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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

So I finally got diagnosed with ADHD (apparently I actually bombed the MOXO if you saw my previous post). I started 10mg IR adderall on Tuesday. Firstly it has been life changing so far but if I start writing about that this will become a novel.

The main thing I'm wondering about is that I have also noticed that about 1 hour after I take a pill I get a bit of a headache and my upper back and shoulders ache. It isn't bad, it's just enough to be annoying. I've been paying special attention to make sure I'm still eating, sleeping, and drinking enough so I know the achiness isn't linked to any of that. Did anyone else get this sideeffect, does it eventually go away, and if so how long did it take for you?

[-] [email protected] 207 points 7 months ago

Win 10 was definitely an improvement over 8. I'd even argue that 10 as it started out was the best since xp. Of course now 10 has been fully enshitified but it used to be good.

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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Another old work pic.

This is a variable speed DC compressor I got to work with a while back. The machine this goes in is a 1 cubic foot environmental chamber that is accurate to 0.01C. It was a nice change compared to the big scrolls I normally worked with.

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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

TLDR - All my refrigeration experience is with high end environmental chambers and I want to become a commercial HVAC-R service tech. Do I have any chance at getting hired?

So right now I have a few years of experience working as an environmental chamber tech. Basically, I'm the in house guy wo sets up, tunes, and troubleshoots new and returned environmental chambers. These are some pretty complex and varied machines refrigeration wise. Some are single phase, some are 3 phase, some use single stage refrigeration, some use cascade refrigeration, some use water cooled condensers, some utilize liquid nitrogen, some are designed to have ultra high ramp rates, some are designed to be ultra precise, some use 5.5hp compressors, some use a tiny dc compressor the size of my fist. So I think I know my way around the refrigeration side of things fairly well.

The thing is this is this is all I have done professionally in regards to refrigeration. I have never professionally worked on any heating appliance (I have worked on them personally) and I've never been a field service tech. The more I think about it the more this feels like a sports car factory tech applying to work in a diesel truck shop. I know a lot of the principles as far as electrical and refrigeration troubleshooting goes. I know how to read schematics. I'm 608 universal certified. I know how to recover, vac, and charge a system. I know how to braze. I know how to set/measure superheat and subcool. I know I can learn whatever I don't know fairly quickly. But is that actually enough for them to be willing to give me a van and set me loose upon unsuspecting customers?

Either way, I'd be interested to hear what you actual service techs think. If I put in an application do I have a shot?

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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Another old work pic to liven up the place.

One of our production guys put this service valve on and thought it was fine. Getting the damn thing back off required a pipe wrench.

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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Just posting old work pics to try and get some life here.

This was on a piece of equipment that came back in for RMA because it leaked refrigerant. The field techs couldn't find the leak. Best guess is there was a bit of moisture in the threads and over time it froze and thawed enough to crack the cap.

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MOXO Test (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

So I've suspected I have ADHD for a while now. The symptoms just fit plus both my mom and brother have it so I've got a pretty strong family history.

I finally got in to see a psychiatrist and they agree that I likely have ADHD. They had me take an online test called MOXO. I won't be seeing my psych for about another week and a half and I'm assuming that's when I get my actual results. But it feels like I did way too well on it.

Has anyone here taken that test and how did you feel you did on it when you took it?

Edit Update: Just in case anyone sees this in the future. I did not in fact do well on the MOXO. Aparently I did awfully. I am now diagnosed and on a stimulant.

[-] [email protected] 299 points 8 months ago

Yeah, that's on the customer. If you write that you want a bunch of fuckin cherries then you're getting a bunch of fuckin cherries. Now go eat the pile of cherries you ordered.

[-] [email protected] 108 points 8 months ago

Grain moth larva. Good luck. The damn things are a pain to get rid of once you have them. You'll want to pitch any food that isn't 100% air tight sealed (bags or boxes of cereal, rice, flour, sugar, noodles, etc.) and then clean out any cabinets really well to make sure you get rid of as many eggs as possible. After that make sure you don't leave any food unsealed for the next few months because odds are they will keep popping back up ocasionally for a bit and if they can get into anything when they do then the infestation starts all over. As far as infestations go they aren't the worst to deal with but they are anoying.

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USB Rule (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Edit: Answer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_tuberosum

I've been letting this grassy plant slowly take over my yard and I haven't been able to actually identify it. It has white flowers in late summer that bumble bees absolutely love. It smells like onions when you cut it and it tastes like onion as well except maybe slightly more mild.

Location: SE Minnesota

Not flowering:

Seeding out:

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How are you supposed to decide where to get care for emergent conditions? Where is the dividing line between "just book a clinic visit", "head into urgent care when you get a chance", and "go inmediately to the ER"?

So this is a question I've always struggled with and it makes me feel very dumb especially because I literally am a EMR. This feels like something I should know. But at the same time I have also called to book a clinic visit before and had the scheduler tell me to go to the ER immediately only for it to wind up being nothing.

