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He still works at WDI.

High blood sugar should be considered a symptom. High blood sugar can be caused by: 1) Having enough basal or "baseline" insulin but eating too many carbohydrates. This will lead t…

The unfortunate part is gimp is intensely useful software with many amazing features...buried under such an awkward interface. I used it today for doing a color range selection to …

I work in vfx, and we had a lecture from one of the art designers that worked with some formula 1 teams on the color design for cars. It was really interesting on how much work goe…

If you want a book that is more technical and really gives a sense of what the scope of the project was, I'd highly recommend The Los Alamos Primer by Serber which was the intro le…

I remember seeing a very similar system at wright-patterson afb in ohio that was used for a flight simulator. The model was mounted vertically on a wall and at a much smaller scale…

I really love Guy Ritchie's tip of the hat in The Gentlemen from Hugh Grant's character where when talking about watching a conversation through a telephoto lens he says, "But I fi…

I have a love/hate relationship as well, mostly because I grew up within bicycling distance and spent way too much time at the museum. The XB-70 used to be parked outside right in …

As a funny aside, I had applied to lucas arts around 1996 and never heard back from them. I ended up getting a job at industrial light and magic (as they were both companies under …

And the voice acting was amazing. Especially for a game. I think I have rose colored glasses as I remember the game being difficult in the sense of lots of walking around trying to…

Hi, Ack --> I misread your article and thought your child was 14 years old, not 4. I don't believe kids that young qualify for any of the auto-adjusting toolkits. The medtronic has…

I really like the welch labs series on imaginary numbers which covers the first part of what you talk about -- leveling up the notion of what a complex number is. Though his focus …

First of all -- awesome! Second, if you aren't aware or in case others are interested, the main dev from the xdrip project released a custom watch as well: https://bluejay.website/…

There is a lot of discussion here about IP theft. Honest question, from deepseek's point of view as a company under a different set of laws than US/Western -- was there IP theft? A…

Debt is a common trope in Korean shows and establishes the characters are destitute and answers why they would become contestants in this show. Then the show creator has the set up…

This post is factually incorrect. Eating carbohydrates cannot cause Diabetic Ketoacidosis. Ketoacidosis is caused by not having enough insulin which means glucose can't exit your b…

There was something I always wanted to ask him: He was so meticulous is setting up new identities and moving to random places around the country to avoid the authorities. But would…

I'm not sure about power licenses, but for gliders (sailplanes, not hang-gliders), you could solo at 14 via a student license that required instructor supervision. You could get a …

Can you tell me the difference between your product on the types of prescription cgm + insulin pump combos like dexcom/tandem which offer some level insulin control? I'm just curio…

I believe you are confusing Type I diabetes and Type II diabetes. Type I diabetes your immune system destroys your insulin producing cells. You need to provided all of your insulin…

I would add that there are really challenging problems and continual technical development. And since each movie comes with its own new set of requirements, each one is a fresh sla…

You are correct in that the industry as a whole is not union. Most of the smaller vfx houses are not union. However some of the larger vfx houses like ILM and some of the feature a…

My first job was at Industrial Light and Magic during the first star wars prequels and paid $11/hr, with OT after 8 hours, so about $32k/yr. If you didn't like it, others were line…

The Formula 1 Tech Talks had a discussion of heat dissipation in the cars. The interesting part was the limited space available between engine shape and aero requirements means tha…

I follow racing more than NFL, and I think Formula1 and Motogp have streaming figured out Formula1: $80 usd for the entire season. No stopping the race for ads, but they digitally …