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by u801e 5y ago
> E[s]pecially when natural immunity is completely overlooked. The one thing about natural immunity is that it does not prevent the transmission or spread of the virus on a population level. For example, prior to the ’90s, there were yea
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> 0.3% is the case only after torturing statistics or using international statistics from countries that skew younger and have fewer risk factors. Or countries that don't keep accurate records pertaining to hospitalizations and caus
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This may be difficult due to the fact that the defendant and plaintiff are in different countries. The costs for pursuing this action may well exceed the actual loss.
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Typically this was something that was handled locally by the client by logging messages sent to channels you were in. The concept of having all messages on a central server to pull down actually makes certain actions more difficult. For in
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by u801e 5y ago
> [IRC's] ux story is pretty bad by modern standards UX is entirely dependent on the client. And there are issues with modern UX standards that result in browser tabs using an entire core of CPU resources and/or allocating enou
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No vaccine has a 100% success rate in preventing infection. In fact, many of the standard vaccinations are not nearly as effective on an individual level as one may believe. At the population level, they are pretty effective because a hig
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by u801e 5y ago
What about requiring both the key and the password to authenticate?
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It's possible to configure sshd to require both password and key based authentication. That is, you have to have access to the private key and know the password. You can set this up via the RequiredAthentications2 setting off you'
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by u801e 5y ago
Mass vaccination is the standard way to minimize the spread of viral infections. For example, there were routine outbreaks of varicella infections amongst children despite the fact more than 99.5% Of the adult population had natural immunit
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> With public key crypto you can implement a challenge response. Or just use a client side TLS certificate to authenticate instead of or in addition to the username and password.
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The premise behind self driving cars that can handle most situations themselves relies on the assumption that a human operator is paying attention and can take over in situations the computer can't handle. I'm not a pilot, but it
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> Not that I disagree we've gotten better at some things but Outlook Express (newsgroups) and mIRC (irc) seemed plenty accessible to millions of non-technical users. This was my experience as well decades ago. Unfortunately, people
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A number of NNTP clients supported rendering bold, italic, or underlined text by just adding enclosing asterisks, slashes, or underscores.
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> make sure the comments are updated while you're in the code. You can also look at them in a code review. People will invariably forget to update comments and unless the comments show up in context lines of the diff associated with
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> I write my comments in commit messages because those are valid forever. I try to write good comments and commit messages. Comments are typically along the lines of explaining what was done and how for a particular block of code or met
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I didn't even notice the typo in the title until I started reading the article. I wonder how many would have noticed had it not been fixed?
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> Free credit monitoring is the biggest scam of all The root cause is a clause in Federal law[1] that precludes an individual from holding a creditor or credit bureau liable for inaccurate information regarding that individual. If we w
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by u801e 5y ago
I may be in between the GUI and CLI camps. I actually use git via a TUI (text user interface) by using vim to either read from or write to git commands. I can stage hunks by yanking the diff header (excluding the line that starts with @@)
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I've never been to India, but I don't ever recall seeing this phrase on the back of trucks in Pakistan (even being relatively close to the border in Lahore).
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> I believe that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh would be stronger today if it was one nation rather than three. There are many culteral differences and even different languages that are not mutually intelligible between different states
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They stopped vaccinating against smallpox in 1972[1]. It was administered around 12 months of age before then. So anyone in the US born in 1972 or later is most likely unvaccinated. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/vacc
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by u801e 5y ago
I've never gone as far as replacing suspension parts, mainly because the bolts tend to be very difficult to remove. Even brake rotors are hard to remove in some cases. The last time I changed the rotors, I had to use a sledgehammer a
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by u801e 5y ago
Herd immunity from measles requires at least 95% of the population vaccinated. For polio, it's 80%.
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You could make the same argument about any commonly administered vaccine if only 58% of the population are vaccinated. There were a number of outbreaks of measles several years ago when the localized percentage of people vaccinated dropped
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> If I’m understanding correctly, the playing field is “levelled” in favor of people who tend to be late for meetings because of poor time management. Could one assume that people who prefer meetings (online or in person) over an online
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by u801e 5y ago
Rear brakes don't provide much stopping power due to weight transfer to the front. Do Dutch bikes have a front caliper brake?
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We do this as well (using fixup! commits to make code changes and squash! commits to update the commit message).
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Even the email based flow presents a series of changes as a thread of email messages, so the association between changes that are related or depend on each other is maintained. Once a patch set looks good to the maintainer, it's merged
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For consistency, we should use the term motorist instead of driver. Just like we use cyclist or bicyclist instead of rider or motorcyclist instead of motorcycle rider. The only exception would be for buses or trucks (bus driver of truck dri
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IIRC, a git blob has the size of the data encoded in the first 4 bytes of the file, and the data itself appended to it. It could be stored uncompressed, but I don't think there's anything in the git plumbing layer that could deal

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