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This first one may well be the most amazing science discovery so far this century. I wanted to create a link to coverage by this specific journalist because he seemed to grasp the significance right away...

We don't seem to have a thread that covers amazing achievements in science and technology, so here goes.

Great in-depth article from the BBC: Can you still transmit Covid-19 after vaccination? So far, the available Covid-19 vaccines have not been judged primarily on their ability to prevent transmission – though this is now being evaluated as a secondary endpoint for many of them. Instead, their...

Good to know, thanks. Samsung also says that the NVMe 970 Pro is 2-bit MLC, but that's limited to 1TB rather than 4TB.

SARS-CoV-1 is a mystery. I think that's why everyone became complacent. MERS is still going, but neither of those seem to be anywhere near as contagious. I don't know how we lucked out like that, given that other coronaviruses (Common Cold) appear to be eternal. I take your point about hoping...

I'm not sure it will be. In the past year, your chances of catching it in the USA were roughly 10%. That's analogous to being vaccinated with a decent vaccine. If you take 100 people and vaccinate them with a vaccine that is only 50% efficacious, then at least 50 of those can still spread the...

Dr Fauci mentioned 75%. That suggests he believes that the uninhibited R0 of COVID-19 is 4.0, or maybe 3.8 if you allow for a vaccine efficacy of 95%. That would be the center of the range that Chinese scientists originally calculated in early 2020. It's pretty simple arithmetic. To avoid...

LED filament bulbs have really taken off over the last few years. I ignored the older ones as decorative curiosities, but the current household ones in Warm White and Cool White from Osram can top 130 lumens /Watt. They run dramatically cooler than non-filament bulbs. This is because there are...

You used to be able to store the admin password with /savecred. Massive security hole, but probably not a problem for family members. Unfortunately, I have read that Microsoft has disabled that in various versions of Windows 10, so you would have to try it and see.

I found this article at The Conversation most illuminating: QAnon tattoos So essentially, these right wing terrorists/trump militiamen are nazis that have replaced swastikas with more subtle symbols. I find it interesting that religious nutters, antivaxers, climate change denialists, and...

Without impeachment progressing to a conviction, which has never happened to a president because it requires a 2/3 Senate majority, there cannot be a punishment, so no way to block him from running for office again. Most safeguards and protections in the US system rely on people having a sense...

Careful fb, the veracity of your second link is questionable (Murdoch media).

Aug 1, 2017 <$3000 Aug 2, 2017 Aug 4, 2017 Sep 2, 2017 $5000 Sep 15, 2017 <$3000 Dec 4, 2017 >$11000 Dec 17, 2017 <$20000 Feb 2, 2018 $6300 Dec 7, 2018 $3300 Jul 27, 2020 <$11000 Oct 26, 2020 $13000 Nov 30, 2020 <$20000 Dec 27, 2020 >$28000 Any takers?

Missed you man. It's great to hear from you, no matter how briefly. Yeah, I often wonder why he went quiet. I figured no-one had heard from him, apparently no-one here knew anything about him. I guess a sudden cardiac event can't be ruled out - he dropped enough hints. If not, I hope he too...

Retiring Rep. Paul Mitchell, who has resigned from the GOP in disgust at the post-election shenanigans: In my opinion, the extremes of both parties are dragging their parties and this country off a cliff. The majority of Americans are in the middle. The majority of Americans want solutions to...

Moving closer in or further out?

This is a heads up in case anyone else encounters an issue like it. User 1 and User 2 each have their own PC. User 1 has four email accounts, A, B, C and D, where B, C and D are Gmail accounts. User 2 has two email accounts, A and E, where E is a Gmail account. User 1 connects to email account...

That post needs a warning label on it like Twitter and Facebook have resorted to. The 'CCTV' is actually publicly broadcast webcams, provided so that everything inside can be observed by anyone who is interested. Anyone can observe in person, provided there is room and they don't interfere...

Second series (2020) from Linus Tech Tips. This is part 4 ("Dell SCAMMED Me"). The first 4 minutes and 15 seconds are compulsory viewing as he rips Dell a new one. I'm pretty cynical, but Dell surpassed my expectations here.

Yes, but does that conventional wisdom still make sense when applied to a fiber cable in a benign environment? I suppose it could be damaged during installation if someone went nuts with the bend radius.

Sorry, I thought Samsung had switched the EVO line to QLC (4-bit MLC), but they are still labeling those drives as QVO models. I mean, the 870 is only available with 4-bit (but it's still called QVO).

It's been 5 years since you were here. :o Good to see you visit, Adcadet. ;) WRT lightning, don't forget the buildings are still sharing power, and therefore copper cable. If you are in a lightning-prone area, nothing short of a full lightning protection system upstream of your power box is...

Samsung is probably trying to distract you from the fact that their 'non-Pro' products are actually using QLC NAND (4 bits per cell, or 16 levels!). By labeling everything as MLC, the vast majority of their customers won't realize that they're buying crap. And maybe they have plans for 5 bits...

That's just complete rubbish, and solid evidence of the new Supreme Court operating on ideology rather than facts. Even Iran closed places of worship. And I can't see any religious discrimination here - none of the other venues cited are likely to have more than 10 people in one closed space...

