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Seems to be a good service to me. There seem to have been some complaints recently, though: https://www.reddit.com/r/nextdns/comments/ju2hfw/nextdns_pri...

The French were aware that their traditional (mid-19th century) red trousers were not appropriate for modern warfare. Unfortunately, getting them replaced was not an easy task due to political difficulties. This article (in French) is a good summary of the French army's efforts from 1903 to find a uniform more suited to modern warfare: http://rosalielebel75.franceserv.com/reforme-uniforme.html It does mention the importing of red dye from Germany, in the context of the planned future uniform being a patriotic mix of red, white and blue, and the red being omitted due to the supply being curtailed.

Apparently there are sufficient (even I have one - 7 IIRC) that an even more exclusive club as been formed: https://rosschurchley.com/blog/who-else-has-an-erdos-bacon-s...

No problem. This article might be of some interest: https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/ There are, of course, political challenges in persuading researchers to share data, primarily the fear of other researchers using those data for their own papers or to secure funding, depriving the originator of the work of the chance to do the same. I hear this at conferences quite often. The part I'm working on is at attempt to catalogue the places were research data may be stored and the requirements various journals and repositories impose on researchers who want to deposit data there. Gathering this information, curating it and making it easily accessible is not trivial, and relies upon a lot of manual curation by specialist "knowledge engineers".

I'd happily have done that grunt work, back when I was in a lab. The work may not have been interesting but at least I could feel as if I was being useful whilst also paying the mortgage. Instead, I've ended up writing software which is related to assisting journals in the task of getting researchers to share their data.

Absolutely. My work has been better than ever due to not being in the office and not having to do a horrible commute (min. 45 mins each way, usually more). The evenings are pretty dull, though - no jam sessions or martial arts classes can run, so my hobbies are on hold.

I'll pass that on, though we're not likely to be back at work for a while.

Definitely not - the staff are working from home (my wife would otherwise be working in the building shown). I don’t think these sounds were ever live.

There's already a related climate project:

https://www.climateprediction.net/

I used to work for them a few years ago.

Large university, team of 8. All out-of-hours work is on a “best effort” basis only, i.e. I’ll do what I can (which may be nothing) if emailed.

I have found Soma FM to be excellent for the purpose of masking annoying noises at work, and pay them a small subscription. They have various channels with a variety of useful genres.

I've got the opposite problem - office in the city centre, home out in the country where I can afford to live. So, 30 minutes from my house to the city outskirts, 30 more from there to the office, whether it's by car, bus, or a combination. Then, the same in reverse in the evening. These times can be higher and are often unpredictable.

Working from home would be easy and save me a lot of time, but it's very much frowned upon, as you say.

I see a few on iOS from time to time, but they are blocked by Adblock Pro with a hosts file listing Facebook servers.

Indeed. But, they still do this even after I have explicitly requested emails.

I'm dealing with a company at the moment where the interaction tends to go like this:

1. They call my mobile number, but I am not available.

2. They email me to say that they can't get hold of me and ask me to phone them.

3. I contact their customer support on Twitter who tell me what the original message was.

Simply sending me the message by email in the first place would save some time. I'd also then have a log of any discussion, which I don't get on the telephone (but they record conversations).

I don't use Telegram or Android at the moment and so can't be sure, but I wonder if this would help: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-remove-android-a...

Yes, it's certainly easy to manage on one system. As the production system I work on is an academic one with few concurrent users it's possible to get away with that.

Web Development | University of Oxford dept. of Engineering Science | Oxford | ONSITE, VISA | full-time

https://eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-detail/?vacancyID=141107

We're looking for a front-end developer to work ont the redevelopment of our fairsharing.org application; details are on the page linked to above. In addition to Javascript skills any design experience would be welcome.

The closing date is the 10th of July.

My SO gets these also. One of the people with the same first and last name as her is a government official and has inadvertently forwarded confidential information once or twice. My name is unusual enough that this doesn't happen with Gmail, but I do own a domain that's one letter different from an American local government domain, so I receive emails with misspelled addresses from them every few months.

Being such a tall person, your concern is appreciated. In economy class my knees touch the back of the seat in front even before it reclines.

Also a jazz musician (bass), though it's been years since I've done any gigs.

This works well:

https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-for-ios/

...but, updates to the app will no longer be allowed, so it will eventually stop working on some future iOS update, by which point I hope to have found an alternative platform.

https://adguard.com/en/blog/adguard-pro-discontinued/

Based on your description of the scenario I'd think the driver in question considered you a "queue jumper", and their fury at what they perceived as your objectionable driving would cause them to act unsafely.

I see similar things from time to time on a road I use frequently. In cases where it's very busy and both lanes fill up then merging in turn tends to happen quite well, but when there's only moderate traffic and it's queuing in one lane then events such as that you describe may occur. Perhaps some signs saying "queue in both lanes" and "merge in turn" at the appropriate points on the road might improve things.

Noise was certainly a problem for this proposed inter-city transport:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Rotodyne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9633v6U0wo

Unfortunately, I think you're right about viable competition. Google's equivalent seems to be the closest in terms of features but from what I've seen the watches are buggy and slow, as well as having privacy issues.

I've got the latest watch and it is very good, so although the price is high it does not seem particularly unreasonable.

iPhones, on the other hand, give me the impression of being very expensive for what they offer and I find them unsatisfactory in a variety of ways. Currently, I plan to keep the iPhone 8 for as long as I can then decide what to do depending on the state of the market; this will probably involve getting a reasonably-priced Android phone with a custom ROM and some sort of fitness tracker.

Thanks, that Nokia 6.1 looks interesting. I note the mention of how the sides are designed to be gripped securely; my iPhone 8 always feels a bit slippery.

If I could find a suitable replacement for the Apple Watch (which I find very useful) then I'd be very tempted by this.

I’d also pay for the ability to see where I was at a particular time, as it does seem like a very useful feature. In fact, I did pay for it by obtaining an iOS app that stores location history locally.

Google’s implementation looks really convenient but feels too creepy to me.

Indeed. I don't have a Facebook account and yet various apps on my iOS devices still attempt to connect to graph.facebook.com (amongst other servers I'd rather they didn't, e.g. flurry).

Luckily, in the 1990s I could happily play electric bass (upright or guitar) in jazz gigs without receiving complaints. A shame it took so long to catch on - I think that the Fender Jazz was a great invention, and actually works well for jazz.

It's never worked for me - the answer is always something along the lines of "oh no, I'd have to install another app, it's such a hassle".

If only there were some means for people to use whatever apps they liked and for these to communicate with each other.