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I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours

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Re: I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours

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Post by 0x1ch »

senectus1 wrote: post #28
pinkmuffinere wrote: post #19

> I tried feeding a lot of this into various Als (Kagi gives you access to a few with a nice interface) and I found that they mostly were stupid in ways that made me think "stupid in ways that made me think" is (IMO) a really good summary of how AI is useful, as well as its pitfalls.

yup, its a decent "Rubber duck" and an ok search engine.

This would imply most LLMs on the market are decent rubber ducks. Search engines unrelated. Kagi isn't changing too much (I think) besides adding additional context from search results to your requests for XYZ LLM.

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Post by mijoharas »

Moto7451 wrote: post #37
supportengineer wrote: post #33

Not a single comment in here about Bottles - what exactly is it?

https://usebottles.com/ These have been around since I last used WINE in anger on macOS. Basically think of it as a container for running an app in WINE with all the settings predefined for best compatibility. The homepage doesn’t really highlight this but you can look through the docs for more information.

Have you used it/would you recommend it?

It's been a long time since I used wine (or any windows software really... Yay!) but I'm sure the requirement will pop up again sooner or later.

Should I check out bottles the next time it comes up?

Re: I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours

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Post by mijoharas »

kuylar wrote: post #40
supportengineer wrote: post #33

Not a single comment in here about Bottles - what exactly is it?

Bottles is essentially a frontend for Wine, it lets you put every single app to its own WINEPREFIX, so that each one can have their own settings, C: drive, etc. If you've heard of Lutris, Bottles is essentially the same thing, but aimed at general software instead of only focusing on games

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45894878

Re: I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours

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Post by adastra22 »

6LLvveMx2koXfwn wrote: post #6
pavel_lishin wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have an intense phobia of dentists; if I were wearing a constant monitor, I bet you could tell when I was at the dentist just by watching the blood pressure and heart rate spikes. (You'd have to find some way of differentiating them from me being in a car accident, or being attacked by a werewolf.)

It's interesting that you have a baseline for 'being attacked by a werewolf'.

You don’t??

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Post by adastra22 »

alexfoo wrote: post #17
cestith wrote: post #2

Regarding white coat hypertension, the shot isn’t always necessary. Some people’s blood pressure just goes up from the stress of the clinical setting.

White coast hypertension isn't just about a clinical setting, it's more generally about the worry about the results of having your BP measured. [EDIT] OK, well maybe there's another type of hypertension which is related to anxiety about a high result regardless of the measurement setting. I have to take daily BP measurements during titration for ADHD medication. (Using an _A&D UA-611 Plus_ machine at home.) I can put…

Get on ACE inhibitors. Even a low dose cuts out the variance.

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Post by adastra22 »

dgacmu wrote: post #38
dhosek wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got it when an eye clinic wanted to do my blood pressure (which is kind of weird in itself), which they did shortly after the glaucoma test which never works for me because I have an overdeveloped blink reflex and it turned up high. It really amazes me how people whose job it is to take blood pressure don’t recognize the stress situations that people are in might result in abnormal readings.

I had an astoundingly high blood pressure reading last year when I tore my bicep the day after the election and dragged myself to the ER. The staff freaked. I was like, "I had a normal reading two weeks ago in my doctor's office and I'm really in an awful lot of pain and worry right now". But it still earned me the "oh shit hypertension you must do extra pre-surgical clearance". It was kind of interesting watching my…

If they’re doing surgery it doesn’t matter why you have hypertension, or how temporary it is. The high blood pressure causes complications for the surgery itself.

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Post by devinvs »

my best shot at it:

  year:   bits 0-6 reversed
  month:  bits 6-10 reversed
  hour:   bits 13-18
  minute: bits 18-24
  day:    bits 24-29 (maybe reversed)
unsatisfyingly I don't have any idea what the gaps are or why parts need to be reversed, so i could be wrong. With the data from the post:

  y  mo d  h  mi
  25 11 10 11 3
  25 11 10 11 31
  25 11 10 12 1
  25 11 10 12 35
  25 11 10 13 0
  25 11 10 13 31
  25 11 10 13 31
  25 11 10 14 0

Re: I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours

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Post by adastra22 »

kotaKat wrote: post #15
ck2 wrote: post #13

I have three blood pressure cuffs They all give me different numbers, by a lot sometimes btw you think they ever clean those devices? you think healthy people go to pharmacies? I won't even touch the signature pen, imagine what's on that

If you think that's bad, just think about what's in those finger-holes in bowling balls, between rounds of beer, bowling, and greasy bar food :)

…yup, I think I’ve bowled enough for one life!

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Post by [deleted] »

aDyslecticCrow wrote: post #23
ck2 wrote: post #13

I have three blood pressure cuffs They all give me different numbers, by a lot sometimes btw you think they ever clean those devices? you think healthy people go to pharmacies? I won't even touch the signature pen, imagine what's on that

I have a family member working in hospital setting. Electronics bairly survive a year from the amount of disinfectant they're exposed to. Everything is wiped so constantly that anything not made for the environment has its lettering stripped and rubber dissolved and cracked within short notice.

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