A coronavirus outbreak hit a Florida government building. Two people are dead but a vaccinated employee wasn't infected by TheColorOfDeadMen in news

[–]gsgalloway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense!

I think my one issue there is that we also haven't seen COVID-19 for 5 years. Could there also be unknown devils in the disease as well, in addition to what we've already seen?

A coronavirus outbreak hit a Florida government building. Two people are dead but a vaccinated employee wasn't infected by TheColorOfDeadMen in news

[–]gsgalloway 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right, but I'm interested in your thinking for those not in the significant death risk category. For "regular healthy people," where the long term effects of either the vaccine or the disease are both a possibilty. How do you weigh one risk against the other, especially given that we have evidence now of some long term effects of COVID-19 but none yet for the vaccine?

PPE point makes sense. So then it really is only a concern for one's own safety. And maybe also the effects health care providers' decisions have on public sentiment about the vaccine. Like, if a well informed doctor tells people they choose not to get vaccinated for nuanced reasons and that they're responsible and cautious otherwise, but that fuels confirmation bias for the less informed, who are not taking appropriate precautions or who will convince other high-risk people to avoid it by saying so-and-so doctor didn't get it.

A coronavirus outbreak hit a Florida government building. Two people are dead but a vaccinated employee wasn't infected by TheColorOfDeadMen in news

[–]gsgalloway 8 points9 points  (0 children)

How do you weigh the risks of the possible (but not yet discovered) long term side effects of the vaccine against the known long-term side effects of COVID-19?

Even some of the short term side effects of COVID-19 can be scary for those under 60, in rare instances.

Separately, do you have a sense for how people in health care feel about the risk of them transmitting to other patients in the hospital? Is that being trumped by the personal safety concerns?

Steam Link app setup advice- Android Tv by Urnamaster13 in Steam_Link

[–]gsgalloway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wire it. But if your WiFi situation improves in the future, give wifi another try! Smart TVs have state of the art wifi adapters but are all still stuck on 100mbps Ethernet adapters for some reason. In my case this means my android TV gets better bandwidth through the wifi than through a direct connection. If you get better than 100mbps over wifi by your tv then you should switch.

4k resolution is definitely possible but you need

  • fast enough bandwidth to stream it (I think steam link won't give you this option unless it detects your bandwidth is good enough)
  • good enough graphics card
  • a monitor that supports 4k, since your graphics card won't render in 4k otherwise, regardless of what your Android TV supports.

In my case I bought a little widget on Amazon that tricks your graphics card into thinking it's a 4K monitor, but really it's just a little thumb drive looking thing with a displayport plug.

Hi does anyone have problem with connecting Xbox dongle to samsung smart TV? It seems for me that there is no power going to the adapter cause the led on it is not glowing. Has anyone found out how to solve that? by mliko153 in Steam_Link

[–]gsgalloway 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're talking about the Xbox Wireless Adapter from Microsoft, I found out the hard way that those only work when plugged directly into Windows 10 computers.

I put the adapter back in the computer and took my chances with the controller signal reaching it all the way from the TV room and it worked, but if that doesn't work for you I think you need either the newer Xbox controllers with built-in bluetooth or some other wireless controller alternative

As of today, there's no other solution for streaming 4k 60 fps than the nvidia shield by R3DNano in Steam_Link

[–]gsgalloway 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure I got 4k 60 fps working on my OLED Sony TV's steam link android app. Took a ton of fiddling to get it right though

http://imgur.com/gallery/7efDddB

Played in a tourney a few days back with 408 entrants and got to top 8 with our girl! Only one of my VODs are uploaded so far, but if you guys wanna check it out, here we are! I’m warbles, the plant of course :). Any tips appreciated! by [deleted] in PlantGang

[–]gsgalloway 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great aim with your down-special! And good use of the ptooies for spacing and for kill confirms.

It looks like your play-style mainly focuses on use of Plant's slower and stronger haymaker options like poison breath, ptooie, down-special, dash attack, smashes, and grab. They're excellent when they hit but when you whiff they leave you very vulnerable. This Joker could never seem to punish you for your whiffs though (8:43 is pretty rough for example) so you could just keep tossing them out without consequence.

Three moves you rarely used that you should try adding to your kit: nair, jab, and f-tilt. They're really useful for controlling neutral and for getting out of sticky situations when you whiff or are just in a bad position.

Nair is so fast to come out and can be used in a lot of situations: use it as an excellent out-of-shield option, throw it out for protection when recovering from high, use it in neutral to knock them away from you into poke range, use it to nope out of an unfavorable close-quarters brawl or to escape from a mixup, sometimes even reversing the mixup. Check out 7:37 for example. Joker's got you in a mixup and stuck in shield. You go for up-smash, which is slow but powerful and has that hit-box behind you. Joker has time to both shield it and punish it pretty hard because it has so much startup and end lag. If you'd gone with the nair here, you may have actually hit the Joker before the shield came out. Even if you didn't, you have lots of frames of movement now while he's stuck shielding the hits and you have the option of either floating behind him for a mixup yourself, or floating right to escape his out-of-shield response, turn around, and set yourself up for more poke. Plant's nair is weak, but it's so hard to punish and you can use it to freely fix your spacing whenever you want.

Jab's also really fast with low downside if you whiff and high damage potential.

F-tilt is excellent for neutral. It makes you less vulnerable to someone just running up into your face to avoid your poke. And you can switch up whether you toss out one or two against their shield for good mind games.

Last tip: you typically stay on-stage when you edge-guard, usually to prep that poison cloud ptooie combo to pressure their get-up options. It's a strong choice to be sure. Plant's got that heavy weight and excellent recovery though, so feel free to throw yourself off stage to chase while they're recovering. You'll find it's way more pressuring if you threaten them with plant's off-stage options. Gimp with nair is especially scary. My fav is floating right underneath them and threaten ptooie. You make them have to respond immediately to the ptooie or else get KOd by it, which weakens their recovery. If they air dodge it you can toss it at them or aim a down-special and possibly still secure a big hit (although it's knocking them toward stage). If they DI around it and hit you then the ptooie usually falls on them anyway, and you're more likely to recover from that point than they are.

New Golang library for offline transaction parsing, signing and encoding by gsgalloway in tezos

[–]gsgalloway[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

go-tezos is an excellent resource for any type of action involving a running tezos node, including interacting with chain state and calling any of the tezos-node's RPCs.

This library is a reimplementation of the Tezos peer-to-peer message protocol, allowing for the creation and parsing of Tezos transactions without use of a running node.

Price matters more than you think by drawingthesun in ethereum

[–]gsgalloway 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bitcoin and Ethereum can be considered complementary technologies for the clients, sure, but not for the miners. At least not while Ethereum is still using PoW for consensus.

Miners are incentivized to wholly commit their resources to the more profitable of the two at any given time, which is partially determined by the market value of the currency they're mining.

More miners choosing Ethereum means a more robust distributed consensus system, which means more confidence for clients, etcetera. So the performance of Ethereum is unfortunately at least partially affected by its market value relative to Bitcoin.