I'm a doctor, though not a diagnostician. Diagnosis is rarely hard - there are some hard cases, but they really mostly aren't. Do you have a persistently elevated blood glucose level? You have diabetes. Do you have consistently high blood pressure? You have hypertension. Etc. It's hardly surprising that computers are just as good as humans at diagnosing diseases that are mostly defined by strict, objective criteria.
What is harder is management - finding the right collection of drugs that will effectively treat a patient's diseases without introducing too many side effects. And what's even harder is anything procedural - we have no computers that can actually do procedures at all. Those aren't what most people think of as "going to the doctor", but it's what most doctors do - either manage disease, or do procedures, both of which are either mostly or severely beyond the ken of computers. Show me a computer that can do something as simple as put in an IV, and I'll be greatly impressed. So many subtleties boil down to "well, I saw something once that looked just like this, and the solution was X..." that it's worth trying X before going on to Y and Z.
My wife is a diagnostician - a neurologist. She sees stuff on a daily basis that would flummox any non-neurologist (really, I barely know what she's talking about half the time, and my peers would be much, much worse at that), let alone a computer. As the old joke goes, it's like being a car mechanic - who has to work on the car while it's doing 70 miles per hour down the highway, with zero downtime acceptable.
The problem with Venus is that, even after you seed the atmosphere with bacteria or whatever to turn the CO2 into O2, you have to deal with the O2 spending a billion years oxidizing everything before it starts to accumulate.
96 bytes was a lot of data in the mid-80s. On a 1200 bps connection, that's almost an entire second per packet. When I was a college student in the early 90s, we had 2400 bps modems in the dialup pool, and the entire university (~3000 students) lived on a 56k leased line. Nowadays, that's trivial. In 1984, not so much.
OSR2 had shit USB support that wasn't worth the trying. If your hardware was weak, run 95A (which was not much more demanding than 3.11). If you could handle it, run 98SE (a much more competent OS). Or, y'know, Linux, but good luck configuring it back then.
Yeah, I've had cops tell me more-or-less that the corpse should end up inside the house, and that they would ignore any blood trails that suggested otherwise. Suburban environment, though, not casually-strayed-ten-feet-from-border-of-national-forest-into-private-property.
I use Syno + offsite. Have a DS412+ (old now, I know) but that's what was available when I bought it. I populated it with two WD Reds and two Seagates, but both Seagates have failed (one in warranty, one not) - so it's WD from here on out unless I find some strong evidence like Backblaze saying there's a better choice.
Bank safety deposit box FTW: I've got one that holds plenty of stuff, it costs $40/year. Could easily put ten hard drives in there without even limiting the space.
That's why I finally bit the bullet and went Nexus with latest phone. Unlocking bootloader done within twenty minutes of getting it. No need for hacks to enable tethering. Root without having to use an exploit.
Does anyone use the high-power graphics when on battery? My laptop is old, ca. 2009, but the HDMI port can only be driven by the high-power graphics chip. About the only time I use it is when I'm watching Netflix on a hotel TV, so it's plugged in. After all, if I wanted performance, I wouldn't be using a seven-year-old laptop.
But, if you're okay with the limitations, it's perfectly capable of doing anything the average person would need a computer for while on the road. You're not going to crunch a big set of numbers with it, but for the average task that requires a more capable device than a tablet, it's perfect. After I was able to flash a Galaxy SII into working condition while in Kenya, I decided that I was never leaving home without it again. Too many tasks require a real general-purpose computer.
Alas, I think that one's a bit old even for most of the people who hang around here. Just haven't gotten into the new version as much. Like Calvin and Hobbes or To Kill a Mockingbird, sometimes you just produce perfection, once, and stop.
I work part-time at a state mental hospital, putting people to sleep for electroconvulsive therapy. IOW: if you end up in front of me, you're someone who has by definition failed to respond to drug therapy.
