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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
It's easy to say "document what you can" when you leave "document", "what", and "can" loosely undefined. The article gives us a why and then leaves out the who, what, when, where and how. If you
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
So where is the "case for documentation"? The author provides no vision and no actionable recommendations. Documentation is not even mentioned until the end of the article. Anyone can pat themselves on the back for pointing to the
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
If you had to give a percent figure, what do you believe your mother's chances were of discovering a radical curative treatment for SCC and curing her own cancer?
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
I notice you've watered down your terminology from "cure" to "improvement on clinical best practice" which are pretty different things in the context of cancer treatment. However, I can respect the switch and I&#x27
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
Exhausting all treatment options is not the same as having nothing to close. There's no shortage of cancer patients at end-of-life stage undergoing aggressive treatments and/or experimental therapies in clinical trials for minimal
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
> This virologist did believe that her colleagues were sitting around not rolling out something that would cure her. And because her outcome was so unexpected and unusual it got published as a case study. What you don't see are all
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
The development of PD-L1 expression was also interesting.
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
What doesn't make its way into case studies and HN headlines is all the stories of people who did get access to uncertain treatments and died anyway. Sometimes faster than they would have without the experimental treatment at all. This
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
This is a big simplification. 1. The interaction between oncolytic virotherapy and host immunity is complex. Consider that oncolytic viruses are also targeted by the immune system. 2. Oncolytic viruses that directly destroy cancer cells may
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
> He's not wrong though. It's more of a "not even wrong" statement. It's the kind of useless and reductive analysis poor leaders trot out from a position of personal frustration after failing to surmount the chal
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
Moonshot or no, these incremental improvements in surgery do translate into cured patients and saved lives. Surgery is the initial intervention in many cancers and the course of disease is highly sensitive to it.
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
Dietary advice is one thing. Woo peddling and fringe medicine is another. The original question didn't even ask about rheumatoid arthritis. I'm not overreacting. There are many people who will read my comment and know exactly what
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
I know this is well-intentioned, but please keep this stuff out of health threads about serious health conditions. This kind of material lacks rigor, dramatically misrepresents the state of scientific and medical thought, cherry picks studi
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
"AI assistants are bad" isn't the take. The thing making people feel icky/uncomfortable about Her - and about the 4o demos - is not the idea of Samantha but the idea of Theodore. It's about nerds' idealized AI
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
This is the thing that is so wild to me. Outside of tech, everyone I encounter in day-to-day life intuitively understands that tech dudes inventing AI voices to flirt with them is not awesome or cool. At this point, I have to assume that be
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
> but I don't think she has any rights to voices that merely sound like hers, when they're not being used to fraudently imply that she's involved. IANAL but it's actually not that simple. There are laws and precedents
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
There is no point to the article. It's another boring anti-React/Electron screed but with a conspiratorial, junior high polsci bent to it. Having frameworks that allow more devs to do more things means correspondingly that more
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
Quick check of the bio reveals his alternative is Svelte. Weird since the usual Svelte argument is that it's so simple anyone can pick it up and be effective the next day - unlike bloated old React where each team needs an elite React
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
Feels a lot like a lengthier, polemical way of saying that frameworks become popular because they allow more people to do more stuff more easily. But this is bad because businesses benefit or something. None of the ideas here stand up to sc
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
If medicine is just following a decision tree why would we need LLMs to do it? Computers have been able to follow decision trees for 70 years or something.
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
> Most places I've worked in the last 6 or so years are obsessed with tooling and add so many lint rules that it's often impossible to merge your pull request if you decide to format your code in a way that violates the rules i
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
I recovered, but it took a long time. I don't know about RA. OPs blog post sounds a bit too optimistic for someone living with untreated RA for 3 years.
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
Yeah, I agree. In some sense, tendons remodel more easily than the brain. Somatic pain disorders can easily ruin someone's life.
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
The question here isn't about damage but about what mechanisms in the "pain pathway" are responsible for OP's specific experience of this pain. One day he has sudden, debilitating pain - in both wrists - in the absence o
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
Seems like a bizarre omission from the article given the number of tangents and topics covered. My guess is that going down the traditional medicine route lead to him being told there was no organic basis to the pain. As someone who went th
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
>increase of supply lowers the price at equilibrium The thing you're missing here is that "healthcare services" and "doctor's labor" aren't the same unit. Ceteris paribus, efficiency increases allow the
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
1. There is a meaningful difference between replacing and assisting. Replacing implies being able to take over the entire function. Technology that assists doctors with one part of their function, or process, can improve their output but is
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
It definitely can be. The presence of uncontrolled interruptions is a common complaint in open offices. Individual employees tend to manage this issue with noise cancelling headphones. I've also seen eng managers create dedicated perio
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
That's even worse. You're sending out rounds of "Hi's" to multiple people, distracting them to prepare them for a question you might not even ask? Candidly, you sound like an incredibly selfish communicator.
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by CipherThrowaway 2y ago
> At the least, its a communication that you are about to ask them something, i.e. check back here in the next minute or so while I type out my question. This is part of what makes it such poor etiquette. You've created this ambiguo

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