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Comment Re:Just now? (Score 1) 15

They're bluetooth. Android has supported this for years. Is there something special about the Joycon that makes it not work with standard drivers? Is iOS just now getting support for bluetooth controllers?

I can't answer your first question but, for the second, iOS 13 (released September 2019) was the first to support bluetooth game controllers.

Comment Re:will be super consumers (Score 2) 230

You honestly expect people to replace a $2 outlet with an USB equipped one at $30? It's cheaper, more convenient and probably safer to stick with a usb wall wart.

The OP picked a pretty expensive one as an example. Twin switched sockets without any USB sockets are going for about £4 on Amazon, whereas those with USB-A go for about £15 - meaning that the premium is 3.75x.

As USB-C becomes more ubiquitous, I'd expect twin switched USB-C sockets to eventually get down to the same price as the USB-A ones today. At that point a 3.75x premium doesn't seem too bad to get 2 USB-C sockets and 2 free plug sockets vs 1 free plug socket with the other permanently taken up by a wall wart.

Comment Worship Godzilla (Score 1) 107

I grew up in the city in the '60s and '70s; working as a bike messenger in high school, my first stop was to get a roll of DIMES from the dispatcher, so I could call into the office for my next run.

On the chrome coin box of every pay phone in the Five Boroughs, some little old lady had scratched the words "WORSHIP GOD" with the pointy end of a church key-style can opener. Every single pay phone in every neighborhood. She had the grudging respect of a lot of graffiti artists because of sheer coverage (and the fact that she'd go into some really rough places).

Not the respect of everyone, however. It was trivial to add "ZILLA" to the end of her tag.

All these memories will be gone, like Krylon in a subway car wash.

k.

Comment Re:It's about twice that (Score 2) 282

Over 75% of all victims, regardless of any other correlation (age, fitness, gender, symptom severity), have pericarditis or myocarditis after being infected.

What do you define as "victim"? Certainly not "any person who was infected" I assume. Otherwise it's like to see a reference for that statement.

I didn't do a thorough search but CDC saw that 5000 covid-related myocarditis in the hospitals over the course of a year:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volum...

Comment Re:Compared to what? (Score 1) 146

I believe that this was caused by overuse of arterial blood gas analysis to determine blood oxygen level. When people have abnormally high white blood cell counts (as is often the case with COVID), if it takes too long to process the samples and you don't adequately cool the blood samples, the WBCs can consume all the oxygen in the blood. The medical term for this is pseudohypoxemia.

Ehm? Blood oxygen is usually not measured by sending blood samples to the lab, but rather with a real-time non-invasive pulse oximeter, as started by the paper that you cite.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

That said, p.o. indeed tends to give low values under certain conditions, though mainly if the oxygen saturation is critically low anyway (based on a quick look at this paper:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... )

Comment Re:G'wan Europe (Score 1) 57

If I understand correctly, PFOA (which is a PFCA) has been banned in the EU since 2015 or so.

The teflon itself (PTFE) is not the problem, but apparently they needed PFOA to make the teflon stock to the metal. I wonder whether teflon pans are now or teflon or there is another unpleasant compound that replaces PFOA.

Comment Re:I'm confused (Score 1) 234

Netflix had a PE ratio of, what, 60 or so, and now it's done to 18.

Which is actually fairly reasonable.

I wonder how the E in P/E is calculated for a company like Netflix. Earnings are the net increase in assets over a year. When a large part of the assets is intellectual property - their own productions - then you have to estimate the value. Doesn't seem straightforward to me.

Latest numbers : 31 G$ 'content assets' out of 45 G$ balance. Increased 5 G$ over 2021, similar to earnings over 2021.

Financial statement: https://s22.q4cdn.com/95985316...

Comment Wrong war. (Score 1) 193

I thought it was cynical but on-brand for CNN+ to launch during a war, considering the cable channel made its bones during Desert Shield, with Wolf Blitzer broadcasting from Baghdad during an air strike.

Really, though: they were two years too late. People were thirsty for news about COVID. Now, if you want to see how a war is going, there's TikTok, Twitter, etc., where you can see the videos CNN will loop two days later, without the blurred-out corpses.

Then again, if they really wanted to make money, they'd broadcast executions on HLN.

k.

Comment Re:Can vs Do (Score 1) 265

Adhesive-backed hook-and-loop tape is an excellent attachment method in typical conditions where Russia operates these drones. In hotter environments I'd imagine they'd need to strap the cameras down because the PSA can run or separate, but this is not an issue in Russia or Ukraine for certain.

What kind of climate for you have in mind as problematic for duct tape? Russia spans latitudes down to 42N and has a continental climate. Record temperature is 45 C (113 F). Those drones might be stored in dark army trucks that are baking in the sun for hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Practice your fake-face detection skills (Score 1) 26

Practice here: https://www.whichfaceisreal.co...

With faces generated by GANstyle it's fairly easy to recognize fakes, for the time being.

* Blurry or crazy background. Sometimes weird blobs. Never anything recognizable.
* Fabrics of clothing undefined.
* Mismatched earrings, mismatched left/right eyeglasses. Occasionally mismatched ears. Weird hairstyle around the ears. Sometimes mismatched eye colors.

The faces themselves are very convincing, though.

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