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Previously Baguette@lemm.ee

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Cake day: February 1st, 2024

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  • You might have scalp psoriasis. I always thought I just had bad dandruff and tried shampoo and leave in treatments and they didn’t really work. I got it checked and it’s actually just psoriasis (plus regular dandruff too, but the dandruff was exponentially worse because of my psoriasis). You could maybe get a dermatologist to prescribe a topical steroid. It helped for my case (you might still need a dandruff shampoo to go along with it)








  • Test driven development is moreso

    1. You know what real life scenarios you’re solving for. Basically, this is the problem statement of your design.
    2. You write out these tests to say your service must pass these tests in order for it to be considered working. In order to consider problem x solved, the service must do y.
    3. You make the first iteration of your service to just repeat exactly what the tests want it to output (basically to create a skeleton with a bunch of magic numbers)
    4. You make the second iteration. What magic numbers can you remove and actually implement for? What workaround can be fixed? Are they still passing the test? If they start failing the test, you should relook at what you wrote and debug from there (this assumes your tests are rightfully written).
    5. You keep continuing with that process until you have a service that fits your test cases and without mocks

    The obvious flaw is that 1 is almost never truly accurate. Scope usually changes, and assumptions made probably invalidate your test. It is a valid way of thinking though, because it helps define your expectations, and reduces the likelihood of you making something that misses the target.







  • Ah that makes sense

    I can’t stop you from doing it, but please make sure you do your due diligence on where you get it from and exactly how it will affect you

    As for doctors, it’s a very much your mileage may vary type of scenario. They’ll have their own biases as evident by the comic. You can ask them about the procedure though, and you can frame it as how it’ll affect you. Ask them about how post procedure will look like. You can subtly nudge them by saying you didn’t have a good reaction with x prescription previously, and how it affected your daily life. They should be able to get an alternative placed for you.


  • Uhh taking medication you’re not supposed to during a medical appointment is a fast track to being 6 feet under

    You don’t know what you’re actually getting, you don’t know if it has any complications with your surgery, and you don’t know if they’ll provide some medication that does not go with what you took.

    You can easily get a different drug or even get one that’s contaminated, you could accidentally take a drug with a side effect of dilating your blood vessel or anti blood clot and bleed out, or you could take a drug that doesn’t work with anesthesia and you wake up by accident during the procedure

    Please be safe and if you don’t think your doctors are providing care, find a second opinion.