The history of the smallpox vaccine is fascinating iirc — milk maids, orphans-as-storage+transportation, really crazy stuff.
And after reading about it, one thing that’s neat is that it makes sense. You don’t need to talk about homeopathic “water memory” or whatever, and you don’t even need a solid understanding of biology — the whole thing just kinda…makes sense.
And yet, here we are…
The model certainly works for other things — municipal broadband in the USA is often very well regarded.
OP needs to stop Chase-ing up votes.
They say “everything’s bigger in Texas,” but maybe that’s just because California hasn’t whipped it out until now…
Yeah, good point. The “app setup” is built into android and iOS as far as I can tell (generating matter credentials, etc.). Better than 3rd party IMHO but not ideal, and a nonstarter for a lot of folks. Hopefully HA will come out with their own onboarding process at some point.
Fair enough; I have a dedicated SSID which is VLAN’d off from the rest of my network with no Internet access. Only my HA server can talk to those devices.
+1 for ThirdReality. They’re a little pricey but I’ve generally had good luck with them.
I’ve also had pretty good luck with cheap Matter-over-wifi bulbs. Pairing them can be a little finicky and needs to go through an Android or iOS process, but after pairing you can block Internet access for them and they work great local-only.
There’s a bug in some wifi matter bulbs where they crash, especially when going from off to a desired brightness/color state (as in, “light on” works but “light to 50%, 3000K” will crash the bulb).
I don’t think you understand what local control of smart devices means…
But I thought they smelled bad on the outside?
Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat would ask for various airplane specs (“what is the service ceiling of an F-4E?,” “what is the ferry range of a MiG-15?”), and you had to flip through a booklet to find the answer.
You could copy the book, but it was fairly long so I guess the friction kept you in check.
No one “shatters,” “breaks,” or otherwise surpasses violates the diffraction limit. Rather, you operate in such a way that the diffraction limit does not apply.
This is not to take away from these accomplishments at all! All manner of super resolution techniques are fantastic, but they’re not violating the diffraction limit; they are violating the assumptions that go into the diffraction limit, or they are using a different definition of resolution (which is completely valid), or both.
Gosh I wonder why they’re against mail-in ballots.
Any voter in CA is eligible, and honestly, with the number of propositions and local stuff on the ballot it’s essential to do research ahead of time regardless of your political preferences. So much easier to fill it out over a few weeks IMHO.
Beware though, there may be new rules about needing it received rather than postmarked by the election date (which is obviously bullshit).
I had an…interesting…take home exam in college. The max score was 100, but the test had 200 points. So, if confident, you could answer half the exam and still get the highest score; if not confident in answers, you could answer more questions and rely on partial credit
It was a week long take home, “open everything” (book/Internet, but no discussions online or IRL). In some ways the hardest exam I ever took, but I learned a lot, and some of the questions were specifically meant to introduce new subjects.
I would probably add “transmit power” in there somewhere, but I guess if you’re assuming regulatory limits then it’s not a big variable.
If you really want to try some, you could use d-limonene. It’s just orange oil (like you get when you squeeze an orange peel), is edible, and is basically a kerosene-like hydrocarbon. It’s used in hand soap and works for stripping paint, and you can run multi-fuel camp stoves off of it, too!
Careful ingesting it though, as it isn’t always food grade due to extraction methods/additives. It causes kidney tumors in rats, but the mechanism is known and is not relevant to humans.
Global Outbreak World Response Outreach Network, perhaps?
Every so often there’s a post on Lemmy about how you should stick it to your landlord and put grease down the drain.
This is why that’s a bad idea, and it sucks for everyone, not just your landlord.
Obviously you should use an exponential search, assuming you don’t know the age of the oldest human.
Not sure how serious your comment is, but I could certainly imagine Microsoft introducing new dependencies/hooks/all-executables-must-support-copilot, etc., that break compatibility faster than Wine can keep up. Glad to hear that’s not the case!
For old stuff though…yeah, I’d hope it’s not moving backwards :)
Give turnips a shot! Make sure to add a beet so they get that almost neon purple color (ok, really “argon purple”) like you find in middle eastern restaurants.