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sjcsjcon The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)

The best bit is that the yes button is disabled.

sjcsjcon Simulation of Space Shuttle – STS 62 A Polar Express high altitude journey

Comic Book Guy level of pedanticism

Pedantry ;-)

sjcsjcon Alien Artifacts on Earth and in Our Solar System Is Possible, NASA Reports

This article disagrees.

https://grammarist.com/usage/entitled-titled/

sjcsjcon Vitamin D: The truth about an alleged Covid ‘cover-up’

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1731431/8238542

Relevant discussion with the lead researcher of the Queen Mary CORONAVIT study[0] (due to report in June).

[0] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04579640

sjcsjcon Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021

https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201009300839...

Best question I'm aware of on Yahoo Answers. And the infinite loop response is the best answer.

sjcsjcon Giving hospital-admitted patients Vitamin D could cut Covid deaths 60 per cent

Original paper here https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3771318

Not yet peer reviewed, but this appears to be undeniable proof of vitamin D's efficacy re Covid, and any further inaction by governments strikes me as criminal negligence.

sjcsjcon How many early human species existed on Earth?

This is discussed in the linked article

sjcsjcon How long does a bottle of wine last after it is opened?

and being the math consultant for "A Beautiful Mind"

I love Hacker News

sjcsjcon McDonald’s Theory on How Best to Rescue Conversations

I liked it. Thanks.

sjcsjcon McDonald’s Theory on How Best to Rescue Conversations

I do this and it works. I had thought it was my own idea but now you've got me wondering if I heard it from somewhere, possibly the TED talk you're referring to.

sjcsjcon OCC allows US banks to use public blockchains as a settlement infrastructure

See also tweet chain by Jeremy Allaire https://mobile.twitter.com/jerallaire/status/134623313239625...

sjcsjcon Chess tactics explained

I experienced that with Scrabble (and as you, only play with friends now), but not with Chess. But then I'm not very good at Chess (rapid rating c 1300 on chess.com)

sjcsjcon R number for UK below 1 for first time since August

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps

Useful resource for excess deaths in Europe

sjcsjcon Nokia selected by NASA to build first ever cellular network on the Moon

Here is your answer. Multiple people post, and eventually the upvote lottery puts one of them on the front page and a discussion ensues.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24837458

sjcsjcon Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record

*at present ;-)

sjcsjcon My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf

Ha - that looks great. Thank you

sjcsjcon My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf

Fantastic word. Thank you. I love wiktionary's example usage:

"Midlife-crisis-induced Torschlusspanik has driven quite a few middle-aged men into the arms of young women, wrecking countless marriages." [0]

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Torschlusspanik

sjcsjcon Dupes and Duplicity

Very enjoyable, if long, read, and a fascinating website I hadn't come across before. Thanks for posting.

sjcsjcon How Chekhov invented the modern short story

Somewhat off topic, but interestingly Victor Hugo is regarded as a saint in the Cao Dai religion of Vietnam.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cao-Dai

sjcsjcon SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally

Ditto, but it can be difficult at times to wade through the nonsense. At least it's less painful than it used to be since they switched to hiding comments by default, some time ago.

sjcsjcon Tom Lehrer's Mathematical Songs (1951)

Armstrong and Miller have several excellent parodies of Flanders and Swann on YouTube, if you happen to like their somewhat coarse humour.

sjcsjcon CNO neutrinos from the Sun are finally detected

Your comment made me read the article. Thanks.

sjcsjcon The Math of Card Shuffling (2018)

Seems a good opportunity to link to this again:

http://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html

sjcsjcon Google Earth Timelapse

https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse#v=51.4045,30.05423,...

Pripyat (Chernobyl)

sjcsjcon Ask HN: Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?

Just seen this, which supports your point of view:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51892402

Edit: Ah. The list of signatories is worth reviewing.

sjcsjcon Ask HN: Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?

Yeah, fair enough, my good faith line was a bit pointless. I was just trying to be nice before disagreeing with you. Ham-fisted of me.

I was (quite vociferously) of your opinion till Boris Johnson's press conference on Thursday. I changed my mind during it listening to Whitty and Vallance explain their strategy. I now think it makes sense.

sjcsjcon Ask HN: Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?

I believe your comment is in good faith, but I also believe you are wrong.

This approach sounds very similar to the UK approach, overseen by Whitty[0] and Vallance[1], and agreed with by Neal[2] and Ferguson[3] (and I assume more but I haven't looked very hard). I don't think all these guys are morons. Well, I hope they're not.

[0] Chris Whitty, UK Chief Medical Officer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Whitty

[1] Patrick Vallance, UK Chief Science Officer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Vallance

[2] Keith Neal, Professor Emeritus - Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Univ of Nottingham https://uk.linkedin.com/in/keith-neal-1818b391

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/nottingh... (there was a better quote on the BBC but I can't find it now)

[3] Neil Ferguson, https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/neil.ferguson Haven't got a link but I heard him speak on UK Radio 4's Today programme this morning.

sjcsjcon Ask HN: Have you been infected by Covid-19? What is it like?

>>>so I wont post it here since I don't want to be mocked for it.

Please tell us. Mockery on here is of no consequence.

Oh, and thanks for posting and good luck.

sjcsjcon Experts envision two scenarios if the new coronavirus isn’t contained

https://youtu.be/ALQTdCYGISw

Neil Ferguson of Imperial College estimates the current rate of new infections per day in China is 50,000.

sjcsjcon One of biggest frauds in U.S. farm history

I don't think ancestors is the word you're looking for here ;-)