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by asmithmd1 4y ago
We had rehab work done when we moved to a Boston area house and they skim coated everything with plaster as standard of practice. That is definitely not the standard anywhere else I have lived. Another regional difference is they put the po
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by asmithmd1 4y ago
Here is a Snopes article from a year ago that claims to have duplicated the Fox News article using CDC data: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fentanyl-overdose-death/ Interesting that Google searches for this inf
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by asmithmd1 4y ago
Do you know of a tutorial for getting a small LoRa device up on the Helium network?
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by asmithmd1 4y ago
Being a mechanical engineer by training, I always assumed it had come from the requirement that all boilers must have a nameplate affixed with a bunch of not really useful information about how it was tested. The hot water heater in your ho
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by asmithmd1 4y ago
Polaroid was started in, and grew around Cambridge MA. It was kept alive on life support by a $1B settlement paid by Kodak for infringing their instant photo patents
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by asmithmd1 4y ago
Yes, you have to have caster or the car would be very difficult to drive. I had a VW bug with a worm gear steering box that was going bad. It would almost keep the wheels wherever you put them and it was scary to drive. Think about how yo
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by asmithmd1 4y ago
Digi-Key needs a sort by “most popular” You can often sort by number in stock to find a “normal” one
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by asmithmd1 4y ago
my actual example is the CTO (no background in software) You seem to be very dismissive of people when they opine outside of where you think they are qualified to have opinions, and yet you give opinions where you might not have sufficien
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by asmithmd1 4y ago
but I think the questions you ask may be wrong Exactly this. You asked one question that you summarized dismissively as "...because they had read a blog post about another company doing it." You could have stroked their ego a li
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by asmithmd1 4y ago
Are “the finest details” of an X-ray of your wrist finer than a screen grab from a camera phone video of your wrist?
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by asmithmd1 4y ago
It is complicated and wavelength dependent. In near infrared, Hubble and JWST have about the same resolution. As the frequency moves further into infrared, JWST is better than Hubble. The other things that affect how clear an image is are “
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by asmithmd1 4y ago
That is my understanding. A good example is a light switch. if you hold a switch in the middle between on and off, you don't know which way it will snap unless you know which way the switch was moved to get to the middle.
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by asmithmd1 4y ago
Ultra premium guitar amps use point-to-point wiring: https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.89.49/34e.08c.myftpupload.... This guitar amp wiring looks much better than the Apollo radio
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by asmithmd1 4y ago
Yeah, I was kind of making a joke. But to stretch the analogy... Maybe there is a common source that is cross compiled to different chemistries producing a seed object code cell.
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by asmithmd1 4y ago
the source code containing within it all of the instructions required for life on Earth. I would disagree, we see the object code. If we had the source, with comments, genetic engineering would be much easier
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by asmithmd1 4y ago
Yes. Massachusetts which is NOT a right-to-work state. That means the union can negotiate a clause in the contract that any nurses working at the hospital must join the union. Here is a current contract that includes pay ranges: https:&#x2
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by asmithmd1 4y ago
The Apollo command module environment was 5 psi pure oxygen. This gave the astronauts lungs the same partial pressure of oxygen that earth atmosphere provides. So not even 14 psi difference, but 5 psi. A difference that can be dealt with du
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by asmithmd1 4y ago
If you lose an engine on a twin engine plane, you have to decide if you have an emergency or not. If you lose an engine on a single engine plane, you have to decide where you can make an emergency landing.
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by asmithmd1 5y ago
Not speaking does not mean he isn't thinking. I was impressed how thoroughly he understood the issues in the Google v. Oracle Java case. He even included some sample pseudo-code in his dissent - although the code kind of sucks (footnot
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by asmithmd1 5y ago
Completely agree with point 1. There are many researchers in the area who like to also practice, that lead me to ask the # of surgeries question. My bias is towards surgery at a good regional hospital (Newton-Wellesley for example) with a s
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by asmithmd1 5y ago
> I feel like this is one of the few applications where it could shine. Read “The Alignment Problem”, a very good just above pop sci level book about machine learning. They have one example where ML determined seniors with COPD were at r
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by asmithmd1 5y ago
For a colonoscopy I asked about the risk of a perforated bowel. Their first response was, “that is meaningless, if it happens to you the rate is 100%.” I said if the chances are 50:50, then I am not doing it. They said it has happened twic
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by asmithmd1 5y ago
There are some things that are helpful that they will answer that have steered me away from a surgeon: How many of these surgeries do you do per year? An answer of 50 or above is good. What is YOUR rate of <specific complication mentione
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by asmithmd1 5y ago
You know what is more ridiculous? You need a doctor to write a prescription to use this machine that ices your leg or arm. https://gameready.com/gr-pro-cold-therapy-unit/ I think it must be some quirk of insurance that
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by asmithmd1 5y ago
Why does settling in dollars make any difference? Like he said, if the SWIFT secure messaging service goes down, someone at a bank in Japan has the phone number of someone at a bank in New York and can "wire" money with a phone ca
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by asmithmd1 5y ago
"An engineer can do for a dime, what any idiot can do for a dollar" - Someone else [edit] Achshually "An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two" - Arthur C. Wellington
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by asmithmd1 5y ago
actually...No earlier than the 24th now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29560383
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by asmithmd1 5y ago
The James Webb Space Telescope team is working a communication issue between the observatory and the launch vehicle system. This will delay the launch date to no earlier than Friday, Dec. 24. We will provide more information about the new
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JWST now launching no earlier than Dec 24th due to communications issue(blogs.nasa.gov)
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by asmithmd1 5y ago
"Technicians were preparing to attach Webb to the launch vehicle adapter... A sudden, unplanned release of a clamp band – which secures Webb to the launch vehicle adapter – caused a vibration throughout the observatory." This soun

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