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by mrestko 5y ago
Looks cool but did a very poor job of importing the first recipe I tried.
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by mrestko 5y ago
And "git" is English slang for similar. Dura is also an anatomical term for the tissue encasing the brain.
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by mrestko 5y ago
No, there have been sham controlled trials of surgical interventions before, they're just rare. One example is kyphoplasty.
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by mrestko 5y ago
The first line of the article: "California is not keeping up with the energy demands of its residents. In August 2020, hundreds of thousands of California residents experienced rolling electricity blackouts during a heat wave that maxe
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by mrestko 5y ago
Whatever you're imaging, it's likely it could be accomplished with the standard compliment of amino acids.
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by mrestko 5y ago
I don't think we know that spacetime is quantized.
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by mrestko 5y ago
It's hard to know what the side effects are since it hasn't been tested in humans and is not in a form where it would be a useful drug. We've had plently of promising drugs turn out to have unexpected and sometimes devestatin
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by mrestko 5y ago
The title is not good--lots of meds are betting than morphine...that's why we have all the other opioids: hydromorphone, fentanyl, remifentinil, sufentinil, oxycododone, etc. If you look at the Nature abstract linked from the news arti
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How I Experience Web Today(how-i-experience-web-today.com)
985 points by mrestko 5y ago|314 comments
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by mrestko 5y ago
"Software is eating the world."
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by mrestko 6y ago
I recently bought a Boox Note 2 for this and it works very well. I had previously tried reading PDFs and technical documents on my Kindle but it was pointless since it was so small. The Note 2 is just a little smaller than regular letter si
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by mrestko 6y ago
Those eggs are not being levitated above the surface. I guarantee it. The pan would need be to be red hot to maintain the leidenfrost effect with a pan full of eggs. As anyone who has played around with the leidenfrost effect knows, since t
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by mrestko 6y ago
No one cooks omelettes like that. Where are you getting that from? If you actually tried this you would end up with burned, acrid eggs.
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by mrestko 7y ago
That's not what the study it's about. If you can't be bothered or are not able to read the article, why would you feel compelled to comment?
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by mrestko 8y ago
This goes back to the central thesis of the article: that interference from non-physicians (i.e. insurers, billers) are destroying the usefulness of notes. Physicians are bound by both a professional duty and oath as well as legal liability
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How Did Our Medical Notes Become So Useless?(blogs.jwatch.org)
252 points by mrestko 8y ago|200 comments
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by mrestko 8y ago
No matter how small the room is, or how much you think you can project, use the microphone. I can't stand when people say, "I have a loud voice, I'm not gonna use the microphone." And then either scream for an hour, or f
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by mrestko 8y ago
No it isn't. The Practice Guidelines from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists are summarized in this PowerPoint presentation from their website.[1] It is not intended for lay consumption, but you can clearly see that
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by mrestko 8y ago
Current medical student here. We do learn about these things but a) the science is weaker than many areas of medicine because it is much harder to do randomized controlled trials of diet and b) patients will barely take a pill once a day fo
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by mrestko 9y ago
Would be nice if you didn't have to scroll back to the top of the page to go to the next section. Otherwise seems like a good resource.
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by mrestko 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Field_and_Steady-State...
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by mrestko 9y ago
Theoretically, if there was a short to ground, a voltage potential could develop between the two legs if the driver took a step away from the car. By hopping and landing with feet together, both legs will always be at the same potential so
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by mrestko 9y ago
There are more-modern negative pressure ventilators on the market.[1] I would think that from a legal perspective, it would be better to raise money to buy this woman a new ventilator, rather than subjecting her to cobbled-together replacem
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by mrestko 9y ago
That's a great quote I've never read before.
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by mrestko 9y ago
It wouldn't be HN without an immediate dismissive comment!
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by mrestko 9y ago
The author does not lack imagination. You may, however, lack knowledge of biology. What you're boiling down to a "cell state" represents dysregulation of the most complex object in the known universe. A single human cell is v
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by mrestko 10y ago
Someone on reddit mentioned it's probably a homage to the end scene of Short Circuit
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by mrestko 10y ago
Number one criteria I look for in weather sites is that they pin my CPU to 100%.
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by mrestko 10y ago
This is a perfect example of nerd sniping. ( https://xkcd.com/356/ )
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by mrestko 10y ago
Would the administrator that marked this as "dupe" please link to the other discussion? I can't find it.

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