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1·6 months agoIf cookie clicker was real:
I have a short story too (see below the oath quote). It does not include women because the oath text does not either. You can rewrite it to include gender mechanics (making the patient a woman, perhaps) but it’s probably not worth the effort. For starters, appendoctomy hadn’t been invented back then.
“Could I fuck a female doctor instead?”
“To my knowledge, there aren’t any in all of Pelopones. There is quite a selection of gay men, though. A nearby one is crossdressing, actually.”
You read it wrong. I will include all of it for context, and add commentary. Third paragraph is relevant.
I swear by Apollo Healer, by Asclepius, by Hygieia, by Panacea, and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture.
Religious preamble as standard for its time
To hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture; to impart precept, oral instruction, and all other instruction to my own sons, the sons of my teacher, and to indentured pupils who have taken the Healer’s oath, but to nobody else.
Medical knowledge should be free! You hear that, America?
Also, it’s not “first do no harm”, it’s “first respect your teacher”.I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgment, and I will do no harm or injustice to them.[6] Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. I will not use the knife, not even, verily, on sufferers from stone, but I will give place to such as are craftsmen therein.
See, no doctors with knife! You can get another “craftsman” to operate on you but better make sure he is the son of a doctor, because all others have never received medical training (see end of second paragraph) or taken this no-knife oath.
Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.
Do no harm, also don’t rape and keep secrets. All good…
Wait! "outside my profession in my intercourse with men”
Every male MD is gay, confirmedNow if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain for ever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I break it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.[5]
– Translation by W.H.S. JonesWell, this is weird. Imagine you come to an Ancient Greek doctor with abdominal pain…
“One of your intestines went naughty and needs to be removed.”
“Can you do it?”
“No way, I’m a doctor, not a surgeon. Hekates the butcher could help you. He’s great with the knife but I don’t think he can tell the intestines apart.”
“What happens if he gets it wrong?”
“You die.”
“Are you sure it’s that intestine?”
“Most likely. It will not hurt to remove, anyway. The appendix is nothing but a troublemaker.”
“It doesn’t hurt?”
“The procedure certainly DOES hurt but it’s better than what you’d be going through without it.”
“Can you at least instruct Hekates?”
“No, we doctors cannot divulge the secrets of our craft, except to our children. The only doctor I know has a son is 3 city-states away, and the son is terrible at cutting.”
“Can you adopt my son and teach him about the appendix? I could then have him instruct Hekates.”
“I’ll gladly become a stepfather if you let me fuck you…”
“I’m not gay but I guess it’s better than dying…”
“Deal. Meet me after my office hours, I cannot have intercourse with men on the job.”
61·6 months ago- Do you think developers have any say in this?
- They have Reddit Premium for free, and most likely an internal version too.
surgeon
Really? The Hippocratic Oath originally included “I will not use the knife”. A surgeon is very limited without a knife.
Edit: I read the thing and it basically says that doctors and surgeons are separate professions: doctors MUST take the oath while surgeons MUST NOT; this also prevents surgeons from obtaining medical knowledge unless they are a son (or presumably a daughter) of a doctor.
5·6 months agoThe hole in the fuselage that caused them to be sucked out was actually made by one of them in a suicide/homicide. Very tragic. Somebody invest in mental health please!
Keyword: cirno head empty
4·6 months agoA powerbank is another step in energy conversion and the cables are annoying.
6·7 months agoYeah, it’s fun but the temperature needs to be correct. With rising temperature, the paper goes black, light gray, brown and then glowing orange.
I am not aware of any receipt printers using lasers - thermal printers have an array of resistors that get hot when necessary. I know how a laser printer works and it is hard to explain in 12 or so words. Inkjets are way easier, you can just say “squirt squirt oops”. Anyway…
- A photosensitive drum gets a negative electrostatic charge.
- A laser shining through a rotating prism scans lines across the drum’s surface. This removes charge from parts of the drum that should not be covered in toner.
- A high-voltage corona wire inside the toner reservoir charges an amount of toner positively.
- The charged drum rotates past the corona wire, getting covered in toner where its negative charge remains.
- Paper is pushed against the drum and the powdery toner is transferred to it.
- The paper continues into a fuser, a little oven where a heating element briefly makes the toner so hot that it melts, its powder particles making a permanent bond among themselves and with the paper. (The heater is usually stationary and heats the paper from below. The fuser drum that pushes paper against the heater can get sticky and pick up some of the toner, making images repeat down the page. This is the most common failure mode that cannot be resolved through regular maintenance such as replacing the toner cartridge and printing cleaning pages. However, almost all laser printers have a cheap fuser module or its drum available so it is usually worth replacing.)
Time travel is a prerequisite but don’t worry, you can just
from __future__ import antigravity
Sure, no algorithm is able to extract any more information from a single photo. But how about combining detail caught in multiple frames of video? Some phones already do this kind of thing, getting multiple samples for highly zoomed photos thanks to camera shake.
Still, the problem remains that the results from a cherry-picked algorithm or outright hand-crafted pics may be presented.
Laser printers more accurately “bake paper so that number powder sticks to it”
Here is the auto-generated transcript (for research purposes only)
oh isn’t it a beautiful day how cutie
the sun’s bright the birds are singing
nicely it’s a good as day as any to go
and touch
grass yeah I I know I know um it’s
important though I need to go to the
store it’s been a while and you know
replenish the
pantry um it’ll be okay though I promise
I’ll be back soon it shouldn’t take too
long and no no you don’t you please
don’t come with me I can touch enough
grass for the both of us and I promise
I’ll be back soon okay nothing bad’s
going to
happen but in case I don’t come back
please feed
mocha and take care of her for
me
no I’ve got to go now before I check it
out I’ll I’ll see you later okay you
just stay nice and safe inside
okay good
cutie all right that was easy got
everything I need yeah okay I’ve got to
hurry home now uh I’ve probably got to
switch out the cuties
bandages maybe we refill the ice pack
and ah goodness oh I didn’t see that
puddle it was surprisingly deep and now
my boots are
muddy that’s okay though once I get home
I can wipe them huh holy goodness
gracious why is no one watching where
they’re going right now I almost dropped
the eggs all right well that’s okay
anyways it’s that a car please bra
out think I’m okay oh no not another one
the in my
ankles no please stop this way please no
happens I need to get
home if I can make it
home
In almost all microwaves, the control circuitry or mechanical switches only ever switch 2-3 power circuits: motor+fan(+bulb sometimes separately) and the heating (transformer+diode+capacitor+magnetron) high voltage circuit. It can therefore only switch the heat between 0 and max, usually in a slow (15-30s period) PWM cycle (that hopefully does not coincide with the tray rotation period). The inputs can be manual only, or sometimes there is also a scale, moisture sensor and microphone, along with thermal fuses for safety.
I think the pizza setting is just generic medium one with short 50% cycles to allow the heat to spread. The popcorn setting can be much more interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Limpr1L8Pss