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Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
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Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
#222Yes, I gave myself tinnitus while working on audio code.
Turns out debugging audio code and wearing headphones is a bad idea when your code sometimes randomly generates sample value changes from -1.0 to 1.0 :o
Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, it is one of the therapies I am currently studying as I have had success with it but it does not scale. The reason I want to do this is so that I can create a Medicare/Medicaid E2E single payer solution that provides these solutions to everyone. Even people on the lower socioeconomic rungs. The pandemic was really hard for me and I have been behaving very recklessly in terms of my own health but I have been very…
Wait, did you co-opt the term "Medicare" to use for your project? (medicare.dev) I'm not so sure the government would like that name.
Because I am "literally" trying to recreate a better version of medicare and Medicaid. Those terms are not trademarked. If you look at Medicare.gov and Medicare.com you can see, the term is actually used a ton and the gov does not care. They care much more about bad-faith actors. One of the main benefits is I don't have to tell "regular" people what I am trying to do. This is my "moon-shot project so even if it was an issue I would not change it just to cause a big fuss and get the press from it. The bigger issue was using all of the state HHS logos, but they don't really care about that either.
In preparation for my big launch I needed to test the "do they care" theory so I literally did 2 press releases.
1 targeted directly at the D.C. area and one nationally, every contact they have made with me has been a positive interaction.
https://www.kpvi.com/news/national_news/award-winning-progra...
I paid for someone to handle this for me, really embarrassed by the title but in their defense I have won 7 health hackathons; much of that work inspired what I am doing here.
Ideally I get to a point where my systems are so much better than theres that I can promote services from .dev to .gov, I really have not thought that far ahead but I would love to discuss.
Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
#224About seven years ago I got a bright idea to build a quadcopter. I had experience with little $25-50 drones that bumped around the house with their fragile one-inch propellers, which obviously qualified me to build and pilot something significantly bigger. Off to Aliexpress and Banggood I went. I ordered a carbon-fiber chassis, big strong motors, ESCs, 3-inch propellers, a FrSky receiver, a Devention transmitter, an…
tl;dr: Experience makes dangerously careless. Examples: quadcopters, lasercutters. I had a similar scenario with the same preconditions. In this case, one of the propellers came off and barely missed a face. This was a 10 inch hard plastic prop with some sharp edges. It could've taken an eye out. It could've caused serious cuts. It could've been a carbon fiber prop and caused _serious_ cuts. Of course it could also h…
> Probably everyone should wear safety goggles. But nobody does
well, some of us do, it's called 'FPV'.
Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
#225Yes, I setup a DDP to figure out how I can make my own TNF blockers using nutrient intake optimization.... yada yada yada. Immunomodulators and the immune system are really complex and now I have 2 detached retinas.
What is a DDP? I tried searching but couldn't find anything that seemed relevant
Drug Discovery Pipeline
https://www.google.com/search?q=DDP+drug+discovery+pipeline&...
Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure I have any useful advice; I get the impression you're doing incredibly well for someone with no formal training. On the one hand you might benefit from someone with a more rigorous background helping you avoid known non-obvious risks, but on the other hand almost all such people are going to run screaming because your risk tolerance is way higher than theirs. Having a chronic condition for which the exis…
Maybe a buddy who knows what you are taking (but doesn't tell it to you) and provides a sanity check?
All of my "buddies" kind of abandoned me pre-pandemic. Much of what was driving me here was boredom, curiosity and solitude.
The CEO/Founder at my old job used to kind of check-in on me from time to time via slack, she thought my work was cool which kind of helped me keep going once I was no longer at the company.
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tl;dr - too much modafinil. Yes, I have Crohn's and I do not like to take the meds or listen to the doctors. This is NOT AT ALL SOMETHING I RECOMMEND, PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT IT. Crohn's is an auto-immune disease and the main class of drugs that is used to treat Crohn's like mine (long term) are called TNF inhibitors or TNF blockers. TNF alpha triggers the production of several immune system molecules, including interl…
Having worked in research on Crohn's this sounds wild. Why would you not take the biologics if you can afford them? Side effects? What you do is of high risk to yourself and of no value to others.
Because they do not scale and they are not required. I would love to go into more detail if you shoot me an email we can discuss.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would a drill be engineered to put out more torque than a human holding the handle could be expected to counterbalance?
Price, there are some fancy battery powered drills that detect the jerk via an accelerometer and reduce the power, but most drills don't have that. for example: https://www.boschtools.com/ca/en/more/news-and-extras/knowle... For a continuous drilling operation the torque is totally fine, the problem is abrupt changes in torque because of something catching. On drills without this feature that's what the torque limiti…
Dunno about Bosch's implementation, but the Milwaukee one sucks. The drill/impact driver would strip the screw head, jerk your wrist, and then cut the power. I'd much rather have a mechanical clutch than than that one.
We actually had an older drill with the mechanical clutch with a stripped high gear that we kept around for driving screws instead of tossing because the new one was so bad.
Re: Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
#229Easily. Got ear infection (!) from an unexpected, very loud random noise in my headphones (just one channel) as a result of a bug in my CoreAudio code. What does CoreAudio do if your floating point audio buffer is filled with random numbers? That's right, it plays random noise at the maximum possible level, bypassing the system volume setting. Why ear infection? I have no idea, but my GP explained that it's quite pos…
> it plays random noise at the maximum possible level, bypassing the system volume but why bypassing the system volume? It does not make sense to me.
I hit this bug just the other night, and I think what caused it was accidentally sending NaNs to the audio API. That bypassed whatever clamping functions were in place, and just produced an ear-piercing shriek. Very unpleasant.
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
tl;dr - too much modafinil. Yes, I have Crohn's and I do not like to take the meds or listen to the doctors. This is NOT AT ALL SOMETHING I RECOMMEND, PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT IT. Crohn's is an auto-immune disease and the main class of drugs that is used to treat Crohn's like mine (long term) are called TNF inhibitors or TNF blockers. TNF alpha triggers the production of several immune system molecules, including interl…
What in the everliving biohacking heck? I though I was leaning into things by modulating my caffeine levels based on workload (just dissolved in liquid and pouring out X mls based on need). I've thought about having a dispenser I could track metered doses with, but arionhardison here has a robotic pill press. Man, I gotta up my game now. I wouldn't be comfortable without some sort of closed loop to be reasonably conf…
I am using pre-diluted (or mash paste) in some cases, I have no idea how else to do it. I would actually need a mechanical weighting system and that would be really hard to manage. Moda was not really a liquid mixture but more of a paste at this point and I use stops in the vile. For example. Each vile has 5 stops and each stop has a MG associated with it. There are smarter ways of doing this im sure but they involve more ME than I know how to do.