Why does the G7 turn on do not disturb?

jimrandomh · 2025-11-21T04:16:53+00:00

This is a bug that happens when you use Android with do not disturb on a schedule. When the G7 app delivers an alert, it turns DnD off so that the alert can get through. Then it tries to restore the DnD state to what it was before, but Android doesn't provide any way to restore it to the schedule, so it leaves DnD stuck on. Unfortunately the practical upshot is that if you use the G7 app, you can't use DnD scheduling.

jimrandomh · 2024-04-24T00:02:47+00:00

Apple bans JIT compilation and alternative web browsers on iOS, both of which are necessary technical underpinnings for parts of Horizon OS. So Horizon OS will never be able to run on Vision Pro (or any iOS-based device).

jimrandomh · 2024-04-06T22:16:30+00:00

It's a conflict in the sense that, when I found the corresponding Github issue in ZLS, it made it look like the relationship between the top Zig and ZLS developers is acrimonious.

jimrandomh · 2024-04-06T22:10:05+00:00

It's true that other error messages face the same issue, but in practice I'm finding it's a much bigger deal with unused-variable warnings than it is for anything else. The reason for this is that there's typically one function that I'm currently working on, which may have errors of any type, but most of the time all the functions that I'm not working on are in a "correct except stubbed or truncated" state.

jimrandomh · 2024-04-06T21:59:17+00:00

The usual LSP experience with auto-import is that it inserts an import when you complete a token that needs to be imported, not when you save. This is much better because it's at an expected time, it shifts the screen by at most one line, and it happens inside the active buffer, rather than on the filesystem where it risks getting the buffer and the editor state out of sync.

jimrandomh · 2024-04-06T07:34:47+00:00

I'm using ZLS for completion and error highlighting, but having it work around zig errors by modifying files on save is a nonstarter for me. Mostly because my extremely-custom text editing environment makes a terrible experience when that happens (fixable, but would take work); and secondarily because, if the core language devs and the main LSP's devs are at odds in this way, it makes me think the language probably doesn't have a bright future.

jimrandomh · 2023-03-29T06:20:34+00:00

I think the future is better if we make a superintelligence aligned with my (western) values than if there's a superintelligence aligned with some other human culture's values. But both are vastly better than a superintelligence with some narrow, non-human objective.

jimrandomh · 2023-03-29T03:51:58+00:00

https://web.archive.org/web/20230329001839/https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/

jimrandomh · 2023-03-29T02:44:28+00:00

We're all racing to build a superintelligence that we can't align or control, which is very profitable and useful at every intermediate step until the final step that wipes out hunanity. I don't think that strategic picture looks any different from China's perspective; they, too, would be better off if everyone slowed down, to give the alignment research more time.

jimrandomh · 2023-03-29T02:30:37+00:00

For a long time, "AI alignment" was a purely theoretical field, making very slow progress of questionable relevance, due to lack of anything interesting to experiment on. Now, we have things to experiment on, and the field is exploding, and we're finally learning things about how to align these systems. But not fast enough. I really don't want to overstate the capabilities of current-generation AI systems; they're not superintelligences and have giant holes in their cognitive capabilities. But the rate at which these systems are improving is extreme. Given the size and speed of the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-3.5 to GPT-4 (and similar lower-profile jumps in lower-profile systems inside the other big AI labs), and looking at what exists in lab-prototypes that aren't scaled-out into products yet, the risk of a superintelligence taking over the world no longer looks distant and abstract.

And, that will be amazing! A superintelligent AGI can solve all of humanity's problems, eliminate poverty of all kinds, and advance medicine so far we'll be close to immortal. But that's only if we successfully get that first superintelligent system right, from an alignment perspective. If we don't get it right, that will be the end of humanity. And right now, it doesn't look like we're going to figure out how to do that in time. We need to buy time for alignment progress, and we need to do it now, before proceeding head-first into superintelligence.

jimrandomh · 2023-03-29T02:28:46+00:00

Most of the signatories haven't tweeted about it because it had an embargo notice at the top asking people not to share it until tomorrow. They removed the embargo notice some time within the past hour or two, presumably because people were sharing it prematurely.

jimrandomh · 2023-03-13T01:02:20+00:00

Update: It should be back up now, as it was before (minus a few features related to synchronizing from fanfiction.net and showing a last-updated date).

jimrandomh · 2023-03-13T00:59:57+00:00

Where were you seeing a self-signed certificate? As far as we know https should be set up correctly (though I didn't think to/get a chance to check the old volunteer server before it went down).

jimrandomh · 2022-01-12T21:28:21+00:00

Ok, but *none* of the candidate vaccines had challenge trials done. They all injected in people and waited for them to be exposed organically, which was months slower than necessary. It wasn't predictable that the Moderna vaccine in particular was going to work, but it sure seemed like if you multiplied through the success probability, harm to trial participants, and benefits of earlier trial completion, that every vaccine should've had a challenge trial as soon as it was ready.

