Posts by Doctor Syntax 40413 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
It's not just your white cables that can go short like that. At the beginning of December (just post-lockdown start) the cable 100metres or so down the roa did that. Standing on the road surface you could feel the pulsing under your feet. It also damaged the adjacent gas pipe, fortunately not as bad as it might have done.
I haven't used a kettle lead in years. We've had the upright, jug-like things with the lead hard-wired to the base and the kettle plugs into a coaxial connector on the base. First an old, well-respected brand and then, after its cheap and nasty clip closing the lid failed so the steam detector couln't work (if you've had the same brand you'll recognise the problem) and than an Amazon Basics, cheaper than the well-known brand, not quite so well balanced to handle but just works.
Thanks. Now it makes sense. It would have made even more sense if, instead of the garbage about for these purposes UK is part of the EU they'd just have talked about manufacture in the EU and UK. I suppose, however, if AZ had ramped up production outside both and they were still having problems in the EU plants the reservations would have dried up PDQ.
"But anti-vaxxers are numerous enough to undermine the attempt to reach herd immunity."
It's still not established whether the vaccine stops transmission. If the virus is able to survive in the upper respiratory tract out of reach of the immune system then someone can have a symptomless infection and spread virus although they're protected against any major symptoms. That means that the anti-vaxers would-be parasites can still be infected by those who've been vaccinated.
It also means that we still can't get rid of the virus. Let's hope that situation doesn't happen.
It looks like enough contradiction between 5.1 & 5.4 to keep several lawyers' children fed.
I can't quite see the point of closing the Irish border for exports from the Republic to NI given that the latter is likely to have the better supply and it sets a precedent for the UK to reciprocate in banning exports. The smart thing for BoJo to do would be to allow some exports as a matter of goodwill - and respond to the border ban by dismantling as much of the Irish sea border as possible as that is really the biggest danger to the UK as a whole in the entire Brexit shambles.
On the whole it seems like classic managerial approach. Let's play the blame game instead of "What can we do to help get production going?". Ans no country or bloc has a monopoly on experts at that.
Greek meetings. Well, a Greek PM. He spent the afternoon before going on holiday dithering about how work was to be allocated in his absence. When a decision had been made I went home. By the time I got there he'd changed his mind again. I decided it was finally time to announce my retirement at end of current project.
We see a regular pattern on this site. Some big corp makes a misstep that pisses off its users. Its very experienced users. Its very experienced users who really know what they're talking about.
Then suddenly somebody appears without any previous posting history and starts trying to tell these users that they've got it all wrong. They're utterly unconvincing.
Does this fit anybody here?
"I think you have a basic misunderstanding here. CentOS Stream 8 will never be significantly different from RHEL 8; CentOS Stream 9 will never be significantly different from RHEL 9. All updates headed for CentOS Stream are already approved to land in that major release of RHEL, with the same general rules about stability that RHEL holds to."
You seem to be misunderstanding what you wrote. If you get updates to 8 which are already approved for 9 then you're half-way between the two but are actually neither. Updates only in 9 are not 8. Stuff not yet updated to 9 is not 9.
It's not all bad. Your headline is correct.
We had a new head of Dept (not appointed to a Chair, he eventually went to Sussex for that) who had the bright idea of reorganising the entire Botany course. Our first year was nothing but systematic botany and plant anatomy - something like it might have been 20 or 30 years earlier. He did admit later that he regarded us as the class that lost our first year.
Producing a distance learning package, e.g. the OU courses, there'll be a lead time to get the course material together. It'll then be expected to run for several years before being scheduled for replacement. There'll be some amount of probability that one of the authors will die or at least retire before the course EOL arrives. A traditional University course is a live event. A distance learning course is a product; it may have to outlive one of its originators.
"If it is ransomware, the attack goes to show that no organisation, no matter how innocuous, is off-limits"
Early victims weren't even organisations. They were individuals such as me cousin-in-law who got hit with an email apparently from a friend. Fortunately that wasn't a sophisticate one - it simply deleted the original files instead of overwriting them.
But it just illustrates that any organisation, however unlikely a target it might think itself, needs a defence in depth.
"While this is possible, the question is how do you deal with a limited supply of vaccine?"
What's being planned for is a steady ramping up of supply and delivery capabilities. One consequence of this is that at any particular time the number of people vaccinated four weeks ago is a small proportion of the current capability.
"Historically this would have taken weeks or months but is being done in days or sometimes even hours."
The one thing that's certain about epidemics is that time always counts against you. If the doubling time is 3 to four days and you take a week to decide your problem is already four times as big and it will stay that way until you finally get on top of it - which is, of course, already four times harder to do.
Back in forensic science days there was an occasional need for out of hours response to some major crime. My approach was that I'd not guarantee being on the end of a phone at any time (way before mobiles and we didn't have pagers either) but if I was then I'd come in unless it was impossible. It worked well enough.
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