fludlight

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by fludlight 6y ago
It may not be difficult, but it's not trivial, either. It's an enormous time sink. The older you get, the less free time you have. Is this how you want to spend it?
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by fludlight 7y ago
Every native app made by a Chinese company could also provide a backdoor to the PLA. Same could be said about apps from other countries and the NSA, FSB, GCHQ, Mossad, ASD, whatever the Germans are calling the gentler, kinder, totally-not-
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by fludlight 7y ago
Google pays Mozilla to be the default search engine in firefox. This is Mozilla's main source of revenue, so I doubt they will sue.
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by fludlight 7y ago
Actual paper: Presence of SARS-Coronavirus-2 in sewage / Medema, et al. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.29.20045880v... Check out Table 4.
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by fludlight 7y ago
Re: #1 I think you missed the caption on the black and green picture: > This image shows how the Lyme bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, form protective round body "persisters" when threatened by defensive immune system biochemica
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by fludlight 7y ago
It should be noted that captain of an aircraft carrier is one of the highest and most respected jobs in the navy. This guy was in charge of over 5000 sailors and $10b+ in hardware including two nuclear reactors and an air wing larger and m
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by fludlight 7y ago
I wonder if in NOVA the startup pitch cliche is "x for ITAR" instead of "uber for x".
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by fludlight 7y ago
Materially misrepresenting the product is not "prioritizing UX", it's lying to your customers.
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by fludlight 7y ago
If anyone else is wondering what debouncing is: https://my.eng.utah.edu/~cs5780/debouncing.pdf
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by fludlight 7y ago
Abstract In the current COVID-19 pandemic, a significant proportion of cases shed SARS-Coronavirus2 (SARS-CoV-2) with their faeces. To determine if SARS-CoV-2 is present in sewage during the emergence of COVID-19 in the Netherlands, sewage
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Presence of SARS-Coronavirus-2 in sewage [pdf](medrxiv.org)
3 points by fludlight 7y ago|1 comments
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by fludlight 7y ago
Have you ever shopped for closets? Every major closet retailer has pictures of their product holding a ridiculously small number of apparel.[1][2] I, and especially my wife, have more than 4 shirts. I would like to see how a closet design
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by fludlight 7y ago
I agree with everything you said, but would like to add that most people are terrified of writing, especially long-form.
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by fludlight 7y ago
Almost all bankruptcies in the next two years are going to blame COVID-19. "It wasn't us, it was the $external_factor" is a way for management to avoid blame. In some cases (restaurants especially) the health crisis has wre
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by fludlight 7y ago
This is why you never, ever sign a personal guarantee.
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by fludlight 7y ago
Sometimes I contemplate launching a copycat conglomerate like Rocket, but instead of international copies of American and Chinese ideas it would do fast, minimal bandwidth & js clones with real privacy. The main problem is that network
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by fludlight 7y ago
I'll add two more points: - Remove all non-essential scripts: ads, analytics, fonts, social, liveperson, disqus, truste, foresee, cookielaw, etc. - Scale down or omit images
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by fludlight 7y ago
This is a chapter of the book: Disease Control Priorities: Improving Health and Reducing Poverty. 3rd edition. Jamison DT, Gelband H, Horton S, et al., editors. Washington (DC): The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development &#x2
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Pandemics: Risks, Impacts, and Mitigation (2017)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by fludlight 7y ago|0 comments
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by fludlight 7y ago
The Instagram and Etsy crowd need to popularize fashionable home-made masks like the ones the new Slovakian president wears. https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/fmeyis/corona_fashi...
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by fludlight 7y ago
It's a fun engineering-art project. Don't depend on it for survival.
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by fludlight 7y ago
I'm sure Australia will be locked down soon. Maybe they can switch to a take-out model. Rural areas also need more grocery stores. Maybe sell bulk dry/canned goods since they already stock that.
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by fludlight 7y ago
If you get into a head on collision at high speed you'll both be dead.
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by fludlight 7y ago
This should be distributed geographically, meaning the pork could be spread around, meaning it is remotely possible to pass.
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by fludlight 7y ago
Maybe if you blink the light bar. Maybe. Intentionally blinding problem drivers, while emotionally satisfying, is likely to cause accidents, road rage, and is probably illegal. Blinking your high beams is the socially acceptable thing to
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by fludlight 7y ago
You can also try emailing K-12 (6-12 really) schools offering tech support helping teachers and students set up and use tele-learning software.
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by fludlight 7y ago
Switching a large enterprise software system is almost as time consuming, expensive, and error prone as developing a replacement in-house. You would have experienced substantial problems even if it was in-house -> in-house-rewrite or ex
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by fludlight 7y ago
The same argument is often made here about various programming libraries.
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Delta Dumped Jet Fuel on a Bunch of Elementary School Kids(vice.com)
16 points by fludlight 7y ago|1 comments
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by fludlight 7y ago
Rolling your own payroll is about as good an idea as rolling your own crypto.

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