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by Jedd 5y ago
To augment the other two responses here with some anecdata -- yes, storms would knock off my geostationary satellite connection in ways I didn't fully understand (it might just have been a huge bump in attempted utilisation for all I c
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by Jedd 5y ago
> We simply don't have data or knowledge about what people did or how they behaved differently that might have caused a non-covid death to be reasonably attributed to covid. Which is somewhat tangential to my question. Disregard any
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by Jedd 5y ago
> We have a post like this every month. I'm not sure that's true. And if it were to be true, I'm not sure how it speaks against the claims made in this article? > What incentive does the country have to under report CO
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by Jedd 5y ago
> Excess deaths are not just due to COVID. Can you clarify what you mean by this? What kinds of things might excess deaths be attributable to, and to what rate / ratio would you expect?
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by Jedd 5y ago
That sounds about right. For the average Australian user, it means you add ~ $200-350 / year to your effective ISP cost. Not end of world for most, but certainly not trivial for all, either. The regrettable history of Australian inter
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by Jedd 5y ago
In Australia, it's $140 / month, plus the capex of $700 for the dish, which obviously won't work on any other provider. I suspect resale on that device, if the carrier allows it, would be reasonable, but I don't expect
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by Jedd 5y ago
There is a belief that Omicron originated in South Africa, but some growing evidence that it was present elsewhere earlier, but only either detected or first identified early on in South Africa. This is the first link in a search for sa
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by Jedd 5y ago
Not parent, but ... > I see this comment or some variation of it every time a new product is shared here that has such a model. I observe something similar, but we seem to have drawn different conclusions. > What I rarely if ever see
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by Jedd 5y ago
> The politicization of the pandemic will in the future perhaps be looked upon as our civilization's greatest mistake. I don't believe this is a civilisational-wide mistake -- more so an issue with a handful of relatively small
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by Jedd 5y ago
KDE lets you resize compliant windows in this way, but Microsoft Teams for GNU/Linux is not compliant -- and consequently this does not work.
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by Jedd 5y ago
My biggest issues are that a) it starts up in the foreground (none of my other autostart apps do this) so it can happily intercept keypresses you're doing in other apps -- and b) it does not respect standard system titlebar / bord
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by Jedd 5y ago
We don't have Varroa destructor in Australia... yet. We know we'll get it, probably within the next decade, and it will be awful. SHB was a huge wake up call here, about fifteen years ago. What we really need are terminator gen
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by Jedd 5y ago
> It’s an interesting idea, but how would you measure happiness? This (the measuring, at least) is mostly a solved problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report
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by Jedd 5y ago
Related -- I've been using this tool [0] for years, to back up my trello boards daily. Only been one brief hiccup, due to a change of API, IIRC, about a year ago, that was resolved within a few days. I don't have a workflow for u
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by Jedd 5y ago
Your pain tolerance is clearly way higher than mine! I really do have a drawer full of the 433 gear, and achieved some very rudimentary comms going years ago using a pair of arduinos sitting next to each other on the desk, but quickly aba
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by Jedd 5y ago
> The difference between what they get paid for a potato and what I pay for a bag is quite extreme. Not only extreme, but also obscene. I recall in the late 90's someone described the poor profitability of potato growing in large tr
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by Jedd 5y ago
> That something in the air would probably have to do with a decrepit monarchy and deeply corrupt church working together to utterly screw over the people and deplete the country's wealth. Yes but ... That's a description of mo
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by Jedd 5y ago
Au contraire - your setup is way more sophisticated than mine! : ) I have some 433MHz kit, plus a bundle of various arduinos, but (for me) the complexity of getting them to talk back to base has kept me procrastinating for years. The ESP82
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by Jedd 5y ago
Yeah, it's a bit of a mess. Jeff Geerling did a good two-part write up where he went through a lot of experimentation with different brands, which I've still got in an open tab somewhere. The Node-Red / Home Assistant (hassi
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by Jedd 5y ago
Thank you for the heads-up - I'll install and have a play. I'm not a power user, but it's such a useful tool even in basic explore mode. Ostensibly octotree works with BitBucket (at dayjob) but in practice I've never g
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by Jedd 5y ago
Oh, that's an excellent recommendation, thank you. I've never really looked in that menu previously, but, yes, definitely have uBO installed everywhere.
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by Jedd 5y ago
Over the past half dozen years I've found the developer fairly responsive, but we're in a catch-22 situation. My interest (I want to delete the several hundreds of 'pages' of previous tab details in my history before I&#
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by Jedd 5y ago
About 10 seconds into reading this I got a 'cute' drop-down box that greyed out what I was half-way through reading, and insisted that I attend to a 'Get my weekly IoT newsletter' that demanded from me an email address,
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by Jedd 5y ago
I have accumulated perhaps more than is healthy. Some that didn't appear on this page (yet) are: octotree - intercepts github (and ostensibly other repo site) pages and gives you a browseable file manager pop-out on the left. Once use
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by Jedd 5y ago
But why? As per the spirit of parent's question - either you're assuming something impossible, or you're setting a goal to achieve something that is possible (in which case why haven't you scoped it out clearly & s
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by Jedd 5y ago
> There's a reason pretty much all of Earth's biology uses hydrocarbons as its fuel of choice. I feel you are suggesting the reason is because it's an ideal energy transport mechanism, while ignoring the (not insignificant
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by Jedd 5y ago
> Absolutely. The author of the article lives in London, which is notorious for police surveillance (1 camera per 13 people!), but there's no way they'd write a similar article about a Western country. Are you asserting this be
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by Jedd 5y ago
TFA quoting Christopher P. Magra, a scholar of American Revolution–era maritime history: “If a video game or movie or novel is going to base sales on historical content, then there exists an ethical obligation to deliver more than entertain
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by Jedd 5y ago
In the space of three contiguous paragraphs, that phrase is used three times. "... the model marked the start of the personal computer industry." "Apple-1 was the start of the personal computer industry." "The Apple
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by Jedd 5y ago
> The Chinese have committed to building over 150 new nuclear reactors. Hang on, China also announced a couple of months ago to build 43 new coal-fired power plants. It's not that long ago - perhaps a decade - that China was buildin

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