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belchingmatt
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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That's odd as for many years I've never seen a plunger, just a pre-vacuumed test-tube.
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If one is diving so close to the limits that +/- 1% will make a difference then the error has already been made.
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Yeah, all my blood tests over the last five or six years have used those vacutainer tubes.
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cloaked_wolf
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Nurses are trained to use vacutainers. I don't bother with them unless I'm being assessed. They're only good if you have good veins. Using a needle and syringe is much easier, especially in patients with difficult veins or in those who are very unwell. It's also what I do when the nurses fail to take blood using a vacutainer. But it flies in the face of 'ealth'n'safety.
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Paul1965
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 *queasy*
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belchingmatt
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 I must have 'good veins' then. 
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If one is diving so close to the limits that +/- 1% will make a difference then the error has already been made.
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ProfessorF
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Making the Cars 2 required a render farm containing 12,500 CPU cores. On average, it took 11.5 hours to render a single frame.
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oceanicitl
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Once you're over 40 it doesn't matter how old you are
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Spreadie
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 Didn't they just double the size oftheir render farm too? Maybe they should look into GPGPU for their farms; or just borrow saspro's. 
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ProfessorF
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Today I learnt an awful lot about split tone processing. Or at least had my hunches confirmed. Feeling much more confident about my dark room practice.
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HeatherKay
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Having decided to spend some time with my camera set to B&W, I was a bit miffed that Aperture imported the RAW files as colour images. Today, I discovered import filters...  _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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oceanicitl
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The works VPN is actually quite quick  _________________Still the official cheeky one
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Paul1965
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Semantic Satiation - When you say a word over and over again until its meaning is lost.
Works particularly well with swear words.
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lacloss
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belchingmatt
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The battery on my almost 4 year old laptop has a button operated, 5 LED, level indicator. 
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If one is diving so close to the limits that +/- 1% will make a difference then the error has already been made.
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finlay666
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I could do with learning more about learning performance profiling, efficient algorithms and writing stored procedures, need to cut a 2 second page load to < 1/4 second ideally, managed to knock a second off by not using a poorly written graph control, but still in search of the other 1/4 second to achieve the goal
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