Otter Raft
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Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Medicine@mander.xyz•‘Patients get relief’: Researchers recommending nerve blockers to treat migraines [in emergency department migraine care]English
2·1 month agoThank you for writing that out, your explanation was very helpful.
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Medicine@mander.xyz•‘Patients get relief’: Researchers recommending nerve blockers to treat migraines [in emergency department migraine care]English
3·1 month agoThis is an updated recommendation for how to treat headaches in the emergency department, and one of the treatments it’s replacing is opioids.
Here is more from the article:
The update reviewed 26 studies from the past nine years that met the criteria involving migraines and visits to emergency departments to bring the treatment recommendations up to date.
“This update marks a major change in emergency department migraine care and implementing these treatments can improve patient outcomes and reduce reliance on opioids,” said study co-lead Dr. Jennifer Robblee, a neurologist and migraine and headache disorders specialist at Barrow Neurological Institute
Another user added a first person perspective, which explains it a lot better than I could.
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Android@lemdro.id•The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop - Ars TechnicaEnglish
1·2 months agoThere were a handful of times when I saw students using airdrop to send files in school, but email / google drive was the most common way to do it.
The choice to make Airdrop an Apple-only feature might have hurt adoption
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Woodworking@lemmy.ca•"How I built a Mechanical Calculator [out of wood]" | WhatWillMakes
1·2 months agoI’ve edited the post title to make it more clear that it’s the title from the video
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•"Maybe This Phone ISN’T Just for Criminals - Trying Graphene OS for a Month" - Linus Tech TipsEnglish
20·2 months agoLinus videos have clickbait titles like that, and it’s in reference to some news articles calling GOS an OS for criminals
Title and thumbnail aside, the video was a positive review of GOS and was made with help from a GOS team member. I probably should have added the extra context before it got downvoted away 😄
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Android@lemdro.id•"Maybe This Phone ISN’T Just for Criminals - Trying Graphene OS for a Month" - Linus Tech TipsEnglish
241·2 months agoLinus videos have clickbait titles like that, and it’s in reference to some news articles calling GOS an OS for criminals
Title and thumbnail aside, the video was a positive review of GOS and was made with help from a GOS team member. I probably should have added the extra context before it got downvoted away 😄
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Technology@beehaw.org•Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The VergeEnglish
3·2 months agoNeat! Good to know :)
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Nostalgia@lemmy.ca•How Tamagotchi Trained Millennials for the Era of Needy Devices | The WalrusEnglish
9·3 months agoMillenials were born 81 to 96, and Tamagotchi was still somewhat popular in the 2000s, so it still works IMO
Although it’s not unique to millenials
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Tech@programming.dev•Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement - Ars TechnicaEnglish
2·3 months agoI was mainly sharing it for those that are interested in the details of the changes. I agree they’re not the first, and groups have been making these changes for a few years now. Signal did another change a few years ago:
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Biology@mander.xyz•How different mushrooms learned the same psychedelic trickEnglish
6·3 months agoYes :)
The new study, led by pharmaceutical microbiology researcher Dirk Hoffmeister, from Friedrich Schiller University Jena, discovered that mushrooms can make psilocybin in two different ways, using different types of enzymes. This also helped the researchers discover a new way to make psilocybin in a lab.
Based on the work led by Hoffmeister, enzymes from two types of unrelated mushrooms under study appear to have evolved independently from each other and take different routes to create the exact same compound.
This is a process known as convergent evolution, which means that unrelated living organisms evolve two distinct ways to produce the same trait. One example is that of caffeine, where different plants including coffee, tea, cacao, and guaraná have independently evolved the ability to produce the stimulant.
Why this is interesting:
This is the first time that convergent evolution has been observed in two organisms that belong to the fungal kingdom. Interestingly, the two mushrooms in question have very different lifestyles. Inocybe corydalina, also known as the greenflush fibrecap and the object of Hoffmeister’s study, grows in association with the roots of different kinds of trees. Psilocybe mushrooms, on the other hand, traditionally known as magic mushrooms, live on nutrients that they acquire by decomposing dead organic matter, such as decaying wood, grass, roots, or dung.
The observation that mushrooms that inhabit two different niches make the same psychedelic compound raises questions regarding the ecological role of this molecule. A possible explanation as to why both mushrooms produce psilocybin could be that it is intended to deter predators, such as insects, that may be tempted to eat their fruiting bodies. This would be similar to the role of caffeine, which is also known to act as a natural pesticide, deterring insects and other pests from feeding on certain plants.
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Woodworking@lemmy.ca•This tree contains cyanide, so I turned it into a bowl of ice cream | JustInTheTrees
3·3 months agoHe makes the bowl and spoon, and flavors the ice cream with other parts of the same tree.
This series is a weird mix of woodworking and cooking that doesn’t fit perfectly into either community. Still, it’s cool to see the process and the channel is about woodworking, so I usually post it in this one
You can skip to 10:00 to get to the woodworking part
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Medicine@mander.xyz•AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities - Ars TechnicaEnglish
2·4 months agoYep, the companies are pushing AI models as being a “fair” and “unbiased” alternative to human workers. In reality LLLMs are going to be biased depending on the training data
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Woodworking@lemmy.ca•[Making a Baby Mobile Out of Different Species of Wood] | justinthetrees
1·5 months agoMaybe we can, if someone reached out? Depending on what other social media platforms he is using
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Woodworking@lemmy.ca•Will tossing this old aspen log onto my lathe help me make a new [bird] friend? [justinthetrees]
2·7 months agoI learn so much about trees from this channel, it has a nice pacing / length
Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPto
Medicine@mander.xyz•Immunogenicity and Safety of Influenza and COVID-19 Multicomponent Vaccine in Adults ≥50 YearsA Randomized Clinical TrialEnglish
21·8 months agoThis community is intended for healthcare professionals
As per the article
Importance Uptake of recommended seasonal influenza and COVID-19 vaccines remains suboptimal.
Objective To assess the immunogenicity and safety of an investigational mRNA-1083 vaccine against seasonal influenza and SARS-CoV-2 in adults 50 years and older.
Being able to cite data about safety and effectiveness is helpful when making recommendations to patients, and necessary when healthcare professionals are discussing policy.
I included the results in the post body to make sure it wasn’t clickbait or misleading, but I’m always looking to improving it in the future if you have feedback
















I was already on Windows 11 when I tried it, but I do see some mods labelled for Windows 10 and earlier versions. That makes me think it also supports Windows 10
tagging @[email protected] as well