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I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not", nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.

A friend of mine referred to his nose as his "beak" and I was like, I can use that. What other funny names can I use for my aging body parts?

I want to create a persistent live USB of Debian and I wanted to use Veracrypt to protect the drive. From my understanding, when you boot up the drive, it doesn't ask for a password. so if someone were to get a hold of the drive, they can just get immediate access. Also, I know it's also recommend to encrypt your drives to protect your data. I want to know if it's possible to do that.

If not, are there other ways to protect the drive?

I used to think social media was good because thanks to them, governments couldn't fabricate false narratives. But it turns out that they are still doing it.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1366261/dl

Other than going on Lemmy lol.

What I have done throughout the years (as an office worker) is the following:

• reddit/lemmy
• chess
• selfhosting/homelab
• chores/planning
• writing

Getting tired of all these, looking for something to do when I have nothing to do but still looks like I am active on Teams/online.

What FOSS app do you use guys to measure health?

• app for tracking steps?
• meaby one for sleep tracking

Any recomendatitions?

I've been working on a development board for a while now. To finalize the product, some people recommend printing a case (I don't have a 3D printer). Do you have any other suggestions (the most fun ones are also welcome), or should I invest in this type of machine?

Dev board

https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-s3-rlcd-4.2.htm

Some cases

https://www.printables.com/model/1763772-enclosure-for-waveshare-esp32-s3-rlcd-42

https://www.printables.com/model/1780357-slim-snap-fit-case-for-waveshare-esp32-s3-rlcd-42

Please give me as many practical ideas as possible, I'll make my selection later.

A few years ago anything you wanted to search for would generate hundreds of pages of results. From sources all over. If you structured your query well you could dramatically cut down the irrelevant results and then spend a bit of time skimming through the offerings until you found your target.

Searching felt like a hunt, it could take you to far flung corners of the web, and hitting the jackpot on some obscure forum was part of the fun.

Now searching anything feels incredibly frustrating. You know what you are looking for is out there somewhere but it feels impossible getting to it. Basically we have only two main routes now, Google and Bing (and I swear Bing is just copying Google's homework). I've tried a handful of others and they all fall very short.

Something has changed dramatically under the hood.

It seems like the results are very shallow and no amount of prodding will get either search engine to produce anything besides the laziest output. Any subject has a limited pool of sites they lean on and then pretend that that's all of the Internet.

It generalizes very quickly and if you try to counter by putting things in quotations it gives up.

Even in the rare moments I've buckled and used their stupid AI, it takes even more time browbeating the program to just deliver the damned specifics.

What is going on??

How do we get our old search back?

I swear every day of trying to navigate the web feels worse than the day before.

How did we get here?

There's got to be something better, right? Or something we can do to pave a new structure that benefits the denizens of the web better than the lazy slop our tech overlords scrape off the table for us. What can we do?

I’m pretty sure there are only 5 love languages. But if there are more I’m unaware of please let me know. I’ve listed mine below from most important to least.

1 physical touch 2 quality time 3 words of affirmation 4 acts of service 5 gift giving

Crossposted from https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/48779421

I'm writing a program that can find info about a phone number. One problem appears to be that Google's phone number library doesn't provide enough info. For instance, take this number: +1 (613) 745-1576. My iPhone correctly says "Ottawa, Ontario, Canada", while Google's library doesn't return the city? How does my iPhone pick this up but not Google's own library? Is this provided by cell carriers? Is it something with the 745 block? If so, where can I find this info?

Working on a website for my sister. I got some grainy gifs and a visitor counter. What else?

Ocarina of time —- running into the owl and accidentally pressing a to skip, but you have to hear it again if you press a to skip. Becomes frustrating.

Pokemon blue/red—- the slow ass POKE-CENTER

And to add on; to save the game, it asks so many questions.

Well, tell me your frustrating parts in any games

Pornography restrictions being codified into law, adult art being restricted from most Lemmy instances, Tarot readers blotting out the nudity on their cards on Reddit.

I'm watching the Magicians, on Amazon, and I use subtitles. All the curse words are purposefully filled in with random letters, so as not to offend the reader.

What's up with all the prudishness? Can people knock it off, please?

People have vaginas. And titties. And dicks. And asses. They swear. They drink. They fuck. Why is this generation afraid of that? Acknowledging these things isn't going to increase your chances of being sexually violated. So, what's the deal?

I have a fairly long commute, so naturally encounter a lot of weirdness on the road. If I had $1 for every truck I see on the way to work, I wouldn't even have to clock in anymore. But one of them stood out amongst the others.
It wasn't the truck itself, but more what was on the truck. I kid you not, it was an OnlyFans truck. Now I know what you're thinking, some guy just put OnlyFans decals on his lifted pickup.
Nuh, uh. This was a 40 ton, full container length semi-truck with a white trailer cover with big blue letters reading "OnlyFans" on the side and back. Even the Mudflaps had it spelled out.
This wasn't for a specific OnlyFans creator, just OnlyFans as a brand itself, which I'm not sure whether it makes it better or worse.
This trailer cover must've been custom made and costs a shitton of money.
I'm not sure about the persons motivation, but I definetly respect the dedication and the execution.

I liked OkCupid's question system, but since that place has become unusable there is no good way of meeting people online without investing considerable effort sifting through discord servers and whatnot. I had high hopes for Matrix, but Matrix turned out to have a fair share of rooms full of really mentally ill people set on evading moderation.

I'm not talking about romantic or sexual dating, that is not the aim. So far I've only met one person online who proved to be a consistent friend.

The whole conundrum is so troubling to me that I have started thinking about building a crude matching algorithm and using that for a FLOSS chatting site that doesn't have pictures, bios, searchable profiles and all that jazz. Just: 'yes'/'no' and 6 pt scale questions. Maybe also a contrast mode to discover radically different people. The biggest obstacle here would be certain legal questions (especially around liability.)

Before I start doing that I want to ask if anyone here knows of a decent site to meet people.

I was a happy user of mander.xyz, and it had some great communities. What happened to it?

Repebble is releasing their Pebble Round 2, and I think I want to get it.

But I am not sure how to choose between 14mm vs 20mm straps.

I had an LG smartwatch 3 that had a 20mm strap, and I did not like how clunky the strap was.

But are there upsides/downsides to 14mm vs 20mm? How do you usually choose, and or what is your preference?

I'm looking for specific suggestions of what I can do to find a group that I can join for the purpose of building a real revolution inside the USA. I'm trying and finding it very difficult. The closest was PSL but honestly my local branch seems kind of limp. That and I'm not academically inclined enough to get through Capital.

I often do it even though I usually already know before doing it. It just feels like a habit/sanity check.