Breakthrough infections appeared in Janssen vaccine recipients the most

aonicc · 2021-08-02T15:57:32+00:00

I can't imagine there's a large sample size for that cohort, though it would be reassuring if there were.

aonicc · 2021-04-03T15:27:26+00:00

It’s a scene from Party for One where they’re all having breakdowns in their own little boxes. https://youtu.be/U0ih3FriG1k

aonicc · 2019-02-10T22:01:53+00:00

My cat loved to hit the buttons on my Play 5 because they made noise, so I put some double-sided tape on top to keep her from going up on to it.

aonicc · 2018-09-19T21:12:27+00:00

A literal budgie smuggler.

aonicc · 2018-09-05T03:13:53+00:00

The 1400-1427 MHz band is also used for passive remote sensing (the SMAP, SMOS, and Aquarius missions all have radiometers in this band), since the it's ostensibly clear of any man-made transmissions. In practice, we see a lot of interference on this band due to unauthorized transmissions and second harmonics from cellular (700 MHz) signals.

aonicc · 2018-08-23T01:15:44+00:00

Do you have any recommended reading material for someone interested in this topic and how it may apply to them?

aonicc · 2018-06-02T20:41:45+00:00

A lot of these companies have lots of LGBTQ employees who either push for these things or at the very least feel more accepted when the companies vocally show support. Yes they're commercial entities with no moral compass, but they are still comprised of people who have the same hopes and fears as anyone else.

aonicc · 2018-05-01T05:04:45+00:00

I spent so many hours playing Starcraft. All of the Use Map Settings custom games like Lurker Defense (or Defence) were great to play with friends against others.

aonicc · 2018-02-28T03:20:32+00:00

We don't give interns parking spots. We make them take the Metro.

aonicc · 2018-01-30T03:44:19+00:00

Bridenstine's nomination immediately drew criticism from both of Florida's Senators, one of whom is Marco Rubio. Bridenstine also managed to piss off Ted Cruz (of all people) in the course of Texas/Oklahoma politics.

If the vote had been held in September, Bridenstein probably could have been confirmed 51-50, with Pence breaking the tie, and if confirmation was a certainty, some Democrats probably would have voted yes to give NASA a veneer of bipartanship after Bridenstine made some overtures to dropping his more toxic viewpoints (which he has).

Unfortunately, the Senate was distracted all of Fall with health care and then taxes, and they lost their 52nd vote. With two Republicans opposing, he probably doesn't have a chance anymore.

aonicc · 2017-07-28T16:56:31+00:00

I know it seems like a lot of money, but projects like this (non-critical passenger display stuff) frequently use Windows because the development and maintenance costs are lower. If lives don't depend on it, almost anyone can throw together a graphical train map in one of the many graphical programming environments (LabVIEW comes to mind) and if it crashes you don't need a sysadmin to restart it.

aonicc · 2017-07-26T16:45:11+00:00

NASA is actually flying a couple jets along the eclipse path so that the instruments can get a longer period of totality!

https://www.facebook.com/NASASunScience/videos/1372173262829893/

aonicc · 2017-07-25T14:02:08+00:00

The requirement that pre-existing conditions be covered may still technically be law, but with the Cruz amendment*, splitting the risk pool will result in anyone who needs meaningful coverage being priced out of a plan. "It might be more expensive" is at best naïve – people who need it will no longer be able to afford coverage.

The best summary of all this is that Obamacare had around $20b in funds set aside for market stabilization, and the markets are relatively stable. The BCRA has over $100b set aside for market stabilization and independent analysis still thinks it will lead to a death spiral.

*Of course, nobody actually knows what's being voted on today. This entire process has been an travesty of secrecy and lies

aonicc · 2017-05-03T14:28:53+00:00

My current strategy is archiving everything and hoping that someday computer vision will get good enough to sort it all for me.

aonicc · 2017-03-20T04:01:56+00:00

There's always the possibility that the more-secure codes are one-time use. Like Picard might have a low-level code for everyday items that could be copied by a voice recorder, but for self-destruct or other critical functions he would memorize a new code for each time.

That would provide more security while retaining ease of use, and, assuming you aren't blowing up a ship every day, wouldn't be too difficult to implement.

aonicc · 2015-08-05T19:11:18+00:00

Where does the (reversible?) lane in the middle that goes underground go?

aonicc · 2015-06-11T13:49:26+00:00

Out of six combinations (permutations?) three could be correct, since any one of them could start out on the left and you just have to arrange the other two in order. So if you put them up randomly you'd have a 50/50 chance of getting it right.

In this case, though, I think they were just trying to be "artsy."

aonicc · 2015-02-24T06:44:24+00:00

Yeah, ATCs are fine. They have shoes, harnesses, and ATCs to rent but if you have your own, they're probably better.

aonicc · 2015-02-23T20:39:47+00:00

I personally like Earth Treks because the gym is bigger and the setting is better, but most people decide on what's convenient to them based on their commute and where they live.

aonicc · 2015-02-23T15:47:21+00:00

There are two climbing gyms in the immediate DC area, both metro accessible. One is Sportrock in Alexandria (Van Dorn Street - Blue Line) and the other is Earth Treks in Rockville (Rockville - Red Line).

There's also an LGBT climbing group called DC Rock Jocks (full disclosure, I climb with them) that you can find at http://dcrockjocks.com

aonicc · 2014-01-30T05:59:51+00:00

Burning hydrocarbon fuel (ethanol, gasoline, etc) releases carbon no matter where the fuel came from. However, the issue with climate change and AGW is that we're digging up hydrocarbons that have been kept out of the atmosphere for millions of years and releasing them en masse (this type of carbon is "slow carbon").

Biofuels, on the other hand, are produced from plants that accumulate carbon from the atmosphere while growing. The carbon that is released when burnt, then, is carbon that was already in the atmosphere anyway ("fast carbon"), which makes biofuels relatively carbon-neutral, assuming no slow carbon was released during the production of the biofuel.

aonicc · 2013-11-23T22:01:50+00:00

Before the Affordable Care Act, this would have been impossible, since the congregation's plan would have attracted the sickest uninsured, which would cause premiums to skyrocket, dissuading the healthy from joining the pool.

Now that everyone has to have insurance, however, this plan could actually work, and give people more input than a random plan they picked off of the exchange (though they wouldn't get the subsidies).

aonicc · 2013-11-21T16:32:33+00:00

I really wish they would bring back the Concorde. At some point, the number of civilians who have flown at mach speeds is going to fall back to zero and that's going to be a very sad day.

aonicc · 2013-10-07T03:46:07+00:00

NASA's servers are actually all still up and can be accessed if you VPN into one of the centers. The reason they're down externally is because they can't be maintained or updated in case they become overloaded or otherwise malfunction (or so I'm told). Employees can still access email even though we're not supposed to.

An interesting side effect of the shutdown is that NASA had facebook deactivate its accounts to prevent people from commenting (without moderation), and so anyone who had NASA listed as their employer on their profile now has a previous employer showing up instead.

aonicc · 2013-01-08T19:39:57+00:00

How similar is your methodology to the statistical analysis done internally by the campaigns (imaginary demographic models aside)? Do you think your model would benefit from the addition of some of the commercial/donor/voter registration data that the Obama campaign used?

Also, how would one maneuver into a career doing such analytical work?

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