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The best April Fools joke I can remember was an anti-joke, when Google announced Gmail on the 1st of April. They were promising what were then unbelievably generous allowances and no one could agree on whether they were serious or not.
parrot VM: initially a joke until someone twigged that a dynamic-lang runtime to compete with .Net & JRE wasn't so absurd.
petecox commented on New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support apple.com/newsroom/2020/0... · Posted by u/Austin_Conlon
Simple things should be easy, hard things possible. That's the essence of good design.
Not, prevention of minority use cases.
Well at least it finally has a trackpad, after years of insisting that no one would ever want to manipulate the UI with a mouse pointer.
un-prevention, of sorts.
petecox commented on Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of Covid-19 jstage.jst.go.jp/article/... · Posted by u/robomartin
where do I get chloroquine? is this something I can ask my general practitioner for?
It's commonly used for malaria. A related '-quine' is the active ingredient of Gin and Tonic.
petecox commented on Hydroxychloroquine in vitro against SARS-CoV-2 [abstract] ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3... · Posted by u/nico_h
the “background” says that “ Currently, there is no evidence to support the use of hydroxychloroquine in SARS-CoV-2 infection.” but the results and conclusion are :
RESULTS: Hydroxychloroquine (EC50=0.72 μM) was found to be more potent than chloroquine (EC50=5.47 μM) in vitro. Based on PBPK models results, a loading dose of 400 mg twice daily of hydroxychloroquine sulfate given orally, followed by a maintenance dose of 200 mg given twice daily for 4 days is recommended for SARS-CoV-2 infection, as it reached three times the potency of chloroquine phosphate when given 500 mg twice daily 5 days in advance.
CONCLUSIONS: Hydroxychloroquine was found to be more potent than chloroquine to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 in vitro.“
can someone make sense of this?
The (poorly worded) background suggests no previous research has been done concerning this compound w.r.t. corona.
petecox commented on U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days nbcnews.com/politics/dona... · Posted by u/sahin
Excluding the UK hints that this is, at least in part, politically motivated. In terms of risk the UK is no different to other European countries. We are certainly not immune to coronavirus, and there are currently no restrictions on travel between the UK and the continent.
UK (and Ireland) are outside Schengen.
Even if they don't restrict it to British passport holders travelling to the USA, it's still arguably easier to screen for the virus through one departure point than, say, 30.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
It's not possible to have a site both for curiosity and for battle. In battle, repetition is critical: you have to hammer the same points over and over until you win. That affects curiosity the way that a tank battalion affects a park. Since we can't have both, we have to pick one; the one we pick here is curiosity. This implies nothing about any specific battle. It's simply the type of forum this is.