Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
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@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@boomzilla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Ditto for trackballs, while some people swear by them.
You can take my trackball from my cold, dead hand.
Though the kind you control with your thumb. IDK how those center-ball ones work.
Those you control with your middle finger.
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@Zecc said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@El_Heffe Elon can fornicate with his hat.
I don't remember seeing Elon wearing a hat.
I suggest a rocket instead.
Paint it red and we have a scene!
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@blek said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I suggest whipping instead of shooting.
Start them into their kinks early then, eh?
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Was posted several months ago, wonder if they still have it?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@cvi for long cooking, it doesn't really matter. As long as it's drinkable. The fine differences will go away quickly when heated.
…as long as it's dry. Unless the recipe specifically says otherwise, always use dry wine.
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@dfdub said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
…as long as it's dry
For savoury foods, yes. (Most reds are fairly dry.) If the food you're making is intended to be sweet, a sweet wine is sensible (though usually more expensive).
In my experience, a better wine does help make a better meal, but it has to be an actually better wine and not just a more expensive one.
Not that I usually bother. A cheap red wine works very well indeed for stewing a piece of pork or beef that needs a long cook.
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@dkf said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
In my experience, a better wine does help make a better meal, but it has to be an actually better wine and not just a more expensive one.
Well, what's "better" in this context? With wine, that term is usually highly subjective, at least if you're planning to drink it.
For cooking, the only variables that should matter are acidity and astringency, right?
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@dfdub said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Well, what's "better" in this context?
Tastes nicer? A subjective metric, but a valuable one to me. YMMV
For cooking, the only variables that should matter are acidity and astringency, right?
No. Those are the major properties, but the other flavours also make a difference. Whether they make enough of a difference to justify the extra expense, that's a totally different question.
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@dkf said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Those are the major properties, but the other flavours also make a difference. Whether they make enough of a difference to justify the extra expense, that's a totally different question.
I guess I'll have to start a long experiment someday, then. So far, the only conscious choice I made when buying red wine intended for cooking was whether to buy Merlot or something else.
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@dfdub said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Carnage said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
It's pretty common for middle class families to go on vacation to ski resorts in Europe.
That and even working-class families go skiing if they live close to a suitable mountain range. They just go on day trips or book a cheap cabin instead of going to a resort for a week.
Sure, local stuff. That happens here, too. But that doesn't spread it around the globe like this:
Vail Emerges as Virus Hotbed for Mexican Skiers Coming Home
The Jalisco cluster adds to at least three high-profile executives who tested positive after traveling to the ski resort. Two of them -- the chairman of the Mexican stock exchange, Jaime Ruiz Sacristan, and Jose Kuri, a relative of billionaire Carlos Slim -- tested positive after returning from Vail on a private jet, according to a letter from the charter company confirming that a passenger had the virus. The two men came back with four other people March 8.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@magnusmaster said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Day one of quarantine. A guy who was treated in a hospital in Montevideo escaped from the hospital and went on a ferry to Buenos Aires. He ended up having coronavirus symptoms and all of the passengers were quarantined.
Idiots. Idiots everywhere.
This also makes it (more) clear to me that full quarantine/"lock-down" isn't going to go well in lots of places. Because there really are idiots everywhere. And not just idiots, but people with real needs, etc.
Maybe, but imperfect isn't the same as not good. It will still reduce the spread, even if it doesn't eliminate it.
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So a news report has Tampa "strongly considering" a stay-at-home/shelter-in-place order starting. The duration? "We'll try 30 days and see after that." Ugh.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@boomzilla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Ditto for trackballs, while some people swear by them.
You can take my trackball from my cold, dead hand.
Though the kind you control with your thumb. IDK how those center-ball ones work.
Those you control with your middle finger.
Perhaps, I could have worded that better.
IDK how someone comfortably uses their middle finger to control those.
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@boomzilla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
This also makes it (more) clear to me that full quarantine/"lock-down" isn't going to go well in lots of places. Because there really are idiots everywhere. And not just idiots, but people with real needs, etc.
Maybe, but imperfect isn't the same as not good. It will still
reduceslow down the spread, even if it doesn't eliminate it.FTFM
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@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Karla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@boomzilla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Ditto for trackballs, while some people swear by them.
You can take my trackball from my cold, dead hand.
Though the kind you control with your thumb. IDK how those center-ball ones work.
Those you control with your middle finger.
Perhaps, I could have worded that better.
IDK how someone comfortably uses their middle finger to control those.
When someone tries to give you one, extend your middle finger to them and demand a real mouse
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@cvi said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@PotatoEngineer This sounds way too easy and convenient.
Usually when I have to buy
redwine, I end up staring at the wall of different wines, and have no clue what to pick. Any recommendations regarding type?Go for cheap; the quality of cooking wine doesn't matter. (When I get some wine I don't like, I just assign it to cooking.) Optionally, something you wouldn't mind drinking the rest of, because this recipe won't use a whole bottle. (Or get a 4-pack of single-serving wine bottles.)
Personally, I don't like astringent/tannin-y wines, so when it comes to red, I go for Merlot, which usually has fewer tannins.
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@PotatoEngineer said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Personally, I don't like astringent/tannin-y wines, so when it comes to red, I go for Merlot, which usually has fewer tannins.
Pinot Noir is my go to. My local store sells Rex Goliath (pretty much all varieties) for about $6 these days. You just have to try some things to find what you like. Don't be embarrassed if you end up liking something cheap.
