vrek

joined 2 years ago
[–] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 5 hours ago

I want a pancake drawer....

[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Get similar pictures to theirs but with a totally different family... Bonus points if the other family is a different race.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Pancakes ... In there silverware drawer... In the sock drawer...in the bag of dishwasher tablets...pancakes everywhere

Just don't use syrup cause then it causes too much of a pain to clean when they find them.

Wait... Even better just Hershey kisses or mini peanut butter cups. Get a giant bag for like 20 and spread them around. They are individually wrapped so no mess and the first few times they will be happy for a treat but like after 50 they will be going crazy... Not safe if they have dogs but mostly harmless otherwise

[–] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

So to be a true American I need to build a gun large enough to fire unvaccinated children at a high rate of speed and mount it to a lifted pick up truck... Well I didn't have any plans today ...

[–] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 10 hours ago
  1. Lost in some neighborhood, walking home but never get there. Just keep going in circles or noticing it's the wrong direction.

  2. My actual child is mostly non-verbal, just 1 or 2 word sentences. In dream he comes up to me at home and in perfect English says "daddy, I want a muffin to eat". We go to kitchen to get a muffin and there's 3 like feral children just climbing over the kitchen and ripping stuff apart eating stuff generally just destroying everything. They all stop, look at me, then run out the door disappearing into the night.

  3. Walking around an office building. People keep stopping me and asking meaningless questions, how much sun lotion for meeting lamb shanks type of questions. I can't answer and just walk away repeatedly as some one walks up asking why do kittens smell rainbows on Thursday morning...

[–] vrek@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I disagree. Why can't a man wear a dress? If they identify as a man but want to wear a sundress on a warm summer day, that's fine. Bro you're rocking that dress should be normalized .

[–] vrek@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago

At least it's not as bad as doing advanced mathematics in a bar, as everyone knows you shouldn't drink and derive ....

[–] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

I'm not dismissing mental health care. Mental health is very important and as a society we don't put enough into treating/helping/improving it.

Like your depression example, should they be in the same bucket? Now as a layman, my understanding is they are due to low levels of serotonin being absorbed before re-uptake. So they have a common cause and treating that cause will probably help both parties. If there is a different cause like insufficient serotonin creation that should be treated differently.

If we took a trial of a new treatment it may only help those with low serotonin creation but with both groups in the bucket it may be deemed ineffective since the group it helps in such a low percentage of "depression".

All of these conditions affect your life, all should be cared for, studied,treated etc. Yes they are serious.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

True. Most drugs and medical devices do work and have a lot of data behind them to prove that. It costs many millions to get that data and approvals.

That said if the data isn't there, regardless of the cost of the surgery, do you want to risk your health/your child's health on a hope? If so sign up for a medical trial to help get that data and prove it,most are not only free but pay you for doing so.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

Exactly. They are different and should not be "autism". Technically my kid is not non-verbal but limited to one or two words, like if he wants to watch blue's clues he'll just say blue or if he's hungry he will just say yum yum.

I'm not a doctor but you and your niece have different conditions and likely have different causes and potentially different treatments. We should eliminate the word autism and separate it into like 5 or 10 different conditions and study them separately.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Agreed. I feel like if we separate them doctors and scientists could study causes and care more effectively. What you need is totally different from my son, why are they combined? Yes the common cold, the flu and TB all result in coughing but don't have the same treatment. They seem more related then "autism".

The difficulty of diagnosing autism shows this. If you get strep throat, take a test and it's either positive or negative. No one can say "yeah, it says I don't have strep throat but..."

[–] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yes the insurance system is horrible. Yes accountants should not be making medical decisions. That said dbs for epilepsy is not approved for anyone under 18. It can only be done "off label". I understand the insurance company not covering it. Location of stimulation needs to be precise and their brain is growing and changing as they age into adulthood. There have not been sufficient studies to prove safety and effective use of dbs in teenagers for epilepsy. Yes my child has epilepsy, I have previously manufactured dbs systems professionally. It may be great, it may be great for them but I can totally see why the insurance didn't cover in this case.

 

Those companies were all found to be pyramid schemes!

 

Well first someone would need to put a bank inside a whale...

 

I'm not looking for Chromecast but I have a Linux system hooked up to a TV and ether net. I want a way to pick a YouTube or Amazon prime or Netflix video on my phone and display it on the TV via the Linux pc. Is that possible? If so what software can do it?

