AFAIK most pulse oximeters themselves are plenty inaccurate (these "stick-on-your-finger" kinds), as they all work by the same mechanism.
My Apple watch always rates my O2 2-3% lower than my finger unit, likely due to my hairy wrist.
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temporallobe commented on Google is killing the open web wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia... · Posted by u/thm
+1 I think XML "lost" some time ago. I really doubt anyone would chose to use it for anything new these days.
I think, from my experience at least, that we keep getting these "component reuse" things coming around "oh you can use Company X's schema to validate your XML!" "oh you can use Company X's custom web components in your web site!" etc etc yet it rarely if ever seems to be used. It very very rarely ever feels like components/schemas/etc can be reused outside of their intended original use cases, and if they can they are either so trivially simple it's hardly worth the effort, or they are so verbose and cumbersome and abstracted trying to be all things to all people then it is a real pain to work with. (And for the avoidance of doubt I don't mean things like tailwind et Al here)
I'm not sure who keeps dreaming these things up with this "component reuse" mentality but I assume they are in "enterprise" realms where looking busy and selling consulting is more important than delivering working software that just uses JSON :)
XML might have “lost” but it’s still a format being used by many legacy and de novo projects. Transform libraries are also alive and well, some of them coming with hefty price tags.
temporallobe commented on AI-induced dehumanization (2024) myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley... · Posted by u/walterbell
As a Black Sabbath fan, I love that they envisioned dystopian stuff like this. Check out their Dehumanizer album.
temporallobe commented on Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/thm
BTW the O2 monitoring is inaccurate and unreliable compared to a proper pulse oximeter.
temporallobe commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac
It’s not necessarily driving me to piracy, rather disengagement because the aggressive and deceptive practices have become abusive. For example, I pay for Disney+/Hulu and tried to watch Fargo (the series) and finally gave up after being constantly interrupted with the same exact unksippable ads every 10 minutes. With YouTube Premium, it seems like every streamer just switched to “sponsored content” to get around the no-ad experience. It’s very disappointing and just causes me to lose interest.
The UK is quickly deploying surveillance state technology that people once decried China for. Whether or not this is ethical or useful, I wish the hypocrisy would be acknowledged. The OSA, the Apple encryption demands, LFR, …, it’s clearly a trend. Has society really become this dangerous that we must deploy these things?
Now I understand why Black Mirror is a British show.
temporallobe commented on JSON is not a YAML subset (2022) john-millikin.com/json-is... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker
If you really must embed JSON in YAML, just encode it to base64.
temporallobe commented on Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python (2009) wisdomandwonder.com/link/... · Posted by u/borski
This is one of many divides in the field that makes many general discussions hard.
There are many people who think of themselves as a “X programmer” (and perhaps Y and Z), and managers/companies looking for them.
Then there are people who think of themselves as software engineers, and the language does not really matter (and companies that hire for that).
If often see the two camps talking past each other.
I certainly consider myself a software engineer first and programmer second, and you’re right, the language doesn’t matter. I recently got a position developing in Python having never really used it professionally, but it’s so similar to other interpreted languages I knew so I was able to jump right in and start making meaningful contributions. Often we are expected to learn new languages, which is exactly how I picked up the 10ish languages I can confidently say I’m good in, despite never having been formally trained in those. Most common languages don’t stray from certain basic principles anyway.
temporallobe commented on Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python (2009) wisdomandwonder.com/link/... · Posted by u/borski
This is just an introductory language and if you’re in a CS program, you’ll definitely move on to more advanced ones. It actually makes sense to switch to Python since it’s far more ubiquitous and accessible than Scheme. Scheme is not widely used in commercial software development, but still enjoys a presence in academia. Python has strong presence in both.
On the other hand, Pascal was my “introductory” programming language (I already knew BASIC pretty well at that point), but it certainly wasn’t the only one in my program - we did Perl, Prologue, C, C++, etc.
In a professional software development career, it certainly won’t be the last language you’ll learn.
temporallobe commented on The Collapse of the FDA nytimes.com/2025/07/08/ma... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee
I’ve heard RFK say that it’s hard to ban TV ads for drugs. They are “speech” according to the 1st amendment, or something like that.
Too bad. News broadcasts are full of those ads, and hence TV journalists are loath to investigate the people that pay their salaries.
It’s baffling that TV ads for alcohol and cigarettes are illegal, but pharmaceuticals? That’s free speech!