How long did you fast for? Or did you do intermittent fasting?
A little of both. Intermittent fasting didn't seem to have an impact. Longer fasts (longest I've done is 3 days) definitely do, I seem to have better control for the days following it.
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I've experienced quasi-remission twice now. Both times when I got so sick from food in a foreign country that I couldn't eat for days (and had no appetite for it either). I lived on water. Afterwards, for 1-2 weeks, I did not require insulin (while eating a lot).
I used to think it was due to the pills they gave me there, or perhaps due to the bacteria (or virus?) causing some strange temporal abating of auto-immune response and regrowth of beta-cells. But seeing this is making me reconsider that (I was doubting the effect of the medicine since I took some home and took it in a healthy state but did not get the good effects).
I've been Type 1 for 20+ years and have measurable remissions based on blood tests. Low level functioning of pancreas again.
The thing that moved the needle for me was fasting + ultra running (which from my understanding implements a fasting-like response by the body in some ways).
Interesting that not eating for a while correlated with what seems like increased pancreatic activity...
The five stages of grief
Denial: "Tableau will become a tool in the Salesforce toolbox that major players will continue to use."
Anger: "Salesforce executives mentioning Tableau less than Slack or Mulesoft on their public calls ... Meanwhile, Microsoft's Power BI is on a hot streak."
Bargaining: "I believe it'll be a consistent player at large institutions who typically go through complex project and procurement processes."
Depression: "It will no longer be the hot new tool that will be embraced by SMBs. The community will not have the hope and excitement it had in the 2010s."
Acceptance: "The magic is no longer there and that's ok. Nothing lasts forever."
Haha this is spot on.
dsaavy commented on Americans don't believe middle class can afford homes newsweek.com/americans-do... · Posted by u/safaa1993
"believe" is a funny word to use for a mathematical equation
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Anytime I see layoffs like this, All I hear is "We hired for the sake of hiring when money was cheap and we wanted to signal 'growth', But now reality has set in and we need our employees to serve a purpose beyond simply headcount".
In my opinion they did these employees a disservice by hiring them in the first place. We need our companies to act more responsibly regardless of the price of capital. Innovate sure, but don't fill up your tank when gas is cheap just to do doughnuts in the parking lot.
A business by definition is not a valuable and transferrable business if every single person (including the C-suite) cannot be replaced without the business collapsing.
No one is immune to this or an exception. Top to bottom.
dsaavy commented on 'AI' Is Supercharging Our Broken Healthcare System's Worst Tendencies techdirt.com/2023/11/21/a... · Posted by u/rntn
We’ve had a flex spending account (HSA wasn’t an option) that we were only putting as much in as we were sure we’d spend, rejecting a very high rate of payments this year, even from doctor’s offices (WTF do you think that’s for?!) and demanding documentation, seemingly with no rhyme or reason. Seems like they’re actively trying to keep us above the roll-over limit so they can steal our money, which isn’t something we’ve experienced with health flex accounts in the past.
Wonder if we’re “beneficiaries” of the AI revolution. Or just an “if” statement triggering off a random number.
I agree, sounds like their systems are optimizing based on the roll-over limit.
Basically I'm just going back to cash pay and negotiation for everything either before the visit, or at the facility. Then using alternatives to health insurance for the original purpose of insurance (lol), to cover unexpected events.
dsaavy commented on 'AI' Is Supercharging Our Broken Healthcare System's Worst Tendencies techdirt.com/2023/11/21/a... · Posted by u/rntn
> Even when users successfully appealed these AI-generated determinations and win, they’re greeted with follow up AI-dictated rejections just days later, starting the process all over again.
Wait, what? Does that mean they can just take your money and reject your request to cover treatment until you die even if you had every right to do so?
Yep, and ever since a certain insurance provider has switched to an AI system, I've had nearly all my Type 1 Diabetic prescriptions rejected (that I've had no problem getting for over a decade).
Then it takes hours on the phone for every prescription to finally get one approved. Rinse and repeat every 3 months.
dsaavy commented on Uses and abuses of cloud data warehouses materialize.com/blog/ware... · Posted by u/Malp
BigQuery is pretty great. The serverless by default setup works very well for most BI use cases. There are some weird issues when you're a heavy user and start hitting the normally hidden quotas.
There are some ways around the heavy user issues that aren't ideal but will work for BI-oriented heavy users.