maximegarcia (u/maximegarcia)

maximegarcia commented on Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address 9to5google.com/2025/12/24... · Posted by u/geox

maximegarcia · 2 months ago

Same here, I have first.last since 2005: every combination of dots or not are aliases to my first.last and cannot be registered. There a thousands of first last in the world, and apparently, all of those that have a gmail account are also quite bad at giving their email address... ^^ They probably have firstlast123 and the numbers evade! I receive things daily, from simple accounts miscreated (thanks for the one month Netflix account 6 years ago) to plane tickets, notarized acts for land sell, medical things etc. I tried to respond etc. but no one understands that I'm not their recipient. Crazy.

maximegarcia · 2 months ago

As a matter of fact, I just wrongly received a confirmation email for the order of an engagement ring!

maximegarcia commented on Seven diabetes patients die due to undisclosed bug in Abbott's glucose monitors sfconservancy.org/blog/20... · Posted by u/pabs3

pixl97 · 2 months ago

>say you have to check with a finger thingy device, so why bother

So you don't die in the middle of the night.

I sometimes wonder when typing this if you ever remember life before a CGM?

maximegarcia · 2 months ago

I did the finger only for one month at the beginning. I'm glad CGM exists despite the limitations.

maximegarcia commented on Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address 9to5google.com/2025/12/24... · Posted by u/geox

bigstrat2003 · 2 months ago

I have a first.last email, but it's created quite the interesting situation. Turns out some dude in Australia has the same first+last name as me, and he's been using firstlast@gmail.com. As far as I can find from Google's documentation, the email with no dots should be the primary and the one with dots an alias, but I'm guessing because I registered mine ages ago (back in 2006) it takes precedence. I have no idea how he hasn't noticed that his gmail emails are going to another inbox - maybe Google delivers them to us both or something? Regardless, I've gotten very personal emails (like from his therapist) and tried to reach out explaining the situation and asked these parties to let him know he needs to stop using that email, but to no avail.

Honestly the one who is at fault here is Google. If first.last and firstlast are treated as aliases, they straight up should not allow people to create them once the first exists, rather than just send emails to someone else. I've tried to respect my Australian brother's privacy (like not reading his therapist's emails and such), but not everyone is gonna do that.

maximegarcia · 2 months ago

Same here, I have first.last since 2005: every combination of dots or not are aliases to my first.last and cannot be registered. There a thousands of first last in the world, and apparently, all of those that have a gmail account are also quite bad at giving their email address... ^^ They probably have firstlast123 and the numbers evade! I receive things daily, from simple accounts miscreated (thanks for the one month Netflix account 6 years ago) to plane tickets, notarized acts for land sell, medical things etc. I tried to respond etc. but no one understands that I'm not their recipient. Crazy.

maximegarcia commented on Seven diabetes patients die due to undisclosed bug in Abbott's glucose monitors sfconservancy.org/blog/20... · Posted by u/pabs3

jimrandomh · 2 months ago

I'm a T1 diabetic, have worked on open source diabetes-tech (OpenAPS), and have used a number of different CGMs (though not this one specifically). This story... does not make very much sense.

CGMs (of any brand) are not, and have never been, reliable in the way that this story implies that people want them to be reliable. The physical biology of CGMs makes that sort of reliability infeasible. Where T1s are concerned, patient education has always included the need to check with fingerstick readings sometimes, and to be aware of mismatches between sensor readings and how you're feeling. If a brand of CGMs have an issue that sometimes causes false low readings, then fixing it if it's fixable is great, but that sort of thing was very much expected, and it doesn't seem reasonable to blame it for deaths. Moreover, there are two directions in which readings can be inaccurate (false low, false high) with very asymmetric risk profiles, and the report says that the errors were in the less-dangerous direction.

