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A comment on Ask HN: What are some “trivial” achievements you feel satisfied about?.

Re:Ask HN: What are some “trivial” achievements you feel sat... by 0xDEFACED on Saturday December 10, 2022 @10:33PM (#33939792)
My son is a ventilator patient as of recently, and his ventilator has a usb port on the back that can be used to export the data. According to the manufacturer, the exported files can only be viewed using their proprietary software, which they only distribute to trained medical professionals.

Long story short, with a little digging I found the spec for the file format and was able to write my own parser.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some “trivial” achievements you feel sat... by replwoacause on Sunday December 11, 2022 @12:15AM (#33940342)
Wishing you and your son the best, and FWIW I wouldn't consider this a trivial achievement.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some “trivial” achievements you feel sat... by SirAllCaps on Saturday December 10, 2022 @11:05PM (#33939965)
What type of file was the export? Did it include one or multiple tables of data? What tools did you use to analyze it? Just asking out of random curiosity.
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