Pseydtonne - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Can we ban "TheOutline" (Score 1) 149

by Pseydtonne on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @01:33PM (#56495381) Attached to: Far From Being a Utilitarian Afterthought, an Astonishing Number of Design Choices Go Into Pagination

I hadn't researched /.'s history of postings from them. I'll agree that the interface is annoyingly shiny. However I'd never seen the site before today, and I'm already reading some interesting material. Example: https://theoutline.com/post/40...

Submission + - Diabetes Is Actually Five Separate Diseases, Research Suggests (bbc.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 04, 2018 @12:29AM

An anonymous reader writes: Scientists say diabetes is five separate diseases, and treatment could be tailored to each form. Diabetes, or uncontrolled blood sugar levels, is normally split into type 1 and type 2. But researchers in Sweden and Finland think the more complicated picture they have uncovered will usher in an era of personalized medicine for diabetes. The study, by Lund University Diabetes Centre in Sweden and the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, looked at 14,775 patients including a detailed analysis of their blood. The results, published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, showed the patients could be separated into five distinct clusters:

Cluster 1 — severe autoimmune diabetes is broadly the same as the classical type 1 — it hit people when they were young, seemingly healthy and an immune disease left them unable to produce insulin
Cluster 2 — severe insulin-deficient diabetes patients initially looked very similar to those in cluster 1 — they were young, had a healthy weight and struggled to make insulin, but the immune system was not at fault
Cluster 3 — severe insulin-resistant diabetes patients were generally overweight and making insulin but their body was no longer responding to it
Cluster 4 — mild obesity-related diabetes was mainly seen in people who were very overweight but metabolically much closer to normal than those in cluster 3
Cluster 5 — mild age-related diabetes patients developed symptoms when they were significantly older than in other groups and their disease tended to be milder

Submission + - Dell Advising All Customers To Not Install Spectre BIOS Updates (bleepingcomputer.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @09:58AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Spectre & Meltdown mess continues with Dell now recommending their customers do not install the BIOS updates that resolve the Spectre (Variant 2) vulnerabilities. These updates have been causing numerous problems for users including performance issues, boot issues, reboot issues, and general system instability. Due to this, Dell EMC has updated their knowledgebase article with the following statement advising customers to not install the BIOS update and to potentially rollback to the previous BIOS if their computers are exhibiting "unpredictable system behavior".

Comment Re:Google isn't exactly realtime (Score 1) 325

by Pseydtonne on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @02:00PM (#22638498) Attached to: Google Street a Slice of Dystopian Future?

Not really germane but I had to thank you for posting the link to that intersection in Arlington Heights. I lived near it and I used to go through it every day on the way to work. The picture doesn't show the blind spot for anyone coming down Park from the north but it still shows enough of the horror.

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