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I’m bound to get type 2 some day. So I learned quite a bit about diabetes now. And low sugar is very bad. So a false low sugar tells the patient to eat sweet things. A high sugar causes lots of damage, but I have never heard of it causing death. Usually something gets amputated first. This finding was strange.

Let’s remember this writer is someone who has diabetes and an axe to grind. This is not news. This is a rant.


This was found to be one of the early challenges of self driving: reading traffic signal gestures of traffic agents. It does it. But the jury is out if it does it well.

It's hard for humans as well.

I often see humans drivers being confused with the police officers gesturing more and more until the person figures it out.


A famous quote by Winston Churchill’s mother on meeting Gladstone and Disraeli is, “When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.” How people make us feel is so important — not only in Leadership but also in life.

The ability to be genuinely interested in what someone else has to say and what their opinions are is a real gift.

a gift? isn't that the result of all your past efforts?

i mean, if you want it, then do it. if not, then there's nothing to be sad about.

IOW,

"I am I, and you are you. I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. If by chance we meet, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped." — Fritz Perls (1893–1970), 'The Gestalt Prayer' (rephrased)


lol. That quote is like a blatant copy of the Al-Kafirun chapter of the Quran.

Say: Oh you who turn away. I do not worship what you worship, nor do you worship what I worship. And I will not worship what you worship, Nor will you worship what I worship. Your way is yours, and my way is mine.


A better understanding of the science in the system: https://newatlas.com/energy/energy-dome-co2-sardinia/

Similar discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44685067 (162p/153c)


In cases where the traffic signal is not working, it is known that the FSD has to take on a more challenging role of reading traffic agent gestures. I think they have that functionality built in. But not when neither traffic signal is working nor traffic agent is present.

The basic thing is to treat everything like a four-way stop sign.


How long are emails stored on ram? If I navigate away, what happens? Does it stop?

Great question. The emails are stored in volatile RAM on the backend only for the duration of the active session.

To ensure a smooth experience if you accidentally navigate away or refresh, I’ve recently implemented IndexedDB local caching on the client side. This keeps your messages accessible in your browser's local storage without them ever being written to our server's hard drive.

However, Mephisto follows a strict 'Zero-Persistence' policy: the moment you explicitly clear your session or the session naturally expires, a wipe sequence is triggered, and all data is cryptographically purged from both the server's RAM and your browser's local cache. If you navigate away without a cache, the signal is lost—just like a true burner phone.


Is there any reason you need to store them in the RAM on the backend once they have been transferred to the client?

That is a valid point. Currently, the backend keeps them in RAM mainly to support multi-device syncing (like the QR handoff feature) during an active session. If a user scans the QR code to open the same inbox on mobile, the backend needs to serve those existing messages to the new client.

However, I'm exploring a 'Transfer & Purge' logic where, once a message is successfully delivered and acknowledged by the primary client, it could be encrypted or removed from the server-side RAM entirely, leaving the responsibility of persistence to the client-side IndexedDB. It’s a delicate balance between UX and the absolute 'zero-trace' goal.


That makes sense, thanks!

I could not find any mention of it but does this use regenerative AI? I can’t imagine it able to accomplish anything like this without using a large graphical Model in the back.

Free objects in the background.

No, free objects in the foreground, from the background.

I think the developers didn’t account for lost AirTags many hundreds of miles away. And that long calculation was not the best.

On the topic of LiDAR, there is an interesting thing called UNITR. https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07732#:~:text=In%20this%20paper%2...

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