We have one guy who has committed murder. He's never stood trial, because they can't get him sane enough to stand trial. Insanity is an excuse for breaking the law, but it's not just "homeless guy who mumbles a lot" insane, it's "has zero connection to reality and spends his life in a drug- and shock-induced haze because that's the only way we can keep him from attempting to kill everyone he sees".
No kidding. I've driven enough on high-truck-traffic routes to understand just how hard it is to be a safe truck driver. It's WORK.
Sadly, the politeness of even professional drivers seems to be going downhill. Twenty years ago, I could always count on the light flash "Come on"/"Okey-dokey" (was how I learned it) for changing lanes. Maybe it's because I'm driving a Lexus (now) instead of a beat-up Pontiac (then), but I always let them know when they're clear to move over, and I almost never get the thanks in return the way I used to. Not all of us in four-wheelers are ignorant, and not everyone in a luxury car is an entitled ass.
Um, water? It falls from the sky. In pretty large quantities.
Of course, I don't live in a semi-desert. Yeah, we get some bad years, but there's more than enough in the ground to make up for those. My city water supply is from surface water. I've never even been asked not to wash my car or water my lawn, because there's no point: all I'm doing is slowing its passage and making it a bit dirty in the process. The first doesn't matter much, and the second is why we have sewage treatment.
Image the partition, take the upgrade and confirm it certifies, then blast W10 and put your old one back. Now you can always install it once the workarounds for all this are figured out.
My hospital does this for handwritten progress notes in charts. It's nice. Especially in anesthesia, which has an elegant (if densely-packed) system of record keeping. For years after the VA put everything in a flat-text note syste, their anesthesia records were done on paper and stored as images.
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I'm a doctor, though not a diagnostician. Diagnosis is rarely hard - there are some hard cases, but they really mostly aren't. Do you have a persistently elevated blood glucose level? You have diabetes. Do you have consistently high blood pressure? You have hypertension. Etc. It's hardly surprising that computers are just as good as humans at diagnosing diseases that are mostly defined by strict, objective criteria.
What is harder is management - finding the right collection of drugs that will effectively treat a patient's diseases without introducing too many side effects. And what's even harder is anything procedural - we have no computers that can actually do procedures at all. Those aren't what most people think of as "going to the doctor", but it's what most doctors do - either manage disease, or do procedures, both of which are either mostly or severely beyond the ken of computers. Show me a computer that can do something as simple as put in an IV, and I'll be greatly impressed. So many subtleties boil down to "well, I saw something once that looked just like this, and the solution was X..." that it's worth trying X before going on to Y and Z.
My wife is a diagnostician - a neurologist. She sees stuff on a daily basis that would flummox any non-neurologist (really, I barely know what she's talking about half the time, and my peers would be much, much worse at that), let alone a computer. As the old joke goes, it's like being a car mechanic - who has to work on the car while it's doing 70 miles per hour down the highway, with zero downtime acceptable.
It's pretty easy to get a rifle that will fire a bullet a mile. They are, however, loud as hell because the bullet is supersonic.
The problem with Venus is that, even after you seed the atmosphere with bacteria or whatever to turn the CO2 into O2, you have to deal with the O2 spending a billion years oxidizing everything before it starts to accumulate.
I can't believe I'm having to say this here, but the internet is a series of tubes, not pipes.
The wild women, the wild women, the rippin' and the tearin', the rippin' and the tearin'...
96 bytes was a lot of data in the mid-80s. On a 1200 bps connection, that's almost an entire second per packet. When I was a college student in the early 90s, we had 2400 bps modems in the dialup pool, and the entire university (~3000 students) lived on a 56k leased line. Nowadays, that's trivial. In 1984, not so much.
OSR2 had shit USB support that wasn't worth the trying. If your hardware was weak, run 95A (which was not much more demanding than 3.11). If you could handle it, run 98SE (a much more competent OS). Or, y'know, Linux, but good luck configuring it back then.
A fair point. Like I said, I'm not a programmer.
FORTRAN, COBOL, and Lisp are older than C, and all still around. I'm not a programmer, so take what potshots you will. But they are still there...
