Exmoor

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by Exmoor 5y ago
Every once in a while I try to imagine a world where Linux never existed. Some software feels sort-of inevitable. For instance, even if Microsoft and Apple's desktop operating systems had failed, it seems almost certain that there woul
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by Exmoor 5y ago
> Good work, if you can get it. I'm sure it is for whatever level of management you have to get to so that you maximize the ratio of BONUS_PAY:STRESS_OF_PROJECT_FAILURE, but to me it sounds like an absolutely nightmare. At the engin
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by Exmoor 5y ago
One would assume (or hope) that medical device components are also QA'd to at least the standard of automotive components.
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by Exmoor 5y ago
> Malaria deaths peaked around 930,000 a year in 2004, and is around 600,000 a year now Your link does a good job showing this, but for those who don't click and scroll down it's probably worth mentioning that the vast majority
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by Exmoor 5y ago
I wish I could blame the lack of reasonable mask guidance on the previous administration, but last I checked the official CDC guidance was that they'd rather have the general public tie the tattered remnants of their Def Leopard Hystar
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by Exmoor 5y ago
You don't, but if the death rates are generally stable and predictable a huge increase during a COVID wave seems highly likely to be related. There have been plenty of analysis of various countries mortality rates compared to normal ye
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by Exmoor 5y ago
Some discussion here already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26869598
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by Exmoor 5y ago
Sounds like the type of email a manager who's stuck as the messenger for legal and/or HR and knows that this type of message has to be by-the-book in case it ever ends up as part of a legal proceeding. Unfortunately you can be the
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by Exmoor 5y ago
The limits of mRNA vaccine manufacturing are that it's a new process and the technology and supply chain required to produce it are very hard to get right. Derek Lowe does an excellent job of debunking the simplistic "Why don&#x27
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by Exmoor 5y ago
You'd have to compare that to the chances of the long term effects of COVID causing issues down the line, which I'm willing to heavily bet is much more likely given what we've seen so far.
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by Exmoor 5y ago
> Most epidemics disappear once populations achieve herd immunity and the pathogen has too few vulnerable bodies available as hosts for its self-propagation. This makes it sound like most pandemic diseases reach a point where they essent
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by Exmoor 6y ago
As a longtime DMX fan, he certainly did have his flaws, but in a world of braggadocious rappers he was one of the few who also took every opportunity to point out his flaws. He always seemed like he was doing his best to get over the mounta
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I'll be interested to see what happens with Samsung's decision to drop SD. They did that once before with the Galaxy S6 and brought it right back with the S7 after disappointing sales. Personally, I just purchased a Note20 Ultra (
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I wish I could be more sad about this. LG lost a lot of trust during their bootloop era, around the time of the G4. They had some interesting ideas with their V series, but I just couldn't bring myself to trust them after my G4 died in
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by Exmoor 6y ago
> a very popular technique at Microsoft Indeed. See also: Surface...everything.
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by Exmoor 6y ago
What about OneDrive For Business? I recall the executable was, confusingly, Groove.exe for quite a long time.
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Lifelong Seattle resident here. Yea, that's Keith Eldridge and everything there looks perfectly accurate to 1996 KOMO. Here's a 5yr old video of Keith for age comparison. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXIc5SQxG3
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I'll join on the 18mo G4 bootloop bandwagon as well. It really turned me off of LG in general. I'd like to say it was just an issue with that model, but they had several generations of phones with similar issues. Some of their ear
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by Exmoor 6y ago
We shall see, but it feels like just a tug in the direction of in-office after 13 months (for the big west coast companies) of things going the other way. I don't think anyone was ever expecting huge FAAMG companies to start selling of
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I'm not sure about all, but it definitely incorporates real-time plane tracking.
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by Exmoor 6y ago
They're both encased in lipids. Pfizer didn't have long term data on long-term storage at standard freezer temperatures, but has since confirmed their vaccine can be stored at similar conditions to Moderna.
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by Exmoor 6y ago
> If they could just kindly bring the asteroid back, every person on the planet—all 7.5 billion of us—would get roughly $1.3 billion. As long as you ignore the laws of supply in demand.
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Or the better team lose by a lot, but catch up slightly over time to the worse team because the worse team was better 20 years ago.
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by Exmoor 6y ago
And I have yet to see anyone in the US government recommend an actual filtering mask, which somewhat boggles my mind. Real FDA-approved KN95 masks have been available fairly cheaply for 6+ months, although ensuring you're not getting c
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I'd appreciate more capacity, but at this point my big complaint is price per TB. I've been paying $15/TB for drives for, I think, 3-4 years. I'm beginning to wonder if we've hit the end of the line for decreasing s
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Anytime I see Lynda/LinkedInLearning come up I always mention that, at least in my area, a lot of local public libraries subscribe to give their residents free access. Although I don't think that site is as strong in the programmi
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I'm assuming they don't want to look like they're profiting on a shortage, which could also make the shortage look intentional. One workaround would have been to set up a system where the additional profit from auctioned GPU&
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by Exmoor 6y ago
20 million US doses planned on delivery in March, 100 million "by June". Very curious to see how states will choose to treat this with regards to eligibility. Open it up to a slightly younger cohort at lower risk? Treat it exactly
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Not really sure where you're getting this data, but in reality both Oxford/AZ and Pfizer/BioNTech will provide extremely high effectiveness at reducing severe illness. It probably won't work out to be literally 100%, but
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by Exmoor 6y ago
:facepalm: Wow. Trying to do too many things at once this morning and totally misread the numbers. Edited my original post. Thanks for catching.

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