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I worked at a hospital for 20 years… in IT, I wanna start scolding just reading this!
this gets more then just pharmacists excited!
Fr! Not even pharmacist, just anyone with a passive knowledge of germ theory!
My elderly parents showing me clearly AI videos of a $30 robot puppy…
I couldn’t convince them it was AI. I tried to explain CGI with shit like Pixar and Disney movies but it didn’t work. NICOO puppy
That shit should be illegal.
They must have known that CGI in Pixar and Disney movies is very different from an AI-generated video and concluded that you had no idea what you were talking about based on that inaccuracy.
“Computers can make up things that look real. Like superhero movies and kid movies (disney/Pixar). This AI crap just made it cheaper and easier so there’s lots of fake stuff everywhere”
Don’t worry, didn’t intend that seriously, was just an attempt at a knowledgeable/novice reversal joke.
I worked at a hospital for 20 years… in IT,
Hi there, I work in a small lab just upstairs and was wondering if it’s okay if I spoof a few MAC addresses to get wired internet and then use my personal VPN to torrent a few GB’s of films and games? I’m sure you understand
I mean, a few GB would probably be done in a few seconds, so no big deal, just don’t seed past 1.5. The VPN actually makes it easier on the routers if there’s any NAT going on because the VPN handles managing the individual connection forwarding table.
Now if you said a few TB, that might be an issue.
Haha! Yeah, I’m just a GP’s son and even I wouldn’t resist the urge on that one!
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.
ಠ_ಠ
Or of they are a nurse, ask them which home remedy is best for burns: toothpaste or powder coffee?
Vaseline
Get fancy and use Vicks
Yellow Mustard.
Habanero juice mixed with vicks.
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
I’ve heard it tastes better than milk on coffee. Gotta try.
i think so. it gives a little carb flavor without being to carb-y.
Vanilla soy latte is a three bean soup!
tell them to put a whole onion in their sock and call it a day
Butter
Tiger balm.
Grapefruit poultice
Just tell them the joke was weak, and move on with 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.
Looks like we found the pharmacist.
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).
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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.
That may be true, but given that doctors are better equipped to understand the changing landscape of medical knowledge, it’s wisest to take medication as prescribed
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.
We need one of these for every field.
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”.
“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.
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.
Oh OK, you’re not trolling.
You must be joking!
(I’ve got a MIRV correction missile fueling up in my silo now, ready to launch in case you’re not. That’s why I’m asking for so much confirmation, 'cause those things are expensive!)
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.
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.
Resetting the BIOS involves removing the internal CR2032 battery. Not a charged (main) battery.
Is that a fact? Well, maybe i’ll give that a shot if it’s easy enough. Thanks for the heads up.
Google it for the specific device you have, especially how to open 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?
Don’t you dare!
Plumber “hot water heater”
Accountant “.02 cents”
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?
Sends it by taking a photo of the screen, which displays part of the PDF and some questionable browser tabs are clearly visible in the photo.
Edit: questional -> questionable
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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
Let me ruffle all your feathers: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6736742/
Where in that document does it say that patients should decide on their own to stop taking antibiotics because they “feel better now”?
This is something one can bring up with the doctor who prescribed it, but not a decision to make on feelings.
Where in my post did I say that patients should decide on their own to stop taking medication?
I tried to share some information, that show nothing is black and white and only because something is believed by many, that something can still be wrong.
The meme you commented under is about someone getting attention by prematurely stopping to take antibiotics.
If you don’t want people to assume what you mean, please add context.
That is interesting. But a consideration for the doctor, not the layperson. Everyday people should still take the full course prescribed and hope their physician has prescribed the right dose.
You are absolutely right. People should trust their doctors, but doctors should also update their knowledge.
Here’s hoping they do, yeah. I suspect most do, at least where I live.
Well that was unexpectedly interesting.
Thank you for sharing.
Came here to post this
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”
“I used to do programming when you could put code on your MySpace page”
No, because we wont be compelled to answer…
Good for ya if you solved one of your problem with AI.
Good luck tho.
“👍”
“Oof. I wonder what I did to piss them off?”
So why do you have to take the full thing of antibiotics? It has never been explained to me
Its because there might be a few bacteria left if you dont eat all the antibiotics
And those survivors might evolve and get resistant to antibiotics
Better to kill them all, leaving no survivors
Let’s not forget to mention that these resistant bacteria start to spread, making antibiotics less and less useful over time, for everyone.
We’re already at a place where antimicrobial resistance has become a huge issue, rendering treatments with antibiotics useless in many cases.
If you ever suffered through a bacterial infection and remember how you felt once the antibiotics finally kicked in, and the prolonged suffering resistances would cause, or ever watched a loved one in a hospital die from a bacterial infection just because the were in a weakened state and the stem they caught was already resistant, you’ll understand why that sucks so much as it does.
That was the theory and how it works in a petri dish, however that’s not how it works in the body.
Antibiotic treatment doesn’t have to kill all of the bacteria. It needs to kill enough so the immune system can catch up and finish the job.
There been evidence for more than 50 years that overly long antibiotic treatments cause resistance to build up faster. That’s why they have limits on the first place.
So there’s a balance between too few days, and to many.
They believe that after a short time on antibiotics the bacteria that have not yet died have some resistance to the antibiotics. So it’s better to take more and kill them all so the ones a little resistant can’t live on to become very resistant. There is newer research that suggests this practice is not optimal though.
The other replies are now wrong. Advice has started to change. It’s now believed that finishing the course after the infection has been treated and eliminated drives antibiotic resistance. Rationally thinking about it you can see why, more unnecessary antibiotic exposure to bacteria both in your body and in the sewer/environment where you excrete the antibiotics
There is nuance here and it’s up to medical professionals and researchers to find the right balance. The biggest source of the unnecessary usage of antibiotics is rampant over-prescription, not taking a few more doses after the first second you feel better. Rebounding with a more resilient infection after stopping antibiotics early is still a relevant concern and happens frequently.
Obviously, if over-perscription is a problem and medical professionals are the ones prescribing these meds, it needs to be allowed to point to deprecated beliefs these people have.
You all are acting, as if everyone that points to this error is recommending that sick people should stop taking their meds.
Works great with your local autistic friend too, or anyone with any semblance of common sense
Better yet, tell them you were taking antibiotics for a “viral” infection, like a cold.
If you have a friend who’s
a pharmacistnot a dipshit…My blood is boiling
You’re gonna want to take extra doses of antibiotics for that.