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@PotatoEngineer I like the Primitivo. Ever tried those?
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Pull quote:
Updated: 21st March: Estimating COVID-19 CFR
Our current best assumption, as of the 17 March, is the CFR in 70-80-year-olds is approximately 1%. In the total population, our assumption is it is approximately 0.14%.*Subject to wide error bars of course. They've also got lots of country-specific data, including the following about Italy:
Update 20 March: Coronavirus: Is Covid-19 the cause of all the fatalities in Italy?
Sarah Newy reports that Italy’s death rate might be higher because of how fatalities are recorded. In Italy, all those who die in hospitals with Coronavirus will be included in the death numbers. In the article, Professor Walter Ricciardi, Scientific Adviser to, Italy’s Minister of Health, reports, “On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity – many had two or three.”
Recording the numbers of those who die with Coronavirus will inflate the CFR as opposed to those that died from Coronavirus, which will reduce the CFR.
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@Benjamin-Hall It Is the cause of fatalities insofar those people with pre-existing conditions were not immediately dying with Covid-19, and then they were.
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@boomzilla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@PotatoEngineer said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Personally, I don't like astringent/tannin-y wines, so when it comes to red, I go for Merlot, which usually has fewer tannins.
Pinot Noir is my go to. My local store sells Rex Goliath (pretty much all varieties) for about $6 these days. You just have to try some things to find what you like. Don't be embarrassed if you end up liking something cheap.
I just discovered Safeway Signature Whiskey (Canadian 8y and Bourbon 4y). They are now my gotos. (between 15-20 a bottle)
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I really hope there's some huge error in how those numbers came about.
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@admiral_p said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Benjamin-Hall It Is the cause of fatalities insofar those people with pre-existing conditions were not immediately dying with Covid-19, and then they were.
That's not how CFR normally works. At least to my understanding. It's why AIDS isn't that much of a killer by itself (even though it kills the immune system and so secondary infections are rampant and lethal). Those numbers are only chalked up to HIV/AIDS by the ignorant and fear-mongering.
CFR should depend on the number whose proximate cause of death was COVID-19. Yes, we should track co-morbidities, but if they're doing the actual work, then COVID-19 is way less lethal than the numbers are making it out to be as long as you don't have those co-morbidities. Which suggests very different strategies for reducing the death toll than if it, by itself, has such a high CFR.
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@Rhywden said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I really hope there's some huge error in how those numbers came about.
We're finally just ramping up widespread testing. So I'd expect to see a spike in the numbers. I posted about this above. You'd expect to see a fast-exponential growth in confirmed cases if testing still isn't 100%.
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@Benjamin-Hall Yeah, but that's from two days ago.
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@Rhywden said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
I really hope there's some huge error in how those numbers came about.
It's mostly called, "We only just started ramping up testing."
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@Rhywden said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Benjamin-Hall Yeah, but that's from two days ago.
And the testing ramp up has gone exponential in the last week. And the tests take 1-2 days....so I'd give it a while to disambiguate.
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Long article with a lot of data:
https://medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894
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You don’t need a special degree to understand what the data says and doesn’t say. Numbers are universal.
That's where I stopped reading because it's patently false.
ETA: That said, I do appreciate the effort of pushing back against the mindless panic and doomsday prophecies that seem to be bubbling everywhere.
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Anyway there is good reason to believe that whatever politicians do or don't do in the first stages of the illness, now that it is basically a pandemic, is not that significant. SK's current success, according to many, is that they have very powerful tracking abilities. Testing can only do so much, the problem is what you (can) do with that data. Intruding the privacy of an individual who is positive for Covid-19 is the difference between ordering quarantine for him and his family, and probably his workplace, and actually testing all the people he came within few meters from and isolating them. Should the US go with federal "shelter-in-place" measures? Most probably. It should have been done a long time ago, but I don't know whether politicians are to blame. Basically everywhere the virus went the virus was underestimated at first. It says something about the world order in general, but almost no government, be it conservative, populist, liberal, technocratic, communist, capitalist would have called for a sudden stop of the national daily routine after a dozen of cases.
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I live under a major air corridor. The sky is beautiful without all the contrails.
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@admiral_p said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
It says something about the world order in general, but almost no government, be it conservative, populist, liberal, technocratic, communist, capitalist would have called for a sudden stop of the national daily routine after a dozen of cases.
It's also a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Let's say that ${whoever} had reacted immediately with restrictive measures (lockdowns, quarantines, and whatnot), and hypothetically contained the outbreak? They'd be blamed for overreacting and the economic fallout. Not to mention that the general population might not have played along to begin with -- right now, we're at least seeing some amount of cooperation from people.
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@Polygeekery said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Now those systems are at or beyond their breaking point.
Another one from this morning: a critical server locked up and needed a reboot. We walked a CSR through that and it failed to come back up. It turned out to be a failed RAID battery that halted POST waiting for "Press F1 to continue". So the BIOS wasn't configured correctly.
I've spent today revising our PM list and best practices and this coming week we are going over machines with a fine tooth comb.
The other fun one from today was a pharmacy label printer that for some reason decided to not connect to the network anymore. NFC why. Thankfully there was one that could be pilfered from elsewhere in the facility.
We are all going over client systems in our heads and looking for the critical single points of failure. With Amazon basically halting 1-2 day delivery for anything non-essential it will take a while to work it all out.
Fun times.