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Re:Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana on Saturday October 17, 2026 @11:45PM (#50137744)
Perhaps the least important part, but I never considered what serif and sans serif would look like in kanji.
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board on Friday September 04, 2026 @08:54AM (#49563907)
I mean it seems pretty clear.

Anthropic didn’t want to give the tech to DoD without some sort of limit, and that was the retribution.

Re:I Don't Have a Smartphone on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @04:15PM (#49541845)
True, but that tech is bad.

My current GCM uses NFC and my phone to connect with my pump. I would like to remove my phone from the loop. Just use the pump to connect to the sensor directly.

Re:I Don't Have a Smartphone on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:32PM (#49540422)
As a T1 diabetic, I wish that we weren't tying things like medical devices to smart phones. It's just one more failure point.
I find I can induce a steep drop at like 15 mins.

I’ll have to try calf raises. I’ve never heard that.

I find that movement has been key for me. More walking, more lifting, more of anything.

Getting a gcm gave me much better data around the impact of movement.

Yeah. I have a running joke with my Endo.

“A1c is good. Charts are good. No changes.”

“And that’ll be 700 dollars?”

“Yup. See you soon.”

Of course it doesn’t actually cost that much (copay wise at least), but the point stands. I manage my disease super well. I don’t need the middle men.

I’m becoming much more radical on universal healthcare the longer I’m on my own.

Re:Why I Stopped Arguing with People on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @11:07AM (#48748091)
I love this bit from the documentary "Behind the Curve (2018)." One of the scientists poses the following question: "What evidence could I show you that would change your position?"

If someone can't answer that, it's probably not worth arguing about.

It looks like xcancel doesn't support articles yet. There may be another service?
Re:Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter) on Monday May 25, 2026 @06:55PM (#48272846)
Technology shapes behavior. To ignore that is to ignore history.
Acetaminophen has a quirky effect if you’re on a CGM. It makes your interstitial glucose read higher than your blood glucose.

Context: I’m t1 diabetic.

I was recovering from an injury, and I switched from ibuprofen to acetaminophen. But the whole time I was on it, my sensor glucose was reading 50-60 mg/dl higher than my blood glucose. This is really bad on a closed loop system as my pump kept trying to lower my blood sugar, but it was pushing me into hypoglycemia (50 mg/dl).

Turns out this is a common effect, but a relatively new discovery that no one told me about.

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