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bb123··on Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies
About a year overall but I started to have meaningful protection after about 6 months. There is no one in the UK currently offering it for adults so I had to travel to a specialist clinic Atlanta a few times.
bb123··on Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies
It is not well known but this also works for adults too. I’m 28 and recently completed oral immunotherapy therapy for my extremely severe peanut allergy. I used to go anaphylactic from single milligram exposure and now I’m eating multiple peanuts a day. As an adult you have to go slower and be more careful but absolutely can be done and is life changing.
bb123··on Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies
It is not well known but this also works for adults too. I’m 28 and recently completed oral immunotherapy therapy for my extremely severe peanut allergy. I used to go anaphylactic from single milligram exposure and now I’m eating multiple peanuts a day. As an adult you have to go slower and be more careful but absolutely can be done and is life changing.
bb123··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
There appears to be a workaround but my question is how are they going to get all of these endpoints out of a BSOD loop?
bb123··on Panic at the Job Market
That is a huge amount of text to explain a graph of tech job openings overlaid on a graph of interest rates. Needs an editor.
bb123··on Power station's last coal delivery arrives by rail
As far as I could tell from a few minutes of googling the emergency stations were at West Burton, but both have been decommissioned as of 31st March this year.
bb123··on Power station's last coal delivery arrives by rail
I think the lede that this article buries is that this is the last coal fired power station in the UK. The UK has been burning coal since 1882 so that feels like quite a significant milestone.
bb123··on More transparent than glass, new material cools rooms and self-cleans
Most air conditioning systems don't provide fresh air. They just cool the air already in the room/building.
bb123··on Making old orchards new again
Yes I think this is an American thing. In the UK cider is always an alcoholic drink.
bb123··on Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town
But this would stop you getting the sand hotter than 100c - which is one of the main advantages of using sand over water for heat storage.
bb123··on Study: 61 UK firms tried a 4-day workweek and after a year, they still love it
I’d happily take a 20% pay cut for a 4 day work week, if it was offered.
bb123··on Walmart buying TV-brand Vizio for its ad-fueling customer data
Yeah 100%. It is just a dumb display. One input. I don't even use the speakers or the remote it came with.
bb123··on Walmart buying TV-brand Vizio for its ad-fueling customer data
Just buy an Apple TV or similar and never connect the display to the internet.
bb123··on Updating Gov.uk’s crown
Well while we’re discussing needless costs associated with changes in leadership shall we talk about those hilariously over the top inaugurations you have every four years?
bb123··on US will relax pollution-limiting rules for vehicle emissions
Electricity consumption in the US has historically been higher than it is now - why do you assume that a) the conversion to electric vehicles will be overnight b) the grid can't be enhanced to cope?
bb123··on Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming
What part of that source supports the claim that "men listen to media that promotes a kind of package deal of beliefs"?
bb123··on Alabama executes Kenneth Smith using untested method of nitrogen gas
I thought the general understanding of inert gas asphyxia was that it was painless as gasses like nitrogen don't trigger the hypercapnic alarm response, which in humans arises mostly from blood carbon dioxide levels rising. This report makes it sound like that isn't the case. Does anyone know why?
bb123··on Kenneth Smith 'struggled for life' for 22 mins in Alabama nitrogen gas execution
I thought the general understanding of inert gas asphyxia was that it was painless as gasses like nitrogen don't trigger the hypercapnic alarm response, which in humans arises mostly from blood carbon dioxide levels rising. This report makes it sound like that isn't the case. Does anyone know why?
bb123··on Electric cars suffer 'unsustainable' depreciation in secondhand market
It's 13k for a nearly brand EV, I can't see how anyone wouldn't see that as a good deal? What specifically (besides the badge) is wrong with it?
bb123··on Electric cars suffer 'unsustainable' depreciation in secondhand market
I did not say that there was a bias in the article? I said the publisher has a bias. Which they clearly do.
bb123··on Electric cars suffer 'unsustainable' depreciation in secondhand market
Personally I think taking the journalistic perspective of the publisher into account when reading an article is important.
bb123··on Electric cars suffer 'unsustainable' depreciation in secondhand market
The Corsa-e/e208 is also a shockingly good deal - you can pick a 2 year old one up with <20k miles for 10-12k.
bb123··on Electric cars suffer 'unsustainable' depreciation in secondhand market
This does mean if you're in the market for a used EV you can get a staggeringly good deal at the moment. Take this as an example:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202311013531800

The car is almost brand new, has a realistic 180-200 mile range and a wealth of features. Total cost 12k. It is in warranty for another 60k miles.

This has got to be the cheapest way to get hold of a 50kWh battery right now. It would almost be worth working out how to buy one of these just to pull the battery out of it.

bb123··on Electric cars suffer 'unsustainable' depreciation in secondhand market
They're out there, but they often don't come with a desirable badge. Check this out as an example:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202311013531800

The car is almost brand new, has a realistic 180-200 mile range and a wealth of features. Total cost 12k.

bb123··on Electric cars suffer 'unsustainable' depreciation in secondhand market
Worth mentioning that The Telegraph (also known as the Torygraph) is a zealously anti-EV newspaper. They have a strong conservative bias and routinely publish borderline fake news regarding EVs.
bb123··on Enthusiasts struggle to keep model railway industry on track
Model trains require a large amount of dedicated indoor space. With millennials and zoomers frozen out of the housing market I expect a large proportion of them simply don't have the room.
bb123··on App store to be 'split in two' ahead of EU iPhone sideloading deadline: report
I'm looking at it from the perspective of my parents.

For them it is a major feature of the iPhone that you can download any app with complete impunity. No need for $150/year antivirus (for those big scary viruses windows used to get absolutely riddled with). No need to worry it's going to change your default search engine or start mining bitcoin. You know when you download something from the App Store it has been through some level of vetting. I'm not sure why so many people here are wilfully blind to this use case.

Also, the reason I specifically bring up WhatsApp is that we know Facebook will take ridiculous liberties given the chance - remember Onavo?

bb123··on App store to be 'split in two' ahead of EU iPhone sideloading deadline: report
I think it will be very hard to do that when the other big players move their apps off the store. They will be effectively forced to download apps like WhatsApp and Instagram from wherever Meta puts them. The net result is more hassle, more risk, and worse privacy and security for them. How is that a win?
bb123··on App store to be 'split in two' ahead of EU iPhone sideloading deadline: report
I do not relish the idea of having to download Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp directly from a 3rd party store. For me Apple standing between sketchy devs like Zuck-co and my phone is a feature not a bug.
bb123··on App store to be 'split in two' ahead of EU iPhone sideloading deadline: report
I think for many people the fact it is a tightly walled garden is a feature - those walls keep bad actors out. For many people a phone is just a tool, and they're quite happy to pay a tax to make it trouble free.

The generation of my parents (60s+) is generally not hugely tech savvy. They remember the days of windows XP well - endless viruses, trojans and expensive security software. One of the reasons iPhones are so popular with this group is they let them use the web without fear of dealing with that again.

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