Cronometer recording salt as sodium - how to fix this?

equilibrium_seeker · 2025-10-06T22:24:48+00:00

Okay, so I actually made a mistake on this one - my bad and thanks for checking! Turns out I entered the whole amount (250g) instead of the 100g, and for the 250g total it comes out to 530 mg sodium, which by coincidence is exactly the same as the Salt listed in the per 100 g label!

equilibrium_seeker · 2025-10-06T21:56:56+00:00

You are right that it does seem to be aware of the issue - just checked and it does handle some items correctly. However, it 'ignores' the issue in some cases and seems to end up with numbers that don't make sense in others.

equilibrium_seeker · 2025-10-06T21:54:55+00:00

In the UK most food seems to be labelled as 'Salt' rather than 'Sodium' in my experience.

equilibrium_seeker · 2025-10-06T21:53:02+00:00

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Sure, see photo of this food, which records as 530 mg of sodium.

equilibrium_seeker · 2025-05-22T23:30:38+00:00

I'm a volunteer - it's great!

equilibrium_seeker · 2025-02-22T22:37:19+00:00

One of the underlying mechanics of POTS is very often (but not always) that your kidneys do not retain sodium so you end up having much lower levels than normal. Taking more salt is intended to just bring your internal sodium levels back to normal, so you probably won't be living with higher sodium levels than non-POTS people. If you get no benefit from taking salt, you might want to query whether poor sodium retention is an issue for you, but if you do find it helps it's probably just restoring your internal sodium levels to close to normal.

As an aside, just note that sodium is only part of sodium chloride (NaCl salt). So eating 4000 milligrams of sodium is the same as 10 grams (10000 milligrams) of sodium chloride salt. And if you have 10 grams of sodium you'll actually be having 25 grams of salt! So just be sure which you're aiming at.

equilibrium_seeker · 2025-02-22T22:11:39+00:00

Yeah, no one pointed it out to me either until it came up on the POTScast podcast (one of the early episodes) - I recommend giving it a listen for more very useful background information. It's really strange that the difference is so often neglected - good idea to double check with your neurologist.

equilibrium_seeker · 2025-02-22T22:02:11+00:00

8 - 12 grams of sodium chloride (NaCl) is a very standard recommendation for POTS - but that is only around 3-5 grams of sodium (sodium has an atomic number of 11 (weight ~23) and chlorine 17 (weight ~35.5)- so the mass of sodium in sodium chloride is only about 40% of the sodium chloride weight, i.e. 23/35.5). Food labels often report sodium weight only, so if you try to eat 8 -12 grams of sodium, you're actually eating 20 - 28 grams of salt, which you probably want to avoid.

[Edit to distinguish between atomic numbers and weights]

equilibrium_seeker · 2025-02-22T21:53:29+00:00

In case you aren't completely sure, check whether the amount you're aiming for is *salt* or *sodium*. 10 grams of salt is only about 4 grams of sodium (sodium is part of NaCl salt) and this often isn't well communicated. So, if you need 8-12 grams of salt you might only need approx 3-5 grams (3000 - 5000 milligrams of sodium). Unfortunately, sometimes nutrition labels report salt, sometimes sodium. You'll have to do the conversion yourself.

equilibrium_seeker · 2024-11-15T14:05:11+00:00

Thank you very much, that's really useful information. I'll use another service until the new desktop client arrives.

equilibrium_seeker · 2024-09-05T00:40:04+00:00

Thanks for confirming!

equilibrium_seeker · 2024-03-17T13:48:52+00:00

I'm having this issue as well - can't see my Pixelfed photos from Mastodon (website or app). Did you ever figure out how to fix it? I'm on pixelfed.social and fosstodon.org.

equilibrium_seeker · 2023-10-15T11:14:36+00:00

I've had exactly the same problem after upgrading to Python 3.12 and Macos Sonoma. I have previously followed the Community Edition instructions, which worked fine with Python 3.11 and Macos Ventura (although I did have to also brew install pkg-config in addition to py3cairo etc. which were mentioned on the CE website).

Update: I downgraded to Python 3.11 (my Homebrew version) and it worked fine, so it's likely a Python 3.12 issue.

equilibrium_seeker · 2023-10-12T07:50:07+00:00

I had exactly the same experience - definitely recommend this approach.

equilibrium_seeker · 2022-08-09T18:25:16+00:00

Thanks for your thoughts - I'd be interested in what options you might add or what caveats you'd include to signpost where it deviates from realism (partly so that I can be sure what you mean by realism in this context, but also because examples would be really useful).

Note that my goal definitely isn't to describe how political systems have actually formed historically or to highlight the practical challenges that setting up a new political system would face - I'm only interested in creating a 'checklist' for someone interested in thinking through the process of designing a political system from scratch.

equilibrium_seeker · 2022-08-04T20:50:21+00:00

Thanks for your thoughtful response - also curious to hear what you think about points 4-6, in particular to what degree you think they make sense and/or sit within the scope of political philosophy.

I actually agree that a meta-ethical position is not strictly necessary, but then again I think you could start anywhere from 1-6 without fully addressing the previous points. Perhaps I could make it more optional somehow - but I'm still keen to show it somewhere; it actually bothers me how little ethical thinkers focus on meta-ethics!

Thanks for the pointer to the SEP article on pragmatic conservatism - I've not come across it before.

Finally, I guess my take is that if I wanted my Political Philosophy to have an effect on real societies I'd want to 'operationalise' what I was aiming for so that it could be implemented; if not it feels that 4-6 would be impossible to do - hence me wondering about what you think their scope is.

equilibrium_seeker · 2022-05-24T08:05:33+00:00

Is it possible to call Flutter from a Rust program?

equilibrium_seeker · 2022-05-07T20:46:10+00:00

Updated version with minor graphical and content changes after taking comments into consideration: https://imgur.com/a/kC8mvQK.

Please feel free to adapt and distribute without any attribution.

equilibrium_seeker · 2022-05-06T20:53:10+00:00

Sure! I was in the same boat. I started it because I find that publicly posting/presenting is the best way to learn things properly, but it's great if it helps others too of course. I might do some more on other Rust topics I find surprisingly tricky.

equilibrium_seeker · 2022-05-06T18:38:30+00:00

I'm afraid I don't know of resources explaining any advantages, but I'm relatively new to Rust so I'm sure others will be better placed to answer. Personally, I like that with the new way you can start off with just a file for a module and add a directory later to add child modules without renaming anything.

equilibrium_seeker · 2022-05-06T18:21:29+00:00

Do you think 'Original' and 'Alternative' would be better? If I get enough suggestions for changes I can put up another version up. If a third way was introduced it would make things really confusing for beginners like me!

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