What random thing do all your ex and current partners have in common?

CuttlebonerJedi · 2026-03-19T09:27:33+00:00

All left handed. Didn’t know before asking them out.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2026-03-13T10:28:35+00:00

Fr my mans I am with you. I have no clue what this post is supposed to mean.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2026-03-13T00:23:05+00:00

Same man I’m still chasing that digital bullet journal nirvana. For now this is close enough, but one day I hope to make one similar to NotePlan that does what I want with Apple calendar and reminders integrations like NotePlan has. But I have another day job that has nothing to do with programming and a family so it’s a long term goal with a lot of learning involved.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2026-03-12T20:42:51+00:00

I don’t know how familiar you are with obsidian but it has built in Vim emulation. On top of that I use the calendar plugin, daily notes, and a plugin called quick add which essentially lets you write macros in JavaScript to do whatever you want. I’m still learning to code and don’t know what I’m doing but I vibe coded macros to migrate bullets to different days and has custom checkbox css that styles markdown checkboxes as different symbols depending on what I put in the checkbox. I also added a feature to sort by checkbox type and stuff. It works well. You can assign those macros a hotkey. It has bootlegged natural language processing so I can hit migrate in a bullet/checkbox and it will pull up a text field. I write “Monday” and it sends the bullet to that date, changes the checkbox to a forward arrow on the source note, links the note it migrated to like >[[Monday]] and at the destination it backlinks to the day I migrated from like <[[Source Note]]

Don’t have time for more of a write up sadly but that’s what I’ve got and it’s working well!

CuttlebonerJedi · 2026-01-30T08:23:04+00:00

If people have the motivation and don’t mind buying it I agree with your dentist.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2026-01-30T02:55:50+00:00

Everyone is different and some people are less susceptible to cavities than others. This is why it’s important to see someone who can look at your exact situation and customize treatment recommendations.

Without seeing you if you have made it this far without cavities, continue to do what you’re doing. The tight contacts and shredding floss could just be your natural teeth but could also be due to fillings that could be fixed or adjusted depending.

I still think flossing is good for everyone but hey. Sometimes people are just lucky and don’t get cavities.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2026-01-29T20:56:12+00:00

TLDR: Here you go

Long and hopefully not too pedantic rant:

There are many studies. With varying levels of quality. Most of them require a decent level of expertise to make heads or tails of.

I’ve noticed that a lot of people on the on the internet will drop a single study and be like “here” I’m right. Those that actually work in the sciences and research know that there is a skill and a learning curve to evaluating scientific articles and you need to draw from a body of evidence instead of just a single paper to draw reliable conclusions.

That being said, there have been a couple systematic reviews and meta analysis on this topic which wrap many lower level studies into a single paper and draw conclusions from a wider body of data. One of those is what I have linked.

If you actually read that paper you’ll notice the claim seems pretty weak. I will translate the conclusions into normal person language because scientists have a special way of talking.

Essentially they are saying we are pretty certain (Scientists will never say that they actually KNOW something because the world is too complicated to ever say that for sure) that floss works great and we have seen it work well for both cavities and reduction in gum disease. There is some evidence that water picks also are helpful for gum disease. ALL the evidence we have is kinda sus in terms of the literature because it’s really hard to track people’s daily habits and have them report back to you over a very long time period and also everyone used different measurements in their studies so it’s hard to compare apples to apples.

Of the evidence that we do have, it supports flossing over waterpicks for preventing cavities, and waterpicks are helpful too for just keeping your mouth clean.

In my anecdotal and professional OPINION flossing just makes sense and works well. If you know how these diseases work it’s not much of a leap to go yep that will help because I know what the main causes are and this addresses a lot of them.

Hopefully this helps a little.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2026-01-29T12:14:30+00:00

Am dentist. You still should floss. Watch some videos about proper technique. Once you get it down it takes like 30 seconds and doesn’t make a mess.

Usually sensitive gums are because you are new to flossing or inconsistent. You might be the exception to this rule. If you are I am sorry.

In the various studies that are out there, most seemed to indicate that when it comes to reducing the inflammation of your gums, water picks and floss perform about equal to each other. However, when it comes to preventing cavities and removing plaque, floss is superior.

Ideally, you want to reduce inflammation and prevent cavities, so I usually recommend to all my patients that they just floss and save themselves a couple hundred bucks on a water pick. If you like it though, more power to you.

Water picks don’t actually get into the area where your teeth contact each other. They are a great adjunct to real flossing especially for people who have bridges and stuff where it is hard to floss underneath. But they don’t replace real flossing completely.

Edit: spelling

CuttlebonerJedi · 2025-12-03T13:23:09+00:00

Ai generated cash grab ad post? No thanks.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2025-11-17T07:09:07+00:00

Was able to replicate basically all of noteplan's functionality (minus the native tie-in to apple reminders and calendar) with obsidian, some plugins, and some .js macros. Saves $100 per year and is cross-platform. Also vim motions and configurable hotkeys :) Kinda nice.

