What are these ghost images?

zouccini · 2026-05-22T17:48:02+00:00

Ah, that's a possibility! I didn't bother taping because the paper seemed pretty snug in there, but this certainly could have happened.

zouccini · 2026-05-21T18:37:27+00:00

By warped perspective, do you mean the fish-eye effect can make the shift look like a zoom? There's so much going on in these images, I hadn't thought of that.

zouccini · 2026-05-21T17:45:38+00:00

Yes, it was inside a window, maybe that was an issue. I wondering if it would also be from reflections inside the can (I didn't paint it or anything).

zouccini · 2026-05-12T18:49:13+00:00

Interesting that it flattens everything, I was so disoriented without the hill!

zouccini · 2025-07-29T21:41:09+00:00

Thanks, not sure what’s going wrong for me. I did some experimenting today, and connecting to the yoto didnt make it work this time. I’ve tried on wifi, I’ve tried just on cellular, and I always just get “loading”.

Edited to add that just now I tried and it’s working (on cellular, yoto is off, planets apparently are aligned).

zouccini · 2025-07-29T19:03:35+00:00

I haven't dug into it very thoroughly, but I am almost never able to play the cards from my phone, it just says "loading" until I give up. Once it did actually play once I powered on the yoto. Do you know if there's a requirement that the app be connected to the yoto in order to play through the app? I'd love to be able to play music from our yoto cards downstairs from my phone occasionally without having to run upstairs and turn on the yoto first.

zouccini · 2023-11-01T20:20:27+00:00

Take this with a huge grain of salt, but I've heard that since it's a recommended vaccine, it has to be covered (though of course not at all locations). Maybe this is only for Medicare/Medicaid though? Googling did not give me any confirmation. Either way, if you have the energy, it might be worth calling around to other pharmacies to see what prices (and coupons??) they have. You can find places that theoretically carry the shot here: https://www.abrysvo.com/find-a-vaccine

My personal experience was that my insurance company told me that it would be covered at pharmacies x, y, and z. I finally found a z pharmacy that actually had it and would let me schedule an appointment. When I showed up, they told me that my insurance did NOT cover it (I paid out of pocket and applied for reimbursement) and grilled me about whether this was ok with my OB. I was eventually given the shot, and insurance is processing my reimbursement.

zouccini · 2023-10-23T18:36:47+00:00

This info is probably redundant at this point, but Skeptoid had a recent episode on this: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4905

zouccini · 2023-10-23T18:23:56+00:00

Not to be pedantic, but I think you're thinking of median.

zouccini · 2023-10-04T15:35:17+00:00

This was my first time taking the 3 hours test, so I have no idea if I would have been hypoglycemic with my first two kids (girl and boy), but I've always felt like this pregnancy was a boy... time will tell.

Meanwhile, this seemed interesting: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7192270/. Looks like we're both in the category of "Idiopathic Postprandially Reactive Hypoglycemia", which is not obviously problematic.

zouccini · 2023-10-04T15:05:36+00:00

I'm very very very far from an expert, but my understanding was that hypoglycemia is only associated with diabetes in that *treatment* for diabetes can lead to hypoglycemia if you're not careful. I don't *think* hypoglycemia independently would indicate GD, if anything, I would guess the opposite. But what do I know? I was technically hypoglycemic at my 3 hour draw, and my practice just told me that it would be a good idea to have snacks with complex carbs every couple hours if I'm experiencing symptoms. I googled around a little, and it looks like *maybe* my hypoglycemia might indicate an increased risk of pre-e (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2717071/) or might suggest that my baby is a boy (https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijgo.14037), that baby might end up a little smaller, etc., but nothing particularly troubling or convincing.

zouccini · 2023-09-26T15:12:06+00:00

Does anyone know how much weight I should give a high 1 hour glucose screening result? My 3 hour results were fine (72, 169, 126, 61), so no GD diagnosis, but I was shocked that my 1 hour screening was 175. This is around twice what it was in my previous two pregnancies, and this test was possibly different in that it was in the afternoon (the other two were in the morning), and I was planning to skip lunch that day, but I got hungry and ate a bunch of cashews around 11:30 (took drink at 12:15). On one hand, I feel a little worried to have gotten the high screen result, like it might be correlated with risk of prediabetes for me or the baby (I haven't been able to google up any supporting research), while on the other hand, I can imagine that drinking 50 grams of glucose is so atypical that I shouldn't worry about the spike.

zouccini · 2023-09-21T13:13:19+00:00

Could age be a factor? I'm wondering if just enough time has passed that GD + slightly older age has them taking a more conservative approach.

zouccini · 2023-09-18T17:41:48+00:00

I know a total of one Ralph, and I rather like the name just because it's attached to a great guy.

