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Comment Re:Glaring errors in the techweek article. (Score 1) 196

I am around 1 unit to 4 gram insulin:carb ratio, so, 300 unit bolus is circa 1200 grams of carb, 1.2 kg (2.64 lbs) of (somewhat rapidly absorbed depending how quick you got onto it) carbs.

Probably unpleasant but not impossible, if your life depended on it. What does a typical bottle of coke contain? It wouldn't have to be instant if you caught it early enough, spread over an hour wouldn't be so bad.

Comment Re:Glaring errors in the techweek article. (Score 1) 196

Maybe if you live on the equator.

At least modern insulin is far more stable than that, I run through a solostar in about 2 weeks, it certainly doesn't get int he fridge, neither do my Humalog carts, I use one of those in 10 days.

Next you'll be telling me that I should change the needle more than once a cartridge, or my lancing device needle more than once a... ever.

Comment Give it to me now. (Score 1) 249

I saw this as a rendering some years ago, thought it was brilliant as an idea , a Carver One with a Gyrocopter, but I thought it was way to fanciful and that they would never actually manage to pull it off, thought it would be just another Moller.

Well damn it, if they didn't go and build the thing.

I don't think I've ever wanted anything so much in my life as to own that.

Comment Re:ground effects lighting (Score 1) 691

Don't know what it's like in the rest of the world, but here in NZ fuel stations make diddly squat on the sale of fuel, the vast majority of their profit comes from the in-store (impulse) purchases.

Card at pump seriously erodes these purchases, prepay does as well to an extent. NZ is mostly fill-then-pay-inside because of this.

Comment BSD (Score 1) 432

DRTFA, but if they are advocating not enforcing the GPL and just developing instead - why don't they just advocate using a BSD derived licence?

In other words, if you have chosen to use GPL for your code, then you must have done so because you want people to abide by those conditions, and so you must want to enforce them.

If you don't, then don't use GPL.

If you selectively enforce GPL, then it just weakens enforcement.

Comment Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" (Score 4, Funny) 285

"We're not sure what these psychics are talking about, but we sure didn't encounter any aliens, nor were we in any way anally-probed. And we certainly weren't anally-probed $^&$!@... I love to sing-a; About the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a; I love to sing-a; About a sky of blue-a, or a tea for two-a,

Comment How is this even... (Score 5, Insightful) 464

America (I'm addressing you as a whole).

How is it that you allow young people, let alone whole families, to be homeless, to live in "shelters".

WTF is wrong with you people?!

You are supposedly the most powerful nation on earth, the wealthiest, the nation that is spoken to exude opportunity and success from every pore.

And you have whole families, school children, living in homeless shelters.

I don't care how they came to be in the situation, it doesn't matter how that happened, what matters is resolving it, providing the social, housing, and financial support to ensure that every body can call somewhere home.

For every one remarkable individual like this who manages to overcome the adversity, I hate to think how many are dragged down by the circumstance.

Comment Re:DSE = Radio Shack (Score 1) 128

Most DSE stores do still carry a few components, including resistors. It's just that you have to look quite hard.

Down the back.
In the dark corner.
Behind the door on the right.
Marked beware of the leopard.

Just keep looking, they are there somewhere.

Jaycar seems to be doing quite well here in Christchurch, they just moved into a much larger store, same stuff, just more of it.

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