I worked at a hospital for 20 years... in IT, I wanna start scolding just reading this!
this gets more then just pharmacists excited!
I worked at a hospital for 20 years... in IT, I wanna start scolding just reading this!
this gets more then just pharmacists excited!
One of the best ways to get information out of people who are hoarding knowledge is to say something so blatantly false to them that they can't help but lecture you on why you're wrong.
ah yes. Murphy's law.
Uhm actually, that is Cunningham's law after Howard Cunningham, developer of the first wiki!
Murphy's law states that "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong" smhmh.
Um actually you're wrong, what you're referencing is Poe's law,
Cunninghams law is "whoever smelt it, dealt it"
I thought Cunningham's law had to do with over-intelligent pigs
Nah, over-intelligent pigs is covered in "Animal Farm", a classic dystopian novel by George OrwellAldous Huxley shit sorry I accidentally misremembered it right.
That's true now, but Murphy actually said "if there's two ways of doing something people will do it wrong every time"
What can go wrong will go wrong was Finagle's law until Murphy came along with a better name for a similar rule
But Murphy's rule was better before as it gave a solution: ensure there's only one way to do a thing
Murphy was a test subject for acceleration tests on rocket sleds. One run was ruined as all the accelerometers had been plugged in the wrong way, so no acceleration data was collected
Or of they are a nurse, ask them which home remedy is best for burns: toothpaste or powder coffee?
Yellow Mustard.
A gallon of beans
that's coffee.
Would you like some nut juice with your bean soup? (Adding almond milk to coffee.)
i prefer oat thank you
If you're ever lost in a forest, and you want to be rescued, just start building a house. Someone will magically appear to ask if you have a building permit.
If you're in the desert, start mixing a Dry Martini, an Englishman will appear to tell your recipe is wrong and his is the correct one.
In telecoma version is take a fibre optic cable with you and burry it. A backhoe will promptly arrive to dig it up.
Put on a pair of headphones and start listening to something. Then set about to making shelter or building a fire or something. You'll be rescued as soon as your hands are full because someone will come along to ask you the single most inane question of your life.
As a joke it’s perfect 😂 but also: please don’t actually do this—finishing antibiotics as prescribed (or calling your doc if you’re having side effects) is the real pro tip.
Recent research has found that the recommended length of a course of antibiotics is basically just a guess and doesn't have any hard science backing it.
I've even seen research that suggests that not finishing the full course if you feel better helps prevent resistant bacteria from taking over (because the antibiotics are killing the bacteria that are outcompeting them).
There are studies linked in this post that disagree with that logic.
The logic you heard is the long held belief that's being challenged with new evidence, and it takes a super long time to break the medical community of long held beliefs.
For example, even in the 90s medical schools were still teaching that you couldn't get addicted to opioids if you were actually in pain.
And there are still psychiatrists that will say you can't have autism because you can make eye contact with people, because that's what the DSM5 says.
I just had a thought, do they still put a shitload of antibiotics into animal feeds on factory farms? Doesn't that contribute to antibiotic resistance?
Yeah, from what I understand, countries try to regulate the use of antibiotics, so that we don't blow the most potent ones, a.k.a. new ones, right away. But on some level, we're reliant on regularly discovering new antibiotics, which isn't great.
Iirc it doesn't because the antibiotics don't target the same bacteria that makes humans sick.
Until those diseases jump the species gap
I don't think that's super common for bacteria. You see it more with viruses.
We still give them shitloads yeah, but it's complicated. Changes have been made globally. There's basically no risk to us. The antibiotics don't get into our food, and the superbugs that might breed aren't viable in humans. Wild animals still pose more risk.
and the superbugs that might breed aren’t viable in humans.
But diseases jump from non-humans to humans all the time?
At least, Wikipedia chooses to spell out the sentence "Most human diseases originated in non-humans" and lists a who's who of pandemics as such: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoonosis
Or do you mean something different?
oh my man/lass, next time you buy a tangerine have a look at the label on what they put on the skin
Course lengths for antibiotics isn't well studied. From this article:
In fact, the optimal length of treatment in many common infections is not well studied and may be more than a little arbitrary. One infectious diseases doctor has suggested, somewhat satirically, that most of our current rules for antibiotic administration have more to do with the number of days in the week than they do with robust scientific evidence.
