It was my understanding that the closed source part was limited to their visual aspects, as the functional changes they make have to adhere to the licence of chromium. Unless that’s changed; I haven’t looked into it in a couple of years. It’s where their “skin” applies that they keep it proprietary in other words.
Leather? You gotta use leather specific stuff 99/100.
You’ll want a cleaner and some kind of conditioner. I’ve had luck with weiman stuff over the years, but you’ll usually be okay with anything designed for leather, including shoes and jackets; it doesn’t have to be furniture specific. Well, not that I ever ran across.
The problem with stuff like dish soap is that it strips more than you want. It’ll work fine as far as getting rid of schmutz, but it’s used specifically because it binds to oils, and oils are necessary for leather.
Might as well pick up some soft cloths as well. Microfiber stuff is what gets recommended nowadays, but cotton diaper cloth is about as gentle as it gets for delicate surfaces. I’ve made do with cotton flannel, decent jersey fabric and the like, though. The key is that abrasion is not a friend to leather. Not any furniture surface tbh, but leather in particular.
Basically, you take your cleaner of choice and follow directions. Most stuff is either sprayed on or applied to a cloth. You then gently wipe down the surface. Repeat until as clean as you can reasonably get it. It will never be perfect again though. Expect discoloration and changed texture as a permanent result of the condition it’s in now. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, as leather can be a bit drab without signs of wear. Depends on how bad it is.
Let the cleaner do the work, and don’t expect it to be fast. You don’t scrub, you wipe.
Once you get it as clean as it’ll get, apply your conditioner of choice. Now, a lot of cleaners do double duty, but I find that leather surfaces (as opposed to it hanging loose like clothing applications) really need something that goes the extra mile because it’ll take more abuse. I don’t like most of the shoe conditioners for surfaces, though I’ve only been required to use any for a surface once. Did home health for years, so I ended up doing weird shit on slow cases lol.
Based on that pic, don’t expect it to be a quick job. I could be wrong, but that’s an all day job. Likely multiple sessions over time because damn.
While you work, look out for cracks or scratches. That kind of thing is way harder to deal with, and would best be handled by someone with experience repairing leather. But you don’t want to get a ton of anything in those cracks or scratches because the expansion caused can be a major pain in the ass.
Not really closed source all the way, only aspects of it. It’s still both weird and offputting, but it is slightly different.
there’s no formal, inclusive term yet. The struggle just to have basic rights has made it a low priority for consensus building.
I suggest going with the classic “esteemed” prefix to coworkers, guests, whatever. It can be a little clunky, but it’s still the best option compared to honored or respected.
Sounds about right for a normative guy :)
Going off of his existing watches really is the best option. It factors in his preferences as compared to only measurement
You’re kinda screwed if he’s an unusually large size. But guys that can just buy a watch and use the band it comes with are easy because adjustable bands adjust for a reason. Be it NATO style, steel links, whatever; only really big or really small wrists will be a problem usually.
So, the easiest way to get close is to use the very shirts he’s likely to wear a fancy watch with: dress shirts. They’ll be close to the size of his wrists, so you can button one up and measure the inner diameter. Just be aware that that is bigger than a watch band will fit, so that’s going to be the upper range of length for the band and watch. If he also wears knit long sleeve shirts you can guesstimate the lower end by using those cuffs, though expect them to be equally approximate since they aren’t fitted as well as even cheap dress shirts.
If the gift is a watch with a band already equipped, you aren’t going to have to worry unless he’s a weird size. But if you’re getting a fancy band, be aware that wrist diameter isn’t the only measurement needed. You’ll need the width of the “lugs” which is the inner width of the prongs that poke out for the band to attach to in men’s watches, 16-22 mm is the most common range. 16 is very narrow for most men, with 22 being as big as most casual wear watches should ever go, with 20 being maybe the ideal for 80%. But unless you get an adapter of some kind, it’s not really possible to mix and match. You have to stay with the right lug size. The range only matters if you have to guess visually and want to hedge your bets.
You also have to factor in the watch itself. Most bands sold by length are only using the length of the band. So if his wrist is 8 inches around (unlikely, but that’s the number at the end of the time on my screen), and the watch is 1.5 inches from lug to lug, you’ll need a 6.5 inch long band (or one adjustable to that length). The exception to that is fabric bands that attach by running through the spring posts and under the watch, like NATO bands.
Man, these days that’s a dangerous pic. Gonna have roving ram gangs knocking down your door
Game based communities suck pretty much everywhere. But the ones on reddit, you could at least usually count on enough activity to get good info.
