Sterile_Technique
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sick days 15 hours ago:
IIRC George Jetson was canonically born in 2022.
So… we ARE living in the Jetsons timeline… you and I were just born in the Jetsons slums.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 days ago:
I mean, fucking with a PDF isn’t exactly arcane knowledge, even after it’s been signed. It’s just cumbersome and tedious and requires counterintuitive actions like pressing Ctrl+P instead of Ctrl+S.
If their purpose is to be secure, they’re shit at their job.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 days ago:
Sounds like screen readers need some improvement.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 days ago:
Open Office? Libre Office?
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 days ago:
Critical temperature = user friendly. TIL.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 days ago:
Open Office? Libre Office?
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 2 days ago:
Chipmunks, 5 year olds, salt/pepper shakers, and paint thinner, also make terrible terrible doctors.
Follow me for more studies on ‘shit you already know because it’s self-evident immediately upon observation’.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 days ago:
Anyone remember xFire? It was better 15 years ago than Discord ever was or will be.
…damn I miss that shit. They were litigated out of existence by a frivolous lawsuit from Yahoo. This is why we can’t have nice things.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 days ago:
Tech muggle here.
Could we just get rid of PDFs and switch to word docs and spread sheets instead? I know this will likely cause a slurry of consequences, especially in professional circles, but have you considered: fuck it.?
K thx bye.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 4 days ago:
Feeling the heat comes from your capsaicin receptors, which are fortunately distinct from taste. It’s more of a pain receptor.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 4 days ago:
…I’m actually quite thankful my anus doesn’t have taste buds.
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 4 days ago:
Any favorite recipes?
- Comment on This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts 5 days ago:
I kind of dove a bit deeper into that kind of shenanigans for nursing school - copying entire chapters from my text books and using find and replace wildcards clip out all the bullshit like in-text citations.
Plug that fucker into some text-to-speech software, and my reading assignment just became a listening assignment!
I do wish I knew some actual code… I’ve tried to dive in and self-learn that stuff, but didn’t make it very far.
I should take an actual class.
- Comment on This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts 6 days ago:
Is there a tool that crunches the entirety of the documents and sorts the individual words by frequency? For example, doing it the stupid way (semi-manually) I copied OP’s article into Word and replaced every space with a page break to turn the entire article into a one-word-per-line list, then plugged that into Excel and sorted alphabetically, then manually counted and deleted the repeats. Then sorted those to put the most frequent on top.
This reduced the 525 word article down to a list of 284 individual words. If I added another article to this list, the number of entries would only be increased by the number of words in the 2nd article that didn’t appear in the first one, so basically as more and more articles are added, the number of unique additions from each would be fewer and fewer. Do this to a thousands-of-pages of documents like the Epstein files, and you could instantly condense like dozens of pages worth of just the word “the” down to a single entry, making the entirety of the documents much easier to skim for highlights… like, if the word ‘velociraptor’ was just randomly hidden in the article, most readers would probably skim right passed it; but in the list below it would stand out like a sore thumb, prompting a targeted search in the full document for context. Especially if we could flag words as not interesting, and like click to knock “the” “of” “and” etc off the list.
…maybe a project for someone who actually knows what they’re doing… my skills hit a brick wall after things like ‘find and replace’ in Word, but you get the gist.
