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·il y a 10 ans·discuss
Aside from the technical issues with the machine, ultrasound imaging is harder to perform (in terms of scanning technique) and very difficult to interpret compared to a high-resolution MRI or even simple X-ray. It takes significant training to even find specific organs, and distinguishing between, eg, a gas bubble in the small intestine vs a potentially dangerous foreign object or even a tumor takes a lot of education and experience.
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·il y a 11 ans·discuss
The latency increase for HTTPS actually causes a measurable conversion difference in the e-commerce space. It sucks but it's true.

edit: Downvoters--have you ever done measurements? Why do you think Amazon redirects HTTPS to HTTP for product pages? It actually matters and at their scale it's real money.
bkeroack
·il y a 12 ans·discuss
Standard CPython also has access to native threads. The Python threading module is just a thin wrapper over pthreads. The issue is that the GIL prevents threads from exploiting multiple cores.