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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • …well, this is a good way to shine the spotlight on a massive problem. I’d be pretty hesitant to take DIY meds unless it was life-critical and my only option (which… lots of don’t have that option, and just die after hitting the health paygate…). The value here is its potential to slap some sense into the US and get our broken-as-fuck healthcare system caught up with the rest of the world so people don’t need moonshine insulin or w/e in the first place.

    That this conversation is even taking place is testament to how horrible our current system is.


  • I use dimensional analysis, but it’s over two lines… and not sure what you mean by working backwards, since the order doesn’t really matter so long as every value is in the correct line.

    Since typing it out would be ugly as sin, example image stolen from google:

    …they like to give us things like pt weight in lbs and oz, and ask for final product of tablespoons or some shit cuz they enjoy wasting our time, lol.

    That the type you mean?

    I know there are a few different ways to crunch the numbers, but DA is my favorite so far cuz it’s so consistent.

    *edit, example pic changed, first one put mcg twice in the same line, which is a weird move. /shrug









  • Those people were talking about the kind of AI we see in sci-fi, not the spellchecker-on-steroids we have today. There used to be a distinction, but marketing has muddied those waters. The sci-fi variety has been rebranded “AGI” so I guess the rest of that talk would go right along with it - the ‘AGI singularity’ and such.

    All still theoretically possible, but I imagine climate will take us out or we’ll find some clever new way to make ourselves extinct before real AI …or AGI… becomes a thing.