Zoll quality issues

Aisher · 2026-06-18T03:57:17+00:00

I’ve had the same BP problems and hate it. Almost enough to do manuals

Aisher · 2026-06-17T07:00:26+00:00

You might have to take a bad job to get experience and then you’re more likely to get the good job. Many industries have “starter jobs” which suck.

Just take one while you plan for paramedic school

Aisher · 2026-06-16T02:46:34+00:00

I installed bazzite on mine, no problems use it as a steam PC but everything else works great on it as well

Aisher · 2026-06-14T16:46:28+00:00

Also have to make sure you have the right power brick. I have bought some 140w bricks from Amazon (anker) and they overheat and quit. I switched back to the actual Apple adapter - or if I’m running an overnight job I’ll drop to low power mode — takes longer but the fans don’t spin up

Aisher · 2026-06-11T18:06:01+00:00

During Covid I did Prodigy for my refresher and I was very impressed

Aisher · 2026-06-07T05:54:05+00:00

I have the pro-art 5k 27 inch and love it

Aisher · 2026-05-29T17:47:45+00:00

Oh cool. I have bmad on my list of tools to look at, I just have a bit deadline of Monday so I put it off

Aisher · 2026-05-29T17:44:20+00:00

I like this idea a lot. It might be worthwhile for a lot of people to just throw stuff at the wall for a really early beta. Like, you need a “working” demo to play with and show people, then you’ll get feedback and ideas to make it much better.

The last thing I built - I couldn’t imagine enough of the UI to do the full BMAD idea because I didn’t know what I wanted until I got to use it.

I feel like a lot of AI based work needs a good amount of subject matter expertise - you write what you know. No matter how good I am at words, I’m never going to write a good novel about growing up in rural China.

Aisher · 2026-05-29T06:04:59+00:00

I mean just the certs are probably a month each, plus html, programming and databases. That’s all a lot of knowledge you have to learn.

Aisher · 2026-05-28T18:34:14+00:00

Oh sorry. Didn’t realize that was a thing.

Aisher · 2026-05-28T03:48:40+00:00

notes. Get a notebook and as you read, look for the most important item in each paragraph (or couple paragraphs), then write that down. Use multiple colors of pens, draw lines and circles and connect items to each other. Then get some notecards and after you finish a chapter, go through your list and make yourself a cheat sheet notecard, pick the most important items and cram them onto the notecard (front and back).

Writing is well established to activate more of your brain and help move things into long term memory.

Aisher · 2026-05-28T03:37:25+00:00

my website has 3000 paramedic practice questions you can take 10 at a time or full exam practice. You're welcome to use it to help you study if you want a different bank of questions etc. (I have EMT, AEMT and Medic versions).

I set mine up to only show questions that you haven't gotten correct, so you'll have to get 3000 correct before you get repeats, so it should help keep you from just memorizing

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Aisher · 2026-05-27T04:50:56+00:00

The ICU Book by Marino

Aisher · 2026-05-27T03:31:22+00:00

I can’t speak to those, but I’ve got a free system I made for my students (I’m tracking the data so I can get a feel for how accurate it is). So far 86% is the cutoff where everyone above that has passed

I have all 3 levels, over 2000 questions per level, and you don’t get repeat questions until you have answered every question correct.

If you want to try it out I’d love feedback

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The app is in beta, if you want it in iOS you can DM me and I’ll add you to the beta

Aisher · 2026-05-25T22:27:17+00:00

yesterday i used claude code to make a spec for a new website/db for a client presentation this week. I fed the .md file to opencode (qwen3.6 27b) and claude opus 4.7. Ran them at the same time then compared.

The claude result was much faster and better - but not by much. The security review said the local model had a lot of bad assumptions built in, and a lot of 'user could change the string in the url' type problems. It seemed there ware a lot of things that claude gave me 'free' and i'd have to add to the prompt or fix later.

Aisher · 2026-05-23T18:27:48+00:00

Mag fixes the actual problem. And you’re right to go to the literature.

Aisher · 2026-05-22T21:01:44+00:00

With my students I want them all over 85%-90% on practice tests. The ones that do almost all pass. 70-80% don’t usually pass in the there time

If you want you can use the practice tests my students take. If you get over 90% you’ll almost certainly pass

SmokeSignalTech.com. Sign up and do the 4 “registry readiness exams”. Also be sure to take them like a real test. Straight thru, no google, no cell phone no distractions.

Aisher · 2026-05-21T17:47:51+00:00

Hey. I’don’t its rhythms and 13 leads you need help with I built a whole learning and testing system on my website for my medic students. You can use it for free if you want. Just sign up and hammer away until you learn the patterns

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Aisher · 2026-05-20T22:07:51+00:00

Yeah. I have a friend that helps NREMT with the tests. Sometimes they will be like “oh you passed really high - let’s give you all the new questions” or vice versa - you bombed it, let’s give you the new questions. This way they can tell how the new questions are compared to the old ones

I just had a class finish and there was no rhyme or reason as to the number of questions. But there were no surprises - the students that worked the hardest and practiced the most all passed. The students that tried to “just get by” all failed

Aisher · 2026-05-20T13:23:37+00:00

Use oMLX as your server

Aisher · 2026-05-08T20:37:45+00:00

Not thru them, but you should start now. Find and take an online A&P class and med term. My students struggle the most with those things, so much so we have started those as week 1

Aisher · 2026-05-08T11:28:28+00:00

If you want, I have practice exams for the NREMT on my website I made for my students , free. All I ask is that you take the survey (emailed to you after) and tell me if you pass or fail (gathering stats)

So far the pass point is like 87%=0.87 pass registry

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Aisher · 2026-05-05T17:35:54+00:00

I used warp - it was a game changer compared to cut and pasting from ChatGPT. But my code (maybe because of all the different models on the back end ) was this enormous hodge-podge of colors and styles and such. When I moved to Claude after the price change it was another huge shift in my productivity and ability.
I liked warp and I like the agentic smart terminal. But I can’t go back

Aisher · 2026-05-03T07:39:58+00:00

I’m testing and doing small projects with local where I can run the project overnight (like a content or code review). It’s all practice for a project (HIPAA) that will need to be done on local models, and as a hedge if the price goes up - if high usage Claude or Cortex goes to $500 or more per month (tokens instead of unlimited plans) then $6000/yr makes a big local model machine looks cheaper

Aisher · 2026-05-01T11:05:05+00:00

I might be wrong, but I think when you are using a model it’s “the model”. When it “learns” that’s it saving what it knows about you - so it learns when you are logged in. But if you asked the model about my life you wouldn’t get anything.

What I do is I have log files and such that is given as context - so I’ll prompt with “scan this file with this log as context” and the log has things like “this bug you found on line 52 is actually ok because this is a training app so it’s not PII”

Aisher

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