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by randlet 11y ago
On a related note I recently had some lab work done and was dumbfounded when the nurse looking after me told me I could now sign up on their website[1] and access my results as soon as the tests were finished being analyzed. Sure enough,
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by randlet 11y ago
Stars fuse light elements it into heavier elements. Eventually all the lighter elements will be used up.
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by randlet 11y ago
I know it's not 'cool' but the fact that this supports IE7+ makes it infinitely more useful to me personally. Looks very very nice after a short play with the demo!
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by randlet 11y ago
It's been a long time now, but I pretty much agree with you. I really enjoyed Griffiths as an introduction but for reasons that escape me now I remember having a bad time with Shankar.
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by randlet 11y ago
Based on all this discussion I regret using the phrase "it's your fault" which sounds too aggressive. Instead I wish I just emphasized that regardless of biological and societal pressures everyone of us does possess the abil
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by randlet 11y ago
I certainly did not mean to imply that it was easy. Simple yes, easy? Hell no. (I lost 45lbs last year, not fun). Nor did I imply that someone was a lesser person for being overweight. However, I do believe if you want to change your wei
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by randlet 11y ago
Where did the 1300 calories a day number come from? How big is the person that number is for? What is their activity level?
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by randlet 11y ago
It's tough to hear but no matter what your genetics or internal flora are, being overweight is still your fault . It may not be "fair" that someone puts on less weight than someone else eating the same diet, but ultimately
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by randlet 11y ago
Mr Rumsfeld, it's cool that you're doing this and all but I believe the title you're looking for is "I Decided to Commission An App"!
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by randlet 11y ago
I leveraged the Flux architecture powered by the immensely popular Redux library. For a cleaner integration with Angular 2’s injector and TypeScript’s type system, I wrote a class-based wrapper around Redux that exposes stat
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by randlet 11y ago
"Adulthood isn't about you, it's about your relationship to others." Love it!
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by randlet 11y ago
My insurance company has no idea what the mileage is on my vehicles (they've never asked)...maybe they would require that info before tracking you? I don't know. A few thousand miles discrepancy should be very easy to explain awa
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by randlet 11y ago
It is trivially easy to game too in some cases. My insurer wants to use your smart phone to do the tracking over a period of 6 months after which you no longer have to be tracked. Want to do some street racing every weekend? Just leave y
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by randlet 11y ago
I had this exact same discussion with my insurance agent yesterday. I opted out but the agent had trouble understanding (or more likely I had trouble communicating the idea) that once everyone else takes the discount that I will no longer b
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by randlet 11y ago
I'm not sure if you're trying to imply something negative about this project or not, but there are many many research MRI's around and it's not completely unreasonable to spare 15 min of MRI time for something like this.
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by randlet 11y ago
You made the front page of HN... Hope you've got a rev limiter installed by tomorrow!
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by randlet 11y ago
#!/usr/bin/env python2.7 print open(__file__, 'r').read() Seems like cheating!
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by randlet 11y ago
I use etymotic in-ear headphones with the two-flange tips (I prefer the rubber flanges over foam) and they do a remarkable job at isolating from external noise, allowing me to listen to music at a quiet (read non hearing loss inducing) lev
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by randlet 11y ago
Enjoyed the article. It made me pine for the days when I had time to dedicate a day to just play with code.
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by randlet 11y ago
Not sure I understand. Why would easy be a negative?
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by randlet 11y ago
"Try weighing yourself before bed and when you wake up. You'll find you lose a pound or more for exhaling carbon in your sleep" I've tried this a bunch of times and have seen up to two pounds difference on rare occasions
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by randlet 11y ago
That's correct. Lots of people do 16/8 fasting. It's easy to get used to skipping breakfast and having your first meal 5 or 6 hours after you wake up and then only eat in the following 8 hour window. I use intermittent fastin
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by randlet 11y ago
http://qatrackplus.com It's a self hosted Django app for tracking quality assurance data for radiation therapy centres (although it could easily be adapted for other purposes).
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by randlet 11y ago
I feel like this is a joke but if you're interested in the "Coming Soon" schedule, it's actually just commented out in the source. (edit: just noticed it's a design conference. Has to be a joke, edit2: Sessions 2,3,
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by randlet 11y ago
Same story for me. I run an open source project used by hospitals and I think I'm stuck supporting IE8 for another year or two.
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by randlet 11y ago
Thanks for clarifying :) p.s. If you are employed in Med Phys allow me to make a quick plug for my open source Med Phys QA database project: http://qatrackplus.com/
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by randlet 11y ago
The Cuckoo's Egg is a really fun read!
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by randlet 11y ago
Shielding a patient like this isn't really feasible. The half-value-layer of lead in a 6MegaVolt clinical beam is 17mm [1]. That is, even with nearly an inch of lead shielding in place you'd still be delivering a large dose of rad
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by randlet 11y ago
Many (most?) modern linear accelerators have imaging panels behind the beam path (see image [1]) which could be used for dose monitoring although they are primarily used for imaging purposes. I'm not sure whether any of these are curr
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by randlet 11y ago
Putting things in the way of the beam to measure dose is actually quite common. You can do real time dose monitoring using diodes (see [1]). The diodes are quite small and don't generate huge amounts of scatter. It is quite common to u

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