Re: Quinone
I would hope (for your sake) there's no quinone in your G&T!
OP was so confused that not only did they mix up two different anti-malarials, they then confused that with a different class of organic compounds.
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Remember that clinical trial, promoted by President Trump, of a possible COVID-19 cure? So, so, so many questions...
What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out
Crack police squad seeks help to flush out Australian toilet paper thieves
Eight-core 3.8 GHz CPU. 12 TFLOPS GPU. 1TB NVME SSD. 16GB RAM. Not a half-decent workstation, it's the new Xbox
Friday 20th March 2020 12:45 GMT 
Re: "eliminate loading times between levels"
The only thing strange about mentioning ME2 is that I forgot to begin the sentence with "And". It wasn't meant to "disprove" anything.
Back to ME, I never noticed a speed-up after upgrading to a dramatically faster PC (or upgrading a slow one with an SSD). I assume that means the base storage performance of a contemporary gaming PC was more than sufficient for the game.
Friday 20th March 2020 02:47 GMT
Re: "eliminate loading times between levels"
Mass Effect elevators.........running on a high end PC made them a LOT faster........
I don't remember system specs ever affecting the elevator travel time. No radio announcement or NPC conversation ever got cut short.
ME2's loading screens were simply a video you had to watch until the video was finished, regardless of the background load state of the game. Replacing those video files with empty ones often dramatically reduced loading times on a capable PC...
Former Googler Anthony Levandowski ‘fesses up to pinching trade secrets about self-driving cars
Broadcom sues Netflix for its success: You’re stopping us making a fortune from set-top boxes, moans chip designer
Good luck pitching a tent on exoplanet WASP-76b, the bloody raindrops here are made out of molten iron
Think your smartwatch is good for warning of a heart attack? Turns out it's surprisingly easy to fool its AI
Australia down for scheduled maintenance: No talking to Voyager 2 for 11 months
Never thought we'd write this headline: Under Siege Steven Seagal is not Above The Law, must fork out $314,000 after boosting crypto-coin biz
Starship bloopers: Watch Elon Musk's Mars ferry prototype explode on the pad during liquid nitrogen test
It's Terpin time: Bloke who was SIM jacked twice by Bitcoin thieves gets green light to sue telco for millions
Wednesday 26th February 2020 23:57 GMT
Re: I hope he wins ...
A lot of people who have millions worth of virtual currencies are those who got lucky after buying a bunch of the stuff in the early days for the purpose of buying drugs, illegal pornography etc. on the internet. There are also the enthusiasts who were lucky enough to mine a bunch in the early days.
There are also those idealogues who, in spite of stories just like this one, still think the idea of "being your own bank" isn't the stupidest thing ever, and then those who think it's a hedge about the complete economic and societal collapse that's coming Real Soon Now™ (after which obviously everyone will want to buy their coins, for some reason?) There's a lot of overlap between these latter two.
Not the kind of groups who usually have lawyers on call or retainer, I'd have thought. This guy might be different but that might also have been his entire savings.
How many times do we have to tell you? A Tesla isn't a self-driving car, say investigators after Apple man's fatal crash
SpaceX Falcon 9 meets watery end, and NASA needs someone to go to Mars and whack its mole
Tuesday 25th February 2020 12:19 GMT
A challenge which will need to be overcome by a company with a business model that would really like first stages to get more than four flights.Since the first successful drone ship landing, it looks like they're running at a success rate of about 85% for landing attempts in that mode, or just about a 50% chance of surviving four attempts.
Room for improvement perhaps but they will no doubt have learned a lot from this failure. I'm pretty curious to know what went wrong.
Talk about making a rod for your own back: Pot dealer's seized €54m Bitcoins up in smoke after keys thrown out with fishing gear
SpaceX's next Starlink volley remains stuck on Earth to glee of astronomers everywhere
Ever wondered how Google-less Android might look? Step right this Huawei: Mate 30 Pro arrives on British shores
Beware, Tesla might take away your car's autopilot if you buy its vehicles from third party dealerships – plus more news
Monday 10th February 2020 22:15 GMT
Re: bits of your car not working...
Possibly, but in this case I don't think so because the dealership isn't the only option (or even usually the best option...) and they have no responsibility or obligation to offer any support for a privately imported vehicle*. I once had a mechanic refuse to touch my car (following a bad experience with a previous customer who drove the same model!) so I simply went elsewhere. Their loss.
Tesla doesn't have that defence, though.
And if you have a privately imported car, with a few exceptions (e.g. the Nissan GT-R,) local dealerships usually aren't equipped to service it anyway. Some of them have enough trouble servicing cars they do sell. In most cases I think a specialist is the better choice, and that applies to all vehicles.
* I often wonder how owners of privately imported vehicles equipped with the factory Takata hand grenade in the steering wheel are dealing with it.
Hey GitLab, the 1970s called and want their sexism back: Saleswomen told to wear short skirts, heels and 'step it up'
Uncle Sam tells F-35B allies they'll have to fly the things a lot more if they want to help out around South China Sea
Sunday 9th February 2020 22:47 GMT
Re: !!!
In the mid-90s, I used to play a combat flight sim called "US Navy Fighters". You had a selection of the US Navy's contemporary carrier-capable combat aircraft available for each mission. After every mission, you had an allocation of man-hours that you could use to repair or maintain your fleet. Obviously, taking damage during combat quickly put you behind the eight ball maintenance-wise, which is how the game placed an emphasis on Not Getting Hit!
Fortunately, there was also an unlimited number of A-7s available to you as a fallback, for when your F-14s, F/A-18s etc. were all too worn out or damaged to fly. They were the equivalent of the forfeit car in a Top Gear challenge, but at least you could "expend" them with impunity.
So what the RN needs is an unlimited supply of A-7s.
Billionaire pulls out of reality telly show that was supposed to find him a date to take aboard Musk's space loveboat
Iowa has already won the worst IT rollout award of 2020: Rap for crap caucus app chaps in vote zap flap
Wednesday 5th February 2020 03:58 GMT
Re: Don't blame the users for the app failure
If it's anything like the way the Australian Labor Party determines its leadership, the votes are unequally weighted. The general membership votes for a leader as a bloc and the parliamentary party members vote as a bloc. Each bloc represents 50% of the ballot so a parliamentary member's vote is effectively worth many general member votes. As such, it would be pointless for a parliamentary member to also vote as a general member, even if they were eligible.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
