jojo2000

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by jojo2000 7y ago
Bad blocks bad blocks what ya gonna do, what ya gonna do when they come for you. Hard drives fail hard or smooth, SSDs fail hard ! On a hard drive, we can picture how the blocks are stored (sequentially). On an SSD, there is a remapping of
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by jojo2000 7y ago
There are papers out there that qualify chloroquine and derivates as effective in case of viral infections with viruses related to covid-19 [0] and try to explain what the mechanism could be : « The exact mechanism of antiviral intervention
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by jojo2000 7y ago
> The possible side effects include permanent blindness. Yes, but only with massive doses or when treatment lasts for more than 5 years.
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by jojo2000 7y ago
I'd say anyone that believes that the current situation will have no consequence for themselves or their relatives, or who are not aware of the current situation in care facilities and so, downplay it. It has led to unbelievable carele
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by jojo2000 7y ago
This. The only way to properly evaluate state of the pandemic is to test the whole population of a country with a test that can differentiate : - incubating phase - illness phase - post-illness with immunity - fatalities linked with the p
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by jojo2000 7y ago
Happy for you ! Win7 was a good release indeed, as win2k.
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by jojo2000 7y ago
I can relate to your pain. At a previous position we had special windows workstations to deal with all of windows-specific software, and all of our personal workstations were using linux. Now that I manage teams, I don't care about wha
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by jojo2000 7y ago
I'm being massively downvoted here, thanks for asking the why ! Been using windows 95,98,2k,7,10. I've had countless problems with it for more than 10+ years. Countless steps for system setup, bad/missing drivers, malware, sp
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by jojo2000 7y ago
It's a joke. Windows ? Never again.
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by jojo2000 7y ago
A medium-sized yatch needs a crew of 6+ people. An airplane needs to be replenished in food and supplies, and be taken care of, and frequently inspected and repaired. We often forget how brittle technology is...
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by jojo2000 7y ago
And once the apocalypse is over, they can live altogether in a devastated world where money has no meaning, and where true skills are the only riches. No one to steer the yatch, no pilot for the aircraft, no petroleum. So much money is wast
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by jojo2000 7y ago
It is because of the consequences of covid-19 on the lungs of some people, which needs intensive care and specialized equipment to cure them, that is rare (ventilators etc.).
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by jojo2000 7y ago
> It's a fair assumption that a lot of people on HN have SF viewpoint or views at least that partially align with them. Even those of us on the other side of the planet. Totally agree with you ! But maybe some people misunderstood w
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by jojo2000 7y ago
Well, at least now we know it's widespread [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
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by jojo2000 7y ago
That's absolutely not true regarding the wiring constraints. There have been projects going on for years to sort that problem out.
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by jojo2000 7y ago
> “There are 205 million flight hours in the 737 fleet with this wiring type,” a Boeing official said. “There have been 16 failures in service, none of which were applicable to this scenario. We’ve had no hot shorts.” This is appalling a
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by jojo2000 7y ago
It's a tragedy. Those unsung heroes need some help as they are our moral compass, and guardians of our future.
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by jojo2000 7y ago
Very interesting piece. Same experience here (jump in, build knowledge assets, build team). Last part different, be CTO's worst fear, have you team scrambled, projects refused, go somewhere else taking on a bigger and harder challenge.
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by jojo2000 7y ago
> It is a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL. Well, that's a bold assumption as pg is speaking one of the richest sql dialects out there. And it also means it supports pg WAL protocol ? The product is backed by solid research, so I
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by jojo2000 7y ago
During my last endeavour I had to make high-frequency (1kHz+) plot on the web. Tried literally everything. Only tech that stood out was (webGL + websockets), amazingly working with firefox (but not chrome). So the perf conclusions of the ar
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by jojo2000 7y ago
My POV here was very cautious, as I didn't exclude programs which can be proved. The problem is that even if control flow is "provable", a lot of algorithms use number computations and is much harder to deal with from a forma
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by jojo2000 7y ago
In the era of "all digital", one must be very careful to make the future anew, not a copy of the past. Our models of system are only a pale reproduction of how those systems work, rendering designs that are tuned by those "ev
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by jojo2000 7y ago
Even if their disclosed reasoning seems a little light-headed, the consequences are real at a platform level, less acceleration means : - lower max(amperage) to deliver for battery pack (lowered specs) - longer-lasting battery pack at same
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by jojo2000 7y ago
In the automotive and aerospace world, of course tests in the real world cannot cover all cases (cost, time make it impossible). Even most (not all, but almost none for meaningful applications) computer program cannot be proved to come to a
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by jojo2000 7y ago
Indeed, regarding the KFC case, there are a lot of possible explanations, because the evidence doesn't allow to elaborate a certain conclusion. Regarding inherited memories, this isn't common case, nevertheless it happened in the
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by jojo2000 7y ago
The old vision (brain = neurons => memories, rest of the body = organs which execute single or multiple functions, synchronized by the brain) is slowly fading away. We have a lot of active neurons in the digestive system, which is in fac
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by jojo2000 7y ago
Totally, the reality is : smell is masked and air is full of chemical components harmful to your health [0]. Our olfactory receptors are there to protect us. It should be noted that persons with bad perception of odors are closer to their e
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by jojo2000 7y ago
In that case RFID is used to keep track of how many times the linen was washed. This way, you'll never get premium linen/towel if you are in an eco room =]