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Comment Re: Glucose-Ketone Index (GKI) tracking for dieta (Score 1) 15

Yes, that's because I put some useful cancer info there. Don't let this upset you - I earn no dime from that blog.

One of the most important info there is on Dr Seyfried work. His approach has kept patients alive - one pancreatic cancer patient alive for 6 years and a glioblastoma patient alive for a couple of decades. His approach relies on continuous glucose and ketone measurement. I've calculated my GKI using a glucose meter, and it can get complicated pricking yourself twice, running two test strips, doing the ratio, etc.

Here's a good overview on Dr. Seyfried's work:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...

Comment Glucose-Ketone Index (GKI) tracking for dietary co (Score 0) 15

Dr Thomas Seyfried's work on dietary approaches to treating cancer uses Glucose-Ketone Index (GKI) -- a simple way to track how effectively you're shifting away from glucose metabolism toward ketone metabolism. The cancer patient makes dietary decisions to drive their GKI numerical value in the low single digits.

GKI Calculation:
GKI = Blood glucose à Blood ketones

Target Ranges:
General cancer management: GKI 2-3
Active treatment: GKI 1-2
Advanced/aggressive cancers: GKI below 1 (temporarily, with medical supervision)

Normally, you test fasting glucose and ketones upon waking. But continuous measurement provides a lot more insight.

I wrote a blog about GKI and other 'self care' approaches here:
https://enconsed.blogspot.com/...

Comment Re:How far back do the records exist? (Score 5, Interesting) 124

Depending on the region you live in, it goes back until 1736 (e.g. Schoenbrunn, Vienna and Mannheim, Germany). In this year, several observatories in Central Europe agreed to take regularly measurements of weather data and keep a log of them.

And yes, that's the time when Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686 - 1736), Anders Celsius (1701 - 1744) and René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1686 - 1757) lived, each constructing his own type of thermometer, and defining his own temperature scale.

Comment Re:About Fsck'n time... (Score 5, Interesting) 92

It was Attachmate, which swallowed Novell and spun of for instance SuSE Linux before being itself acquired by Micro Focus. SuSE S.A. is now a separate company in Luxembourg, and maybe, they are holding the original UNIX licenses, as it would fit into their portfolio.

Comment Re:Cities? (Score 1) 53

Not going to happen!!!

Amazon is hoping to fly 80lb behemoths over populated areas to drop things from about 12 feet -- while all-too-often crashing into things. Of course to be fair, how could a drone possibly avoid an apartment building or a crane (twice). Last time it was a ladder strapped to the roof of a van.

These things are not only dangerous but hugely uneconomic. Nothing beats a gig-worker on an ebike!

Comment Re:pay for the environment (Score 2) 209

As I have paid 300 Euros for a pair of solar panels and a rectifier back in March, and despite the panels not being optimally mounted (straight upright, facing Southwest, and partly in the shadow from nearby trees), I harvested already 200 kWh as of today, I am pretty sure, "green energy" is not about twice as expensive as it should be. Even a badly mounted setup will return the investment in less than five years.

Comment It's not the ALPR. It's the registration lookup. (Score 4, Interesting) 64

It's not the ALPR. It's the registration lookup that's the problem. ALPR - the core tech - is genuinely useful. Consider this thought experiment: normal people (you, me and our neighbourhood posse) implement our own ALPR network. We run it on poles in frontyards, on old mobiles duct-taped to windows, on personal phones in its cradle as we drive around. We run torrents that sync ALPR data with trusted nodes. Someone vibe-codes an app that correlates ALPR data with public crime report: It flag plates possibly associated with crime, such as the casing of an area before burglaries. Another app detects bad driving (yes, where someone's "bad" could be someone else's "snazz").
So far, all is functioning as it should. Capturing ALPR data privately is just photography in a public area with no privacy violation. The plates are both and provide anonymity to vehicle owners, divers and passenger. The private ALPR network could help report concerns about specific plates to the police with no idea who owns the plates.

What breaks privacy is running a plate/car registration. Now you know the owner, where they live, whether they have insurance. Doing *that* should require lawful exigency or a warrant.

Comment Re: Air Conditioners save lives (Score 2) 194

This is plain bullshit. Itâs that until recently, air condition was not necessary at all. Europe is very far to the north. Great Britain for instance lies between the latitudes of Vancouver Island and Juneau, Alaska. On the other side, Montreal, Canada is on the same latitude than Milan, Italy, and Toronto is as far to the north as Florence. Most of the continuous U.S. is somewhere between the Mediterran and the Sahara Desert. No one in southern Italy doubted the necessity of air condition in the Summer. For Germans or Scandinavians on the other hand, air condition was just a waste of space and energy, because it never was hot enough for A/C to make a difference, except in large office complexes with their large windows and basically no shadow. And they all have air condition. This year, nearly all European places have posted new local temperature highs. Europe today is hotter than it ever was in recorded history.

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