From March 2020: The greatest risk factor of disease and death is Donald Trump Probably seemed shrill at the time, but it all seems to check out in hindsight. My key takeaway is that craziness is known to be contagious.

I'm intrigued. Why do you need a numeric keypad?

There's a great fact-checker piece on the BBC about election fraud claims in the US: https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54874120

An enterprising Kiwi has created his own custom version of the yet to be released Tesla Cybertruck: https://www.drive.com.au/news/new-zealand-reinvents-tesla-cybertruck-124559.html?trackLink=SMH2

I like the fact that your car display includes a "+" sign to highlight that it is on the less usual side of zero.

Murdoch seeks influence to wield power. Trump is a dead duck so even Fox is transitioning. Newscorp (including Sky) abandoned Trump a couple of weeks ago. Short-term problem for the Murdoch crime family is that Biden doesn't owe them anything, so they will probably suck up to him for while...

Ouch! What about Arizona?

I expected that the US would pass 100,000 new cases per day around the time of the election. Just had a look, and it passed that on Wednesday. Thursday was 113,500.

The accelerated mutation through a jump to a new species and back again is the sort of thing we are supposed to be afraid of with viral epidemics, and certainly that was the initial fear with SARS-CoV-2. Instead, we have been distracted by how surprisingly contagious it has turned out to be.

Following on from Sedrosken's point: There's an essential starting point for grasping the crisis engulfing US politics

It didn't make Boris Johnson any smarter, so I wouldn't hold your breath. 7000 new cases a day in the UK, not that far behind the US per capita. Oh yeah, and he *has* been hospitalized. As predicted, this is playing out with the same spin (precautionary, "hard at work still running the country...

Might be secondhand? Nothing wrong with that, 1650 is about AU$250. Not much else you can buy right now in Oz. Agree with Tea's decision, in that OEM will only get you a stupidly small SSD. And pairing an HDD with a small SSD was common several years ago, but it's not a good idea with the...

Good point about the hidden BSOD. I was really tired when I was trying to deal with it. According to the user, pressing F8 doesn't seem to get anywhere, so no, can't get to Safe Mode. Bear in mind that the F keys are dual-function on this laptop, and the default is the alternative operation...

Lenovo Thinkpad, 2-3 years old. Displays Lenovo logo at startup but doesn't get any further. Changed Boot Type in BIOS setup from Quick to Diagnostic, now displays Windows logo and rotating circle, then reboots - ad infinitum. I'm on the other side of the world from this, so it's kinda hard to...

I'm including this article not because I'm trying to buy into US politics, but because I believe it's a fair representation of how the rest of the world views the USA. It's written for an Australian audience, but I'd be interested to see if anyone thinks the author's insight makes sense. Eg...

Sorry I'm late to this. :( The InWin 301C is great, highly recommend it due to a) quality b) appearance c) USB C port I used it with an MSI Mortar board (also includes RGB) to get the USB C front panel support. With AMD, you need the B550 chipset for this. I included an external DVD drive. I...

Although my recommended browser is Firefox (more a case of anything but Chrome), I mainly use Vivaldi myself because: a) I can't live without the seamless tab stacking b) It doesn't keep every damn page in memory so I don't need 32GB RAM just to run web browsers c) IMO general usability is...

I understand your skepticism, but there's a few problems with your graph. I used the CDC page you linked and came up with a 2020 total deaths for that period of about 25,000. So that bar is wrong. For deaths that have been attributed on the basis of the details on death certificates, I suggest...

Paul Krugman piece from NYT reprinted at Sydney Morning Herald: Indeed, at this point Arizona, with 7 million people, is reporting about as many new cases each day as the whole EU, with 446 million people. Amazing.

Wow, numbers in the US have gone nuts in the last week. A sign of how dramatically things have changed is that the Texas Governor has now mandated masks in public places - penalty $300. That's a massive turnaround. Apparently one in three tests in Arizona are returning positive - is that true...

Is it a coincidence that all the US states where the disease is accelerating seem to have Republican governors? I couldn't find any exceptions. I'm not trying to imply the converse, that Democrat governors have all done a good job containing it. I suspect that the relaxation of restrictions may...

The stats for Arizona don't look good - the number of cases doubled in the last fortnight. Don't worry, I don't think the USA will let someone else take the #1 ranking ... What has surprised me is that regardless of what government leaders say, most citizens have sufficient self-preservation...

Very good explanation of the George Floyd autopsies: Dr Mike Hansen is one of my favorite YouTube medicos. As a pulmonary and ICU specialist, he has provided invaluable insight into the realities of COVID-19.

The USA is the heart of the English-speaking world, and probably the flagship of modern democracies. Countries like Australia and the UK have derived indirect benefit from the USA's very existence. But the future has looked bleak for the last decade or two. The extent of the riots, following on...

1. Yeah, that's warm alright. :( 2. I *think* Midea was the brand of portable A/C we had a few years ago. It wasn't too bad as that type of unit goes. 3. Do you get your A/C serviced every year, i.e. pressure checked, fins cleaned? Compressor could be good for a while yet if it's still...

It's worth pointing out that there are several countries with Case Fatality Ratios less than 2%. What they all have in common is better and more timely testing than the US and other hot spots. So the denominator (cases) is closer to the true number of infections and CFR is lower. Inversely, a...