Inadvertent caps lock drives me crazy, so I disabled it on Windows 10 via a registry hack. You map the key's scan code to zeroes, reboot, and problem solved. Life is better now.

uMatrix is my favorite add-on for Firefox. I use it in tandem with NoScript. I tend to have to unblock sites in two places because of this, but I want to be careful. uMatrix should continue to work as-is until Firefox decides to make some incompatible API changes that breaks it. Before uMatrix I used Request Policy.

As a layman I am surprised that rapid, readily-available tests have not already been created and distributed widely. Even if they are not 100% accurate. My ignorance is at play here. In my fantasy world I envision a simple cough test onto a strip of coated paper that turns some color if the virus is present.

Over a decade ago I built a physical pinball machine powered by WinXP. While not integrated into the game, I considered at that time running DosBox to invoke a pinball sim game to play games from the same set that this physical pinball game was originally to be a part of.

The thought of just being able to do that was probably a lot more fun than playing the sim itself.

For these giant clusters: Sonic explosions from fireworks apparatus, remotely triggered. Focused air horns. Not sure there is any type of shrapnel that could be spread effectively. Drop some kind of sticky liquid that sticks to their wings. Drones that emit smells or sounds that confuse them and cause them to change course. Flame throwers pointing skyward.

None of these things will eradicate them. It would be a war of attrition, with radar, etc. allowing devices to be positioned.

The play on the field stands.

If the key is 36 decimal digits, 10**36 which is about 2**120 or a 120-bit key. Odd that it would not be 128, unless by slim change the random value was small and leading zeroes truncated.

I understand these trials are required to ensure that they are generally safe and have limited side effects. But with only 800, I wouldn't expect to be able to gather many conclusions on how effective it is against the target virus. Given general infection rates, you might only expect say 0 or 1 infections regardless? Until they can ramp up their testing to include thousands of subjects I wouldn't get too excited.

Digital transfer to other people for the games I don't want to go to.

I am a long time subscriber of an NHL team. They made one mandatory exhibition game e-ticket only this year. I was furious. There are certain people like me who do not install ANY apps on our smartphones for security and privacy reasons. The idea that I HAVE to install an app irritates me. We ate the cost of that exhibition game. Thankfully they still use paper for the regular season. But I already told them I will not re-subscribe if they go electronic for all. E-tickets solves some problem they have; it is not my problem. I go to very few games. The thought of doing digital transfer bullshit for 40+ games is very unappealing.

This is still my every day mail client. I feel like a fossil now ...

That's how I know people lived on my land decades before I was here. Extrapolating, I'm sure this will work for periods of millions of years too.

Naively thinking AI will not be used for creating killbots is like thinking you could create the Internet and not have it used for porn.

World War 1 British Trench co-ordinates were down to 5 x 5 yard squares. 3m x 3m is even tighter than that so good.

I started coding as a high school student in 1972 and still code today. A former co-worker in his 80s is still coding I believe - I know he started in the 1960s.