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by stordoff 6y ago
> They use a mask that covers the users entire face or just the nose and mouth, but they are not effective for the critical symptoms of COVID-19 CPAP is used by the NHS for Covid-19 to try and avoid the need for invasion ventilation, eve
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by stordoff 6y ago
They're useful, but I could never see them replacing small-group teaching (1 PhD student/faculty member to 2-3 students), a standard feature of my university. It lets them focus on exactly what _you_ need at that time, and can pic
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by stordoff 6y ago
> At home the bottleneck is obviously my network I've started to upgrade parts of my network to 10Gbps, and it was surprisingly affordable. My NAS and server now have a dedicated 10GB Gbps link between them (the NAS also has 4 1Gbps
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by stordoff 6y ago
I only speak _very_ rudimentary Japanese, but there was something unpleasant about looking at that. It was as if I was trying to read two things at the same time, and which was dominant kept switching. If I zoom out or move away from my mon
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by stordoff 6y ago
I'm not really sure I'd call two reverse-parallel (DC) LEDs an AC LED. The design in figure 1b seems basically equivalent to a dropper capacitor[1] and DC rectifier feeding standard LEDS (expect you're lighting different LEDs
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by stordoff 6y ago
OP responded to this in the comments: > I used Photoshop's Content Aware feature to remove the numbers and last name. In some cases, it pulls in surrounding items (Like the "Er" from Peter) and I was too lazy to clean it u
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by stordoff 6y ago
Office was just as bad - 97 Professional came on _55_[1]. I remember having to install a version that came on 33 (one of which didn't work, but if you told the installer to ignore it, the final install still worked - I assume some comp
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by stordoff 6y ago
I'd be surprised if it is much of a restriction in real world use cases. Accessing my NAS over 866Mbps WiFi[1] caps out around 60MB/s, the same devices over gigabit ethernet hit around 120MB/s (the NAS delivers around 650MB&#
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by stordoff 6y ago
> I am perplexed at the complete and utter avoidance from western countries (including US, Britain and Israel) of these. Dexamethasone is a standard treatment in the UK in line with WHO guidance[1]. Its use was first recommended in June
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by stordoff 6y ago
And "reporters, from several magasines".
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by stordoff 6y ago
> How do you pay out developers? I’m a developer, I make a game, I say I’m going to put it in Game Pass, a customer pays [you] $14.99 a month. How do you decide how much to pay me, the developer? > [Phil Spencer, head of Xbox:] [In] c
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by stordoff 6y ago
> obesity That's >40% of US adults[1] and ~30% of UK adults[2] covered already. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html [2] https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publi
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by stordoff 6y ago
Personally, I want to be able to read Japanese media (mostly games) that have no English release or at best have a slightly questionable fan translation. The games I'd already playing provide _a degree_ of passive immersion, as they of
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by stordoff 6y ago
Nitpick: 99.(many 9s)% of the time. I had the power steering drop out going into a turn (fuel pump failure IIRC), and it could have easily caused an accident (I physically couldn't turn the wheel enough to complete the turn).
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by stordoff 6y ago
According to the FAQ[1]: > It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. > In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints abo
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by stordoff 6y ago
From the citation: > Though many subreddits saw an influx of r/fatpeoplehate and r/CoonTown "migrants," those subreddits saw no significant changes in hate speech usage.
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by stordoff 6y ago
I'm unsure why this site is asking for access to my Google account. I suspect this is the same article: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/revenge-of-...
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by stordoff 6y ago
> Now they're trying to just use lots of oxygen, but that doesn't work either. Do you have a citation? I was hospitalised with Covid-19, and that was my primary treatment (100% oxygen CPAP was required to keep my O2 sats above
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by stordoff 6y ago
FWIW, silent hypoxia can onset quite quickly. I was monitoring my oxygen levels following a positive test, and my O2 sats dropped from 95+ to 78 in about 12 hours (I'd more or less stopped monitoring it as I generally seemed to be reco
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by stordoff 6y ago
Does a broader/faster spread increase the likelihood of significant mutations (I've seen this suggested, but I'm unclear if it was by a reliable source)? If so, this seems like it may be a risky strategy, as it may, for insta
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by stordoff 6y ago
There are also five green wires running from the same board - it reminds me of an old console mod chip. It could be a patch job for a hardware bug, but it definitely looks odd.
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by stordoff 6y ago
I've been doing something vaguely similar, largely out of laziness, for the past few years. My ISP's router (largely) retains its default settings, then my main router/firewall[1] sits behind that in a double-NAT configuratio
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by stordoff 6y ago
I've made this mistake - I thought I was alternating between paracetamol and ibuprofen preparations, but I'd accidentally used a paracetamol-containing version of the second product. Fortunately it was a manageable acute/one-
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by stordoff 6y ago
> If the government ordered the channel tunnel to stop, it would stop. [...] Of course a total closure would be a last resort, because that would cut off imports of things like fresh fruit As demonstrated by the recent French closure: &g
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by stordoff 6y ago
True, I did neglect to comment on Lisbon, but I'm not sure which part is misleading - Lisbon incorporated _many_ of the changes from the proposed constitution, but it's not identical but by another name. The Netherlands referendum
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by stordoff 6y ago
> Most eu citizens voted NO [0] to their own referendum to enter European Union > [0] https://www.finalscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/forfai... That's the French referendum on establishin
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by stordoff 6y ago
> So there's a fixed supply of legal automatic firearms that normal people can own. Why do people want them? Is it just a hobby, or is there some utility I'm unware of?
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by stordoff 6y ago
> I’m not sure I that “Indian” is a “race” for any common definition of the word. It can be in some contexts, for example English law. Equality Act 2010 s.9: > (1) Race includes— (a) colour; (b) nationality; (c) ethnic or national ori
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by stordoff 6y ago
I've seen some miserable formatting in older contracts. I was doubling-checking the documents for a house sale a few years ago, and came across a sentence that was over half a page long without _any_ punctuation. Even though I have a l
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by stordoff 6y ago
If you're only testing compatibility/performance, and so don't play for long, you can request a refund from Steam.

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