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by kenny11 4y ago
The inactivated virus variant of the polio vaccine is still in the standard childhood immunization schedule in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...
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by kenny11 4y ago
They do: https://www.irs.gov/compliance/whistleblower-office
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by kenny11 5y ago
I run into the incredibly annoying image not appearing problem dozens of time per day as well. One interesting thing about being based on Electron is that they've made the bugs cross-platform as well - the image loading bug happens jus
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by kenny11 5y ago
There's an extension for Chrome and Firefox called "uBlacklist" that lets you do exactly this - you can maintain a list of domains that you never want to appear in the results of Google searches that you do.
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by kenny11 5y ago
Yes, this is exactly what it is. Basically a KVM switch without the V. I've been using the display-switch software for months and it's fantastic. Using the inputs on the monitors to do the video switching instead of an external KV
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by kenny11 5y ago
I get that for general-purpose searches this is a good idea, but it would be nice if there was an easy way to disable this when you know you don't want it - for example, for most programming searches, if I type SomeAPINameHere the most
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by kenny11 5y ago
Go to the Finder and choose "See What's New in macOS" from the help menu. Always opens in Safari regardless of what the default browser is.
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by kenny11 5y ago
I think I got that exact same one, and had the exact same problem with it. Maybe reasoning that it was confusing the mailbox for a parking meter was how I proved that I was a human to it.
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by kenny11 5y ago
Banning ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol
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by kenny11 5y ago
Or maybe instead of trusted websites they'll move to a model where you need digital signatures on your JavaScript code to enable high-performance mode, just like you need to code sign Windows applications to avoid scary warnings about
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by kenny11 5y ago
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is covered in the article under "Janssen", the J&J subsidiary that developed it.
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by kenny11 5y ago
Another excellent resource is this presentation from GDC 2017 from one of the Oregon Trail creators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdGNFhKhoKY
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by kenny11 5y ago
That might be easier to believe if these ransomware strains didn't do things like automatically disable themselves on computers with Russian language support installed.
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by kenny11 5y ago
Yes, and there are even vaccines for them: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hpv-infection...
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by kenny11 5y ago
Pretty sure this explains the origins of the seven day week: By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it
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by kenny11 5y ago
There are a number of hobby projects that aim to do exactly that (provide the instant-on, boot to BASIC experience of old 8 bit micros) without just being a recreation of an old system. One that looks particularly interesting is the Color M
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by kenny11 6y ago
But the problem with relying on tracking pixels to flag whether a message is read is that not everyone loads them. I've had my mail clients (and Gmail) set for years to not load external images, and occasionally get "we notice you
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by kenny11 6y ago
In 10,000 years will it be technologically and/or economically viable to mine landfills for these materials? The elements are still there, potentially in greater concentrations than the ores from which they were originally mined.
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by kenny11 6y ago
It seems that the same argument could be made about hyper-targeted advertising. In the days where everyone was watching the same network newscasts or reading the same newspapers, they were also all seeing the same advertisements. The trend
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by kenny11 6y ago
Perhaps adding some prose along the lines of "Thanks for spending your time on this, I really enjoy using it" to these bug reports is the payment.
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by kenny11 6y ago
Same here. I can remember how refreshing it was when Google was new and you could trust it to give you results for what you actually searched for instead of what it thought you searched for, like AltaVista and the rest of its competitors
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by kenny11 6y ago
It's actually still sold by Micro Focus, although it's gone all "enterprise" and virtually impossible to buy. https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/devpartner/overvie...
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by kenny11 6y ago
I spent a long time looking for something similar to sift through binary files and found this: https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/ It lets you write "templates" in a weird hybrid syntax that looks a lot lik
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by kenny11 6y ago
I wonder about the quality of the data they're getting from all the random people training them. A few days ago I had to answer one by "selecting all the parking meters" and it wouldn't let me continue without also selec
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by kenny11 6y ago
Reports are that Silver Lake sold their stake for $713 million, so they definitely got a decent return. https://www.barrons.com/articles/amc-entertainment-investor-...
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by kenny11 6y ago
Advancement in technology, just like a CD tops out at 650 MB but a Blu-ray disc can store 50 GB on the same-sized plastic disc.
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by kenny11 6y ago
I have the same problem with sleeping in over-the-ear headsets. The best I've found for sleeping on long flights are the Bose QC20 - the noise cancelling is as good as their over-the-ear headsets but the in-ear design makes them much m
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by kenny11 6y ago
Is this what you're thinking of? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88dflh7Dko4 There is also now a version at Amsterdam Schipol airport.
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by kenny11 6y ago
Or Saturn Vs? https://amzn.com/0857338285
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by kenny11 6y ago
But one of the founders of Cisco did end up doing a PDP-10 clone called the TOAD-1 at his next company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKL

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