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by signal11 5y ago
> the world as a whole seems to be moving off carbohydrates in the next two decades. I know Keto and Atkins are popular but I’m not sure the world as a whole will move off carbs… :-)
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by signal11 5y ago
At the very least, people should be able to make an informed choice about ads & tracking. The (imperfect) analogy would be e.g., a Kindle which is a bit cheaper if you buy one that shows ads on the lock-screen. Regulation also helps, e
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by signal11 5y ago
Apart from purchasing power, laptops in India are expensive because of high levels of tax (28% GST I think, which would be higher than what Sweden charges). I'm not sure if import duties apply on top of this as well. The reality is tha
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by signal11 5y ago
Not a perfect comparison, but I have a Windows 10 box I built with a small M2 NVMe SSD boot drive, but a lot of apps -- including notably Steam games, OneDrive, and the browser Downloads folder -- runs off a larger 7200rpm hard drive. I&#x2
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by signal11 5y ago
Microsoft Mail is a product from the early 90s for DOS/Classic Mac OS. Microsoft Internet Mail was a logical upgrade, then added support for newsgroups. Eventually, after the success of Outlook in the MS Office world, it rebranded to O
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by signal11 5y ago
Strategically, worrying about the low end “worse” competitor is more worthwhile than the higher end competitor. Eg IBM were not undone by a better mainframe. In Windows’s case the “worse” competitor is ChromeOS and Chromebook, and Microsof
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by signal11 5y ago
Depends on the ELE. There are several which can swallow entire solar systems, and the nearby stars may not be hospitable. Maybe the endgame is to find a habitable planet?
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by signal11 5y ago
> Who Civilizations aware of imminent extinction-level events may choose to do that, similar to how shipwrecked sailors may fashion a raft and "risk it" in the off-chance they survive.
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by signal11 5y ago
As far as I’m aware, there is no direct experimental evidence over a long duration as the virus is novel and the vaccines new, but for now we have this: Antibody Persistence through 6 Months after the Second Dose of mRNA-1273 Vaccine for C
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by signal11 5y ago
The CDC says “When male Ae. aegypti mosquitoes with Wolbachia mate with wild female mosquitoes that do not have Wolbachia, the eggs will not hatch.”[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mosquitoes/mosquito-control/community&#x2F
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by signal11 5y ago
Counterpoint: I read this article and the 2019 BBC piece, this one reports the result of a large scale study which has very positive results. Vs the 2019 article which describes a promising technique with relatively smaller trials. Even lay
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by signal11 5y ago
Good to see this project make progress -- well done to the development team. Whatever you think about pgp, it's not going away anytime soon, and a new implementation is an opportunity to brush away some cobwebs and even improve the eco
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by signal11 5y ago
> Everything is now a bloated Electron app where all the features have been deleted Good cross-platform UI is hard, and web technology is seen as an "easy" way out because you can hire plenty of resources and yes -- it does see
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by signal11 5y ago
Like jldl805, I like my coffee too but my only investments are a £10 spice grinder and a Bialetti moka pot for hot coffee, and a muslin bag and a pitcher for cold brew using this[1] technique. [1] https://boingboing.net/2013
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by signal11 5y ago
Sadly, the number of people who want 3.5" screens is very small these days. I suspect the die was cast when Asian women (despite stereotypically having more petite hands) voted with their wallets for large (5", 6"+) phones. S
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by signal11 5y ago
There are adapters which let you charge and listen to music at the same time, this one[1] for instance is only £1.49 which is low enough that I might give it a go if I need it, sight unseen. But you're right, I've not needed this
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by signal11 5y ago
I’m hoping winget can soon support an option to set the default install drive / directory[1]. Microsoft really needs to realise that I don’t want absolutely everything cluttering my M2 SSD boot device for a reason, I have other drives.
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by signal11 5y ago
I know people who love Sublime but are worried about it disappearing, or paying for an upgrade only to see development to stall. It's good to see that the Sublime team have responded to this with a licensing model that rewards them for
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by signal11 5y ago
London to Birmingham is an exception because you have three train companies but also two separate sets of tracks -- the West Coast Main Line (WCML) and the Chiltern Line. This builds a lot of resilience into the system. I wish other lines h
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by signal11 5y ago
I suspect eventually this will percolate down, somewhat like Facebook's Portal TV (£149) but possibly also integrated with something like a Google Assistant/Siri type smart device to power the software and do other smart-home type
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by signal11 5y ago
I started with 1Password 4 (non-subscription) and considered upgrading to 1Password 7 -- yes, you could buy a non-subscription copy when I checked, although it's increasingly well hidden as an option -- and in addition to Dropbox it ma
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by signal11 5y ago
BT, the UK’s largest ISP, has this feature (Wi-fi sharing on a separate network) built into the routers or “hubs” it supplies, and on by default. The benefit for people is that they can get Wi-fi in many places — free for BT customers, and
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by signal11 5y ago
I enjoyed both. I mean, for X to be good, Y doesn’t have to be bad. They’re different things. Ignoring wizardry and fantasy for a moment, Harry Potter is also a “school adventure”, which is a staple of British children’s literature, inclu
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by signal11 5y ago
The way to parse WSL is that it's a <Windows (NT) Subsystem> for Linux. Windows NT had environment subsystems as a key part of its architecture, with subsystems for POSIX and OS/2, originally[1], and even Win32 was conceptua
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by signal11 5y ago
Roboto is reasonably boring but the real issue is, on most Android phones it’s the only decent font, so it’s a bit monotonous, but as a font Roboto’s fine. However the Droid Serif font that ships with Android isn’t boring — it’s just awkwar
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by signal11 5y ago
Here's an article that describes the pathway by which foreign doctors can get a medical license in the US: https://www.voanews.com/student-union/how-indian-doctors-get... In brief, they have to sit the MLE (medica
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by signal11 5y ago
From the link numbered [1] above, medical school in the UK is normally five years long. Followed by 2 years of Foundation training, and 5-8 years of specialist training, or 3 years if you go into general practice. Note that the US education
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by signal11 5y ago
The fonts that ship with most Android installs are really uninspiring. That's one platform that really needs better built-in fonts, otherwise the "out of box" typography is pretty dreary -- it's effectively just Roboto w
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by signal11 5y ago
> How about the idea that not everything must live in the cloud? Yes, and you should take the trouble to install those 'things'. Or host on a server you control. The notion that a remote website has persistent storage rights on
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by signal11 5y ago
About TV debates — A lot of these have moved to podcasts and YouTube these days. Eg the Oxford Union debates on YouTube, some of which are quite popular. I suspect some talk radio, eg PBS and BBC Radio 4, will also have interesting debates.

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