Yeah, I've had cops tell me more-or-less that the corpse should end up inside the house, and that they would ignore any blood trails that suggested otherwise. Suburban environment, though, not casually-strayed-ten-feet-from-border-of-national-forest-into-private-property.
A modified choke is not a wide pattern except by comparison to full choke...
No, it's not; it's standard practice. Try again?
I use Syno + offsite. Have a DS412+ (old now, I know) but that's what was available when I bought it. I populated it with two WD Reds and two Seagates, but both Seagates have failed (one in warranty, one not) - so it's WD from here on out unless I find some strong evidence like Backblaze saying there's a better choice.
Bank safety deposit box FTW: I've got one that holds plenty of stuff, it costs $40/year. Could easily put ten hard drives in there without even limiting the space.
That's why I finally bit the bullet and went Nexus with latest phone. Unlocking bootloader done within twenty minutes of getting it. No need for hacks to enable tethering. Root without having to use an exploit.
Does anyone use the high-power graphics when on battery? My laptop is old, ca. 2009, but the HDMI port can only be driven by the high-power graphics chip. About the only time I use it is when I'm watching Netflix on a hotel TV, so it's plugged in. After all, if I wanted performance, I wouldn't be using a seven-year-old laptop.
But, if you're okay with the limitations, it's perfectly capable of doing anything the average person would need a computer for while on the road. You're not going to crunch a big set of numbers with it, but for the average task that requires a more capable device than a tablet, it's perfect. After I was able to flash a Galaxy SII into working condition while in Kenya, I decided that I was never leaving home without it again. Too many tasks require a real general-purpose computer.
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Alas, I think that one's a bit old even for most of the people who hang around here. Just haven't gotten into the new version as much. Like Calvin and Hobbes or To Kill a Mockingbird, sometimes you just produce perfection, once, and stop.
I work part-time at a state mental hospital, putting people to sleep for electroconvulsive therapy. IOW: if you end up in front of me, you're someone who has by definition failed to respond to drug therapy.
We have one guy who has committed murder. He's never stood trial, because they can't get him sane enough to stand trial. Insanity is an excuse for breaking the law, but it's not just "homeless guy who mumbles a lot" insane, it's "has zero connection to reality and spends his life in a drug- and shock-induced haze because that's the only way we can keep him from attempting to kill everyone he sees".
Hehe, when I see people flying by I figure they're just bear bait. Clean 'em out for me! I do about seven over and never get any heat.
No kidding. I've driven enough on high-truck-traffic routes to understand just how hard it is to be a safe truck driver. It's WORK.
Sadly, the politeness of even professional drivers seems to be going downhill. Twenty years ago, I could always count on the light flash "Come on"/"Okey-dokey" (was how I learned it) for changing lanes. Maybe it's because I'm driving a Lexus (now) instead of a beat-up Pontiac (then), but I always let them know when they're clear to move over, and I almost never get the thanks in return the way I used to. Not all of us in four-wheelers are ignorant, and not everyone in a luxury car is an entitled ass.
Um, water? It falls from the sky. In pretty large quantities.
Of course, I don't live in a semi-desert. Yeah, we get some bad years, but there's more than enough in the ground to make up for those. My city water supply is from surface water. I've never even been asked not to wash my car or water my lawn, because there's no point: all I'm doing is slowing its passage and making it a bit dirty in the process. The first doesn't matter much, and the second is why we have sewage treatment.
Image the partition, take the upgrade and confirm it certifies, then blast W10 and put your old one back. Now you can always install it once the workarounds for all this are figured out.
My hospital does this for handwritten progress notes in charts. It's nice. Especially in anesthesia, which has an elegant (if densely-packed) system of record keeping. For years after the VA put everything in a flat-text note syste, their anesthesia records were done on paper and stored as images.
No; there were more C64's sold than any other specific model of computer. Total number of x86 PC's is way, way higher than the 64's numbers.
Unless the above conditions are met, it's never worth it.