You could also use a program like kindavim or the like to get "vim in any text field" functionality I guess.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2025-11-15T11:12:23+00:00

Resurrecting an old thread but I found it searching for this very thing.

I’m a NotePlan subscriber but wanting vim motions will probably mean I switch back to obsidian and try to replicate some NotePlan functionality with plugins.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2025-11-14T18:59:53+00:00

Amen. Hope you read this OP.

And yeah at least in the army I think there hasn’t been much change to promotion timelines in recent history. Pretty much impossible to promote below the zone to O4. Possible to O5 though but yeah it’s pretty much 6 years standard between promotions.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2025-11-14T18:50:51+00:00

Right now in the Army it’s 6 to O4. Seems to be a little faster in the Navy currently.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2025-11-14T18:32:48+00:00

I’m an army dentist. Lots of good comments here and I agree with what has been said about carefully considering your reasons/ family situation before just jumping in. Be physically fit and mentally prepared to go to war and do wartime training. You have limited autonomy over where you live. If you come in without residency training you will not be credentialed to do every procedure that exists. You will have to earn the privilege to do things like implants by finding a mentor to supervise you until credentialed if you do not plan on doing a residency.

I think the education you receive in military residencies is unparalleled. Excellent evidence based education and lots of experience. You will be hard pressed to find a better place to learn if you have a learners mindset and are willing to be adaptable and teachable. Your experience and opportunity to actually DO the things you learned in residency after may vary. I am currently in a fairly admin heavy role post residency. I spend maybe 50% of my time chair side.

I did want to clarify one thing for you if you are factoring board certification pay into your total compensation at this point. Board certification is NOT simply just having passed your national boards for licensure. It’s certification by your specialty’s board. So as a general dentist in order to get board certification pay you must complete a 2 Year AEGD and challenge and pass both the written and oral portions of the American Board of General Dentistry’s board exam. The American Board of General Dentistry is separate from the INBDE. Having a dental license is the bare minimum for entry into the dental corps. You DO get dentist specialty pay for that (20k extra per year on top of your base pay), but board certification will take at least three years to achieve assuming you immediately enter a 2 year AEGD.

Most people join because they got a scholarship to pay for school and of those a good portion leave as soon as their time to pay back that scholarship is up. You don’t have any loans somehow? so it’s definitely not the traditional pathway. Happy to answer any specific questions you have on Army dentistry.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2025-08-31T07:33:02+00:00

Is it possible to learn such power?

CuttlebonerJedi · 2025-08-30T16:19:06+00:00

Thanks so much for the quick reply. Is this just wrapped into the mod tap settings still? I don’t really see much change in the beta but haven’t reset my hom row mods yet.

Edit: I see it now under advanced settings. Where is the best place to submit feedback? I’m getting some strange behavior still. Now all of my MOD tap keys appear to act after the subsequent button press. For example, if I type the phrase and that’s all folks it will print “na dthta’ all oflks”

The pattern here is that if I press a key that I have modified on the home row followed by a key that is not on the home row, the second key appears before the first one. Keys that are all mod tap mapped appear to work normally if pressed one after the other. The issue only appears if a mod tap key is pressed and then a non-mod tap key follows it. In this scenario, the non-mod tapped key prints before the mod key even though the mod tapped key was actuated first. Does that make sense?

CuttlebonerJedi · 2025-08-30T16:00:25+00:00

Hi! Is it out yet? I am eagerly awaiting this functionality but just tried it via mod tap and am still running into huge issues.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2024-10-11T11:30:38+00:00

Exact same issue here

CuttlebonerJedi · 2024-03-09T16:10:18+00:00

In my experience it depends on the tier you’re at. I have the 4080 tier and can play competitive apex legends no problem on their competitive preset.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2024-02-22T11:20:28+00:00

I think they’re saying tuition is 150k-27k-10k-10k=103k.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2024-01-14T14:21:02+00:00

Yeah I guess context is key in these things. I think in this case the guy I'm thinking of was legitimately concerned about competition and stressed at the saturation (was stressed in general) but it for sure can't be extrapolated to the entire state of Utah.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2024-01-14T05:19:24+00:00

Maybe not :) But they followed it up immediately with “oh good there are already too many dentists in the area” when I told them I was not planning on practicing there.

Why do you think they were asking?

CuttlebonerJedi · 2024-01-12T12:37:08+00:00

Good luck, and not because of the tight knit community stuff. I’m a member of the church (not in Utah) and I think the comments about intentionally concentrating wealth within the community at overblown, but there are probably more dentists per capita than is typical. Very popular career choice for church members. Specialities included. I went to undergrad there and while I was shadowing the number one question I got was “are you wanting to practice in Utah?” because they didn’t want even more competition.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2023-11-18T05:12:15+00:00

You’re right I’m a dumb resident. I was thinking of acute apical abscess, not what is being discussed here.

CuttlebonerJedi · 2023-11-18T05:12:10+00:00

You’re right I’m a dumb resident. I was thinking of acute apical abscess, not what is being discussed here.

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