 months ago
> È un mondo difficile E vita intensa Felicità a momenti E futuro incerto

I was curious, for the other curious:

"It's a tough world And intense life Happiness in moments And uncertain future"

UomoNeroNero · 7 months ago
Diabetes is a complex and mentally demanding disease. It affects you in the short term and has a significant impact in the long term. Everything is in your hands, fully aware that every mistake has immediate consequences but, worse, accumulates over time. That phrase (from this song) perfectly capture the mental state of my 20 years living with the disease. No tragedy (there are worse things), just deep awareness.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cu3K1njbYqs

u/UomoNeroNero

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