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by hazeii 6y ago
Plenty of comments and current status at downdetector[0]. Clicking on the different countries suggests it's a global thing. Edit: the "Less secure apps" [1] setting was reporting "setting could not be read", it&#x27
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by hazeii 6y ago
Isn't there still a big question over how long immunity will last? (can you get a feel for this from the structure of the proposed attenuated strain?).
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by hazeii 6y ago
There's asymptomatic and presymptomatic (a very rapid spread could give lots of positive results before symptoms appear).
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How the Spartans would fight Covid-19(stevenpressfield.com)
1 points by hazeii 6y ago|1 comments
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by hazeii 6y ago
Isn't the most interesting point about this the assumption that people are going to abandon public transport in favour of cars when the lockdowns end? That seems to suggest we'll have more crowded roads with reduced capacity (due
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by hazeii 6y ago
Disable Javascript, hit reload.
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by hazeii 6y ago
Very unlikely NY is anywhere close to herd immunity as the number of those infected is probably well under half the population.
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by hazeii 6y ago
Indeed, PDP/11s don't like it. Older ARM designs too, though I believe they allow it since about ARM6 (perhaqps because x86 does?).
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by hazeii 7y ago
According to this link [0], yes. It even says that Tolkein had the '..."sack"/"bag" connection in mind...'. [0] https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Sackville-Baggins
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by hazeii 7y ago
Ah, the Sackville's. The name is very well known around East Grinstead (Sussex, UK) because of the almshouse that is there to this day [0] (along with many other historical connections). Thanks for posting this, as I also spotted a lin
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by hazeii 7y ago
Related to this, Nature magazine reported a few days ago that 'Coronavirus can infect cats - dogs, not so much' [0] [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00984-8
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Tech firms summoned over 'crackpot' 5G conspiracies (BBC)
3 points by hazeii 7y ago|0 comments
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by hazeii 7y ago
Norway's like that. Last time I was there the taxi driver taking us back to the airport knew more about the CUDA API than I do (not a terribly high bar, but still...).
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by hazeii 7y ago
Matthew effect in full flight. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
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by hazeii 7y ago
More details here (from ship's owners, I presume):- https://www.columbia-cs.com/statement-on-rcgs-resolute-incid...
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by hazeii 7y ago
Not sure this fake should be publicised, as it's good enough that some people could easily be fooled by it (like a certain 5-letter president).
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by hazeii 7y ago
Ocado in the UK do exactly this, using queue-it [0]. On some sites, apparently queue-jumping is as simple as disabling javascript (n.b. Ocado [1] have been in the game longer than most, and this does not work on their site). [0] https:&#x2
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by hazeii 7y ago
Indeed, I've had a linux box between the router and the local network since the days of dial-up (originally it was the dial-up box, which made and shared the 'net connection). The only reason I've ever had to upgrade the ha
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by hazeii 7y ago
For Tv's the colour is caused because the colour signal is hidden as a high frequecy component that older B&W Tv's would ignore. Conversely, a high frequency signal caused by closely spaced light and dark patterns fools colour
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by hazeii 7y ago
A decent TV/CRT monitor should have high-value bleed resistors to discharge the capacitors, but since high-voltage resistors cost money they probably stopped fitting them about the same time as TV's stopped coming with circuit dia
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by hazeii 7y ago
>This is not too hard for someone comfortable with a soldering iron, someone who isn’t scared of drilling a hole in their TV. And who is comfortable working with EHT. Let's not forget that.
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by hazeii 7y ago
Though there was a time when presenters knew not to wear anything with narrow vertical or fine chequerboard patterns, because the resulting high-frequency luminance signal would bleed through into the colour signal causing phantom colour ef
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by hazeii 7y ago
I used to have a Philips 100Hz CRT TV, which used digital processing to 'double' the frame rate. One nice feature was it had a freeze-frame feature, back when such things were pretty rare. So the party trick was to leave it on sh
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by hazeii 7y ago
Very possibly because the olfactory bulb is basically a bit of the brain exposed to the atmosphere. See the illustration on the wikipedia page [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfactory_bulb
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by hazeii 7y ago
I stil have several of his books within a few feet: the TTL Cookbook was an inspiration back in the day, followed the CMOS version and in particular "The Cheap Video Cookbook" when VT100's were mad expensive things. The book
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by hazeii 7y ago
The usual. Eat well, exercise, stay healthy, best practice hygeine.
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by hazeii 7y ago
Tricky to compare, because health care is better these days so mortality would be expected to be lower (unless the system is overwhelmed, of course).
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Samsung explains mystery alert sent overnight(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by hazeii 7y ago|0 comments
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by hazeii 7y ago
Really? No longer an MS user but occasionally my code gets ported to Windows so would like to know more.
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by hazeii 7y ago
Personally (3 decades+ journeyman C), I find lot of the advances are often about trying to get people out of bad practices (e.g. stdint.h in C99 to fix portability issues between 32 and 64 bit).

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