jrabone

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by jrabone 12y ago
You get to fight my bacteria, and every humans bacteria, every day of your life. Not to a significant extent. In cases where people are exposed to other people's bacteria in quantity, they generally become (mildy) ill quite quickly
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by jrabone 12y ago
No, it's standard UK practice, especially for the first 2 years after splenectomy. It does seem to vary around the world though.
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by jrabone 12y ago
For hopefully the last time, I'm not talking about the bacteria in the product . All human beings defecate. Many (most?) clean themselves afterwards with their hands. If you do not practise adequate hygiene with a surfactant-based cle
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by jrabone 12y ago
We provide them a home, and in return they protect and clean us. They don't want to destroy their home, they would die, too. Sorry but that is absolute, unmitigated rubbish. I spent 2 weeks in intensive care, with a surgical scar fro
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by jrabone 12y ago
Not talking about the bacteria in the product, I'm talking about the faecal bacteria (your own personal gut microbes) that are still stuck to the skin afterwards due to not using a surfactant-based washing product. See https:/&#x
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by jrabone 12y ago
Soap and water is very good at removing faecal contamination. In the absence of small children and pets, and the taking of a prophylactic dose of antibiotics daily, my main concern is whether the people I share work and living space with ar
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by jrabone 12y ago
TFA doesn't contain enough detail about hand-washing as opposed to body & hair, in much the same way that most people don't like talking about wiping their backsides vs washing them after defecating.
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by jrabone 12y ago
Thank you (I'm not religious either). I'm sorry you feel uncomfortable, that's not my intent at all. In purely objective terms, there's obviously a benefit to culling the weak. I wouldn't necessarily advocate for _i
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by jrabone 12y ago
I can't reply directly to "rosser" due to max comment depth, but fecal transplants don't generally involve introducing gut bacteria to anywhere other than the gut.
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by jrabone 12y ago
Your fecal coliforms will kill other people, simply because they're yours, not theirs. They'll kill you if they don't stay in the gut (mine tried, along with a carbapenem-resistant strain of streptococcus introduced via a cen
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by jrabone 12y ago
I'm still alive, that's as far as it goes. 30% + chance of recurrence and it's not like I can have those organs removed a second time. However, it's an improvement on the initial diagnosis which was stage 4 adenocarcinom
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by jrabone 12y ago
So anybody who happens to have a compromised immune system gets to fight your personalised microbes, perhaps fatally? How very ... Darwinian ... of you. Soap and water have saved more lives than any medication, ever. I now have no spleen (6
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by jrabone 12y ago
Yep. I run Privoxy and a DNS resolver configured to be authoritative for the worst 5000 or so ad farms. Zips along nicely, and works for every machine on the LAN or via remote VPN. Fuck ads. Find a different business model.
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by jrabone 12y ago
It's UTF-8 being interpreted as raw bytes: "a-hat" is the 0x80 marker byte. A common fail is forgetting that Microsoft Word auto-corrects straight quotes (which are in ASCII) to curly double quotes (which need Unicode), and s
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by jrabone 12y ago
Anecdotally, tests for skin-contact carcinogens can be skewed because the lab mice are prone to develop skin cancers anyway.
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by jrabone 12y ago
I think OP meant, "Why does the experiment always succeed on mice", not "Why do we perform experiments on mice".
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by jrabone 12y ago
Presumably not ones assembled with lead-free solder? (not that the plastics are likely much safer by Californian standards, but still)
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by jrabone 12y ago
I find it quite ironic that the 'machine' has failed dismally to reproduce this text correctly, by making the usual pigs ear of character encodings and rendering Ælfrid as �lfrid in my browser, the latter being corrupted beyond tr
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by jrabone 12y ago
No, no they won't. Not my users, anyway, because I block your ads at the DNS resolver level by redirecting queries to my own Apache instance, which serves single pixel images or empty JS as necessary. Despite protestations in TFA to th
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by jrabone 12y ago
...right up to about 20 kHz, whereafter YOU CAN'T HEAR THEM. Hence 44 kHz sampling. Seriously, A/B test this, you might be surprised. Also if you think that's anything like a square wave coming out of a guitar speaker (or tha
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by jrabone 12y ago
First off, forget about MP3; I'm not arguing for a lossy standard. You can't get an 18 kHz square wave out of a system with 44 kHz sampling. You need at least 1 harmonic before it'll even LOOK square, and that requires a freq
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by jrabone 12y ago
That's actually good design - the intention being that any clipping can only be due to software (which you can fix), not underpowered amplification hardware (which you can't).
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by jrabone 12y ago
An 18 kHz square wave sampled at 44 kHz looks like an 18 kHz sine wave, everything after the fundamental frequency is well outside the Nyquist limit and will have been thrown away by anti-aliasing filters. And furthermore you couldn't
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by jrabone 12y ago
From previous discussion, quoting 'jbk' VLC allows amplification of the INPUT above the sound that was decoded. This is just like replay gain, broken codecs, badly recorded files or post-amplification and can lead to saturation.
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by jrabone 12y ago
https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/the-starcraft-path-finding-... is a great article on the woes of path finding even when given a good basic algorithm. Nice contrast of theory and practice.
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by jrabone 12y ago
The test is most likely invalid - unless told otherwise SoX adds dither. Try adding -D, I expect the results will be different.
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by jrabone 12y ago
One thing that is alluded to but perhaps not explored fully is the use of noise-shaping dither techniques which rely on pushing the noise out into the ultrasonic region. Xiph mentions it in the context of 16 bit resolution, but I believe it
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by jrabone 12y ago
I've had good results with OSH Park and 10mil trace / ground plane isolation, FWIW - and they take Eagle 6.5 natively (although depending on third-party library setup you'll probably want gerbers anyway).
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by jrabone 12y ago
The silkscreen might be a bit smudged. To be honest unless you've spent the effort to tweak your CAD package defaults, it'll be suboptimal anyway whoever you get to fab it unless you're paying them to tidy it up. In Eagle I f
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by jrabone 12y ago
Google might have fixed it but Facebook haven't - the sidebar on the desktop site is full off bottom-feeder adverts for weight loss, hot dates etc. using non ASCII lookalike glyphs (usually accents or composing diacritics). I wonder if

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