We have a growing and, frankly, terrifying issue of antibiotic resistant bacteria from over prescribing and longer than necessary courses.
What the fuck. They told me that antibiotic resistant bacteria was caused by taking too little antibiotics. Who can I trust now????
Over, under, and misuse have resulted in adaptations by bacteria. Which is to say, life evolves. Its too bad, and there is still a role for antibiotics in our world, but we have to trim our use of it.
Realistically, most of the antibiotic resistance issues actually arise from antibiotic usage in farm animals. Turns out you get better and fatter growth if you microdose animals with antibiotics. Plus there's the added benefit that you don't need to care as much about animal hygiene or illnesses if they're just always on antibiotics. Of course, that's the perfect circumstance for promoting antibiotic resistance. And at the current massive scale of animal farming, antibiotic resistance spreads quickly.
But, you know, that's an acceptable cost when you consider all the shareholder value that you create by having slightly fatter animals.
Funny thing is, antibiotic resistance is an energetically costly adaptation, and studies show that as long as you drop antibiotic usage below a certain amount, evolution would actually favor deleting antibiotic resistance genes. In other words, if we stopped using antibiotics on farm animals, a large amount of antibiotic resistance would just evaporate basically overnight. Then realize that that would never happen with our current governments
We need one of these for every field.
"OK, I unplugged the computer. ... No, I still hear air moving. ... What? You mean the footrest? Why would I unplug that?"
I would try Linux, but I'm not some command-line hacker type. I like a nice GUI and Linux just can't compete with the big guys on that front with all the "packages" or whatever bloating up your knock-off OS.
Man... I get it. I've changed at least five windows machines to Linux in the past. This past fall, I was switch my HP spectre to Linux and bricked the fucking thing.
All of the security windows shit meant a bunch of bios changes, then out of nowhere it wouldnt charge the battery.
No idea how to fix it now that the battery and/or laptop won't recognize the power plugged into any of the usbc ports. Ive tried different chargers, different outlets, and leaving it plugged in for 24 hours, but no life at all. No power means I cant restore to default bios, and Linux wouldnt install because once I was done fucking with the security, i didnt have enough battery to complete the install.
It's fucking embarrassing.
I then gave up and upgraded to a gaming laptop with a 5070ti, but I'd love to resurrect that old one if anybody has any tips.
Resetting the BIOS involves removing the internal CR2032 battery. Not a charged (main) battery.
I'd try one of the big Linuxes, such as Ubuntu, they often are more compatible than other Linuxes. Have you tried searching for "Linux on HP spectre" to see if there's any special configuration required
Ubuntu is what I was endeavoring to install.
I googled all sorts of things to no avail. Now, software solutions seem moot because it wont power on or even charge.
I should google "how to charge a laptop battery when it's removed" or "do new laptop batteries come pre-charged" ... I feel like if I can get some juice, i can reset the bios to default and hopefully undo my power issue. Then, i can start this whole thing over again with extra caution.
Are you trolling?
I don't think so? I know people here love Linux. That's great. I just have to assume those folks aren't gamers/power users, because why would I pick an OS that doesn't support those things? It's crazy to me. It feels like the people at Linux are trying to lock me out of my own computer, which I own! And I can't imagine someone's little hobby coding project is very secure!? Correct me if I'm wrong! I just don't get it.
Here's my 50 CSV files for you to create a powerbi report on top of.
As well as
How do I export the data from my report to CSV?
i wonder if hearing people talk about radiation as though it's an infection that can spread from person to person makes other nuclear enthusiasts twitch as much as it makes me...
or hearing someone imply that any nuclear reactor can explode in exactly the same manner that an atomic bomb does "by accident".
I know you asked for CSV but it wasn't showing up right so I saved it as PDF. Can I send that to you?
This is exactly the same as saying to a software developer: "I was going to ask you to write me some software to do this, but I'll just get AI to do it instead"
Works great with your local autistic friend too, or anyone with any semblance of common sense
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