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   by qiqitori 7y ago

   Japan's producing 100 million per day according to a couple articles I've read, e.g.: https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASN2W7QGVN2WULFA023.html Another article suggests that this is three times as much as usual
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   by qiqitori 7y ago

   Perhaps because those people who "want your stockpile" might have guns too.
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   by qiqitori 7y ago

   Could be that my (IT) company is an outlier, but we've been told that we should work remote and only come to the office if we absolutely must. And if we do go to work, we are to avoid riding the trains during rush hour. Business trips
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   by qiqitori 7y ago

   No more cannibalism, too bad.
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   by qiqitori 7y ago

   > Does the big counter at the top include the large number of people who contracted the disease, but never progressed past a mild stage, and so never reported it to their doctor? The big counter is based on official stats reported by the
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   by qiqitori 7y ago

   Here's a dashboard on the same site for Japan's prefectures: https://jagjapan.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.htm...
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   by qiqitori 7y ago

   (IANAD) I don't think it is possible to derive any reliable facts from the data right now. Even if the patients who recovered from COVID-19 still find that there is something wrong with them, that could still go away in a week or a mon
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   by qiqitori 7y ago

   While 2% is indeed the WHO's current official early estimate, it's still very early to give accurate numbers here. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Using the "closed cases" figures on this
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   by qiqitori 7y ago

   That really sucks, but I don't think this applies to a lot of people.
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    > in TestFlight it shall remain forever: a cozy, eternal beta. When I read this I thought -- oh man, I hope Apple doesn't decide to somehow limit this feature in the future. I wouldn't be surprised if it's already against
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    Isn't having a second referendum more democratic than having just one?
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    Current title: "Logitech limits number of device resets to prevent reselling" Is there a way to down-vote stories? This is just a link to a reddit thread where one or more random people think it might be "to prevent reselling
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    > (ARM TrustZone is what AMD has in their chips) Well, I'll be damned: "The PSP itself is an ARM core inserted on the main CPU.[6]" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo... ) I&
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    Did some Googling myself and found some related links: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-hacker-and-the-perils-of-dork... https://pentestmag.com/zeus-scanner-advanced-dork-searching/ https:/&#x
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    I did that for a while (like two months). The shinkansen pass for Odawara->Shinagawa/Tokyo costs about 70,000 per month (it's a bit more now due to the tax increase). May be reasonable if your workplace is close to Shin-Yokoham
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    TBH, that 3x increase in expected hosting cost (33/11) doesn't seem bad to me. Maybe Wikipedia has a lot more redundancy now, maybe their pages load faster in more countries, maybe they're using external cloud providers inste
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    I sometimes use Yocto at work to rebuild certain recipes in an embedded Linux distribution, but I'm really confused about what "Yocto" and what "Poky" mean. If anyone knows and has time to dispel my confusion, that
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_on_organ_donat... https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/hinduethic... https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/helping-y
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    It's the goodnewsnetwork, so it's not likely to be PR. It's just a news network that covers what the editors perceive to be good news. I just recently happened across an investment brochure for wood pellets (produced in Germa
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    There are many ways to get somewhere, but here's a general list of things you have to do: 1) Think for a little bit about what you have got and what you want to do 2) Do research. Has this been done before? Have similar things been don
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    > Solar and Wind use ten times the cement and steel to generate the same power as nuclear. I'd be interested in a reference for this. My intuition goes like this: I can see wind using a lot of steel and cement for the towers (though
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    Well, I don't know. Let's think about how you would turn off solar panels. I remember hearing about solar panels (~10 years ago?) that would actually break under very-sunny-but-zero-load conditions, so I did some research using qu
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    And you don't remember any bugs that took much longer to get to the bottom of than the others? Or bugs that required debugging at a much lower level than usual? Or bugs that involved a huge black box that required a lot of guessing to
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    I haven't looked at this particular implementation, but I think we really need something like this. As for the "no risk of your voice being muffled" part... You can't guarantee such a thing in any country, and it's
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    > and you’re the one who has to pay the cost of commuting distance In Japan, the company pays for your commute, and the price of your commuter pass has no bearing on your pay. (There is a cap at most companies, and the average is 15170.8
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    I searched a bit and found that "Trolley Assist" apparently refers to a system where large diesel-electric mining trucks use overhead lines for part of their journey. (You can do an image search for "trolley assist" and
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    Are there any mines where machines/vehicles are powered by e.g. overhead cables? Seems like that might in some cases be cheaper to pull off than equipping huge vehicles that go up and down the same path over and over again with huge ba
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    I guess you've never used floppies? They have _incredibly_ bad reliability. Google for 'floppy disk reliability' if you can't take my word.
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    Don't get it. Why not get a real computer?
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    by qiqitori 7y ago

    Pff, I can detect heart failure with no heartbeats at all.