The FDA announcement doesn't say much about what the actual issue was, but given that it was linked to particular production batches, my bet is that it was a chemistry QC fail in one of the reagents used in the sensor wire. That's not something FOSS would be able to solve because it's not a software thing at all.

maximegarcia · 2 months ago

Having high glucose levels won't kill you in the sort term, yes. But we cannot compare pre-diagnosis high blood sugar level (the body had that for months so it is accustomed to it) to the suddenty of it with cutting off insulin. In fact, things can spiral out quite quickly.

You see false low glucose figures, that last, you start reducing your slow acting insulin, you skip some fast acting insulin. Within 24h, ketoacidosis starts and you can start feeling nauseous. At some point, if you eat, you vomit. You are cornered: you don't have the carb intake to inject insulin, and you can't eat. Even worse, at some point, if you drink, you vomit, so you dehydrate, and it's a matter of hours to live. Shit happens fast, things can get critical is a few days.

Diabetes management is complicated, this is far from exact science, and having a good knowledge of everything is hard. I was already bitten by this cycle of nauseous feeling with slow acting skipped a few month after my diagnosis. I learnt to never ever skip slow acting insulin, even when blood sugar is through the floor. Prepare some apple juice and still go on.

I have Freestyle Libre 2, and it is quite a disappointing thing software-wise. I have to reverse engineer another app to get an API for my data, I have to go through Internet to get my blood sugar level (for a standalone display for example, so I can't make one that works "off grid", like... in my plane), they do sparse updates, they lag behind OS version by dizains of month for their apps, they have 10s of apps/websites, it is hard to understand. So I'm not surprised by poor bug management.

I wish some big names invest in a CGM device. Don't make it medical (even medical grade ones like Abbott & co say you have to check with a finger thingy device, so why bother), make it $500 one time plus $10-20/month, make it open about the data and you'll get everyone. Maybe no one want to invest because in 10/20 years Diabetes will be a thing of the past?

maximegarcia commented on Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know prateekcodes.dev/ruby-34-... · Posted by u/thomas_witt

maximegarcia · 7 months ago

Well it is not quite a mutable vs immutable strings war, nor Ruby being late to the party or something like that.

The move is so we can avoid allocating a string each we declare and use it since it will be frozen by default. It is a big optimization for GC mainly. Before we had to do such optimization by hand if we intend not to modify it:

    # before
    def my_method
      do_stuff_with("My String") # 1 allocation at each call
    end
    
    # before, optim
    MY_STRING = "My String".freeze  # this does 2 allocations with 1 at init being GC quite early

    def my_method
      do_stuff_with(MY_STRING)
    end

    # after
    def my_method
      do_stuff_with("My String") # 1 allocation first time
    end

But this move also complicates strings manipulation in the sense of it will lean users toward immutable ops that tend to allocate a lot of strings.

    foo.upcase.reverse
    # VS
    bar = foo.dup
    bar.upcase!
    bar.reverse!

So now we have to be deliberate about it:

    my_string = +"My String" # it is not frozen

We have frozen string literals for quite a while now, enabled file by file with the "frozen_string_literal: true" comment and I've seen it as the recommended way by the community and the de-facto standard in most codebase I've seen. It is generally enforced by code quality tools like Rubocop.

So the mutable vs immutable is well known, and as it is part of the language, well, people should know the ins and outs.

I'm just a bit surprised that they devised this long path toward real frozen string literals, because it is already ongoing for years with the "frozen_string_literal: true" comment. Maybe to add proper warnings etc. in a way that does not "touch" code ? I prefer the explicit file by file comment. And for deps, well, the version bump of Ruby adding frozen string literals by default is quite a filter already.

