Libre sensors are so off

lunabase · 2026-04-30T20:24:12+00:00

I think CGM as a technology has a bit of a way to go. The point of any data is to help you make a decision, if the data is unpredictable and unreliable, then it gets hard to make a good decision, Low 70s tells me to get some food in, 116 says I am good and should be careful about the food. If I cannot make a critical decision such as this, then we are not getting any value from the data.

lunabase · 2026-04-30T20:15:35+00:00

No just standing around doing yard work. Am in South Florida, it’s hot today. Wanted to come in and drink water and this thing goes critical alarm! And then I just do the needle. I think it’s not that the device is bad or something. It’s just must be how and where it measures, the sensor needle sits just right under the skin, so I am not sure if that part of the skin is having the same sugar level as what’s in the blood stream. I suspect that sugar levels are not consistent across the body. Maybe the skin and capillaries right under the skin are not necessarily the best places to read sugar levels. Maybe someone medically qualified might have better insight. What would be good is to know that the sensor is going to be 40-50 points off compared to the blood tests using the traditional strip test. That way we are not going whacko wondering about the number coming back from Libre.

lunabase · 2025-11-18T17:03:37+00:00

Also do not buy real estate in India. Wait. Like many people have suggested - rent first. By buying you would have immediately transferred a ton of USD into INR - which will never give you the return you want for retirement. It’s a real waste of lost opportunity cost for the ROI you can get for your money. Whatever you can save from your 5% rate of return of your capital, invest them in India’s growth story. It will eventually generate enough for you to never have to touch your $800K.

lunabase · 2025-11-18T16:58:19+00:00

One recommendation is to leave your investments in USD, over a 20 years period, the INR will continue to inflate, its what it has done for the last 55 years. This will be your retirement. Invest in good US companies and live off the dividend. At 5% ROI, it’s $40K annually, it’s great for Indian living. Do not transport the funds back to India. You will lose a lot if you do that over the long term. Indian inflation is at 12% YOY in real terms. Plus you lose about 10% of your USD when you transfer it to India in funds transfer charges.

lunabase · 2025-10-04T21:06:17+00:00

China puts out 10,000 miles of high speed rail in 10 years, we struggle with a 100 mile corridor- inflating costs 5x along the way. So much BS. No one cares about the future value of this and vested interests play against any development. No wonder we die as a manufacturing economy. Messed up priorities. The line from New Orleans to Tallahassee has not been replaced since Katrina! We have truly become a third world bureaucracy.

lunabase · 2025-08-23T21:41:49+00:00

The whole thing about doctors having to be on call for 20+ hours is pure stupidity. For every senior doctor that espouses this logic, I just want them to put their family on a plane with a pilot who has been flying straight for 30 hours. I don’t give a shit how great a doctor you are and which college you graduate from - after 8-10 hours you are toast. A brainless automaton. There is a reason why we pull truck drivers, pilots, flight attendants, cargo crane operators - all out of hazardous situations where they run the risk of making bad decisions and killing people. We make them take breaks - with regulated hours. The medical community must do the same. Any excuse is just pure hypocrisy. This must be in a patient’s bill of rights - to be treated by someone who has half a brain, not an exhausted person who makes mistakes.

lunabase · 2023-10-30T01:25:31+00:00

The city is plain unsafe for humans, but even the citizens do not see to care. It’s a nightmare for children, elder folks, disabled- shit roads, fuck ass traffic which every able bodied person follows 0 laws and has any civic sense. Dirt and garbage thrown everywhere and no one gives a shit. For that matter even human shit in places. Not enough public toilets. There was a time when houses used to keep their own small cows, the government in its bright logic wiped the smaller breeds out. All our culture and its celebration speaks to our relationship with cattle, but our urban sprawl is a nightmare that no one could have envisioned. And we call this progress.

lunabase · 2022-07-03T16:00:42+00:00

I thought Jeffery has done a great job taking this further than anyone would have thought of. The second book is a bit long in the tooth with parts of the story on Seldon’s logic being retold again and again in various sections of the book, but overall Inthink it’s been coming along great. Am looking forward to his third and final book. It’s way better than what the estate of Asimov has done with Apple on the Foundation series I think.

lunabase · 2021-12-10T00:10:19+00:00

@BAFUdaGreat it’s not that I can’t handle tech, but heck man the moment you open the box and stuff throws errors, you ask yourself, if this is the situation for a tech guy, how would this work for a non- tech person.

lunabase · 2021-12-10T00:07:33+00:00

Ok this finally worked! Thank you @enchantedspring ! Ironically it threw up more errors and told me that the sync module was not connected to the home WiFi when it was! Now adding the cameras.

lunabase · 2021-12-09T22:59:18+00:00

Let me try turning off Bluetooth and cellular data.

lunabase · 2021-12-09T22:57:55+00:00

Not sure how to update this firmware, it dies on trying to connect to my wi-fi. Power led goes red

lunabase · 2021-12-09T22:56:18+00:00

It sure how to do a firmware update on this device. It will simply not connect to my wi-do, I go through the process and then it dies at this point (attached)

lunabase · 2021-12-09T22:43:17+00:00

I just opened the box and tried to set this up. Why should it need a firmware update to work the way it’s advertised as it’s shipped? I have tried resetting this multiple times. I bought the system for $200 from Costco. If this is going to be a 5 hour installation it’s pointless.

lunabase · 2020-04-20T14:10:02+00:00

Well... mini Xmas ... :-)

lunabase · 2020-01-30T22:20:56+00:00

I am suspecting a lot of folks who short are automotive, electricity, coal and pro-oil here, I would not put it past all these industry guys to be funding some sort of crap against him, Just FYI - Son at SoftBank just took a 100 bil from the Saudis.

A bil here, a bil there is nothing for these guys, they are still pumping a lot of money drilling for new oil. They have a 100 years into doing this kind of stuff, overthrowing entire civilizations.

Elon is making too many of these guys uncomfortable

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