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by tpfour 7y ago
I catch a cold once or twice each year. This year was different as we have a son in daycare, so we've been sick about once a month. In January we all went through a very weird flu. Bowel issues, followed by very dry and sore throat wit
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by tpfour 7y ago
With so much noise it's understandable that people are dismissing information from less known third-party sources in favor of very well established higher learning institutions. I am also critical of the way Western governments handled
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by tpfour 7y ago
Quoting one of their sources: It is a political decision to consider whether it is preferable to enact stricter measures at first, lifting them gradually as required, or to start with fewer measures and add further measure
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by tpfour 7y ago
I have family who are MDs and I have been working with MDs for over 5 years. I have always felt the same, but usually MDs don't agree that much - feeling special is part of the meme I guess. I do feel, however, that the converse would
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by tpfour 7y ago
Because that's not the federal government's problem. They are mostly interested in: international relations, facilitating business and the economy (trade deals etc), making sure shipping flows freely, defence, etc (you can find a
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by tpfour 7y ago
If you are part of a high mortality rate demographic, you are better to get it first in your demographic to have a better access to resources (or very late when the resources are back under control). The issue is not really the virus per se
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by tpfour 7y ago
Gerbil Scheme allowed me to be productive in Scheme. It really is a treat to work with. No tooling required other than compiling Gambit, Gerbil and having a text editor. Those three things let you ship fast binaries, with static or shared l
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by tpfour 7y ago
Racket is more of a meta language. For another example, see Gerbil Scheme (cons.io). It is a meta language written on top of Gambit Scheme. Gambit was chosen because it can compile to portable, efficient and fast C code. Gerbil on Gambit cu
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by tpfour 7y ago
You never spent much time with it and the parens are a major impediment? If you cannot overcome the "parens" (non) issue, I suppose the language is not for you. It really is not an issue, _at all_. I don't say this to be deme
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by tpfour 7y ago
You can modify the reader to do that but then you can also just write Python.
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by tpfour 7y ago
Not everyone uses plugins. I don't have autocomplete but my parens flash when they're paired. I like it. You write the parentheses because they have meaning. I can understand your frustration but I don't think you gave lisp a
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by tpfour 7y ago
Not really IMO as that has a certain level of subjectivity that could lead to endless argumentation. What's truly needed from my limited perspective is democratization of medical schooling. I've met MDs who are trying to make it w
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by tpfour 7y ago
Of course I am concerned with creativity on an intellectual level, not necessarily related to painting or sculpting or other arts. Curiously the MDs I work with have been relatively unanimous about this: there is a variability in cases and
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by tpfour 7y ago
I've been working in the field (software side) for a while and it is a little bit complicated. Some medical procedures absolutely require constant practice to maintain a very high level of quality and safety. Others don't. If you
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by tpfour 7y ago
That's a very interesting perspective, thank you!
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by tpfour 7y ago
I also have experience with something of an EMR, both from the implementation/standards side and the buying side. It is a complete and utter mess. The amount of cruft is insane, and service is very poor (nobody masters the subject, so
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by tpfour 7y ago
Thanks. I'm specifically not concerned about money (other than tuition if it comes to that). Not that it is unimportant, but I won't bring any to my grave. As I've gotten to do business, negotiations, and dealing with "m
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by tpfour 7y ago
Hey, this is an unrelated question but I've been looking for MDs turned SWEs and vice versa. I assume since you are here that you understand the life of a SWE. Do you have any thoughts about jumping from SWE to medicine?
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by tpfour 7y ago
Hmm. Can you expand further? I also use draw.io and a quick look at your landing page did not enlighten me.
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by tpfour 7y ago
The author has a very, very limited experience with Chemistry. I also found the article to be a rambling rant with no actual basis in reality.
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by tpfour 7y ago
I'm sorry, but that is a _very_ poor argumentation. In fact, it's just a rant. Maybe I should let this pass but this essay really rubs me the wrong way. I would like to stress that the author is _not_ a chemist. That was obvious b
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by tpfour 7y ago
There is no good FOSS or even just open source RIS (Radiology Information System).
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by tpfour 7y ago
Your profile does not give a way to reach you.
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by tpfour 7y ago
I rest my case.
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by tpfour 7y ago
You might as well say that quebecoi don't want to learn the language of the rest of the country. You are conveniently proposing a revisionist view of history. The word "Canada" has had multiple meanings which ha
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by tpfour 7y ago
You personally have the luxury of reflecting on food ethics. That doesn't make the whole of humanity "cruel" and "lacking empathy". Raw, brutal hunger simply does not exist in advanced societies anymore. You have th
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by tpfour 7y ago
I have a T470 and I love it. Some say the keyboards aren't what they used to be, but overall, I absolutely love the machine. While I think it looks good, I consider it a tool, not a fashion statement. I just need it to work, all the ti
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by tpfour 7y ago
Just get a Thinkpad and (mostly) stop worrying. I bought a Macbook Pro in 2009 and used it until 2017 when I switched to a T470. Haven't regretted it one second. Debian works flawlessly, as does OpenBSD.
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by tpfour 7y ago
No. All languages are typed in one way or another. Unless you write a generic function, you cannot evaluate (+ 2 "a") in scheme. Here is racket's error message: > (+ 2 "a") ; +: contract violation ;
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by tpfour 7y ago
Read the standard. There truly is no way around it if you need to perform actual "real" work with DICOM. You need to become familiar with the vocabulary. Also get a copy of [0]. Write a small C program that outputs whether a file

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