sleavey

and the way he so articulately breaks down how he thinks and approaches problem solving

Agreed. I think this video is a nice (simple) demonstration of his style in this regard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoGCIuO2XkM

It doesn't require the browser to be always on, unless you want to download something (which is the same as a normal download). Do you mean it's better for the health of the swarm for a particular file? Otherwise I'm not sure I get your point.

While we're at it, let's give lower priority to obese, smokers, alcoholics... or let's not. It's a slippery slope to start discriminating against people based on whether the admitting staff think they're worthy of treatment or not. We're better than that.

They should at least make their sign-up and login password fields have the same max length attributes...

Didn't they get banned or there was a campaign to ban them after someone was killed by someone riding a fixie, in London?

What happens when the fees due on collection get so high that the importer / final delivery company / final customer changes their mind about collecting the container? Who has to store and ultimately dispose of the contents? Do they get to auction it off and keep the proceeds?

Would you be in favour of applying this policy to all people displaying behaviours deemed at higher risk of requiring hospital treatment? And who should decide what constitutes risky activity?

We weren't talking about mandates, but I'll bite. The difference is you don't have to trust the government to know seat belts save lives; the law on seat belts is common sense to anyone of sound mind. On the other hand, show me anyone who can see that getting an injection of some vaccine of unknown (to the average recipient) content and function is common sense. Note that I'm NOT making ANY claims about the vaccine efficacy or danger of lack thereof, simply that a typical individual can't look at the clear liquid in the syringe and innately know that it saves lives. It necessarily requires faith in government or medical institutions or doctors who tell us they are safe. Seat belts don't require such faith, so such mandates can't be compared like for like.

I did the same calculation and came to a similar conclusion. Here's one such calculator: https://www.qcovid.org/Calculation. There are others based on more recent data, as well as papers and government data with age-stratified hospitalisations and deaths by vaccination status.

Many seem to have forgotten life is not risk free.

Cavities. We trade off bandwidth for peak sensitivity by sending the same light back and forth between mirrors in the arms of the interferometer hundreds of times. As the gravitational wave passes, the same light samples it over and over and picks up additional phase shift, enhancing the signal. The downside is that we can't see gravitational waves at signals far above the cavity pole frequencies at a few 10s of kHz, but the most promising sources we aimed at when the detectors were designed were considered to be below that.

We also use techniques called power and signal recycling to enhance this bandwidth-sensitivity tradeoff even more. Combined these techniques give you what remains between your 1/1000th wavelength and the actual sensitivity of LIGO and Virgo.

I got one second hand from someone I worked with who was moving away. I also didn't realise how much fun it would be. There's great satisfaction from tuning the device to print perfectly and it forces your CAD skills to improve. And of course, being able to print little gizmos to fix things around the house is great too.

Yes, npm is typically used to build minified JavaScript code for WordPress plugin distribution. WordPress developers themselves use it for the Gutenberg editor.

I personally dislike this new age and miss the days of hacking with just a text editor and browser, but I understand their benefits.

I happened to come across this project yesterday on reddit [1] and have spent the last day dreaming of building one. The quality of the documentation and activity on Discord is a big plus. First I need to build a super strong table for it to go on...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/qkn996/almost_...

You either didn't read or understand my comment, or you're intentionally choosing not to address my points, so I won't reply to you any more.

...in which case, restrictions should never have been mandated, and those who looked at their personal risk and decided that going about their lives as normal was acceptable should have been allowed to do so.

And besides, in the UK the continuing lockdowns were very much sold on the hypothesis that they prevent transmission.

And before anyone replies that mandates stop hospitals being overwhelmed, read the other comments here on the load obesity, smoking, alcoholism etc. places on the health services - mandates for COVID-19 are inconsistent with our past behaviours regarding causes of hospitalisation.

High vaccination rate (meeting state targets) leads to revoking mask mandates and reopening schools and social venues. This increased social contact leads to a spike is cases. Nothing surprising here once you think about it.

What then was lockdown and mass vaccination for, if not to reduce spread? That's certainly what we were told where I live. If spread spikes when vaccinated people are again in close contact then wasn't the whole thing just a giant waste of time and money given the motivation?

The title is not misleading. It's a statement of fact inferred from data presented in the first paragraph. Calculating per capita hospitalisation would be a measurement of a different metric and require a different title too.

I didn't mention masks nor the effect or lack of effect of the current vaccines on case rates, I only added a supporting statement to the previous comment that they are doing very little to stop spread.

There is no consensus, yet

There is no reasonable hypothesis for how humeral vaccines could induce antibodies in the mucosae, therefore stop viral replication there, and therefore reduce shedding and hence infection of others. Nasal vaccines perhaps, which are an exciting development and may be what actually ends the outbreak, but not the current lot.

To be able to claim the current vaccines reduce spread you either have to propose how humeral vaccines delivered to the blood could induce T cells in the mucous membranes of the nose and throat, or suggest another mechanism by which the virus can spread.

A few more:

Vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals have similar viral loads in communities with a high prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v...

Covid-19: Fully vaccinated people can carry as much delta virus as unvaccinated people, data indicate https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2074

No Significant Difference in Viral Load Between Vaccinated and Unvaccinated, Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Groups Infected with SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264262v...

What makes you think Australia's lockdown worked, yet? They've not as far as I'm aware opened up and demonstrated they're free of SARS-CoV-2. And since the current vaccines aren't reducing spread of the virus (enough), what do you think is their end goal? Keep the country locked up from the outside world forever?

Bitcoin aligns incentives. It's in the interest of those with lots of bitcoin to have everyone else use the same fork, so their coins have value. This discourages bad behaviour from whales.

Let's not forget that bitcoin's monetary policy is fixed. Everyone earns coins the same way as everyone else: by mining or buying. No printing of new money for example. Central banks are far bigger whales than bitcoin's given their ability to print new money on a whim.

Anyone else learn about the Viking landings on North America from Age of Empires 2 (1999)?

Possibly there needs to be something classified as a sweetener, yes, but the definition of "sugar-free" is apparently also anything with 0.1g or less sugar per 100g, so may it be that there is still a bit of sugar in the sugar-free brands you mentioned?

I'm no expert on this.

Emacs with org-mode?

There will be some new anti-ad tech becoming popular if first-party ads become a thing. For instance, I could think of some browser plugin that looks for visible DOM elements that change between refreshes. To deal with false positives it could grey them out initially but offer a button to really block/allow for future refreshes.

I'm in your camp too, but would it be fair to say that Node-RED is not designed for us?

Setting up some trigger to open the page based on your phone's accelerometer would probably work.

I wonder if someone will make a computer game akin to Bridge Designer, but for surviving falls. Levels could have various objects released along with your body, and various targets on the ground to aim for, and you can try to survive.

I wonder why the advice if you're still on a row of seats is to ditch it. Whilst heavier, it may also be wider. I guess it's the ratio of mass to surface area (× drag coefficient) that matters, and if the thing you're attached to's mass-to-surface-area ratio is lower, you should keep holding onto it.

As long as holding onto it doesn't result in you orienting your body away from presenting the most area to the oncoming air. Don't hold onto a beach ball for example.