Dang. I was hoping they perfected pancreatic beta islet transplantation... That is a terribly misleading title and a major click-bait let-down for Type 1s hopeful for an actual cure for diabetes.
Come on now. This shouldn't be dismissed as trivial. The most critical component of Nightscout (#WeAreNotWaiting's OSS) is continuous glucose monitoring. THIS provides THAT. And all by (what sounds like) wearing an Apple Watch 3 or 4.
Right now I have to drive a 1.5 inch needle into my gut every time I need to swap out my subcutaneous sensor, which is 1/week. These sensors are made of platinum and other precious metals and are expensive, especially without insurance. Plus, you have a lil nub sticking off your body, not the worse thing but it can get caught in door frames and what not.
I'm wearing an Apple Watch right now that shows my glucose readings (217 --> for the other T1Ds ;]). If I could remove the sensor from the equation, maybe even be liberated from my iPhone every now and again, it would ease dealing with my condition a good amount.
Simply put, one needs to monitor glucose passively to allow for the closed loop artificial pancreas these guys are working towards. This technology would make that monitoring so much easier, cheaper, more efficient and less wasteful.
Are you currently using a CGM? I use the Dexcom G5 which has an iOS app and watch integration. I also have it set up to feed into a night scout instance and am working on a browser extension so I don't need to rely on the web interface so much (plus much more low key). I've found that I keep my watch on all night and really only charge it when in the shower and getting ready and it never seems to come close to dying. I literally just look at my watch and get my glucose. It's a game changer for sure.
This is great! As another diabetic, this type of software is HUGE in allowing those of us with dietary restrictions to eat with a bit more freedom, or maybe less anxiety. While nutrition labels are great, going out to eat means you're often left to guess how many carbs you're intaking. Anything that provides a more accurate assessment of my carb intake is great.
I am about to get my SCiO unit which provides a means of sampling small amounts of food to determine the nutrition facts. The minor issue here is that it doesn't provide much in so far as what the total amount of carbs is, only the carb density.
I could see this product working alongside a SCiO type device that can get the macro assessment of of food you're going to be eating, but then get the nitty details by hooking into the SCiO data on the spot. If bread is detected, "Please get more accurate details on your meal by sampling your bread with your SCiO-type unit".
This sounds EXACTLY how my impression is after about 2 weeks of non-primary machine use.
!00% agree with the keyboard, I even made a joke about it to my visiting parents yesterday (received no laughs). After working for a few hours on my new machine, jumping back to my old machine definitely feels greasy.
98% agree with touchbar, I wish there was a way to edit the default touchbar view (escape and mini functions). I'd love to have the mini functions maximized so I can have the old hot keys one less click away, but its a minor gripe.
100% agree with speed -- it's been awesome. No worries at all. I don't have as much on my new machine yet but it seems to not get bogged down at all where my last-gen rMPB gets all hot and bothered rather quickly. It also doesn't seem to run as hot, I don't think I've heard a fan kick in yet (it is the winter ;D). I used to run my neural-styles on my last-gen rMBP as it would max at like 60GB (thanks swap!) where my 32GB linux box would tap out at... ~31.5GB. I am dying to run an apple to apple to penquin RNN death match here soon, but... yanno... people need gifts.
RAM -- 16GB is fine, it runs swap off an SSD, life could be A LOT worse. I am not sure how big swap can get but my last machine was touching 60GB under max loads of the RNN.
Touchpad -- it's HUGE and it's AWESOME! I don't have to do that lil finger-shifty maneuver to drag all the way across the screen now. I don't have any palming issues either. It's AMAZING!
Battery -- I saw some weirdness when I first got it, like being stuck at 80% for 3 hours. But it seems to have gotten enough data now to make better calcs on the power remaining. It feels like it lasts a lot longer than my old machine while doing generally the same work (usually local GAE instances, pycharm, chrome, webstorm, bundler watchers, the usual).
Ports -- I got one dongle and have only needed to use it once to test mousewheel events on a standard mouse. It worked great and everything else I plan to upgrade to USB-C and reading the instructions (it's really not THAT confusing guys...)
I am super pumped about my new upgrade and I definitely DID buy this myself (though it's a business write-off I suppose). I was waiting for the next MBP for a new lappy and had plenty of time to make a choice and every other laptop I got my hands on simply didn't have the same build quality or level of standard that this does. I also am not a fan for ultra-do-anything coffee-breath Windows and Linux support is always more trouble than it's worth at times (personally, macOS is my favorite unix-like os flavor by far).
The irony here is this design critique takes place on one of the ugliest sites on the internet.
Also, everything he points out is to the benefit of a society that's making it's first steps into computing using GUIs. Once you've accomplished that first introduction, you optimize for efficiency. Do you really need to sit there and parse an icon's details every time before you actually click the icon and move on to the actual task you intended to do?
I'm sure Apple considers a lot before making design changes, from UX efficiency to cross-platform aesthetic consistency to iPhone battery life (does displaying white icons encourage darker backgrounds which ultimately have more pixels using lower energy to light up or some such nuance?), which this article ignores entirely.
DUDE! Just link the github URL directly next time -- not only should this sort of discussion be done and persist on GH, not a random HN comment thread, but, for whatever reason, iOS won't let me copy that link so I have to type it in manually. Which I won't do.
As a US citizen, I find it strange as well. But our Republican Party seems to believe we're special and should be treated differently. We aren't and we shouldn't be.
Ah ha... Now I understand why they pulled Messenger out of the core FB app. So they could badger people for a year to install an intrusive application (or never be able to read those notifications the FB app keeps sending you without firing up a web browser) that would ultimately be leveraged as a B2C marketing platform.
Well that's interesting. As a Comcast customer, I have been seeing about ~40M down for a few years. Just did a run on SpeedTest.net and I'm now at ~175M down.
Good to see Google Fiber's goal of spurring competition in this sector actually working.
oh wait, it's december. no i don't xD