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Re: Masks work, even cloth ones

> N95 or surgical masks, worn properly, work pretty well

Most n(95 masks seem to have an exhaust valve, so they may protect you better, but spread more unfiltered aerosol for others to breathe

Re: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

That sounds like more fun than using Primos commands to hack Prince Phillip's mailbox in Prestel!

Re: Proof reader

You might not make much use of individual letters, but I was taught phonics, got on well with them and found it fairly hard to read that line with the transposed internal letters.

Re: Other use cases

> Adding H2 to piped gas is trivial

Indeed, that's more or less what they used to do when adjusting the calorific value of coal gas. By quenching white hot coke with steam they generated hydrogen (and carbon monoxide), this "water gas" was then mixed with the basic coal gas (mainly methane) to produce a gas with a constant calorific value.

Re: Size bias

We probably don't "use" most of our brains anyway. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lorber

Re: TITSUP

Downvoted for nuspeak.

S is for See or Survey.

Re: Wireless Display

You'll need a Sailfish device.

Re: How exactly?

> I've owned a car for more than half my life now, and I don't want to have to deal with the loss of the feeling of freedom that it gives me.

Have you tried joining your local car club?

@45rpm

> In the 70s, 80s and even to a certain extent the 90s

> Acorn, Apple, Commodore or Atari badge (i.e. the big players that we all remember and love)

But, apart from a smidgen from Commodore and a tad from Apple, those were toys. "Big players": business users and programmers were using DG, DEC, National Semiconductor, Sun and so on. Look how quickly they all started with, or took up, Unix if they survived into the 90s.

Not that this aside really matters one jot to Apple as long as Apple can retain and grow customers.

Re: A curious thing...

They did get the pressure down to a "few mB, the article says that the pressure was 1 mB.

Re: Hydrogen is a problem

Burning anything in air, including hydrogen, will produce oxides of nitrogen

Re: Nice but

> Why is it WHITE!

Because you haven't painted it or applied transfers* yet?

* that's decalcomania for those across the pond.

Re: Whiteleys Garden Centre?

Is that all that's left of a once world famous department store?

Re: People have a choice?

Thanks for the pointer to "Little Snitch". Pricey, but worth a test run or three before commiting.

Re: Shazaam!

1970's? I knew the meaning of Shazam back in the '50s ('cos I wasn't old enough to remember it in the '40s;) Fawcett comics!

As to the more recent Shazam, last time I checked, it still worked on dumb mobile 'phones, how's that for C20th continuity in C21?

65W fast charging!

Considering how hot a 60 Watt filament light bulb gets, I'm wondering how powerful the fan has to be inside this 'phone? Or are these special Chinese Watts for export only?

Re: Bigger birds have bigger targets

Thanks a lot for the video link. I think that pilot was very brave to untangle the bird without mail gloves and a heavy faceshield. To think that my biggest worry used to be fear of stalling! This guy could have lost eyes and fingers!

Trabs?

@Cederic

Read astounded1's post, he's already told you!

Re: The big problem however...

@Elledan

> figure out how to make EVs work with cramped rental homes

That's easy: follow the lead of the big Japanese motorcycle manufacturers and use interchangeable batteries. Just swap them at your nearest Petr^H^H^H^HBattery Station.

Re: Alternative?

@bolac

It is very fair. Gnumeric is just a spreadsheet. Does anybody expect it to function as a database or a word processor?.

If you want to do statistics properly, use a Statistics package (for example Minitab).

If you want to create graphs, use a graphing package (for example Graphpad).

You can fill in the rest...

Re: I'll stick to my old TAS* TV.

Do you know that you need a different stylus to do justice to the sound recorded on 78s?

Re: Among the odder products of the COVID-19 pandemic are “flights to nowhere”

Yeah, I know it's because they have "plenty of plants" but, having cycle toured from Newark airport down to the Appalachians, I can report that much of New Jersey is pleasantly rural. Your view from a freeway may vary.

I avoided Florida, because I really don't like high humidity.

Is my local farmer going to war in her pea viner?

You either need a huge shotgun (a "puntgun") with high mass, high velocity "pellets", or you shoot the ducks from behind so the pellets are guided by the rear facing feathers straight into the ducks b0ody. I guess you shot your ducks in the back?

Re: Small houses

> If I’m on a restaurant outdoor terrace and a CV19 carrier is at another table 3 metres away and we are facing away from each other for an hour or more , I feel I am unlikely to be infected.

> If I’m in an indoor pub with loud music and face to face with a carrier who is raising his voice at me and close to me to be heard above the noise for 30 seconds, I feel more likely to be infected,

You don't need an app for that!

Re: Nothing new really

Didn't they evolve into minicomputers that then of course needed their own "I/O channel controllers" that evolved into today's microprocessors ...?

Re: Still very poor

So why don't you tell us which third world countries you've been to?

I have been to Lao PDR and can confirm that their 4g network is superb.

Re: Applefying the car

Do Teslas really have a chassis? Doesn't monocoque construction rule in the USA?

Re: With regards to getting hacked..

> Geneva Convention

Reminder: The USA is not a signatory.