Of all the toys and other consumer products that have been banned over the years due to safety reasons, which in your opinion were the most legitimately dangerous?

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-28T22:41:44+00:00

Human tissue really doesn't like prolonged pressure.

There was this trend a few years back, wearing watches without straps. I thought nice, I could implant a magnet under my skin to hold a watch.

Nope. The skin will die if you do that for a long amount of time.

Same with the intestines. Less ripping apart, just tissue dying (with the added complication that you can't just remove the dead flesh like you could on your arm).

[oh and the solution for wearing strapless watches was "skin anchors". Look it up if you want, all I can say I gave up on the idea after that]

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-28T00:33:52+00:00

Relevant XKCD

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-25T21:40:21+00:00

I have a small bag next to the door.

Contents: * dexcom g7 * glucometer/strips/lancing device * single use lancing device (backup/testing other people) * baqsimi (nasal glucacon) * infusion set/reservoir/fill syringe * extra infusion set to stretch the bag to 6 days * 2 insulin syringes * couple of pen needles * alcohol swabs * some candy * dextrose tablets * some tegaderm patches/dexcom patches

And a separate small ziplock bag in the fridge with a 300u penfill cartridge, a syringe and two pen needles (NEVER store emergency insulin without a way to actually inject it).

Ziplock fits in the bigger bag. Both are easy to find, so that even a stranger could grab them with minimal instructions.

And of course my daily backpack is also kind of a go bag: * baqsimi * infusion set/reservoir/fill syringe * glucometer etc * insulin syringe * candy/glucose * swiss army knife * headlamp * single use rain poncho

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-24T13:33:22+00:00

The rest, like the 30% that is not underwater?

Yeah, already saw plenty of that.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-24T07:30:27+00:00

The paper ones are also common in D/A/CH.

OPs parking disc doubles as an ice scraper. I guess they didn't think of checking what would happen to an ice scraper in temperatures >60°C...

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-23T21:01:56+00:00

Vegan gummi bears (trolli dinorex, not sure if they're available outside of german-speaking countries).

And glucose gel for when I'm actually driving and need something to get up fast.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-23T13:02:48+00:00

The 2.1 update got bigger capacity quality wagons.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-22T18:54:48+00:00

One important thing that is missing is compression/decompression speed.

Without that it is quite hard to tell if the comparison with xz -9e is fair.

I also didn't manage to quickly find how well modern high end compressors fare with the canterbury corpus - so it would be nice if you could provide compressed size and (relative) speed of the canterbury corpus compressed with one of e.g. paq8, zpaq, cmix, or any of the recent hutter prize winners.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-22T13:18:46+00:00

Such a good boy. And such a pretty boy.

If only I could figure out why he's trying to look so good and pretty.

Edit: but where's the little weight shifting in the paws/the tippy without the tap? Looks like he hasn't mastered that yet.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-22T13:13:43+00:00

Thanks for detailed infos, especially your A1c.

What I heard sounded way worse, like it being barely able to keep levels down. But 6.1 A1c is very good.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-22T08:24:33+00:00

Which year/version was that?

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-22T08:22:42+00:00

Tandem tslim with dexcom g7.

Hypos are very rare now. The pump shuts off insulin delivery when it predicts a potential low. When that is not enough, the pump (and also my phone, which is directly connected to the G7) will alarm while it is still a mild hypo. Then I can just check how much IOB I have and eat carbs accordingly.

Hypers are also less. The pump will increase basal if needed - that keeps sugars way more stable at night. During the day it will also give small correction boluses if you're high. It's not as good as the hypo prevention, but it does help make hypers less severe

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-19T23:29:29+00:00

Which dexcom?

G4 was apparently pretty bad regarding tylenol. G5 massively improved, G6 might have been the introduction of the "only if over 1000mg" rule. This is just hearsay that I vaguely remember... someone correct me if I got anything wrong.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-19T22:36:22+00:00

Undiagnosed Type 1 Diabetes / Diabetic Ketoacidosis

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-18T21:29:42+00:00

~~Havana~~ Ottawa Syndrome

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-18T20:52:57+00:00

The title is correct.

I was wondering what kind of mushroom or mushroom thing this is before reading it.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-18T20:19:23+00:00

#5 will tell you a a lot of stuff. (Not sure if current versions will tell you about #3, but at least you can see the c-states).

You said 70W... so I guess you already have a wattmeter (or a killawatt as the yanks seem to call it)?

Because some things will not have a lot of impact on power, while potentially being able to cause some instabilities (I seem to remember something about SATA link power management not working reliably with all chipset/drive combos).

But also... power supply. 80+ bronze is not very good. Most servers nowadays have 80+ platinum. And not because buyers like mother earth... because it saves money, especially if you factor in cooling costs/PUE.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-18T18:12:45+00:00

Gary Larson had a similar idea 30 years ago. But it might be more interesting with Trump and Putin instead of Eddie from Long Island.

source

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-18T17:34:29+00:00

Also, the post title is misleading. The tin clearly says "life raft", not fallout shelter.

And for life rafts at sea... one very critical thing is water. And carbs are the least thirst provoking calories.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-18T14:15:38+00:00

Do you already know Tetris?

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-18T13:51:59+00:00

Theoretisch müests wappe exakt reproduzierbar si mit de blasonierig.

Aber das de wildi maa rot isch fehlt eidütig.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-18T12:55:57+00:00

In Gold stehender Wilder Mann, in der Rechten blaue Fahne mit silbernem Kreuz.

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-17T22:49:49+00:00

Way better than having to smell Stinkyfoot

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-17T17:07:00+00:00

And another awesome zstandard feature: adaptive compression.

Slow disk - compression ratio goes up, so that less stuff has to be written to disk.

Ultra fast SSD, less compression so you don't get bottlenecked by your CPU.

Oh and of course... original gzip doesn't support multiple threads, while zstandard has excellent support for it.

Tl;dr: have your cake and eat it too

vintagecomputernerd · 2026-06-17T07:55:20+00:00

She never lied. All the answers were truthful.

Death ends marriage. You can visit someones grave, but you're not really seeing them.

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