 

I don't expect much but I found an old pi I bought probably 2016(may of been 2017). It was supposed to be a pi-hole but was never able to get the dns forwarding to work on my modem. It still works but wanted to somehow convert it to a regular distro(it's based on a micro-SD and I don't have any more microsd readers). I wanted to set it up as a basic system I could ssh into a terminal. Not expecting anything fancy or even graphic based. A lot of stuff I want to learn/practice "work" on windows but are native to Linux, like vim/neovim nmap gcc etc. Is this feasible? Am I under estimating what's possible with it?

 

I don't expect much but I found an old pi I bought probably 2016(may of been 2017). It was supposed to be a pi-hole but was never able to get the dns forwarding to work on my modem. It still works but wanted to somehow convert it to a regular distro(it's based on a micro-SD and I don't have any more microsd readers). I wanted to set it up as a basic system I could ssh into a terminal. Not expecting anything fancy or even graphic based. A lot of stuff I want to learn/practice "work" on windows but are native to Linux, like vim/neovim nmap gcc etc. Is this feasible? Am I under estimating what's possible with it?

 

For anyone interested agdq started today. Raising money for prevent cancer foundation and showing speed runs of video games. Available streaming on twitch and YouTube. Gamesdonequick.com

 

For anyone interested agdq started today. Raising money for prevent cancer foundation and showing speed runs of video games. Available streaming on twitch and YouTube. Gamesdonequick.com

 

I thought of this after a recent bug I found. I use Vivaldi browser and recently it updated. After the update my mouse cursor was not visible when within the browser window. Other programs worked fine. I tried visual studio and steam and epic game store all had my mouse, Vivaldi didn't.

I closed all instances of Vivaldi via task nanager(was unable to click the x) and restarted it. That fixed the bug and I haven't been able to replicate so I don't have anything to submit for a bug report. Just a really strange thing.

What have been your weirdest bugs?

 

What os? What ide? What plug-ins?

 

I'll give an example. At my previous company there was a program where you basically select a start date, select an end date, select the system and press a button and it reaches out to a database and pulls all the data following that matches those parameters. The horrors of this were 1. The queries were hard coded.

  1. They were stored in a configuration file, in xml format.

  2. The queries were not 1 entry. It was 4, a start, the part between start date and end date, the part between end date and system and then the end part. All of these were then concatenated in the program intermixed with variables.

  3. This was then sent to the server as pure sql, no orm.

  4. Here's my favorite part. You obviously don't want anyone modifying the configuration file so they encrypted it. Now I know what you're thinking at some point you probably will need to modify or add to the configuration so you store an unencrypted version in a secure location. Nope! The program had the ability to encrypt and decrypt but there were no visible buttons to access those functions. The program was written in winforms. You had to open the program in visual studio, manually expand the size of the window(locked size in regular use) and that shows the buttons. Now run the program in debug. Press the decrypt button. DO NOT EXIT THE PROGRAM! Edit the file in a text editor. Save file. Press the encrypt button. Copy the encrypted file to any other location on your computer. Close the program. Manually email the encrypted file to anybody using the file.

 

So background, my kid has seizures often. He is currently on 5 different medications to try to control it(plus 1 for sleeping and 1 for his liver enzymes) plus severe non verbal autism so he can't tell us if he already had his meds. Currently when it's medication time, it's always "did you give him his meds yet?" and we have no way of tracking how many seizures he actually has besides "alot more recently" or "it's gone down recently". Yes he had multiple doctors and this is NOT a post looking for health advice.

I am creating an app for phones(c# Maui) which will send json objects to a api to store/retrieve data in a database(when he last had medication x, when he has a seizure etc). It will probably only be used with in my family, maybe 20 entries a day on a really bad day(7 medications twice daily + 6 seizures to give a round number) but should be less then 10 transactions(most medications given at same time).

What's the cheapest/easiest was I can host something like this? I do not have a static ip. Yes it's health information but I'm only storing first names and tracking time of events, not too worried about hippa like security.

 

The only possible exceptions I can think of are fish(I imagine gills and mouth are not connected but don't really know). I am excluding bacteria and viruses and I believe they don't really breath(correct me if I'm wrong).

view more: next ›