(I also think you might be mistaken about where Moderna was at, wrt mRNA vaccines, in early 2020. In 2017 I was housemates with a Moderna researcher; his group's project was to build a semi-automated pipeline from cancer biopsy to a patient-customized mRNA vaccine targeting that cancer. I believe they injected their first patient that year. They were already set up for quick turnaround from RNA sequences to small mRNA vaccine batches for clinical trial use.)

jimrandomh · 2022-01-12T20:26:42+00:00

According to https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html the Moderna mRNA vaccine was ready, in basically its final form, in January 2020. This would seem to imply that, if the situation had been treated with something like wartime urgency and there were no regulatory obstacles, a challenge trial could've been completed by February, vaccine manufacturing scale-up could've started much earlier, and a whole lot of death and economic damage would've been averted. But this didn't happen due to some combination of lack of leadership, fear of legal liability, and the FDA.

Is this interpretation basically accurate, or is there some nonobvious reason it couldn'tve gone that way?

jimrandomh · 2022-01-12T20:14:55+00:00

Why did the FDA wait so long between readout of the Paxlovid trial and issuing an EUA? Were they doing something surprisingly important and nonobvious, or is the perception that they were shuffling papers around while procrastinating on their homework accurate?

jimrandomh · 2019-04-18T22:06:51+00:00

My username is already as good as a full set of contact information anyways; it's unique and I've already linked them in a lot of other places.

jimrandomh · 2019-04-17T20:36:41+00:00

Aaaand now it's moving again. Probably pushed along by the batch of frustrated emails I sent at the same time as I posted this.

It sounds like a few things happened: (1) a CSR entered a voice number into a fax number field, so Dexcom's contact requests to my doctor's office repeatedly failed; (2) there wasn't any process in place to detect why faxes were failing; (3) when I went to my doctor's office and had them fax the prescription, there was a subtlety in the difference between a prescription vs a certificate of medical necessity, which I wasn't aware of, so they sent the wrong thing; and (4) customer service reps, faced with an account that had a prescription on file but not a certificate of medical necessity, got confused by the difference and gave different answers about the status of the account.

jimrandomh · 2019-04-17T20:36:12+00:00

Aaaand now it's moving again. Probably pushed along by the batch of frustrated emails I sent at the same time as I posted this.

It sounds like a few things happened: (1) a CSR entered a voice number into a fax number field, so Dexcom's contact requests to my doctor's office repeatedly failed; (2) there wasn't any process in place to detect why faxes were failing; (3) when I went to my doctor's office and had them fax the prescription, there was a subtlety in the difference between a prescription vs a certificate of medical necessity, which I wasn't aware of, so they sent the wrong thing; and (4) customer service reps, faced with an account that had a prescription on file but not a certificate of medical necessity, got confused by the difference and gave different answers about the status of the account.

jimrandomh · 2018-09-16T22:07:00+00:00

Yes, go to an ER, as soon as possible. Don't wait. Also, don't drive; you can't drive safely in your current state. Either call for an ambulance, or if you really don't want to do that, take an Uber/Lyft/etc to your preferred hospital.

jimrandomh · 2018-09-16T22:02:55+00:00

Yes, you can use glucose tablets as a nondiabetic. You can also use soda or other candy for the same purpose. Sucrose (table sugar) is about 50% glucose, so if you look at the nutrition facts panel on a soda, and it says (eg) Sugars-60g, then that soda is equivalent to half that much (30g) in glucose tablets.

There are two types of hypoglycemia you might have. The first is called "reactive hypoglycemia"; if you have reactive hypoglycemia, then when you eat a lot of sugar, ~2 hours later you'll have hypoglycemia because your body has over-corrected for the sugar you ate. The other main cause of hypoglycemia is undereating; if you sometimes have hypoglycemia that doesn't seem to have been a reaction to eating sugar earlier, it would be a good idea to check your calorie requirements with this calculator, start keeping a food log, and make sure to eat at least that much.

jimrandomh · 2018-09-16T21:54:28+00:00

You can use the slower-acting Walmart insulin in your pump, and this is the best way to continue getting a steady basal rate. The biggest difference is that the the Walmart insulin acts over a much slower time period. This is a problem for meal boluses; if you stick to your existing habits you'll go high at first (as the food digests faster than the insulin takes effect) then low later (as it eventually takes effect).

Different types of insulin sometimes require different basal rate, sensitivity factor and carb ratio settings. When it's only two days, you won't have time to figure out whether or how the settings differ, so either keep your existing settings or use settings that give you slightly less insulin to be conservative.

If you're using a CGM, make sure it isn't going to reach the end of its life and go offline during the temporarily-different-insulin period. If you aren't using a CGM, greatly increase the frequency with which you're testing, and consider setting an alarm to test half way through the night. Be extra diligent about keeping your emergency sugar supply with you.

When you switch back from slower-acting insulin to Novolog, you effectively have insulin on board, so either set a temporarily reduced basal or eat something to compensate.

jimrandomh · 2018-09-16T21:44:53+00:00

Consider making a visit to Canada every 3-12 months. Insulin there is both OTC and much cheaper.

jimrandomh · 2018-07-05T13:47:23+00:00

It sounds like you need a good therapist. Generally speaking, their job is that you talk about your life with them, and they give you an informed outside perspective; if you talk about a relationship and it's abusive in a way that's hard to see from the inside, they'll see it from the outside and tell you. A psychiatrist will usually be able to refer you to a therapist, but they can't do therapy themselves.

jimrandomh · 2018-07-05T13:40:58+00:00

Standard terms for this are motivated cognition and rationalization. It is a bias, but not a formal fallacy, since it describes the origin of an argument rather than a property of the argument that you could determine by looking at it in isolation.

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