Since you have a nurse in the family, I assume they’ve not yet run across the usual warnings.
For anyone scrolling by, it’s very common to start with a one month supply of the lowest dose of a given glp modifier. It determines tolerance for the meds with less risk, and starts the process of ramping it up to the eventual treatment dose. You’d only get a recurring prescription once you and your provider determine what dosage is optimum.
But the energy drink thing is about the gastrointestinal side effects.
Glp drugs’ most common side effect is digestive disturbances. Nausea, constipation and/or diarrhea, reflux/heartburn, all of which may or may not occur with pain or other distress.
Since energy drinks are high in caffeine and sugar, they are known to aggravate those symptoms. They do it without any other factors, but on a glp based med, it gets way worse.
The nausea increase tends to come from the harsh sugar spike to the system, and the insulin dump that follows. However, the drugs themselves can cause it without any other factors.
Intestinal disturbances come from multiple factors, but largely from the way the various options shift intestinal motility. Very commonly, you’ll see a cycle of constipation followed by a wave of diarrhea as the bowel counters it by adding water to things. The constipation breaks loose, and then pppbbbbttthhhbbbpppsshhhhhhhht. Sometimes for a few hours from what I’ve been told.
Reflux is predominantly just an aggravation of preexisting reflux due to the way stomach acids and the valve that closes the stomach off are working, with caffeine making it significantly worse. However, even in patients with no preexisting reflux, it can happen, and is (again) more likely with caffeine intake of significant levels.
Overall, if you need caffeine due to addiction or maladaptive use, go with things that give a lower dose. If needed, increase frequency of dose rather than higher single doses. A dozen cups of tea across the day is less problematic than a red bull once.
Well, I think the issue is one of scale and semantics.
Your post asked about the subject matter in a broad sense, using the keyword “rare”.
My comment was based on that, and I gotta say that your response here actually makes my comment more relevant, not less. What you’re describing isn’t a rarity, it’s a small sample group. You can’t call something rare in a colloquial context and only point to a local experience, with limited numbers of examples. Well, you can, but you gotta expect responses to include broader perspectives.
The sample group you used is tiny. It doesn’t reflect standards of care, or the general professions of psychology and psychiatry.
I would also say that, without seeing the records of the patient in question, your opinion (and mine) of the validity of the diagnoses given is pointless. We don’t know if those practitioners do or don’t believe in dissociative disorders, only that they didn’t diagnose it in this case.
Secondary to that, neither you or I are qualified to make a diagnosis at all, much less based solely on what you’ve observed of the patient. You say you’ve observed memory loss, blackouts, and that the patient is still mobile and speaking during the events. That isn’t definitive of dissociative disorders. It is a symptom of multiple possible issues, and most of those have to be ruled out as much as anything being ruled in.
In a different comment, you listed a handful of diagnoses, which can present with the same kind of blackouts. Won’t always, but neither do the various dissociative disorders.
Now, I will also say that patients in general, and women in specific get dismissed way more commonly than is acceptable. It could well be that that’s leading to a misdiagnosis, if that’s what this is. I’ve dealt with that for myself, for loved ones, and as an advocate for my own patients back in the day.
Dissociative disorders absolutely exist, btw. Whether or not they should be called that based on what happens internally is worth some debate. It’s also worth debating what the criteria for diagnosis of them should be, if the underlying causation is not what could be called dissociation. The dissociation could well be a symptom of something else rather than a disorder of its own, and thus need to be called something else. It could be closer to panic disorder rather than something like schizophrenia, in other words.
For that purpose, schizophrenia is the diagnosis or the underlying function of the brain. Panic disorder is a maladaptation caused by other things, rather than the actual cause of the panic attacks a person has.
I’venever run into a doctor that doesn’t. I’m not saying they don’t exist, I just can’t say it’s rare that they do
You may have run into either a locality based thing, or are misinterpreting exactly what it is they don’t believe.
See, the tiktokization of such things has made a massive problem. You have people faking shit, exaggerating shit, self diagnosing, spreading inaccurate information as fact, and outright trying to scam people with any of the above.
I use tiktok as the example because it got so much worse when it spread there. It turned into a nigh epidemic of people just saying they have a dissociative disorder, even without any ill intent, but not having even consulted a professional, much less gone through diagnosis. And, strangely, they’re all magically unresponsive to treatment. Which is bullshit, they aren’t even under care.
