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by fsh 5y ago
My Debian came with rsyslog enabled by default which writes the journald logs to disk as plain text.
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by fsh 5y ago
On my laptop, systemd consists of 60 different small binaries. Looks pretty UNIXy to me (maybe even too much so).
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by fsh 5y ago
What I really like is that systemd can tell me when the next execution will happen. One typo in the awful crontab format and your job will never execute with no way of testing it.
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by fsh 5y ago
systemd-homed is not intended for your single-user desktop. Don't use it.
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Biomass is mostly wood. If the forest is in steady-state (as is the case in Germany), this is carbon neutral. The main issue is that plants are much less efficient at light harvesting than solar cells. This means that there is probably not
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by fsh 5y ago
Yes, heating and transportation are huge and almost entirely fossil fueled. Low-tech solutions such as heat pumps and better insulation alone could probably make a large impact.
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They calculate 130 years of supply at current consumption rates . Nuclear power supplies something like 5% of the global primary energy, so scaling this to 100% would deplete the estimated reserves in a few years. Breeders would help, but
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I am afraid this thread is going to be heavy on strongly held opinions and very light on facts and figures. In a futile attempt to compensate, here is the history of gross electricity production in Germany [1]. And here is the electricity i
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Germany has never really used oil for producing electricity.
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Reference [3] is a letter from Schrödinger to Lorentz. I would also argue that Einstein had one of the deepest understandings of QM at the time. Everyone knew that the theory is weird, but with the EPR paper Einstein managed to pinpoint qui
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by fsh 5y ago
Could you cite exactly where "they announced that Moderna is way better"? All official sources I can find say that Moderna and BioNTech are "gleichwertig" (equivalent).
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Please stop abusing the EMA data to spread misinformation. The website very clearly states: The information on this website relates to suspected side effects, i.e. medical events that have been observed following the administration of the
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by fsh 5y ago
Then please cite which paragraph of the GDPR says that consent is required for sending an email to someone.
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GDPR is about storing personal data. Why should it be illegal to send emails to whatever address you like?
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This is about a medical intervention, not about a scientific study. Vaccine adverse events are usually evaluated by comparing with background rates from previous studies. Control groups are used in randomized control trials and are probably
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by fsh 5y ago
Seasonality is just one of many factors that affect the spread of COVID. Blindly comparing the situation now with one year ago really doesn't make any sense. Vaccine efficacy against infection has been measured in a lot of studies, for
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100% would be ideal. It seems to impossible to achieve herd immunity against COVID (whether by vaccination or by immunity due to infection), so everyone will get it eventually. The more are vaccinated, the lower the load on the healthcare s
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by fsh 5y ago
Before Omicron, South Africa had COVID under control with very little measures and a low vaccination rate. The only reasonable explanation is that a large fraction of the population has already been infected and acquired immunity that way.
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by fsh 5y ago
Are you seriously comparing asbestosis, which develops decades after exposure to invisible fibers, to a literal fire? Billions of people are carrying around lithium ion batteries all day. If they were unsafe, we would have noticed a long t
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by fsh 5y ago
Cherry-picking one out of a huge number of tiny groups (girls under 25 from Slovenia) is the hallmark of bad science. This is completely unsuitable for a good risk/benefit analysis.
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This also happened with the DPT vaccine in the 1980s. Manufacturers kept losing lawsuits based on junk science until they could no longer afford liability insurance. This is why the US congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury A
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I don't think that anyone took the corpuscular theory of light seriously after its wave nature had been discovered in the early 19th century. In classical electrodynamics, light is completely unaffected by gravity.
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It was known since the 1850s that the perihelion precession of Mercury is a few percent larger than predicted by Newtonian mechanics. This even led to speculations that there might be another undiscovered planet ("Vulcan") in a cl
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by fsh 5y ago
This is incorrect. Most of the SARS-CoV-2 positive persons in the study (2,315,669/3,028,867) were unvaccinated at the time of infection.
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by fsh 5y ago
I think you might have misread the paper. Here is the relevant section about SARS-CoV-2 infections: Amongst those with at least one dose, there were 3,028,867 (7.8%) individuals who had a SARS-CoV-2 positive test. Of these, 2,315,669 (6.0%
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This paper doesn't even attempt to measure effectiveness. It measures neutralization titers which is a totally different thing.
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Of course measurements are always imperfect. The point is that an objective reality exists that can be measured. Which piece of rock we use to compare other masses to does not change that.
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The measurement problem is indeed profoundly weird and nobody has a good explanation for it. However, I doubt that you are going to be able to resolve quantum effects when discussing the temperature of two buckets of water.
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First neutralization test results posted by the Sigal group in Durban and the Ciesek group in Frankfurt agree with the BioNTech/Pfizer data.
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Ancient Greek philosophers could not measure anything, so this idea was at least somewhat plausible. Modern philosophers have no such excuse. We can simply measure the temperature of the water buckets and accept that our hands are very poor

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