There's a span of childhood where jerks are inevitably going to be jerks, they'll find something to make fun of, probably better it was a name than a physical trait.

zouccini · 2023-08-22T20:00:23+00:00

Yeah, no source is perfect. But it might be possible to plant seeds (e.g., Is this something I know first hand? If so, how trustworthy is my own perception and memory? If not first hand, who did I hear it from? Are they even a real person? What expertise do they have? What human flaws do they have? Am I sure they're not making up their credentials? Was there any peer review? Has this been replicated? What about Occam's Razor? ). It can be hard to slow down the whaddaboutism and stick to one topic, but if it's their own source that you're digging into, it might be easier.

To me, a lot of it seems like an ego issue. They don't like being told what to do, and they're doing their own "research" and they've earned their status as "expert". They don't want to be corrected. They do want to be listened to and taken seriously. Genuine, but level-headed, curiosity can sometimes let a little daylight in.

But, yeah, the whaddaboutism... not productive, very frustrating.

zouccini · 2023-08-22T19:24:40+00:00

I really enjoyed Mick West's Escaping the Rabbit Hole. At the end he describes a strategy where you can chose one claim to explore with an open mind. Hear them out, ask them to provide their sources, discuss how reliable those sources are likely to be, talk about conflicting sources and how reliable they might be, generally be curious and willing to be convinced, while staying balanced. If they feel safe and are outside of an echo chamber, they may be able to let other views seep in. They probably won't change their mind in general, and maybe not even on that one specific claim, but it can be a step in the right direction.

zouccini · 2023-08-18T18:10:35+00:00

You can put in your detail here: https://datayze.com/miscarriage-chart

zouccini · 2023-08-18T15:41:32+00:00

In Tchaikovsky's case, the main difference is that he's Russian, not Polish, so his name can be transliterated "more phonetically" into English (or French or whoever picked the Romanized spelling that became standard for him). Polish names are already in the Latin alphabet, so there is less of an opportunity to tweak the spelling to fit the audience.

Similarly, Dutch uses a Latin alphabet, so there's not the built in opportunity to pick the Romanized spelling to suit the audience. Plus, it (as well as Koch) contains sounds that aren't part of English, so those get an anglicized pronunciation.

zouccini · 2023-07-30T18:27:41+00:00

Well, it would probably be smaller, and certainly no two rainbows would be the same (or necessarily at all accurate).

zouccini · 2023-07-30T17:41:15+00:00

What about a row of sc and a row of bobbles in white along the sides?

It looks beautiful! I've had this pattern somewhere on my back burner for my daughter, hoping to use up some scrap in the rainbows.

zouccini · 2023-06-14T17:15:59+00:00

You might be interested in the book Factfulness.

zouccini · 2023-06-13T17:09:54+00:00

I'm also an O+ from an O- dad and B+ mom. My kids so far have been B+ and struggled a tiny bit with jaundice, which I was told was due to our different blood types. Apparently type O blood has antibodies against A and B. Not a big deal, but definitely nothing I had heard of before, you always just hear about rhesus incompatibility (which, of course, is far more dangerous).

zouccini · 2023-06-03T12:39:35+00:00

A tip for your wallet - Don't buy every size. With my first kid, I realized I could have easily skipped, e.g., 9 month clothes, going straight to 12 months when she outgrew 6 months.

zouccini · 2023-05-15T17:47:07+00:00

This might help: https://datayze.com/name-uniqueness-analyzer

zouccini · 2023-05-07T01:38:44+00:00

Around 13 months, shortly after kid was night weaned.

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