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"We understand this may impact your experience and are here to support you." I love this - I've never heard the euphemism impact your experience used to mean that your life may end . What a wild PR assignment (language off the company's safety notice https://www.omnipod.com/en-gb/fsn-11-2023 )
Non-twitter link: https://nitter.net/morganherlocker/status/173045572181552742... (edit: I'm not the author) "Notified today that my insulin pump controller has a bug where the leading decimal point will be dropped, ie: changing a dose of .21 units to 21 units. I can reproduce randomly ~1 in 5 times so probably a race condition. Easily one of the worst software bugs I have ever heard of."
wouldn't this put someone into a state of insulin shock?
To put it into perspective (at least with my insulin to carb ratio, it varies from person to person), if you wanted to drink a regular sized can of coke, you would dose 3.3u. 66u is therefore enough insulin for 20 cans of coke.
Another way to put it is that 10g of sugar ~ 1u of insulin. You'd have to eat 660g of raw sugar.
There is a medication called Glucagen which is used to treat severe hypo. It works by triggering release of stored glucose from the liver. The thing is, from what I've quickly googled, a typical 1mg dose is usually only enough to raise your blood sugar by about 100mg/dl, and then your store is depleted and further doses have no effect. With my insulin/carb ratio, I would only need about 2.5u to reduce my blood sugar by 100mg/dl.
All of a sudden it feels scary to think that the reservoir in my pump holds about 300u of insulin...
I know the department of defense used to use Ada because it was a “safety critical” language. I feel like when it comes to this devices there should be more stringent guidelines around coding practices. Is that not the case?
there are, that's why insulin pump firmware is developed using obsolete and error-prone methods by substandard engineers and why you can't get the source for your insulin pump firmware and reflash it with a bug-fixed version
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there are, that's why insulin pump firmware is developed using obsolete and error-prone methods by substandard engineers and why you can't get the source for your insulin pump firmware and reflash it with a bug-fixed version
Rewriting firmware in Rust is not a solution when your beautiful piece of Rust is to be micromanaged using an Android app as the controller.
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We had a similar issue with random four-letter codes. The simplest and easiest solution was to remove vowels from the pool of candidates. Consonant only codes are much harder to generate real words.
FCK!
"We understand this may impact your experience and are here to support you." I love this - I've never heard the euphemism impact your experience used to mean that your life may end . What a wild PR assignment (language off the company's safety notice https://www.omnipod.com/en-gb/fsn-11-2023 )
Why do so many people / companies insist on using grossly euphemistic managerspeak like this?
"We understand this may impact your experience and are here to support you." I love this - I've never heard the euphemism impact your experience used to mean that your life may end . What a wild PR assignment (language off the company's safety notice https://www.omnipod.com/en-gb/fsn-11-2023 )
Why do so many people / companies insist on using grossly euphemistic managerspeak like this?
I know the department of defense used to use Ada because it was a “safety critical” language. I feel like when it comes to this devices there should be more stringent guidelines around coding practices. Is that not the case?
Why? Safety Critical Software engineers are expensive. If you write a webstack with Node.js and React to run the insulin pump you can hire web developers. They are much cheaper. And who would be able to tell the difference? Boomer lawyers and judges working on the lawsuit targeted against us won't understand.
> 11. No single entity -- academic, corporate, governmental, or non-profit -- administers the Internet. It exists and functions as a result of the fact that hundreds of thousands of separate operators of computers and computer networks independently decided to use common data transfer protocols to exchange communications and information with other computers (which in turn exchange communications and information with still other computers). There is no centralized storage location, control point, or communications channel for the Internet, and it would not be technically feasible for a single entity to control all of the information conveyed on the Internet.
Ironically, in this day and age of Facebook and Twitter, that’s probably not even true anymore in a practical sense.
Cue the "you wouldn't steal a car" music. ♫ "You wouldn't demand open-source software for life-critical contexts instead of the industry-perfected closed software" ♫
I think you are missing the point. The point is that with commercial software is that there exists an entity that accepts responsibility for it under threat of severe penalties. You don't want somebody to be killed and then have just everybody shrug "it is not me" and not be able to find a culprit. Personally, I always include a note that my software is offered as is and I do not accept any liability for anything tha…
"We understand this may impact your experience and are here to support you." I love this - I've never heard the euphemism impact your experience used to mean that your life may end . What a wild PR assignment (language off the company's safety notice https://www.omnipod.com/en-gb/fsn-11-2023 )
Why do so many people / companies insist on using grossly euphemistic managerspeak like this?