They then form their personas around it, performatively, start feedback loops with other people doing the same thing, and then try to complain about doctors not believing them, despite never having never been to one, or just not liking being told that they don’t fit the diagnostic criteria.
And there is a criteria. It’s not perfect, as psychology and psychiatry aren’t easy to research. It’s an ongoing, young science. But a lot of the people thinking they have a dissociative disorder just don’t. They have some other issue for sure, but reject that possibility because they’ve wrapped themselves up in the idea of it. Then there’s the fakers that for whatever reason have latched onto the idea.
So you get doctors saying that it’s bullshit, because it is. But that doesn’t mean they don’t believe the disorders exist, just that it’s rare and the people you see online practically bragging about it are full of shit. It looks like they’re rejecting the idea, when it’s rejecting the fad of it.
It’s easy to avoid assuming you know they exist in the first place. From what I understand, injuries and deaths caused by them are when people don’t know, aren’t in a condition that allows them to recognize what’s happening, or they’re involved in something that puts them in contact involuntarily (like tripping on something).
Since they’re between the rails, you don’t have to worry about which side they’re on.
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Google is never, ever an acceptable response. The whole fucking point of communities like this is humans talking to each other.
Google, even when it was actually worth a shit, didn’t provide that. It also no longer provides useful search results reliably. Besides that, why Google? There’s other engines, even though a lot of them just use Google or Bing to generate their hits.
For real, just don’t.
Okay, the caveats. I’ve never sailed on the ocean. Nor have I taken my birds out fishing. So, no first hand anecdotes, alas.
That being said, chickens aren’t prone to motion sickness of any type. And, because of their gyroscope heads, aren’t going to suffer the usual disparity between balance/motion sensing organs and visual input that’s the big cause of seasickness.
Chickens have been transported by boat all through their history as livestock, with no significant issues directly from being asea/afloat.
So, overall, even if they aren’t totally immune to some degree of difficulty with water travel, it wouldn’t be seasickness, but some other issue with similar symptoms.
Both of my birds have travelled by car multiple times. Our hen used to go visit my sister’s household almost daily via car. Zero issues. Can’t say anything about ducks, but chickens shouldn’t get sick when properly secured in a car
Do they? I haven’t gotten a paper registration in a couple of years. It’s a state by state thing though.
I know they sometimes ask if you’re from a different state, and if their system is down in some places, but as more states do away with paper copies that’s going to disappear. I suspect you’re just in a location that hasn’t gotten there yet.
I got pulled last month for some piddly shit, and all the cop asked for was licence
I’m going to add to the previous responses that a token is also the billing unit used.
If you hire a lawyer, they charge a rate based on their predetermined “billable hours” arrangement. They beak down their jobs into small time segments, often much smaller than an actual hour. Similar to how a mechanic might use a predetermined labor cost based on a time estimate chart; swapping a battery takes X time, but rebuilding an engine takes Y time, with the actual number of hours and minutes not being useful in terms of billing because neither lawyers or mechanics can precisely track exactly how much of the time they’re digging working on your specific job is being spent “hands on” vs the time necessary to do all the little things that come up to interrupt the work. So they bill by the abstracted time a job takes when stripped of real world necessity.
Tokens are, as others said, chunks of data. When you enter a prompt, and get a response, those chunks get tallied up and billed for. From what I’ve read (and I’m not in the field, not even as s hobbyist/amateur; I just wanted to know exactly what you asked) the various companies bill by large chunks, usually per million tokens, or a similar chunks.
As an example, a given word might only need three tokens to process as input, and another three as output. But, because the cost of doing that work is more intensive to output (generate) a response, output costs more per unit. Now, I’m not saying the capitalist hellscape reality of that is a good thing, I’m just saying that’s the reasoning of the capitalist twats that run the companies. Anywhere other than lemmy, I might not need that disclaimer lol.
Now, why they chose token as the jargon, I’ve never looked to see if I could find an answer, but that’s just me wondering just enough to type it, but not enough to go looking ;)
No, really? Wouldn’t have guessed that.
Well, there’s wired over ears with anc, but they have a battery iirc.
Which I guess would be possible for iems too, just clunky as hell.
It’s an entry into the business.
To get into the union, you have to meet certain minimum work durations. To get those, you often have to build up contacts and a history as a reliable extra. So a one day shoot as a corpse can lead to the three day shoot as a background performer. Or, in some cases, it may be enough to give you the three days.
Since the usual procedurals (csi, l&o, what have you) are shooting scenes with corpses pretty much every episode (with svu being less frequent), it’s a solid chance to get an in.