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rylandoon I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

As a rad tech, YOU TELL ‘EM DOC! I do like some uses of AI I’ve seen that help patients advocate for themselves or understand basic things like blood panel numbers, but it’s really bad at glazing people and leading them down medical rabbit holes kind of like the OP.

You would think that the AI would point out that calcium is best demonstrated on Radiographs/CT imaging vs Ultrasound or something to that effect.

rylandoon Never Give Them Your Face

Honestly I lost mine, I think all I’ve got is a picture in my phone, and I don’t think it includes my booster shot.

I’ve never been asked for it since.

rylandoon Never Give Them Your Face

Is there even an option at the airport to refuse face scanning? I assume that signs you up for a one way trip to a cavity search.

TSA does it, Customs does it when entering the USA after a trip too.

rylandoon Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch

Do they maintain the same diet today?

rylandoon Little magazines are back

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rylandoon A programmable watch you can actually wear

Do you have any info you can share on this recorder? Sounds really interesting!

rylandoon Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews

Is it possible to buy the standard version and upgrade to the pro later for the difference between the two pricing tiers ($30)?

rylandoon Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews

Is that a feature of the $20 plan? Or only the $50?

rylandoon Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

What a great response by Adams! I think the acceptance, and even the celebration of failure is present among the “maker” community in the USA to some extent, which has really drawn me to it.

I wonder if there’s the same outlook on failure among other creatives, would be interesting to compare the hobby communities opinions between the USA and UK.

rylandoon A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package

I’m assuming each image was taken with 123 microamperes? Or is that total dosage over the 21 hours? If it’s total that’s much less than medical dosage, but if it’s per image that’s a lot more!

Thanks for the info, how interesting!

(for those who don’t know, mAs = mA • seconds = milliampere seconds. It’s how Radiographers measure how much x-ray photos are being produced by the tungsten filament in an X-ray tube. kVp is kiloVoltage potential and it’s how we measure the speed and thus the penetration power of the X-rays. 130kvp is slightly more than the 120kvp used for an avg human chest radiograph)

rylandoon A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package

What kVp/mAs do you use for this? How are you avoiding the artifacts seen from medical imaging? Curious, in school for CT in the medical field.