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by droithomme 7y ago
Right, so it's a mistake to make ventilators, masks, PPE, all pointless in your opinion. Give up now we should. The actual very interesting issue right now with ventilators is that there's companies in the US that make them and
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by droithomme 7y ago
I'd be happy to help you with this. My rate is $235/hr, minimum 30 hours. When can I expect your deposit so we can get started?
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by droithomme 7y ago
> exec("sudo ... " . $user_input_string ...) Wow, this is always a mistake and a huge one. exec() is dangerous, exec calling with sudo more so, and should never be used in conjunction with unprivileged user input like this. Gra
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by droithomme 7y ago
IMO it's a huge mistake to make Unicode a repository of random clip art. Of course that ship has sailed and if there is a taco character then someone will complain that there isn't a lasagna character and a broccoli chicken charac
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by droithomme 7y ago
Thanks, not the first two. I'm not sure what volatile pass by value means and did not know that that was ever a thing. The third one, yeah, I use that, and you have it marked as non deprecated, so that's good.
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by droithomme 7y ago
I use volatile on memory mapped input ports. It tells the compiler that if I am reading twice from this address without writing to it in between, don't optimize out the subsequent reads because this is not a memory location whose conte
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by droithomme 7y ago
Zoom Video (ZM) is the legit company. Zoom Technologies (ZOOM) is a different company.
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by droithomme 7y ago
And so? US will be at 20% of the population not working soon. Why single out Australia.
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by droithomme 7y ago
Here's some info about N95 specific materials. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/16/8149292... N95 is a high standard. N99 higher still. (Why not adopt that then?) There are als
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by droithomme 7y ago
This has been posted several times. $17,300 toilets are great, much better than $80 toilets. Author should install a $17,300 toilet in his home using money he actually earned himself and THEN write about how he feels that was the right deci
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by droithomme 7y ago
I wonder. Willing to admit incorrect if parent prediction proves true? Or pivot if not to a new supposition and declare victory? (I'd say 3.5 weeks myself.)
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by droithomme 7y ago
Fuck off dang you filthy piece of shit, ban my ass. I post valid scientific links proving my claims and you just suck the asses of your capitalist masters like Graham who are wringing their hands at the stock losses. YOU Dan, are responsibl
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by droithomme 7y ago
I made a dozen good homemade masks in a few hours, and I am inept at sewing. With some practice I could make 200 a day. There's no point to doing so, it would be illegal for me to sell them. US is doing nothing whatsoever to ramp up m
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by droithomme 7y ago
Surgical and homemade masks are much better than nothing. And by better than nothing we mean reasonably effective. Going into close contact with a person who has a known transmissible respiratory illness? N95 is minimum if you are a profess
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by droithomme 7y ago
The guidance was adopted far too late but may slow the spread and reduce deaths. You have to catch things early. In Australia, Chinese immigrants came to their doctors and said "I have a symptom and I demand this prescription and here
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by droithomme 7y ago
> Why didn’t gain it more traction? It did. Since then they've done more studies, have started even more studies, and have deployed it en masse as a treatment. It's part of the official treatment recommendations in China, South
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by droithomme 7y ago
The leaders all have math literate advisors. They ignore them for a variety of reasons.
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by droithomme 7y ago
> A car lot salesman told me once that the dealerships don't make money selling cars - they make the money selling financing. I believe it. I prefer to pay cash for cars, and it is extremely difficult to purchase new cars for cash a
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by droithomme 7y ago
> I'm sick of "renting" batteries that are permanently installed in devices that would otherwise work for tens of years, but their batteries wear out after only a few years. Also alarming is all the Apple crap where the ha
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by droithomme 7y ago
Most rechargeables seem to have standard cells, but they are welded together in a weird proprietary package. Technically though they have standard rechargeables. Another issue is I don't want batteries in my keyboard, mouse, or electri
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by droithomme 7y ago
I got competition6155.primeluck2.live redirecting to mobile-app-market-here1.info redirecting to updatelive.yourultimatesafevideoplayer.info. Which is obviously a malware download. Fun stuff. Gives me tons of confidence TrustableTech can be
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by droithomme 7y ago
> 12% CFR is overstating it If we overload our hospitals then CFR will go towards the number of cases that require hospitalization. Which is around 20%. Italy is currently far over hospital capacity and has a CFR today of 8% and rising.
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by droithomme 7y ago
> this is a very mild virus Media and government keep making this claim, yet where are the recovery numbers of people? It drags on for weeks and weeks with no end in sight, correct? And current case fatality rate in Italy is 8%, was 7% t
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by droithomme 7y ago
That's very cool. Interestingly, some believe the Bible also predicted a war in Iraq (Babylon) over oil. I had a few email conversations with Titor back in the day. Cryptic responses, kind of useless. Didn't convince me he was a t
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by droithomme 7y ago
The Plummet Protection Team has been working every day buying huge numbers of call options on stocks in order to signal a turnaround. It has failed every day and they have now spent hundreds of billions. If you understand which calls they a
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by droithomme 7y ago
I disagree with your framing of suicide as an emotional outburst.
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by droithomme 7y ago
> Her pardon is the only appropriate way forward A pardon is not possible because she has not been convicted of any crime. She is being held for contempt of court because she refuses to testify to a secret closed door panel. She says she
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by droithomme 7y ago
> exclusive contract for a personal friend Similarly in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, a politically connected one-man "energy company" called Whitefish, with no experience or skills, emerged out of nowhere and was given th
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by droithomme 7y ago
Situations like this is how people go crazy enough they start intentionally spitting on elevator buttons and door handles. Society treats people inhumanely and some as a result decide to fulfill that prophecy and act inhumanely. When I saw
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by droithomme 7y ago
FWIW, in the past I financially subsidized all of the costs of a clinic that served undocumented migrants (aka illegal aliens). They caught and treated countless cases of Tuberculosis and even Cholera, which stopped epidemics in the communi

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