Certain things are obvious of course. Like if I need stitches or there is other major trauma then I know to go to the ER. If it is something like a concerning infection then I know urgent care can sort me out. For a skin rash that's probably a clinic visit. If urgent care is closed and it can't wait then default to the ER. But there are also the issues where I genuinely don't know on what side of the line they should fall. This is especially an issue for things that have been going on for a while which I know could be severe but almost certainly aren't.

For example (not asking for medical advice) I've been having repeated extended periods of heart palpitations for the past 2 weeks. At first I just chalked it up to screwing up my anxiety med schedule while I was on vacation because my med situation does cause heart palpitations if I screw it up. So I didn't think much of it at first but now I've been back on my meds properly for 2 weeks with no change. So, that's cardiac symptoms which in a patient would make me tell them to immediately go to the ER just to be safe. But at the same time it's been going on for 2 weeks and it's probably just some vitamin deficiency or something so it probably wouldn't kill me to wait a week for a clinic appointment (no walk in clinic here). Do I split the difference and go to urgent care? It's like schrodingers medical issue, it's both the worlds most benign thing and a symptom of immediate death until someone looks into it, so how do I know who should open that schrodingers box?

It seems like there has to be some easy dividing line on how to know which one to go to that I just don't know.

Edit: In USA, because that probably matters here.

[-] [email protected] 191 points 10 months ago

First responder here. The DNR doesn't mean a damn thing until it is literally in your hands. Until that time you respond as though there is no DNR. If you're wrong and they did have one but just didn't have it on hand then you accidentally save someones life, you're still legally in the clear, and I guess they can just die sometime later. But if the DNR turns out not to be real/legitimate and you didn't act just because you were told there was one then you just killed someone and you're completly fucked.

If you have a family member that has a DNR then be damn sure everyone knows where that thing is because unless you have it physically there when they are dieing then it doesn't mean anything.

Of course in places like nursing homes there is a different procedure. They know who has one on file and they will usually tell dispatch about it before the ambulance is even sent. But if it happens just in your home or someplace then the ambulance crew can't just take your word for it; they need the document in hand.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

So I recently upgraded every component in my PC to be fairly high end, except I didn't have the money to upgrade my GPU at the time so I was running with my old GTX 1070 for a while. Today I had some extra money so I finally got around to picking up a RTX 4070 super.

While installing it I just discovered a slight hitch in my plan. My primary monitor is 4k and uses display port so it isn't an issue. But my secondary monitor is an ancient 1080p monitor which only uses dvi and vga. The 4070 super only has display port and HDMI slots. I've been running with two monitors for so long that I don't know if I can stand going back to a single monitor.

It's already too late to run out and pick up an adapter so my plan for now is to install both GPUs in my PC and just pull the 1070 back out whenever I get around to getting a new secondary monitor or an adapter. Will a RTX 4070 super and a GTX 1070 both work in the same PC or am I just stuck with one monitor until I can get an adapter?

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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I like the bit of minty burn and it doesn't feel greasy afterwords like the non-alcohol based ones I've tried.

[-] [email protected] 124 points 11 months ago

Everybody in MN has been saying Walz needs to run for president for years now. But, being a relatively unknown guy from a flyover state it was kind of a pipe dream. I'm hoping now that everyone is seeing him, getting to know him, and obviously loving him that he'll get his chance in 4 years to run for actual president.

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Red Lobtr Rule (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 101 points 1 year ago

When I worked IT, our honeywell rep used to swing by at random and bring the entire building doughnuts. And I'm not talking gas station doughnuts, I'm talking doughnuts from the best bakery in the state (which happened to be local). Perhaps, not surprisingly we used a lot of honeywell stuff. It isn't hard to bribe IT guys.

[-] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago

His first wife is kinda cute in a dorky way even in that unflattering picture. His second wife looks like a blow up doll.

Although your captions do still make sense considering, back when I was still buying stuff off amazon, the amazon basics stuff was surprisingly good quality compared to most of the other garbage on there.

[-] [email protected] 125 points 2 years ago

My impression is just that nobody has the money for it anymore.

[-] [email protected] 161 points 2 years ago

Yes. But in the same way being hit by a train causes hearing loss.

[-] [email protected] 130 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean, if you're starving badly enough you can sometimes completely stop having your period. So in a post apocalyptic setting that one could be kind of believable.

[-] [email protected] 100 points 2 years ago

wow I could have just smoked weed.

Weed smoke smells like BO and cat piss yet anon still smokes it. They should know exactly why people drink.

[-] [email protected] 379 points 2 years ago

Fuck Meta and all but this isn't news. Meta litterally said straight up that they would be doing this before threads ever launched. If you have an instagram account then that is also your threads account. This isn't some conspiracy it's exactly what they told everyone they were doing. It's no diferent than linked accounts for google services.

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