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Not Debian, but there are lots of Linux distros pared down to fit on a single floppy disk. They will run just fine within that amount of RAM.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161109230651/https://bengross....

Via Slashdot: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/12/26/0535214/america-cre...

Sadly, the device is not powerful enough for a Debian port.

This is how you get Skynet.

Medic alert bracelets are probably effective, though over my entire career, I remembr seeing less than a dozen.

Retired EMT here. Standard practice is to remove fingernail polish on the finger used for the pulse ox. Alternatively, you can put the probe on so it reads sideways across the finger, though this isn't as reliable.

Can attest that pulse ox is not as reliable for black people.

That is a really cool xclock mod. Thanks!

I retired from EMS a couple of years ago and have run on several cyclists (and pedestrians) hit by cars (and trucks (and a train)). I advise you to carry your ID in a pocket on your person, if your cycling clothes have pockets. The first place law enforcement or EMS looks for ID is in a pocket, especially a wallet.

While it is standard practace to "trauma strip" a patient by cutting their clothing off, the simple fact is that if a patient is clearly DOA (say due to massive head trauma), the EMTs may not do anything other than check for a pulse. Particularly if the accident happened on a desolate stretch of highway that took the ambulance an hour to reach. If there is a chance the person is still alive, it is not uncommon to place EKG pads on their chest, but some EMTs just slip them on under the shirt, rather than expose the chest. This is especially common if the patient is a different gender than the first responder, or if the assessment is being done roadside, rather than in the ambulance. Part of this is that EMTs are trained to disturb crime scenes as little as possible, so as to not to disrupt police investigations.

It is useful for synchronizing light displays to music.

For many examples of xlights in use, see also: https://www.metafilter.com/189822/More-than-a-few-fairy-ligh...

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513489

You can't smell copper. The smell associated with copper is from a chemical known as 1-octen-3-one, which is generated when your skin oils react with metal that you've touched.

NileRed does a good job explaining this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqLH-nTZEOc

How could "To Boldly Go" not be considered a transfomative work?

Well, I guess this answers that question:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=157584601197117...

Just like the original StumbleUpon, within a few clicks, I discovered several fascinating sites. Thanks for posting this, it is a real treasure.

There are lots of gravitationally attractive resoures scattered throughout the asteroid belt.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25410192

If humanity succeeds to inhabit the solar system, these low energy manifolds will become the primary means of navigation, transport and material commerce.

Edit: these pathways have previously been known to be slow, efficient pathways, it is encouraging to see further analysis showing how they can lower transit times as well.

> It's 2020.

And still, here in rural USA, there is exactly one affordable plan ($70/mo) in this area that doesn't have bandwidth caps and the best sustained speed I can get is 170 Kb/s. That's small b for bit, not big B for bytes, btw.

I've been on the list for Starlink beta but they don't seem to be rolling it out for the region yet.

Web page bloat bothers me quite a bit. 100 mb? There are smaller Linux distros.

Edit: definitely will be going back to using the Lynx text mode browser in the near future, I had no idea it had regained functinality for casual browsing.

Okay, why is it like street and highway incompatabilities? Don't they all drive on the same internet superhighway?

Oh, like parts incompatabilities between say Ford vs BMW vs Toyota when having to find replacements?

Wow. That sounds surprisingly probable, now that you bring it up. Ubuntu is wildly popular, but requires a lot of money. Microsoft has a lot of money and seems to be trending toward open source.

> The whole distro bs is just plain stupid...

LFS for the win!

If it is so easy to create a drop in replacement, why can't CentOS continue as usual?

You're not wrong. I've maintained a mission critical CentOS server for the better part of a decade and it has been quite stable and dependable, despite their embrace of systemd which broke stuff the system required. I think I only had to do a manual reboot three times during that point, which is good, because it is on a remote mountaintop with access to the range controlled by armed guards.

Still, you seem to be missing the larger point. Suddenly, CentOS is dead. Maybe I'm an outlier, but that seems like a disruption in its stability and dependability.

> its action silences a group of people

Yes, a group of people attacking democracy.

> But I did assert that past infections does reduce the doses you need to give to reach herd immunity, which is a point you seemed to argue with.

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I wasn't arguing that past infections change the needed doses, I was arguing that undiagnosed positives waste limited doses. Hope that's clarified.

Next year wil be the year of Linux on the desktop.

(It's already largely conquered every other environment, from supercomputing clusters to SBC.)

And keeping this on topic:

"What’s an astronaut’s favorite part of a computer? The space bar."

I quit using Lynx (and other text mode browsers) when I started hitting a lot of sites that wouldn't render. This was largely after Flash. I seem to remember JavaScript being a problem. I started using Lynx in the 90's over dialup, telneting into a Unix machine.

> Oh, ideally you wouldn't vaccinate people who are already immune, but saying it hinders herd immunity is a bit silly.

If you only have 100M doses and you waste half on undetected positives, that definitely hinders achieving herd immunity. Unless you are saying uncontrolled spread helps develop herd immunity. It does, but it isn't a desirable method.

Sure, there may be 53M infections, but how many of those untested positives will go on to get a vaccine? This will actually hinder herd immunity, wasting limited vaccines.

100M doses brings us closer to 17%. We need 400M doses to innoculate 200M people, which is what we need to achieve 70%, counting the 16M people that have been diagnosed with the disease.