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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • Dude this is super interesting and thank you for the time and effort it takes to put all this into a Lemmy comment.

    Can I ask: why isn’t it possible to transport lab equipment to conduct bacteriological tests on site? I worked for an ag tech firm and closely with our biologists. Is it because it takes time to culture on an agar plate?

    Is it safe to drink fresh milk because bacteria haven’t had time to replicate?

    Are there conditions that would mean the milk is unsafe straight out of the udder, maybe in a way that isn’t detectable by flavour?

    Why and in what regard do U.S. regulatory standards differ from Canada?

    Do you think that widespread antibiotic use in ag will breed superbugs? Is this avoidable somehow?

    And finally, what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

    Cheers!





  • Good summary.

    I’ve been working a while and think the latter things combined with the unfamiliarity of MDM/IT management tools in Linux has stopped much wider adoption.

    So many industries just MUST run a few key apps that were designed and battle tested in windows long ago, as in wet lab science, manufacturing, and medicine to name a few I’ve seen.

    Also stability (sorry but it’s hard to beat a MacBook).







  • I have been thinking about this for a while.

    Would this actually diminish the false positive rate for the test? Would it just be more likely to get a true positive back?

    Or maybe would the false negative result be less likely?

    Does it depend on the sample group that was measured to get the accuracy statistics? If the sample group was random then does that actually make a difference?

    Doing my head in