ok, please share all of your cures for a common cold.
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ok, please share all of your cures for a common cold. nothing is off the table.
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ok, please share all of your cures for a common cold. nothing is off the table.
@tom this isn't exactly arcane knowledge, but I resisted this for a long time, because I didn't think there was evidence, until one day I googled and saw a meta-analysis that said "inconclusive" and was like, that's good enough, then sure enough: I have anecdotally found that taking zinc as soon as I start to feel sick and for the first couple days makes colds shorter.
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@tom this isn't exactly arcane knowledge, but I resisted this for a long time, because I didn't think there was evidence, until one day I googled and saw a meta-analysis that said "inconclusive" and was like, that's good enough, then sure enough: I have anecdotally found that taking zinc as soon as I start to feel sick and for the first couple days makes colds shorter.
@anyone_can_whistle on it, doc!
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ok, please share all of your cures for a common cold. nothing is off the table.
@tom What about over-the-counter? 😜
Nothing revolutionary, but I would be sure to rotate acetaminophen and ibuprofen on a 3 hour cycle (typically the bottle will say to take each every six hours). That way you’re not crashing at any point during the day. I was a (terrible) pharmacy tech for a period, and this is what the pharmacist would recommend. Just don’t exceed the maximum daily dose of each and you’ll be fine!
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ok, please share all of your cures for a common cold. nothing is off the table.
@tom Eucalyptus Radiata essential oil: I put a couple of drops on a cotton and keep it under my nose, breathing deeply. It helps decongest: https://pranarom.fr/en/blogs/expert-advice/all-you-need-to-know-about-eucalyptus-radiata good luck!
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@sio la matematica che ci piace
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@sknob @paul aw Tweetbot! RIP. I was recently cleaning up my old Mac and I had to reluctantly delete it from there (the MacOS version). Longtime fan of Tapbots 🥲
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@galaxis @Gargron Or Google. Last week I stumbled upon an Google admin interface where the checkbox with the English label "Enforcement" was translated in French with the equivalent of "Activation". It was about 2FA, and those both words doesn't mean at all the same thing in that context!
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@Gargron I worked with subtitle translations for years... I need to comment on this!
The main issue people working with machine translated subtitles is that people take models for translating things in a single modal – text – and applying to a multimodal media – video. Of course the results are horrible!
There are research on improving that, sure, I did some, even, but even we are FAAAR from getting them any good. Translating "The nurse aided the doctor take care of the patient." to many languages require guessing the gender of three people! LLMs will often default to male, female and male, due to bias.
But, the sad thing we have to admit: many works of art are so unpopular the only translations people will have are machine ones, from weird anime like Sazae-san, to Mastodon toots.
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@AVincentInSpace it literally is haha. Fellowship was just as bad.
I was still dialup back in those days so I’d order my bootleg DVDs from a dude in Hong Kong and I just about died laughing when I turned on subtitles randomly
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My main use case for machine translations is spot checking words in languages I don't know as well as I should.
They are great for that.
