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Robusto
Robusto
00:58
Wordle 752 6/6

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Daily Quordle 533
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MetaEd
MetaEd
Wordle 753 3/6

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@Mitch there's data point 2
 
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Mitch
Mitch
02:13
@alphabet oh ok got it. Yes SA is different from the US. I thought the quote was strange for using Caucasian, white, and (no adjective) to describe what I thought he meant all the same white, English speakers speakers.
@alphabet yeah I've learned that.
@MetaEd nice. Did you really need the first try though?
@user223626865 also category theory
 
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alphabet
alphabet
03:49
So: I've been slowly losing weight on my modi-milk diet. I have truly found the cure for all diseases, the secret to perfect health.
MetaEd
MetaEd
@Mitch I should try doing it without intuition.
 
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Vikas
Vikas
07:58
> Microsoft To Lay Off More Employees From Support, Sales, Customer Service Teams: Report
Seems like everyone will do it.
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
08:50
@M.A.R. I'm fine! The gastro doctor transferred me to another floor, to the Endocrinology ward. They are curious about my "diabetes". Today we did a glucose tolerance test, and my blood glucose was only 5.9 mmol/L two hours after drinking the 75 grams of glucose. Technically, it's not diabetes, based on this test.
The doc gave me a tablet of Saxagliptin 5 mg, and told to stop taking insulin for several days. Now we'll look at how my blood sugar will react to daily saxagliptin 5 mg.
She attached a Libre sensor on my arm, it's quite cool, works for 14 days.
You only hover a reader over it, and voila! You get your blood sugar reading.
She said I can go showering and even jogging with it. I'm not sure about jogging - won't the sweat make it come unstuck from the skin..
Saxagliptin
Saxagliptin, sold under the brand name Onglyza, is an oral hypoglycemic (anti-diabetic drug) of the dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor class. Early development was solely by Bristol-Myers Squibb; in 2007 AstraZeneca joined with Bristol-Myers Squibb to co-develop the final compound and collaborate on the marketing of the drug. In April 2016, the U.S. FDA added a warning about increased risk of heart failure. This was based on data in an article that concluded "DPP-4 inhibition with saxagliptin did not increase or decrease the rate of ischemic events, though the rate of hospitalization for...
I'm not sure I want to transition to this, instead of insulin. Insulin seems to have a lot less of side effects. With the tablet, you could develop "heart failure" (risk increased by 27%).
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Tabriz did have an extreme of +42°C once.
So basically I don't have diabetes, by the GTT test, although I got the diagnosis of diabetes four times in the very same clinic on four different hospitalizations since 2000.
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
10:25
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M.A.R.
M.A.R.
10:45
@CowperKettle Don't let the long list of side effects have their chilling effects on you, saxagliptin is a pretty nice drug. Insulin has many, many physiological effects you don't want, and they're usually not called side effects because (1) they're always there, and (2) they're not even fully understood, and (3) they're an inseparable part of the molecular biology of the hormone, i.e. we're not good enough at being able to modify a hormone in a way that wouldn't (de-)activate any signaling route
. . . we don't want.
As for the side effects, the risk of hypoglycemia with insulin always weighs heavily in therapeutic decisions.
@CowperKettle the best reading you can get on diabetes if you want is the updated ADA guideline.
What the hell is a "vodcast"?
grabs cane to grab walker to grab artificial gum
 
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Robusto
Robusto
12:51
#Worldle #537 2/6 (100%)
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🔥 27 | Avg. Guesses: 4.44
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Robusto
Robusto
13:07
Wordle 753 5/6

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Daily Quordle 534
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Mitch
Mitch
@MetaEd Using the force sometimes works
Robusto
Robusto
@Mitch A mechanical engineer I know says you should never force anything. Use a hammer.
infinite -> infinity so why not finite -> finity? English, you fail us once again.
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Mitch
Mitch
13:28
bugs duds
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tchrist
tchrist
13:57
infinitas
Noun: īnfīnitās f (genitive īnfīnitātis); third declension
  1. boundlessness, endlessness, infinity
  2. Synonym: īnfīnītiō
Adjective: īnfīnītās
  1. accusative feminine plural of īnfīnītus
  2. infinitas
  3. feminine plural of infinito
  4. infinitas
  5. feminine plural of infinito
It's not English; it's Latin.
tchrist
tchrist
14:10
Which we acquired via Gallic neo-Latin.
> Etymology: < French infinité (13th cent. in Hatzfeld and Darmesteter.), < Latin infīnītās endlessness, boundlessness, infinity, < infīnītus : see ‑ity suffix.
user 726941
user 726941
14:57
∞ ≠ ∞
8 = 8
7.999... = 8
1 ≠ 0
Mitch
Mitch
@user726941 ...unless you're in the trivial ring.
haha math joke of the day
user 726941
user 726941
The first one bothered me for a long time.
The third one for even longer.
Mitch
Mitch
15:17
@user726941 Contrary to expectations, a lot of our own personal mathematical knowledge is based on faith. Of anything we know, math -is- justifiable belief, but we're still animals and that we believe it is sometimes because someone said so.
But even so you can always go back and prove things.
Pardon my earnestness. I'll try better as the day goes on.
Vikas
Vikas
I watched Top Gun (1986). It is a decent movie. What I liked was background music.
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@Mitch thanks 🙏
Mitch
Mitch
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@Vikas It's a classic
Tom Cruise plays himself
Vikas
Vikas
I would probably not watch it but I really wanted to watch the Top Gun: Maverick. So I decided to watch the old one first.
user 726941
user 726941
His pre-scientologist days.
"i feel the need for some speed!"
Vikas
Vikas
15:33
His recent movies have been very good.
In terms of reviews.
Mitch
Mitch
@Vikas I think Top Gun:Maverick doesn't really need anything from the first one. It could stand just fine on its own. But culturally the first Top Gun is the thing people know about.
@Vikas I think he's like Leonardo DiCaprio... he never chooses to do a movie that he doesn't know is going to be great.
Vikas
Vikas
@Mitch In that matter Leonardo is better. Most of his movies have 7 or 8+ ratings on IMDb.
But I guess it doesn't work for every actor. Some bollywood actors also choose a movie they think it would work. But it gets flopped.
jlliagre
jlliagre
Wordle 753 4/6