Well, Ruby is well alive and it is what matters)

maximegarcia commented on Ruby on Rails Audit Complete ostif.org/ruby-on-rails-a... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

Hnus · 8 months ago

Serious question: do people actually enjoy writing Ruby? I feel I’m writing in something like Bash. I never felt this way until I picked up other languages like Rust, Zig, C#, and learned a tiny bit of programming language theory. After that, the loose and squishy feel of Ruby really started to bug me. Also, it seems like every Ruby programmer I know only ever uses other dynamic languages like Python. It’s never like they’re experts in C++ or something and then decided to start programming in Ruby.

maximegarcia · 8 months ago

I do. It's a whole thing that get you down to writing your business logic in an expressive way very easily. Framework (Rails) helps, yes, but even pure Ruby can be nice. I've written a second time accuracy simulator for cars and chargers in a EV charging stations in pure Ruby, that was fast to iterate around and pleasant to write.

The ecosystem, toolchain and all do a lot. It is really missed when I do other languages, and I wish to find the same way of developing elsewhere. I currently do C for embedded in an horrible IDE, and I want to bang my head against the table each time I had to click on something on the interface.

(btw Python is a nightmare for me)

maximegarcia commented on Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate play2048.co... · Posted by u/terabytest

WesleyLivesay · a year ago

uBlock Origin blocks 330 items on that page, which I think is a personal record for the sites I have been to.

maximegarcia · a year ago

Consent banner says data sent to "901 partners"...

I like the game though, but I use the PWA made by Opera team at https://2048-opera-pwa.surge.sh/

maximegarcia commented on RP2040 successor will be RP235x, Arm M3 512k RAM, internal storage investors.raspberrypi.com... · Posted by u/ta988

maximegarcia · 2 years ago

Some excerpts, if you are region-locked:

- We are also designing and developing a more advanced family of microcontrollers, RP235x, which we expect to launch in the second half of 2024, as well as chipsets for use in our SBCs and compute modules for release thereafter.

- We continue to invest in the design and development of new SBC products, including successors to Raspberry Pi 5 and Raspberry Pi Pico, that will incorporate future semiconductor products, including RP235x. We intend to develop new products that address customer requirements such as industrial temperature tolerance and onboard non-volatile storage. We also intend to continue working to extend the long-term availability of our older SBCs

This means on-board flash !

- We are designing and developing a family of microcontrollers, RP235x, which will serve as successors to RP2040, and which we expect to launch in second half of 2024. RP235x products are designed to operate at higher speeds, use less power and provide greater security than RP2040.

maximegarcia · 2 years ago

I hope they'll do on board crystal and less noisy adc v_ref.

maximegarcia commented on RP2040 successor will be RP235x, Arm M3 512k RAM, internal storage investors.raspberrypi.com... · Posted by u/ta988

maximegarcia · 2 years ago

Some excerpts, if you are region-locked:

- We are also designing and developing a more advanced family of microcontrollers, RP235x, which we expect to launch in the second half of 2024, as well as chipsets for use in our SBCs and compute modules for release thereafter.

- We continue to invest in the design and development of new SBC products, including successors to Raspberry Pi 5 and Raspberry Pi Pico, that will incorporate future semiconductor products, including RP235x. We intend to develop new products that address customer requirements such as industrial temperature tolerance and onboard non-volatile storage. We also intend to continue working to extend the long-term availability of our older SBCs

This means on-board flash !

- We are designing and developing a family of microcontrollers, RP235x, which will serve as successors to RP2040, and which we expect to launch in second half of 2024. RP235x products are designed to operate at higher speeds, use less power and provide greater security than RP2040.

maximegarcia commented on What's new in the Postgres 16 query planner citusdata.com/blog/2024/0... · Posted by u/clairegiordano

davidrowley · 2 years ago

(Author of the blog and that feature here) This one did crop up on the pgsql-hackers mailing list. I very much agree that it's unlikely to apply very often, but the good thing was that detecting when it's possible is as simple as checking if a pointer is NULL. So, it's very simple to detect, most likely does not apply very often, but can provide significant performance increases when it can be applied.

maximegarcia · 2 years ago

That would be nice to also optimize SELECT DISTINCT foo FROM bar. It is usually very poor on big tables and we have to do recursive CTE. This comes a lot with admin builders for filters (<select >).