Readit Newsgyger commented on Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right snikket.org/blog/products... · Posted by u/MattJ100
The only anectotal experience I have with Matrix and with XMPP, there is always some message that does not immediately arrive at the recipient on mobile. Signal works just as reliable as WhatsApp in that regards.
gyger commented on GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked jayfax.neocities.org/medi... · Posted by u/jfax
Although this rant complains a lot, the programmers in the bug report acknowledge that they like this fixed, but also explain that there is architectural debt in the code that makes it hard to implement.
Being a user in Gnome, I have to say would be nice if it is there, but this will not break my whole experience.
gyger commented on A Swedish doctor's perspective on Covid sebastianrushworth.com/20... · Posted by u/gofiggy
Sweden didn’t go into total lockdown but still did a lot. In the grocery store the cashiers are in a plastic bubble. Wherever there is a line there are marks on the floor to show where to wait to keep distance. Nobody shakes hands for quite some time. Yes, people go to Cafes/restaurants but restaurants have been assessed and assigned covid-friendly seating layouts. There are many more things that clearly separate today from last year for daily life in Sweden.
So numbers going down and death rate staying low should be partly connected to this. Also, Sweden is quite a different country to begin with. Sparsely populated and half of all households are single person. So this ‘doctor’ is a bit careless while he tells the world to do like Sweden. It might end up much worse.
Also Stockholm in summer is empty. People leave the town and go on holiday, retract to the country side.
I also don't understand when he says there is/was no social distancing. That is totally not my experience here, a lot of people were working from home and commuter trains were quite empty.
Government can't really solve it either, but Cooperatives are a great way to handle it in my opinion. Next to individual ownership, it's pretty much the only thing where the interests align.
You don't want to live in government housing when money is tight and some company offers a quick buck to pluck up that hole in the budget. Coops don't have that problem, they can't be sold, as they're owned by their members, which are largely also their renters.
I agree, coops are the way to go with housing. They can be supported by the state in terms of low cost land rental or tax benefits.
I am always wondering why not more businesses are structured around coops and the state is not pushing this more.
gyger commented on Corundum: Open-source, high performance, FPGA-based NIC github.com/ucsdsysnet/cor... · Posted by u/lelf
That's part of the research we're doing!
Take a look at: https://circuit-switching.sysnet.ucsd.edu/
And: https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/UCSD_Papen_ENL...
The current generation of switches that we're working on uses diffraction gratings patterned onto glass hard drive platters, installed in a modified hard drive, spun by a custom motor controller that's synchronized to the NICs via PTP.
What are the losses between ports that you are experiencing and what is the crosstalk between ports that are not connected?
At https://www.amazon.com/Carbon-Dioxide-Theory-Climate-Change/... the author is quoted with some conspiracy theories about the German government intervening with Springer, because the German government is obviously afraid of yet another populist pseudoscience tome being published.
Most of the reviews are obvious fakes written by people named "John" and "Mike" who have exactly one review.
Thanks. Sad that it is retracted the silent way, seems to just fuel more conspiracy theorists.
None of the chapter pdfs actually contain any content, which is pretty close to what I expected from a book collecting all the evidence that CO_2 has absolutely no impact on climate.
This is the strange thing about this book. There was content before:
https://de.scribd.com/document/420577417/Fleming-RJ-2019-The...
I don't know how this was published and can be taken down without any comments by the editor. Springer Book is one of the main scientific books publishers on the market.
I stumbled across the book and was surprised to see a peer-reviewed book with this opinion.
Seems it is retracted now, although without any clear comment on the page.
Does anybody know more how this happened?
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4