daviddavis (u/daviddavis)

daviddavis commented on Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from Oct 25 community.hubitat.com/t/n... · Posted by u/RyanShook

dreamcompiler · 4 months ago

"Dumb" home devices work as expected for 25-50 years, and then you replace them.

"Smart" home devices work as expected for about a year and then they fail in new and exciting ways, and then you replace them.

daviddavis · 4 months ago

This is exactly why I’ve started only buying smart devices that work with Home Assistant and don’t rely on cloud services.

daviddavis commented on Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener ajcn.nutrition.org/articl... · Posted by u/hilux

fumufumu · 10 months ago

Is this a valid study? (most dietary studies are pretty poor)

Is it the lack of sugar or is that people who don't put sugar in their coffee have a bunch of other things they do? Maybe people who don't put sugar in their coffee are less likely to eat donuts. Maybe people who don't put sugar in their coffee are more likely to workout. Maybe people who don't put sugar in their coffee are more like to have better genes for T2D and that same collection of genes makes the predisposed to not put sugar in their coffee.

I'm not saying sugar isn't bad. It is! (I don't put sugar in my coffee) But, 1 teaspoon a cup doesn't sound like enough to have a measurable impact without knowing that everything else about the people is the same.

Reminds me this podcast

https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/252/gordon-guyat...

daviddavis · 10 months ago

It’s a study with Walter Willett and Frank Hu, who are probably the most highly regarded nutritional researchers working in the field.

Here’s a great video about how these researchers are using big data to reveal insights into nutrition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8JQtwLNKXg

daviddavis commented on Rust, C++, and Python trends in jobs on Hacker News (February 2025) martin.wojtczyk.de/2025/0... · Posted by u/wojtczyk

wojciii · 10 months ago

I write rust, c++ and python for a living. All in the same project.

Learning rust was painfull.

I tolerate c++, but I find modern c++ hard to understand. I hate gcc c++ error messages. They are the worst kind of error messages that I know.

Using Python for system testing is a godsend. This is where it shines .. but using poetry for package management is painful.

daviddavis · 10 months ago

Have you tried uv? I switched to it from poetry a couple months ago. It’s not perfect but I’m enjoying it a lot more than poetry.

daviddavis commented on US spent more on health care in 2022 than 6 countries combined with universal statnews.com/2023/12/19/u... · Posted by u/pseudolus

kethinov · 2 years ago

While I am very enthusiastic about reforming our system to a single payer system, one fact about the US that is unique that a lot of people on my side of the issue need to understand better is that making our healthcare system more socialized will almost certainly not bring down the costs. It may even go up.

One of the big factors driving the lower costs of healthcare in other countries isn't the cost savings from socializing it, it's the fact that the US essentially subsidizes the entire drug research industry and the rest of the world doesn't have to pay for that like we do.

So even with single payer healthcare, we're still gonna have to be the nation that shovels all the money into the drug industry. I don't personally see a problem with that per se. We are a rich country. We should pay the lion's share. But the cost shouldn't be so directly passed on to consumers in the form of insane drug prices. Switch to a prize system in exchange for taking stuff off patent or something, e.g. the federal government buying the patent whenever something new comes out for an extremely high one time price, then let the generics market go nuts with it. That would bring down consumer prices without eviscerating drug company profit margins and destroying their incentive to innovate.

daviddavis · 2 years ago

> the US essentially subsidizes the entire drug research industry

This isn’t entirely true. The US does pay more for drugs but a lot of this money isn’t spent on research. In fact pharmaceutical companies spend far more on advertising than research:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...

daviddavis commented on Impact of breakfast skipping compared with dinner skipping pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

paulpauper · 3 years ago

i don't get why some studies have so few partipants. How hard is it to recruit people for something like this? We're not talking rare diseases.

daviddavis · 3 years ago

Nutritional studies are notoriously difficult to conduct. You either have to isolate subjects and monitor everything they eat and when. Or you have to rely on self reported data and people do an atrocious job of tracking food, estimating portion size, etc.

This study did the former:

> The duration of the study is 7 days including 3 days with controlled diet and 4 days (including 5 nights) in a metabolic chamber at the Institute of Nutritional Medicine at the University of Hohenheim.

I imagine it was prohibitively expensive to have more participants.