Word used: # found: The 37 Of 16 And 14 To 14 Epstein 11 In 11 Tool 9 A 8 I 8 Files 7 But 5 For 5 Is 5 Linkedin 5 Many 5 On 5 That 5 With 5 404 4 Also 4 An 4 Connections 4 Found 4 Media 4 Not 4 People 4 All 3 Anything 3 Are 3 As 3 Him 3 It 3 My 3 Network 3 Them 3 Were 3 Who 3 Already 2 Appears 2 Case 2 Common 2 Con 2 Def 2 Documents 2 DOJ 2 Dump 2 Each 2 Excerpts 2 Find 2 Finke 2 Founder 2 From 2 How 2 Jeffrey 2 Me 2 Mentioned 2 Moss 2 Name 2 Names 2 Obviously 2 Other 2 Overlap 2 Page 2 Positives 2 Repository 2 Said 2 Search 2 Their 2 This 2 Up 2 Vincenzo 2 Work 2 Your 2 5 1 22 1 35 1 1st 1 2nd 1 3rd 1 Acknowledges 1 Across 1 Adam 1 Added 1 After 1 Although 1 Anyone 1 Api 1 Appearance 1 Approached 1 Attended 1 Audio 1 Away 1 Badges 1 Based 1 Be 1 Because 1 Behind 1 Between 1 Brin 1 Built 1 Called 1 Can 1 Chose 1 Christopher 1 Company 1 Conference 1 Contained 1 Contains 1 Context 1 Could 1 Couldn’t 1 Court 1 Covered 1 Co-Worker 1 Creator 1 Days 1 Deep 1 Degree 1 Department 1 Deranged 1 Did 1 Didn’t 1 Do 1 Document 1 Does 1 Don’t 1 Down 1 Duggan 1 Easily 1 Elites 1 Email 1 Epstein’s 1 Far 1 First 1 Free 1 Fully 1 Ghislaine 1 Girls 1 Github 1 Gut 1 Hacker 1 Hacking 1 Had 1 Have 1 He 1 His 1 Hits 1 Images 1 Incidental 1 Included 1 Inclusion 1 Initial 1 Introduce 1 Investigations 1 Involvement 1 Iozzo 1 Jeff 1 Just 1 Justice’s 1 Keep 1 Know 1 Known 1 Larry 1 Last 1 Likely 1 Links 1 Lot 1 Made 1 Make 1 Mapped 1 Mash 1 Massive 1 Matching 1 Material 1 Maxwell 1 May 1 Mean 1 Mention 1 Mentions 1 Mentions 1 Mentions 1 Million 1 Moss’s 1 Multiple 1 Musk’s 1 Myself 1 Necessarily 1 Nefarious 1 Never 1 New 1 No 1 Nude 1 Number 1 Off 1 Offered 1 Only 1 Or 1 Original 1 Others 1 Output 1 Pages 1 Paid 1 Patrick 1 Peter 1 Photos 1 Pointed 1 Position 1 Post 1 Previous 1 Produce 1 Programmers 1 Publicly 1 Published 1 Purposefully 1 Reads 1 Realize 1 Recordings 1 Reddit 1 Related 1 Released 1 Relevance 1 Report 1 Reported 1 Result’s 1 Review 1 S 1 Saw 1 Scenes 1 Searched 1 Searches 1 Sergey 1 Show 1 Shows 1 Smarter 1 Social 1 Some 1 Stay 1 Stuff 1 Style 1 Suppose 1 Surprising 1 Taking 1 Tech 1 Tested 1 Than 1 Thankfully 1 There 1 These 1 Thiel 1 Those 1 Told 1 Tools 1 Total 1 Touch 1 Tried 1 Trusting 1 Understandably 1 Unredacted 1 Upload 1 Verify 1 Very 1 Videos 1 Visualize 1 Want 1 Warn 1 Way 1 We 1 Wealth 1 Website 1 Week 1 Well 1 Went 1 Where 1 Whether 1 Wikipedia 1 Wild 1 Wired 1 Women 1 Wondering 1 Would 1 Wrote 1 You 1 Zero 1 - Comment on YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE 2 weeks ago:
YSK legal rights don’t mean shit to administrations that don’t respect the law. Compliance with ICE can be deadly - arm yourself and do whatever you need to do to stay safe.
- Comment on Who farted? 2 weeks ago:
Surgical tech here! This is one of those ‘prank the new guy’ jokes you see in the OR. I’ve seen play out almost verbatim to the OP a couple different times.
Original OP may well be quoting Scrubs, but I’d wager this prank predates Scrubs by a hefty margin too.
“Go get me a jug of elbow grease” kind of shenanigans.
- Comment on YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant. 3 weeks ago:
Historically, complying with Nazis does not actually yield the promised safety. Arm up, and shoot first.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 3 weeks ago:
We don’t have the spine for a civil war. Closest thing we’ll feasibly see are a few targeted political assassinations. Things will get kinda noisy after that in a bickering kind of way, but most of us won’t even remember it by the following Monday. It’ll fizzle out.
