gnufan.bsky.social
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Wrong shirt colour
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Added alt text.
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The trouble with traffic prioritisation is it reduces total throughout. So they tend to give over an entire lane to buses and taxis, halving the road capacity for everyone else. It doesn't even achieve much for buses because the prioritisation isn't continuous.
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There was a cartel in Potash recently, it had much bigger effects on Potash prices than tariffs are likely to, and no one but farmers really noticed.
Tariffs are a terrible idea, but I'm not sure food is going to be where Americans hurt most from them.
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Jesus was woke, wait till they find "The New Colossus", that is a pretty woke poem too.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/...
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It was less work to just decrypt the WiFi traffic than set-up a duplicate WAP, and since I just wanted to spot colleagues using unencrypted protocols....
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Is that generally true I wonder? I believe in the UK people with long term conditions are much less satisfied with the NHS, whereas those with self limiting conditions often swear by homeopathy.
Here the doctors fail at basic stuff, such as the length of prescriptions they issue for common meds.
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Last I looked a study suggested disappointing efficacy, possibly due to the age of those vaccinated, but for UK doi.org/10.1371/jour... looks like they have got much better study design & it suggests moderate effectiveness which translates into good outcomes given the numbers who die of pneumonia.
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The Argentinians already licensed a strep throat vaccine, but I've no idea if you can get it outside Argentina.
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As a tech person, whilst I know conceptually how it happens, after 30 years I'm still learning important details. As soon as you master something someone "improves" it. How the radio & security features of the latest WiFi devices work is both beautiful & mind boggling. Yes, it often involves daemons
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Each major party insists on this process so it is the only way it is happening, unless one of the regions passes a version with a weaker residency criteria.
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The poor are also those who can't go to Switzerland, they need this most.
I don't understand the lack of safeguards comment, with two doctors, a judge, excluded categories, and a cooling off period quite a lot trying to use these provisions will be refused, or dead before they get medication.
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I'm guessing very few transphobes check carefully to make sure their victims aren't intersex or unusually butch/feminine before starting.
Heck the FB comments on female weightlifters are depressing enough & they've just developed visible muscles, as if muscles are somehow unique to men.
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Again?
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Always good to check that any security controls actually work. Was checking precisely that led me to rediscover the now removed Chrome feature where HSTS didn't comply with the RFC whilst doing bug bounties. Always check what leaks to domain, subdomains, and parent domains over http.
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Even the Big Bang has changed markedly since I was a physics student, got to keep a close eye on cosmologists or they sneak in changing one of the variables an infinite amount.
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Password rotation is generally regarded as trying to transfer security work from IT to the end users. The users pick weaker passwords, and usually end up with a number or date on the end of an earlier password.
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On changing things for the future, I've got migraines under control but discovered along the way there is a global(!) shortage of neurologists.
The solution is getting the better medications more affordable, as the reason GPs don't prescribe them is cost. NHS purchasing could do better too.
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This report feels weirdly political though, two of its best performing countries do relatively badly in the category "health outcomes"; which I feel is a key category. Not much good having accessible, cheap healthcare, with cheap administration, if it doesn't actually work.
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You can switch them off, we set expectations ourselves. One of the developers I corresponded with did all his (possibly non-work) email once a month. I've cull nearly all notifications on my phone.
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"... sentencing hearing ... difficult to execute.." .... because it'll be so much easier to sentence the president elect (should he win).
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I had a colleague who was a young earth creationist, you could see the cognitive dissonance at work when I explained what my friend's father did as a dendrochronologist. All that science lightly ignored but good and bad growing seasons were too easily understood.
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It is possible to be quite opposed to someone's beliefs and have a successful relationship. I did wonder about someone who really went with their intuition over logic, only to discover they had fantastic intuition in a number of areas.
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DPD delivery here this week was dropped over a six foot gate (breaking one of the two items inside), and left in the pouring rain.
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Not the picture, otherwise they glued a toolbox and lots of rubbish to the ceiling to make the photo.