tellak

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by tellak 7y ago
> The American medical system acts like the smallest bit of discomfort warrants being knocked out. There is a tremendous variation in both pain tolerance and anxiety. You sound like you’re in the minority. The anesthetist still gets paid
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by tellak 7y ago
I tried to keep my statements factual and my own opinion out of it. While “shit” was a bit tongue in cheeky the term “dirty” is used among practitioners because of the wide range of metabolic side effects that the atypical psychotics have.
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by tellak 7y ago
The original commenter mentioned a “knee operation”
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by tellak 7y ago
Propofol is an anesthetic, seroquel is not... it’s an antipsychotic. The thing with antipsychotics is they’re shit or “dirty” drugs... seroquel is not even indicated for insomnia (and depending on who you ask is a terrible choice.. a lot of
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by tellak 7y ago
Early in residency, had a guy once that seemed “out” as normal during an operation. No abnormalities. In the recovery room claims he heard everything we were saying in the OR. We of course initially thought he was full of shit, but he quot
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by tellak 7y ago
Were you under with propofol the whole time though? Usually the propofol is just to put you down (it is very short acting) you’re intubated, and then anesthesia is maintained with a volatile fluorane such as sevo.
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by tellak 7y ago
50% is “super conservative”?? By what reasoning? How is that more appropriate than 5% or .5% or .05%? Either you have a justification for that estimate or you’re just making something up, which doesn’t mean squat.
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by tellak 7y ago
You’re so confused. > FLAC has no benefit over traditional 16/24 encoded content Yes it does. It’s anywhere from 70-30% the size depending on genre. That’s a benefit. > you might think that FLAC/lossless is audibly better. N
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by tellak 7y ago
> why the C programming language is the way it is. I’m curious specifically why you think this is. The 6502 with its poor register set and special purpose addressing mode seems to make it a relatively terrible/challenging C target.
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by tellak 7y ago
It’s not a big deal. I only mentioned as a response because the op started off saying they were from a family of MDs. Also the vast majority of practicing physicians are expected to have detailed expertise to understand the indications, app
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by tellak 7y ago
> That’s asinine, obviously he doesn’t mean more data is always better even if the test is invasive or dangerous. With him classifying all MDs as idiots, no it is not asinine. I’ve known few academic physicians that would turn down data
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by tellak 7y ago
I am actually an MD. > Had we enforced a full-body MRI for every patient, we would quickly amass enough imaging data to know which anomalies are malignant and which are not to a very high degree How, pray tell, are we actually determinin
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by tellak 7y ago
There new guidelines in the US that still recommend aspirin based on cardiovascular risk. That aspirin increases the risk of bleeding is old news. The difficulty has been in quantifying the risk/benefit. You should consult with your do
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by tellak 7y ago
If that’s what he’s saying, he’s wrong. Python threads are based on native threads. They are parallel executed, they just don’t do so very well because of the GIL.
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by tellak 7y ago
Your example is the epitome of bullshit. There is a tremendous amount of tech in medicine and considerable investment at larger healthcare systems. If medical coding were such a simple automateable problem it would have been done (I mean it
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by tellak 7y ago
Absolute bullshit. To say there are no studies demonstrating better effectiveness than placebo is a tired old meme. It is true that SSRIs don’t have a profound effectiveness over placebo like some drugs.. but that does not make them useless
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by tellak 7y ago
From a healthcare background I find your points to be incredibly rare in practice, and the articles more on point.. which makes sense given the context of the article. For the most part patients trust their healthcare providers in privacy c
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by tellak 7y ago
It’s supposedly “news”, not editorializing. It’s their responsibility to get the facts right. Acids aren’t inherently dangerous. And I know plenty of “average” people that know that vinegar is an acid and swear by it as a household cure-all
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by tellak 7y ago
I read the article and it seems like a fair summary. I mean they even added the onus to bring more games to Linux first and then we will get moving on our part. I’m a Linux user, really a small private company making a business decision d
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by tellak 7y ago
So tempting to put a link to jwz.org here. But seriously, this sounds more like the responsibility of the link submitter and/or this website then every person on the internet that wants to write a blog post for a limited audience.
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by tellak 7y ago
Note that you don’t have to use the connection credentials to make use of row level security in pg. the security policy can be based on session variables (or anything really) which can be changed during the connection. Edit: it’s not the sa
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by tellak 7y ago
No not misreading. Ruby mongrel was the antithesis of a bulky server environment, it was a single threaded worker host generally spawned behind something like Apache or nginx or lighttpd. The need to keep mongrel workers around was more a
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by tellak 7y ago
The terms are in common use since the 80s at least (no, Microsoft did not invent these terms with D3D). You can prove this in google scholar. In fact for 3D rendering, retained mode was touted as a the new way forward, there was even a st
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by tellak 7y ago
Don’t really agree with the history. MRI ruby had always had a fast startup time and was not originally created for the web... it’s more like a “better” Perl cum toolkit for C/unixy stuff- ironically what python became more popular for
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by tellak 7y ago
You’re oversimplifying.. selling while everyone else is often due to irrationality, but quite often it is the best move. In the case of a crashing asset that is determined to be unlikely to recover, selling with “everyone” else is the ratio
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by tellak 7y ago
I switched to taxact a number of years back because of this shit. They aren’t perfect in the upselling either but at least you can start as many new returns on an account as you want. I couldn’t import shit from many things anyway so last c
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by tellak 7y ago
> Doctors noticing that Watson is wrong is expected. Well as a doctor if I’m still ultimately responsible then nothing has fundamentally changed, this is just another tool, possibly one I’ll be forced to use by someone with not one day o
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by tellak 7y ago
I don’t understand this argument (which comes up often). Isn’t the answer an unqualified yes? It’s obvious the current system has fuck ups. Are we supposed to be happy if a new system has double or triple the fuckups because “technology”? L
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by tellak 7y ago
Winchester became widely used as an industry term outside of IBM for HDDs. https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/10/business/new-from-silicon...
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by tellak 7y ago
I personally think the gp is full of crap. I’m trained as an engineer and worked in industry a few years. There is no issue of smartness or skill, and of course computers are necessary, but its ridiculous to think they are some magic box...

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