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Daily Octordle #534
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Robusto
Robusto
18:29
@tchrist Latin I expect to fail me. But I thought I had a handle on English.
@user726941 It's "I feel the need for some speed."
That statement is a zero-some game.
 
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Robusto
Robusto
20:03
Daily Octordle #534
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M.A.R.
M.A.R.
20:22
@Vikas eh, different strokes
@Vikas When I watch a movie with Dicaprio in it, it's usually not because of Dicaprio.
So it all feels like a non-sequitor
Vikas
Vikas
20:44
@M.A.R. In the beginning it was same for me. But from now on I may want to watch his movies because it's him in the 8+ IMDb rated movie.
I will also watch Don't Look Up. It has little low ratings though.
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
21:10
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Q: According to rumor why is Shakespeare play Macbeth considered cursed

Tykilla FromhbAccording to rumor why is Shakespeare play Macbeth often considered cursed

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Heh, because it talks about witchcraft?
@Vikas movies like that are scathing, divisive but ephemeral. There's a good reason they should exist, and also a good reason not to consider them the pinnacle of art.
Jul 4, 2022 at 1:17, by tchrist
Idiots. Bloody fucking idiots.
Mitch
Mitch
21:40
Today I learned that The Lord of the Rings, the character who the story "The Lord of the Rings" was named after, was Sauron?
alphabet
alphabet
In today's news: I forgot to go to a doctor's appointment. The appointment was about my ADHD meds. This isn't the first time. Ironic, but not funny-ironic, at least for said doctor.
Mitch
Mitch
I mean did he even have a speaking part in the book? People just refer to him obliquely and the story gets named after him?
alphabet
alphabet
You see, what happened was, I put a reminder on a to-do list, and I never read to-do lists I make.
Mitch
Mitch
OK The king of "The Return of the King" is Aragorn, the two towers of "The Two most boring Towers ever" are Minas Tirith and ... looking it up oh
Oh sure Orthanc and Barad-dur, those sound better.
I suppose.
And the Fellowship in "The Fellowship of the Ring" that's pretty much a plot steal of the 12 dwarves from the Hobbit.
But Sauron?
I mean
I mean he is ... important? But does he do anything other than sit and brood?
I suppose no one else is lording over all those rings.
I guess.
I think someone else should be the lord of the rings is all I'm saying. Sauron doesn't seem up to it.
You know the song 'You're so vain'? with the endlessly repeating line "I bet you think this song is about you". And after hearing that for an effing hundred years you realize that holy shit the song is totally about that guy.
Well, "the Lord of the Rings" is kinda doing the opposite.
The book(s?) are all about Frodo, barely about Sauron.
Tolkien would have better called it "Renaissance Faire" or "Dungeons and Dragons"
Sauron
Pfft
@alphabet last item on your todo list - "Read to-do list"
no, no no, the second to last item is "Read to-do list"
the -last item is "Do the items on to do list"
no no no
the -first- item is "do the items on this todo list"
because we all know the only item that ever gets done on a todo list is at most the first one.
My desk is covered with todo lists
Some of them are lists of todo lists that I should do.
It's a method.
MetaEd
MetaEd
22:00
@Mitch Sauron is so weak anyway. Bring back Melkor and you'll have something.
MetaEd
MetaEd
22:12
No, Sauron, I wasn't talking about you. Here's a treat, go back in your crate.
Mitch
Mitch
@MetaEd You get it!
Melkor. Could just as well named him Mr. Evil.
You now how he got that way? All the kids making fun of his name "Melkor? more like Milk-cow! ha ha ahha ahahhaah "
Kids can be so cruel

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