PaulKeeble

And if its sold 5 times in the year its 5x the GDP. Of course the value of the painting hasn't changed and their remains only 1.

Nothing you can order from your doctor yet but plenty of abnormal findings in almost every aspect of the body. As far as I know none of the findings yet is found in every sufferer, a combination can often get to ~95% but its very heterogenous and that has made it very hard to come up with a single test.

Any Long Covid patient can tell you its damaged their nerves, they can feel it. Nerve pain all over and various weird zaps and shakes etc, the nervous system is clearly damaged/being damaged across the entire body.

So far all the trials attempting to do so have failed. Its not that people aren't trying this, it just doesn't work for most of the symptoms.

Post viral fatigue has a limited time frame, you recover from it. Long Covid is a lot more like ME/CFS, looks similar to PVF early on but you don't recover from it and the symptoms often progress and get worse and some people die from it. Its a lifelong severely disabling condition.

I am now pretty certain every virus we have ever caught is just smouldering in our body somewhere constantly held in check by the immune system. We seem to just accumulate ever increasing issues until our body can't cope anymore and become symptomatic with damage and then ultimately die. We have had a huge blindspot for the damage viruses are doing to people, I doubt any infection leaves us.

The research from Covid is just finding so much evidence for tissue resident viral infection and prior work on ME/CFS autopsies showed other viruses doing similar in the brain. Catching anything is bad for our health.

Died of Long Covid. Been seeing a growing number of deaths in the Long Covid communities. There are >400 million people with Long Covid and growing in the world, if its lethal its going to be a lot of dead in the coming years.

The Covid vaccination doesn't stop you getting Covid, it just on average reduces the severity of the infection. Covid is still producing multiple waves a year despite the vaccinations. You can still get Long Covid despite vaccination, and you can still die from Covid even if you are vaccinated, thousands do so every week.

Honestly most of the world is inaccessible by design even the new things. Most people just don't think about the disabled at all and if they do its to talk about what they need and not actually to ask them what they need and include them. Ableism is the most prevalent and accepted bigotry in the world. There is also no movement to really fix this in the modern age, if anything its getting worse in a lot of places.

Very well, IIRC I have measured its capability to route at about 16gbps IIRC although that isn't PPPoE just the usual iperf test, it handles my 1.2gbps without any drama.

The other devices based on the same filogic chip do have dual 2.5Gbps at least.

You can get a Wifi 7 device and 2x2.5GBps with Wifi 7 support already with the Asus BT8 and a few other devices. Asus's bootloader firmware flasher will take the initial OpenWRT image so its really quite simple to get going.

They are working on an OpenWRT Two at the moment which will be Wifi 7.

OpenWRT runs on a lot of hardware and its a great way to extend the life of a router past the manufacturers patches as well as gain a lot of capabilities. I wouldn't buy a commercial router that wasn't supported by OpenWRT now.

Its not like we can sell or even lend the games from Steam that we have, not without breaking the licence terms and hacking around the DRM. Its precisely the same as what Sony is intending to enforce.

Even private servers doesn't quite solve the issue. Minecraft is an example where you can run the server but it requires clients to login to the microsoft account. I think you can still bypass the check on the server but clients have to be cracked or previously authorised for offline play which only lasts for a certain timeframe. So Microsoft can take away the ability to play minecraft despite the game server binary being available.

Whereas a game like Arma 3 has its own dedicated servers and has no such login requirement so theoretically you could still play that in 50 years time, but that might still depend on Steam DRM.

We have a lot of client side controls right now on DRM and logins which make the dedicated server only part of the problem.

People still don't own their games with Steam, the main PC platform. I don't think its going under anytime soon and currently its reasonably customer friendly but as we have seen these big tech companies can turn on their customer base at any moment. GOG is about the only way to actually own the games since no DRM is applied and you can download the entire package and keep it and don't require their launcher.

PC already went digital no ownership for most people unfortunately. His argument that it isn't the same doesn't wash, you still can't sell them or lend them to someone else and you have to hack around Steam's DRM, which is a loophole that can be closed at any point.

No manufacturer is testing the batteries life by just charging and discharging them daily for a decade before releasing them. Instead they are using artificial acceleration techniques like getting the battery hot while charging/discharging continuously to simulate a longer lifetime. They can't realistically do anything else to estimate it. But it turns out heat is the big enemy for li-ion batteries and if you can keep them on the cooler side of their range they will last a lot longer.

Surveillance, got to track you all across the internet.

The amount of times that darn keyboard selector appears for no reason in Windows because its once again added en-US as a language, which it then switches to randomly for seemingly no reason and all of a sudden my symbols are all in the wrong places. One day someone at Microsoft is going to look at that bug and fix it....

As one example I have seen plenty of Code read Color redColour = .....

That is how it often manifests, the bits the Brits get to choose is in their own language and spelling.

Governments do run experiments sometimes, quite a lot of experiments on UBI have been run for example and we have good knowledge on whether its introduction would improve society. But I don't feel like leadership particularly cares about evidence and the right thing, they are far more idealogical than that and tend to gravitate towards policy based evidence from thinktanks and other powerful sources that produce bad science but the results they want to see.

The populace doesn't have much in the way of alternative choices for politicians that would follow the results of actual experiments nor fund them, its not really an option being offered, I think partly because its a tough sell compared to "we will do X". "We will test a variety of options and then do the best" requires more trust and its a low trust environment.

Quite a few of the top talent has been picked up by their competitors, whatever they do they are not going to restore their team. The psychological safety has been broken and that will hamper their productivity forever.

European windows don't slide like American ones. They tend to open down the side or at the top, window AC doesn't work. It just leaves Portable AC and people do buy them but they also don't work very well.

I completely agree. Historically AC has not been necessary for the one to two days a year it was needed, but that world is gone now and the situation has changed and the widespread adoption of AC is now necessary.

Its going to be a huge challenge because the buildings are not designed with that in mind, many buildings are hundreds of years old making these sorts of renovations notoriously difficult and expensive, but it has to start because climate change is only going to get worse and worse.

I wish my local news wasn't mostly filled with people going missing and fires but at least balanced it with "this new restaurant just opened". If anything my local news is more fear driven than the national news.

I feel like we have moved into the era now where if you were putting cabling in the walls for networking you should be choosing fibre now. Not necessarily because we are definitely at the stage where the home needs it, but because the off ramp is clearly happening for ethernet at 10gbit/s and its really high consumption and heat. Switching to fibre after 2.5gbit/s seems like the thing to do now and plenty of us now have access to internet speeds that can exceed 2.5gbit/s.

I have always considered Kent Beck understood this the best, the scaling for code reviews as you go to reduced release timeframes is to pair program, that brings the number of people reviewing it down but also increases the understanding for the reviewer. Comprehensive end to end tests are more a replacement for manual quality assurance for regressions.

I am not sure there is a good analogue for reviews in the AI world. The human operating the AI should obviously review everything produced but that is clearly not as good as a second pair of human MK1 eye balls from pair programming.

If you don't have to worry about replaceable sticks and users choosing their own memory manufacturer, speed and size then you can shorten the traces and improve connectivity including the bus width and its latency. I can't help but think the DIMM format is coming to an end.

All this biometric data is setting people up for identity theft attacks. These types of attacks are going to grow enormously over the coming years as biometric data is gathered and leaked on a massive scale. Anything put on the internet has been leaked already, almost every company with a web presence has lost data. Biometrics unlike passwords, phone numbers and credit cards can not be changed.

Plenty of Do Not Look Up in there as well on a lot of topics.

It did so in direct violation of the licenses of the code held there as well and then sold code snippets they had no rights to and still do.