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by hanche 7y ago
If the issue is a firmware update, as I sort of suspect given the reports so far, going back to Mojave is not likely to help, unfortunately. I updated two machines myself with no problem. Guess I am just one of the lucky ones.
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by hanche 7y ago
I like “persona”.
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by hanche 7y ago
I'm a happy user of runbox myself. I learned about it here on HN, in fact. Good security and privacy, reasonably priced, and a quite good webmail client (I think – I haven't used it extensively). Of course, it helps that they&#x27
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by hanche 7y ago
Ah, thanks. That jogged my memory. I did turn off power nap a long time ago, but my laptop still kept waking up at night anyhow. But I just checked, and now it seems to work as advertised.
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by hanche 7y ago
Even a supposedly sleeping Mac will wake up from time to time, doing exactly what I don’t know. But I consistently see it in the logs.
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by hanche 7y ago
I remember this quite well. As I recall from the news, the incident went roughly like this: Icelandic coast guard vessel approaches British trawler, orders it to stop and haul in the trawl. Trawler refuses. Coast guard fires warning shots.
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by hanche 7y ago
That depends on the keyboard layout. On the Norwegian keyboard for example, ⌥⇧Q produces the degree symbol, whereas ⌥⇧8 produces U+007B LEFT CURLY BRACKET.
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by hanche 7y ago
I distinctly remember reading recently that it's absolute , not relative, humidity that counts. The article did not give a reason, nor can I remember the source (sorry).
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by hanche 7y ago
Perhaps simplistic advice is better than no advice. The way I see it, the advice we're given is not so much geared towards safety of the individual as to slowing the spread of the infection, basically lowering R0. They could say five m
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by hanche 7y ago
My understanding is that those steering wheels are highly customized according to the preferences of each driver. Good thing they are detachable (as they must be, so the driver can get into and out of the cockpit), so the driver can use it
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by hanche 7y ago
The barcode on paperbacks is usually UPC, not ISBN (unless it has changed in recent years). And therein lies a big problem: UPCs get recycled. I was bitten by this when I scanned a bunch of old Sci-Fi books, only to discover that totally di
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by hanche 7y ago
Well, Farr's law is all about the general shape of an epidemic, plotted as number of infected people against time. It does not say anything about the location or height of the peak. The devil is in those details.
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by hanche 7y ago
Nobody knows for sure, of course, but my understanding is that it is thought to be between 2.0 and 2.6 in the “do nothing” scenario. Which is scary big: See the Ferguson paper that I referenced in a different comment.
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by hanche 7y ago
You are absolutely right that the early phase of logistic growth is practically indistinguishable from exponential growth. As to what extent this observation is useful when applied to the current situation, I don't know – I am a mathem
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by hanche 7y ago
Here is a report from a team of epidemiologists at Imperial College, led by Neil Ferguson. The title speaks for itself: Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID- 19 mortality and healthcare demand. The paper is so
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by hanche 7y ago
The situation is exactly the same in Norway now, for the same reason: Lack of resources.
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by hanche 7y ago
Yes, but that self-reference happens outside the formal language, not within it. Gödel encoded formal statements in the language as integers, and thus turned the question of provability into statements of arithmetic. If the formal system is
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by hanche 7y ago
The situation is similar in Norway. We're a bit more strict, as parts of the private sector is also forcibly shut down: Gyms, pubs, hairdressers, movie theaters are all closed. Our infection rate has grown dramatically in the past few
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by hanche 7y ago
If the false positive rate is p and the false negative rate is q, and the infection rate is r, then you will have p·(1-r) false positives (as proportion of the tested population) and (1-q)·r true positives. Your hypothesis p>r is not eno
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by hanche 7y ago
Here is one link: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/10/eu-airlines...
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by hanche 7y ago
Because loan words tend to get adapted to the grammar of the host language with time?
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by hanche 7y ago
So do I, but it still seems prudent to act like it is true: The extra hygiene measures are a very minor inconvenience, especially compared to the major inconvenience of catching the virus.
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by hanche 7y ago
This. What is urgently needed is to flatten the curve. Maybe we can't reduce the total number of people who get it, but if we can spread out the infection over a longer time period, we may be able to avoid overwhelming the health care
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by hanche 7y ago
Norway now ranks near the top (around 4th) among countries in the number of infected people per total population. This happened rather suddenly over the past few days, and I tell you, the government has upgraded its response radically! For
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by hanche 7y ago
According to top health officials in Norway (as seen on a TV program last night), reinfection is not likely, at least in the short run. And the Japanese case apparently is based on a misunderstanding, not an actual reinfection. Over the lon
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by hanche 7y ago
There's quite an interesting array of anecdotes here. Mine is a bit different: I was always a night owl, staying up late and sleeping late into the day if left to my own devices. In the past couple years that has been completely stood
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by hanche 7y ago
At my latitude, that’s excellent advice – for a few weeks each spring and fall. The rest of the year, the day is either too long or too short.
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by hanche 7y ago
I have been using FSNotes for the past year, but feel ready for something more polished; so now I am trying Bear. Thanks for the tip! Did you look at FSNotes before switching to Bear yorself? My own note taking is too fragmented right now,
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by hanche 7y ago
NULLs in subselects do bite me with distressing regularity: Writing SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE blah NOT IN (SELECT foo FROM bar); getting no hits until I slap my forehead and add WHERE foo IS NOT NULL to the subselect.
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by hanche 7y ago
Thanks; I shall. In fact, I’ve been putting it off for lack of browser support, but I suppose that is no longer a valid excuse.

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