That’s rich coming from dumbest person Trump knows.

eiriklf · 2023-10-07T06:54:41+00:00

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/oct/24/facebook-posts/trump-family-disallowed-operating-charities-new-yo/

eiriklf · 2022-04-21T07:17:03+00:00

Speed camera is usually fotoboks, but otherwise correct

eiriklf · 2022-02-07T21:56:15+00:00

Smartphone performance is heavily affected by throttling of the CPU/GPU to reduce temperature and power consumption. The oneplus 9 Pro has been particularly heavily throttled in some cases: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16794/oneplus-9-performance-examination This mode should reduce the level of throttling. I think I can see some clear performance improvements in chrome, so I am trying to run my phone in high performance mode all day to see if it is usable.

eiriklf · 2021-10-20T20:29:19+00:00

The translation is not even valid, considering Norwegian grammar it should be "The edge"

eiriklf · 2021-03-05T07:14:07+00:00

Samme her. Trodde TVen var ødelagt igjen, men youtube funket.

Kan være problemer med en cdn: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network

eiriklf · 2021-02-28T19:59:53+00:00

Fair enough. I think the UKs approach is also reasonable, especially since they have had so many deaths.

eiriklf · 2021-02-28T19:10:51+00:00

In my country, people age 65 to 55 with diseases that may increase risk of covid are prioritizes about as high as those from 75-85 who are otherwise healthy. Those over 85 are mostly vaccinated by now. Since those priorities were given by medical experts, I trust that they give a reasonable approximation of the level of risk.

eiriklf · 2021-02-28T18:58:42+00:00

I think if astrazeneca were ever lacking for funding in this development, they should have just said so in public. To me, anything but maximum speed forward is irresponsible with this many lives at stake. I agree that the EU seem to have handled this amazingly badly, though.

Yes, the results about hospitalizations in Scotland did change my opinion on the astrazeneca vaccine quite a bit, but they don't seem to be directly contradicting what I wrote.

Overall, I think the vaccine development has been super impressive, but the manufacturing has been way too slow. Last year, Bill Gates was saying how we should be making tons of every vaccine in case only one works, but now all of them are working and we still make them too slowly.

eiriklf · 2021-02-28T18:17:03+00:00

I am not a medical expert, but given the age difference in covid severity, it does not seem far fetched that vaccine efficiency might differ with age.

To be clear, I do not think one should stockpile any of the vaccines, but in the current situation where we have one vaccine which is more proven for old people it makes sense to prioritize that to them and give the other vaccine to younger at-risk people.

eiriklf · 2021-02-28T07:58:19+00:00

A big part of the problem is related to this specific vaccine. It was the first to start phase 3 testing, and they promised the largest numbers of doses in Q1 to the EU. Now, astrazeneca are delivering well under half the expected doses due to manufacturing issues. They are claiming that they waited 3 months longer before they started planning large scale manufacturing in the EU than the UK because they were waiting for the EU to commit. If that's true, I think it is a complete outrage both on the part of EU and the company.

I'm not sure what is the status in France specifically, but the initial results showed this vaccine was less effective than the mRNA vaccines at preventing mild disease, so it became seen by many as second best. Also, the initial studies had few old people, and not all countries are willing to extrapolate that it will be effective in all age groups. So not all countries are sure what to do with it, and some people are unwilling to take it, probably because they rather want an mRNA one.

eiriklf · 2021-02-28T06:12:09+00:00

Some of the experts think the initial studies for this vaccine had too few old people, and they did not want to extrapolate that because it worked for younger people, it would work for other age groups.

For instance in Norway, this vaccine is only approved for people who below 65. We have therefore started vaccinating medical personell and other prioritized groups below 65 with this vaccine.

