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Reasons to learn programming:

  • Misery loves company (Join us! It's totally a fun hobby~!)
  • Fun new ways to nerd snipe yourself! ("Hey, I bet I could write a program to do that!")
  • You might actually find a use for it (maybe, possibly, once in a blue moon, rarely)

:promoted: This post brought to you by me spending the last few hours writing a program to turn GPS coordinates into a Maidenhead locator (and vice versa!)

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The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.

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I get that I have peers who disagree with me on this but I have no interest in playing games with GenAI NPCs/dialogue/quests/whatever. If it didn't deserve the author's time then why would it deserve mine? I don't see why I should choose this

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You're in The Chuck Zone.
Staircases placed at all angles lead off into the distance and swing music echoes from nearby.

silly 

The Olympics are over and it's time to see who came out on top of the medal count!

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Okay, story time. I was asked for the tale of my laser eye injury, so here you go. I'm fine. Customers were fine. No children were harmed. The only victims were me and Bob's career. funraniumlabs.com/2024/07/how-

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man, game show themes are amazing

catchy rhythms, amazing percussion, someone going ham on the slap bass and smokin' saxophone solos

can't be beat

From Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies 11e:

The United States was largely spared [from Thalidomide related tragedy] because of the length of time required for review and the rigorous scrutiny of new drug applications by the FDA.

Am I surprised that Frances Kelsey's role in stopping approval of thalidomide was completely erased in favor of what sounds like nationalistic BS? No. But I'm still disappointed.

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They say even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but I think it's the wrong frame to look at it.

Can a stopped clock tell you the time? Can you know when a stopped clock is right, without the use of another clock? Can it give you information about the current time?

LLMs are the same way, they are also right sometimes. Can you tell when? Without consulting another more reliable source of information?

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Re: those work gripes from last week 

Oh, someone else may be about to strangle a doctor. There's, like, a dozen stats and half are "morning draw". What the fuck is this doctor doing?

Glad I'm not on stats today...

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In which I review hot sauces.

Encona West Indian Exxxtra Hot Pepper Sauce

Extremely potent, still managing to not be bland. Not my favourite but certainly up there, and fun at parties to get reactions out of people.

Work gripes 

And that's not to say those can't be timed! You may want a CBC a certain amount of time after a blood transfusion to see what their H&H and RBC are. I'm sure there are reasons a BMP may be timed. But these are explicitly being put in as "morning draw". These are routines that the doctor is incorrectly marking timed. Stop it. Get some help.

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A vanc peak is timed because it needs to be drawn 1 hours after the infusion finished. (Otherwise, it wouldn't be the peak level, now would it?)

A PTT is timed because it needs to be done every 3 hours or something like that.

A cortisol is timed because levels fluctuate during the day. An 0800 cortisol will necessarily be different than a 1500 cortisol.

Your morning CBC and BMP is not timed. It can wait until we get to that side of the hospital.

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