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by stordoff 6y ago
After spending ten days in an ICU (with happy hypoxia[1]), and seeing it hospitalise a member of my family for about a month, leave one almost bedridden for days and with a metallic taste in the mouth for weeks, and two others with cough&#x
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by stordoff 6y ago
> Election laws have been ignored - on a large scale. Do you have any specific examples? I haven't looked at the claims in any great detail.
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by stordoff 6y ago
> Imagine having a product banned by the iOS apps tore! Like PornHub - pornographic content isn't allowed.
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by stordoff 6y ago
> gave me a fully unlocked computer In a way, the ever-increasing restrictions during my final year at school pushed us into exploiting various flaws in their setup for a couple of reasons. Primarily, they were arduous - by the middle of
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by stordoff 6y ago
For instance in the UK: > At latitudes below 37ᵒN, UVB radiation is sufficient for year round vitamin D synthesis. At higher latitude, vitamin D is not synthesised during the winter months. In the UK, sunlight-induced vitamin D synthesis
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by stordoff 6y ago
FWIW, I've seen the NHS mention it quite a few times. Example: > People with dark skin, such as those of African, African-Caribbean or south Asian origin, will need to spend longer in the sun to produce the same amount of vitamin D
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by stordoff 6y ago
If they could do it at high resolutions, I'd be surprised. My old Lumia 950 would overheat after about 20 minutes at 4K, but record indefinitely at 720p (most I ever tried was about two hours; I don't think I ever got around to te
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by stordoff 6y ago
A) I find utility outages are rather rare - I can't remember the last time power or water failed at my house (it's been some number of years at least). B) Devices _need_ power and water (depending on the device). There's no r
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by stordoff 6y ago
Were these available at launch? The earliest references I can find are from Dec 2009[1], over a year after the iPhone launched in Canada. [1] See, e.g., https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/tips-tricks/original-iphone-ip...
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by stordoff 6y ago
My grandmother has a double-barrelled surname (Forename name1-name2), and it seems to be entirely random whether she gets name1-name2, name1name2, name1 name2, just name2, or on a few occasions name1/name2 from various companies.
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by stordoff 6y ago
You can also use multiple hubs (HomeKit and various third party apps support this - the Hue app does, but IIRC you have to manually switch between them).
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> If I let my mind wander for just a minute the thoughts come flooding in. I have something vaguely similar with OCD - needing constant stimulation to draw myself away from intrusive thoughts and compulsions. I've found that occasio
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by stordoff 6y ago
I haven't been following this closely - what was the privacy impact?
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I've seen that both be suggested _and_ denied on Hacker News, so I wouldn't be surprised if it happens, but I doubt it's routine practice.
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> A lot of people (doctors included) don't seem to believe that you can be in severe pain, while sitting and conversing with them - "he seems fine to me!". That's very familiar. "I feel like I'm being stabbe
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by stordoff 6y ago
The UK have been cautious to point out that they don't have the full safety data yet, and that that is the next step: > The Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine has been tested on over 40,000 volunteers and interim results suggest it is pro
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by stordoff 6y ago
Is it not next to the Add to Basket button? It is in the UK: > Dispatched from and sold by <seller>. / Sold by <seller> and Fulfilled by Amazon. It's also listed at the checkout screen for each item: > Items disp
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by stordoff 6y ago
Or the equally useful: > 4/5 stars : Price was good, hope it arrives soon! Which I've seen a few times.
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by stordoff 6y ago
Every password I need to remember has a dictionary word in it, because it's easy _additional_ entropy. Once I've got a password that's borderline too long to remember, I can't really add more random characters to it with
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by stordoff 6y ago
I've had some weird side effects from Zopiclone. They're effective, even when benzodiazepines haven't been, but the side-effects are concerning. On multiple occasions, I've woken up and the room appears to bathed in a ye
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by stordoff 6y ago
My university had an interesting solution for a couple of modules for computer science - there were six programming assignments spread throughout the term, and you do them at home and submitted online. It'd be (obviously) very easy to
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by stordoff 6y ago
I had to use a (cartridge) fountain pen at school (90s, UK primary school), and they were awful - the nibs were scratchy, and prone to breaking if you pressed even slightly too hard, and they leaked fairly often. A decent fountain pen is a
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by stordoff 6y ago
> or that it is all in my head I sometimes end up wondering that about myself. I have near-constant headaches of varying intensity (ranging from a barely noticeable ache to feeling like somebody a vice round my temples) with no known cau
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> I'm also viciously dismissive now of any legislation or practices that limit controlled substances. I'm not an addict and I shouldn't be punished for other peoples acts. I find myself agreeing with this. Opiate overuse a
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by stordoff 6y ago
> Therefore, why not get the Americans to develop their best hashing algorithm, the Chinese to develop their best algorithm, and then use A(C(data)). Would it not be better to report both A(data) and C(data) (or maybe all three), so you
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by stordoff 6y ago
My old university has three /16s, and a bunch of other IP blocks, so gave public IPs to everyone (though they now seem to be using private IPs for some purposes). I never looked at how the public machines were allocated, but it did mak
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by stordoff 6y ago
Assuming they're accusations (not convictions), the question is what's the pattern? Is it a pattern of criminal behaviour, or is it police bias/somebody systematically accusing this person for whatever reason? Aggregating mul
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by stordoff 6y ago
That can turn out to be false economy. I had some cheap LED bulbs, and six failed in the first year. With some Amazon Basics bulbs, that were only 10-20% more expensive, none have failed in the first year (in the same light fitting and with
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by stordoff 6y ago
We used a 5kV (DC) power supply for an A-Level physics experiment, and we quickly discovered that could give you a pretty unpleasant zap (peak current was ~3mA IIRC, so not particularly dangerous - one of our teachers initially insisted on
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by stordoff 6y ago
It's also on the Internet Achieve.

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