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cooldevguy | 2 years ago | on: FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor

I am diabetic type 2 and I've used the Abbot Freestyle Libre 2 for a few years now. You don't need a prescription in Mexico to get it, but it is expensive ($1548 MXN ~= $91 USD). The data you get is pretty interesting but at least on my experience, the difference between readings from the CGM and actual blood test can vary from 10 ~ 40 mg/dL so you have to have that in mind. However it was really helpful to discover that, while I'm pretty active since a few years ago it was troubling for me to wake up on readings over 140 mg/dL which thanks to this turned out to be just that my body does it naturally and my blood sugar spikes while asleep and an hour or so before I wake up, which my endocrinologist just attributes to my body getting ready to work out.

Even as an experiment, I'd say most people should get one just to understand their bodies, and their specific responses to certain foods, once in a while.

cooldevguy | 4 years ago | on: Log4j: Between a rock and a hard place

Completely understandable critical point on why "backward compatibility" means so much. I remember submitting a bug report and a pull request in the Amazon SES SDK library for .Net that basically fixed an issue when trying to send an attachment to anyone in the BCC field, just to be told it couldn't be done since it would break backward compatibility...even when the feature itself was broken....

cooldevguy | 4 years ago | on: Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach

I love Amazon as much as the next guy but I do think they are doing something....just the other day I got one of those "free 5G" phones from T-Mobile and thought about getting a case for it...well I got a $5 case on Amazon and when the item arrived it had the nice little card about "leave a 5 star review; we mail you a $5 Amazon Gift Card"...well cheap ass me tried to provide my review (I had already installed the case) but the site did not allow me to submit a review for the first 2 days after I received it...so I guess this is some sort of deterrent right? It did the trick for me, I'm happy with the case but I haven't bothered to try to submit a review again

cooldevguy | 5 years ago | on: Fry's Electronics is closing all stores

I only found out about Fry's in 2005 (living south of the border) and from then on, it was my must-stop every time I came to the U.S. Haven't ever seen a store that carried so many PC parts it was a dream come true for a young impressionable teenager as I was.
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