- Comment on It's not an addiction! I can stop whenever I want! 3 weeks ago:
Listening to an NCLEX review lecture as I’m scrolling… They’re talking about addiction, and gave the whole “I can quit anytime I want” example of denial… AS I was scrolling past this post.
That was uncanny.
10/10
- Comment on YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain 4 weeks ago:
Pure anecdote, but my personal experience suggests that reading vs listening do not activate the same part of the brain. With textbooks specifically, reading assignments never seemed to do me much good - I’d read a page, really giving it my attention, but then make it to the end of the page and realize I have no idea what it was talking about like 3 paragraphs ago.
Enter the age of digital textbooks and text-to-speech software - fucking godsend for me, even when it’s the shitty Microsoft Sam style voice. Listening to the material instead of reading increased retention quite a bit.
Taking it up another notch, doing them both simultaneously was the clear winner. If I listen to a reading assignment while following along visually reading the text, it’s like a one-and-done and ready to take the test at the end of the semester with no further studying.
I discovered this superpower near the end of highschool, and it has absolutely carried me through everything since - if you think you might be an auditory learner, give it a shot!
- Comment on no training award 4 weeks ago:
On one hand, yes… but on the other, I think that’s part of why they’re so successful. We constantly give Trump and people like Trump the village idiot pass - we don’t take them seriously because we wave off their malice as just stupidity.
If Trump actually behaved competently, he’d have been in prison ages ago.
…it’s the fucking Darth Jar Jar theory, but it’s happening in real time.
- Comment on no training award 4 weeks ago:
Oh he was trained. This shit wasn’t a fluke. We’ve reached “Nazis patrolling our streets, executing civilians on the president’s orders” stage of US collapse. This will continue until people start shooting back.
- Comment on Scientists retrieve RNA from an extinct animal, marking a first in genetics research 1 month ago:
Clone it. Don’t let some cheesy dinosaur movie tell us what to do.
- Comment on 🎵 It means something something... 🎵 1 month ago:
Heart warming story of a royal toddler who noped the fuck out after being caught up in a political murder scheme, met two stoners, became a stoner himself, and kinda just did nothing but be a stoner until his ~20s when he was finally swayed to put the blunt down after his toddler-crush just randomly shows up one day and fucks him.
They just don’t make wholesome movies like that anymore. <3
- Comment on There's ads on an apple 1 month ago:
- Comment on It will trickle down any second now 1 month ago:
If works like a piñata - if we beat it open with a club, only then will its contents trickle down.
- Comment on Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns 2 months ago:
Sup, ICE. You’ve done such a good job emulating your rolemodel from the 1930s/40s with the mustache, I think you’ve all earned a fast-track in that career!! Just skip right to the end and go ahead and feed yourself that bullet! Remember not to aim perpendicular to your throat - that’ll just punch a potentially nonfatal hole: instead aim it up toward your brain!
You are a traitor not just to your country, but to all +of humanity: your legacy will only ever be that of a villainous cautionary tale.
Best of luck with the go kill yourself! 💖
- Comment on Science confirms futility of chasing waterfalls 2 months ago:
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 2 months ago:
Depends on what we mean by smart. Lemmy seems to especially attract the IT crowd, which in itself represents a huge swathe of specialty knowledge… which I can’t claim to be part of, but hey, medic checking in! But with reddit’s variety of topics to include… I mean, pretty much everything, since that website is massive: I don’t think they have any kind of knowledge deficit in a general sense.
Where Lemmy really shines is in stamping out the bigotry, not just in policy but from a direct community response: drop a post with some racism or sexism or w/e and you’ll be swarmed by posts telling you to fuck off and don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out. And I love it! :D
So, smarter? Fuck if I know. Significantly less evil? Fuck yeah!
- Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 2 months ago:
The different types of Gameboys and most of their games emulate really well on a smart phone. I prefer playing them in landscape orientation for the larger display, but portrait mode gives a more accurate recreation with the screen on top and buttons on bottom.
I’m out of touch with what the latest best options are for emulators and where to source your ROMs, but if you ask around in communities focusing on things like piracy, they’ll point you in the right direction.
Recommended to use a VPN for any downloads.
