mcbain
Re:Is it a pint?
on Monday March 23, 2026 @01:23PM (#47492446)
You might enjoy the matrix of regional sizes and names on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Australia#Beer_glasses
No, us locals don't know them all either!
Re:Plane and ground vehicle collide at New York's LaGuardia airport ha...
on Monday March 23, 2026 @04:26AM (#47486713)
https://www.avherald.com/h?article=536bb98e
> Captain and first officer are reported to have died in the accident, two fire fighters on board of the truck received serious injuries, 13 passengers received injuries.
Air Canada CRJ collides with fire fighting truck on landing in New York
Molecule in Python blood could pave way for new obesity drugs
Re:How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?
on Sunday February 15, 2026 @07:29PM (#47029356)
The former. It doesn't quite roll off the tongue, but with my (Australian) accent the difference is minor.
Re:How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?
on Sunday February 15, 2026 @12:04AM (#47021217)
Yes, with MRI brain too. I was on 4/year, but that number is reducing as time goes on without recurrence.
Re:How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?
on Saturday February 14, 2026 @05:15PM (#47018946)
I have multiple scans a year. "Scanxiety" is real.
Re:How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?
on Saturday February 14, 2026 @05:14PM (#47018938)
Spot on. And dealing with false positives sucks.
One caveat is that regular PET isn't so good in the brain - there is so much metabolic activity that everything glows. So I get an MRI Brain to go with my regular full body PET/CT (cancer 5 years ago with recurrence 18 months later, currently NED).
Re:Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors
on Monday December 22, 2025 @03:49PM (#46358875)
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45514378
Re:TSMC Arizona Outage Saw Fab Halt, Apple Wafers Scrapped
on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @12:03AM (#46042504)
Linde was definitely around as a distinct brand in Australia before they bought BOC in 2006, but since then as you said, they now just trade as BOC.
Re:Tell HN: AWS us-east-1 services are down
on Monday October 20, 2025 @04:18AM (#45641201)
When have they ever claimed that?
Re:Immunotherapy drug clinical trial results: half of tumors shrink or...
on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @08:43PM (#45191636)
As others pointed out, these are stage I trials and these are patients that have had other treatments already. In particular the melanoma patients had already had other immunotherapy - which is known to work for 50+% of cases - so this could help plugging the gap for the rest.
Re:The sunscreen scandal shocking Australia
on Friday September 05, 2025 @09:57PM (#45145894)
The testing here is not just that it is safe on skin, but the SPF test itself is done by slathering it on humans and exposing them to light to determine a rating.
Re:The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Austr...
on Thursday June 19, 2025 @08:46AM (#44318166)
Also the club scenes, with a bunch of regulars from Hellfire/Black Market, on Regent St. (Now a cafe supply store.)
Re:We’re secretly winning the war on cancer
on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @12:32AM (#44244216)
Sadly Richard has now had recurrence. There is still hope for this treatment for others, and it likely extended his life, but it isn't happily ever after this time.
Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site
Re:World-first experimental cancer treatment paves way for clinical trial
on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:03AM (#43204707)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03512-1
Ipi/nivo/relatlimab and then a peptide vaccine that they haven't written up yet.
Re:World-first experimental cancer treatment paves way for clinical trial
on Friday February 28, 2025 @06:57AM (#43204656)
No chemo. The entire idea of this regime is to hit the tumour with immuno to get the reaction. They want lots of tumour cells and for it to be "treatment naive" - Richard hadn't even had corticosteroids, which dampens immune.
Once they primed his system they excised as much as possible and kept the immuno going while doing a course of radiation.
Profs Long and Scolyer work with melanoma where chemo is rarely used these days.
Re:Final Two Communications from MH370 Support Controlled Eastward Des...
on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:57AM (#41377469)
https://youtu.be/Y5K9HBiJpuk
I think Petter's (Mentour Pilot) delve into it is quite good - there's a lot of detail I hadn't known.
Re:Accident Forgiveness
on Friday August 23, 2024 @07:04PM (#41333849)
It's easy for (say) AWS to terminate your EC2 instances. Do they also delete your DB backups? Delete your S3 buckets?
All of these incur costs. How hard a cap do you want?
Re:Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever
on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @01:58AM (#40973947)
One big trial still going: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03739931
Re:Immunotherapy Is Changing Cancer Treatment Forever
on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @01:44AM (#40973910)
There's a bunch of different immuno types for melanoma (and other cancers). That one is a combo of nivolumab (aka Opdivo) and relatlimab.
Nivo is used a lot for melanoma, also commonly in combo with ipi (ipilimumab, yervoy). Pembro (keytruda) is the other common one.
Anyway, any of these can have adverse effects so patients are closely monitored.
For me, my thyroid didn't like nivo much but recovered. But we stopped after a couple of cycles of ipi+nivo because I was starting to develop colitis. And more importantly it wasn't slowing development of my melanomas.
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Re:Making EC2 boot time 8x faster
on Friday May 24, 2024 @03:02AM (#40463637)
It does launch an instance and take a snapshot but what's happening is the sysprep and OOBE stuff that can take 10 mins or so (you can find it in the console and startup logs). That's a lot more overheard than just hydrating an EBS volume.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/win-a...
Re:Personalised melanoma mRNA cancer trial in stage 3
on Friday April 26, 2024 @07:46AM (#40168173)
This is seeing great results but unless I'm mistaken, this started stage III in July 2023: https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05933577
Re:Breakthrough drug trial saw cancer vanish in every patient (2022)
on Friday April 05, 2024 @04:26PM (#39946801)
They are https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PD-1_and_PD-L1_inhibitors
The hint is the -mab naming.
Re:How do MRI Headphones work?
on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @05:02PM (#39832825)
I get an MRI Brain every three months. I usually opt out of the piped music - mostly because it's either a bad choice by the radiology techs or tuned to a generically awful radio station - but the headphones lock into the head cradle so I use them with earplugs underneath. I close my eyes and tune out and try to not sleep (and twitch so they have to restart the capture).
Some of the pulse sequences are rhythmic and I find the entire thing somewhat meditative, but there are many other places I'd rather be.
Re:Sydney Int Airport pioneers Australia's first digital air traffic c...
on Friday March 08, 2024 @06:23AM (#39640041)
The title here currently drops "Western" from the linked article and the start of the airport name - importantly this is the yet to be completed WSI not the existing SYD.