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by roel_v 6y ago
Does anyone know of a good resource that explains what 'efficacy' means for a vaccine, and what can (and cannot) be extrapolated from it? The reported efficacies are (from what I understand) 1 - (n infections in experimental group
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by roel_v 6y ago
Yes, on my Samsung the camera app is great, and it gets better all the time. I know people like to crap on Samsung but they do some great things in some regards.
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by roel_v 6y ago
It's an overarching term for people OD'ing on maple syrup and those being trampled by moose.
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by roel_v 6y ago
shrug . It's largely opinion-based, I guess. My pet peeve (which also illustrates my point, but again, in an opinion-based way): there is no documented, 'officially supported' way to get the path of the current script in R.
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by roel_v 6y ago
Right, I used that procedure once, it's completely inadequate. It relies on having access to the old phone, knowing how to get files off it (and onto a new phone; both of which probably assume you know how to navigate the filesystem),
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by roel_v 6y ago
On Unixy systems, spaces are uncommon because so little software can deal with them, so that people are trained from the very beginning to treat spaces like the plague. I do it too - I've been burned by treatment of spaces in shitty 0.
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by roel_v 6y ago
While this specific project does have a github page, the R world is 'complete amateur, avoid avoid avoid'. It's not really a 'programming language' in the way software engineers would see it. It's more a loose
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by roel_v 6y ago
Of course, and so do I. But nobody ever even encountering the situation and/or bothering to report it, that's a whole different matter.
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by roel_v 6y ago
Apart from all the other considerations and problems with various types of package management, consider this: "Update January 6th, 2021 A reader alerted me to a bug with the current groundhog (version 1.1.0) where you cannot set the gr
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by roel_v 6y ago
"Signal has gotten better" is the new "Linux on the desktop". When I move to a new phone with Signal, is there already an (easy) mechanism to take along all my messages from my old phone? Last time I checked, there wasn&
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by roel_v 6y ago
"desktop search that works" Huh? How does it work for you, and how did you get it that way? To me it has been nothing but useless. To those who are also looking for a better search solution on Windows: download 'Search everyt
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by roel_v 6y ago
Did I miss it or did the author not say how much he made on his trades? I think bitcoin is nonsense but without knowing how much he made, this reads like "do as I say, not as I do"...
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by roel_v 6y ago
I ordered a few by accident from AliExpress and they showed up yesterday. I don't know for the life of me what to do with them. I was thinking maybe as a temperature/humidity monitor thing, but it would have to be mains powered be
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by roel_v 6y ago
I have a Samsung from 2014 or so and Netflix, Youtube still work great (used every day) and there are dozens of other apps available for all sorts of purposes. My wife uses the national news one several times a werk. And yes I also have a c
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by roel_v 6y ago
Serving in the Foreign Legion is not like 'being in the military' in other places...
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by roel_v 6y ago
If you want to go bargain basement yes. If not, get an XPS or a Thinkpad (of the 'pro' series) and you'll have great hardware. Of course there will always be someone who finds something to complain about, but overall, these a
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by roel_v 6y ago
The premise of this article is nonsense. Get a Logitech Brio and a Blue Yeti boom mic and you'll be so far ahead of the average Zoomer that people will make comments on how good your picture looks and sound sounds. If you want to take
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by roel_v 6y ago
Is there anyone with a metallurgy background reading this? It's easy to melt aluminium at home, what are the properties of a billet cast with primitive tools vs in a factory? Like, is it more brittle, or does it have cavities etc? What
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by roel_v 6y ago
Oh, Gnome... I was a really into it in the late 1990's. Haven't used it for many years, except the occasional time I set up a Raspberry Pi and plug it into a monitor. For the sake of nostalgia I follwed a few of the links in the p
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by roel_v 6y ago
I can use them in the sense that I'm allowed to, but the compiler that I use can't compile FLIBS nor most of the libraries in your link; and the ones it could compile, I had to adapt, requiring understanding of what a 'hash t
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by roel_v 6y ago
"I didn't claim they were." I know you didn't, but (without wanting to put words into your mouth), the more abstract claim was that there is some sort of technology path from growing salads to growing other crops, which
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by roel_v 6y ago
Other crops are not just scaled up versions of salads. Bulk foods (wheat, potatoes, sugar beets, cassava, rice) cannot be grown efficiently in such vertical farms, at any scale, with current technology. Having lots of multi-story greenhouse
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by roel_v 6y ago
Having spent much of my time in Fortan 90 the last couple of months - I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you on this one. You know all these people saying "when will I ever have to write mu own hash table?" Well,
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by roel_v 6y ago
"The only issue you're referring is discoverability of extensions from a newbie's standpoint." shrug I can also say "the only issue you're referring to is discoverability of the advanced features of Word&quot
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by roel_v 6y ago
Oh I've often thought about what it must be like to live in there in the case of an actual war. There were 3 or 4 rooms with bunk beds, 20 or 30 sleeping spots in each; one common room, not much bigger than each if the bedrooms; the ki
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by roel_v 6y ago
Oh these are cool. When I was a teen, I stayed in one during a trek in the Alps; and then again (in another one) a few years later when I was a youth camp counselor myself. I was cooking dinner in the kitchen of the one we were staying at,
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by roel_v 6y ago
Eh, at first I thought so too, but then it turned out my neighbours nan once accidentally hacked the US Navy that way, so after that I didn't feel all that special any more :(
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by roel_v 6y ago
Or wuftpd. I once accidentally dropped my keyboard, and it turned out that the keypresses that generated were a remote root exploit for wuftpd.
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by roel_v 6y ago
Ah that's useful, thank you.
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by roel_v 6y ago
Yeah I was looking at that one earlier - are there holes on it to mount it to a wall? I can't quite tell from any of the pictures I can find.

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