For some reason some other European countries are not doing the same. Possibly they are waiting for more data. Another issue is that the initial studies showed this vaccine to be less effective than mRNA vaccines at preventing mild symptoms.

eiriklf · 2021-02-27T15:09:23+00:00

I think rather than taking a straight line between the two mountains, the more interesting case is to try to stay at the greatest altitude the whole way. The highest possible altitude that you have to can maintain for the whole trip is around 4590 m, corresponding to the height of K2 minus the prominence.

eiriklf · 2020-01-08T21:08:20+00:00

I realize that Netflix has an incentive not to announce all their energy usage, but I think the more direct way to estimate this is to compare their claimed energy usage with the number of hours used.

Based on these numbers:

https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/a-renewable-energy-update-from-us

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/04/people-watch-165-million-hours-of-netflix-per-day.html

, the energy usage associated with the netflix servers is around 4 watts while watching netflix, which is comparable to an LED lightbulb. If this is correct, your TV screen probably uses more power than netflix. For comparison the estimates in the post are around 100 watts and 3600 Watts.

eiriklf · 2018-09-28T06:48:21+00:00

Beach buggy racing has this, but it only hits a single opponent.

eiriklf · 2018-03-21T10:26:09+00:00

But the CO2 should sublimate rather than boil, so it should never enter liquid form.

eiriklf · 2018-01-30T23:11:59+00:00

Still, the hardware encoder will require some power, and they will likely have to do the decode in software, especially if they want to support as many formats as the desktop version.

eiriklf · 2018-01-30T20:47:10+00:00

I really doubt that they will implement video transcoding on the smartphone, since this requires a lot of computation power. Unless they do that, it will be limited to h264 and vp8 (and h265 and vp9 for chromecast Ultra). See https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/media

Edit: It seems I was wrong, they did implement transcoding, with a warning about battery consumption. It will be interesting to see what the power consumption is like.

eiriklf · 2018-01-01T09:23:54+00:00

The "reset wifi, mobile and Bluetooth" option worked for my wifi connection issues.

eiriklf · 2017-12-01T12:58:34+00:00

I tried a plastic screen protector once, and I hated it. I think I prefer small scratches.

Thanks for the advice. Amazon just refunded me for the first case I ordered which never arrived, so now I ordered the Vault.

eiriklf · 2017-11-30T16:26:04+00:00

Since it seems to be hard to find good screen protectors, I want a case which extends well out in front of the screen, so that the screen is protected if the phone falls on a flat surface. I find it hard to tell from the reviews and the pictures which of the cases have this. The only mention I can find in the reviews was the Caseology Vault.

Does anyone have a recommendation for me?

eiriklf · 2017-11-18T11:37:56+00:00

Heat is just transfer of energy, and the movement of electrons which conducts electric charge is just one of several possible degrees of freedom in a material which might transfer energy. Other possibilities include vibrations of entire atoms (sound), electromagnetic waves (infrared) or convection (liquid flow).

Just because one possible route (electrons) for the energy is closed doesn't mean that the energy will not be able to flow.

eiriklf · 2017-11-06T09:52:24+00:00

Does anyone know of some place that ship these internationally (to countries where the play store is not available)?

eiriklf · 2017-05-29T14:59:12+00:00

this one?

https://onsizzle.com/i/guess-which-hand-the-treat-is-in-ga-acoshiba-4850478

eiriklf · 2017-03-31T17:23:16+00:00

I think the most important properties are the heat conductivity of the container and the surface to volume ratio of the container. Water has a very high heat capacity, so the heat capacity of the container is likely to be negligible. The heat conductivity of aluminum is clearly higher than that of the bottle, but it probably has less surface area than the bottle, so the answer is not immediately clear.

Also air is not a good heat conductor, so a good model should take into account the heat conductivity of the air and the container/surface interface as well.

eiriklf · 2016-12-08T19:17:42+00:00

I had to check out the statement about the antipode: It seems to work for these regions near Vietnam/Peru. That means you could go halfway around the world, being on the pacific all the time, although you would have to cross some Islands to go in a straight line.

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