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Comment Consumer sentiment matters (Score 1) 85

As is evident from comments here, many will be reluctant to fly on a MAX, if they know it's a MAX, and Boeing doesn't re-brand it, or the airlines don't try to hide it.
Sometimes, air frames, in passenger service, do not recover from catastrophic but correctable design issues. DH Comet and Lockheed L-188 Electra never did, although both soldiered on in military service (Electra still does, as P3), and the Electra is also still used in cargo service.

Comment Re:How the fuck is this "News for nerds?" (Score 1) 51

re: Considering that the paleo diet is a bunch of bull, ...

Well, there is no single unambiguous paleo diet, and arguing about any which tend toward my characterization of "more paleo" is getting off-topic for this thread.

re: I'm not sure I should believe the rest of that link.

It wasn't written to enroll believers. It was written to provide keywords for searches, and motivation, so people could make up their own minds.

re: Dealing with lighting issues at night is important, ...

Just how important is not yet fully in focus, and while we're pondering, domestic night light is getting bluer, display gamuts are widening, and people are spending increasing amounts of time staring at color displays in bed.

re: ... but it's not going to cut the cancer rate in half.

I didn't say it would (although one blue light alarmist might so claim). I can confidently predict that controlling blue light at night will do very little for cancer in people who stay on consensus diets, which are full-time glycemic. Keywords to search on: Warburg, Seyfried, Cancer as a Metabolic Disease (don't expect to encounter any blue light connections on that topic, yet).

Comment Re:How the fuck is this "News for nerds?" (Score 2) 51

Because it doesn't just affect preschoolers, and although you can't tell from TFA, the wider problem is not just about BRIGHT light at night.

I wrote up a summary for a nutrition forum. It's a subscription site, but as far as I know the whole thing is freely visible:
Attention Shoppers: Blue Light Special
https://www.cureality.com/forum/topics.aspx?id=17654

If you really care about health in a broken healthcare system, diet isn't the only thing that needs to get a lot more paleo.

Comment Re:Have you tried turning it off and on again? (Score 4, Interesting) 250

Yes, but perform a clean systems shut down BEFORE turning off power.

I was on an airliner once that crashed at the gate, prior to departure.

Ground power was disconnected before they had spun up the APU. Lights out. Lights on. ... Several minutes later we get an announcement that we'd have to wait for a backup plane, which took 45 minutes to arrange.

They were unable to reboot the airliner.
Robust systems design wasn't a phrase that came to mind.

Comment Only Relevant to Relatively Large Screens (Score 1) 261

> In short, yes; pure marketing BS.

Can't argue with that. As I said elsewhere ...

Curved screen makes sense where the entire audience sits inside the angle (a'la Cinerama). This is rarely the case for home video or most home theatre.

I suspect the novelty will wear off quickly for most people who actually buy into it, as the viewing outside the angle, esp. off-axis, will be suboptimal compared to flat screen.

I'd love to have a curved 4K display on my computer desktop (constant focal distance from eyes). In the living room, I would only want a curved screen TV to replace my flat screen if it were at least 120 inches diag.

Then there's the question of 4K or higher content to fill that curved screen.

And yes, I'm old enough to have seen Cinerama theatrically.

Comment Somatic vs. metabolic theory of cancer (Score 2) 366

Is the cure elusive because they're digging in the wrong place?

This article seems wedded to the somatic (gene) theory of cancer.

What if it's a metabolic disease (Warburg, Seyfried)?
Seyfried has a 2012 textbook, but here's a concise summary:
http://ajp.amjpathol.org/article/S0002-9440%2813%2900653-6/fulltext

If so, the top treatment, calorie-restricted ketogenic diet, is something that sufferers can try at home. I suspect many are, and I would expect anecdotes to become data in a few years.

Of course, many people are on keto (and just low carb) diets for unrelated reasons. It will take a little longer to learn if this confers improved immunity to the big C.

Comment Spoofing is a must, was: IOGear w/ 'USB sniffing' (Score 2, Informative) 199

95% of the USB KVMs on the market rely on USB's hot-attach-detach plug&pray. This results in disconnect-reconnect events being seen by each host, with a minimum of 3-5 seconds for bus re-enumeration on EVERY switch operation. If your switch is also a hub, or supports devices other than K/M ("peripheral sharing"), it is almost certainly a simple non-spoofing switch.

If you only switch occasionally, this might be ok. If you frequently switch (as between RISC workstation and PC), it's unacceptable.

4% of USB KVMs are actually just simple mechanical switches. They have all the same problems as above, plus, striclty speaking, they violate USB rules, and can have nastly malfunctions if they don't have correct precedence for power-on/off (as USB connectors do).

1% of USB switches, just now entering the market, have "spoofing", aka "sniffing", aka emulation of devices. A correctly implemented spoofing switch never lets any host see a disconnect. Designing this is far from trivial. USB is complex, and the varieties of keyboards and mice are effectively infinite if you're trying to chase them all for purposes of emulation.

In addition to the IOgear mentioned above, there is only one other spoofing switch that I'm aware of, and it isn't fully debugged yet.

In the meantime, I recommend:
  • Use a quality USB(host) to PS/2(device) adaptor, such as the Y-Mouse USB (www.ymouse.com) on each USB host.
  • Use a PS/2 switch.

Wait for this USB KVM situation to get sorted out. And it will need to soon, as PS/2 ports will be vanishing from new machines next year (and already have from many 64-bit platforms).

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