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Nope, not Helen Flannery. There are too many confounding factors here. For example, the UK has a high rate of vaccination but is doing pretty much nothing else. How do you compare that with a country with a lower rate of vaccination but other sorts of countermeasures instead? "Proportion of...

Scales would be good! And I'm not sure what most of those numbers are exactly. To start with, what does total_vaccinations_per_hundred mean? Number of people with 1+ dose? 2+ doses? 3 doses? Number of doses given out regardless of who got them?

I've heard of kids having difficulty who finally got it with things like "I know the answer so it's OK if you don't get it right", and "do you think it could be 100?"

Because out of the groups most vulnerable to ending up in the ICU from covid, nearly everyone is vaccinated already, and so is a rather large proportion of the rest of the population. So in comparison to those numbers, there's hardly anyone left unvaccinated to go to the ICU.

Well no, I think I meant a higher proportion?

Right, if the hospital line is below the ventilated line, it means a lower proportion of hospital patients are ventilated than was the case on the scale-setting date. A lower proportion of cases going to hospital over time is going to be some combination of vaccination, increased testing, and...

Yeah I wondered about that, though I don't think the owner of said Windows computer wants to lose any features, and there's the scanning question too.

In my house we have a USB printer attached to a Windows computer which was sharing it on the network, every few months a Windows update made the sharing stop working until we found some setting to change, until a few weeks ago when we didn't manage to get it working again. I said "let's get a...

The boundary between compiler and interpreter has got a bit blurred nowadays. But since that program is conventionally called "the Python interpreter", people will understand better if you call it that too. So, you have a Python interpreter that somebody else compiled, but it's not working...

If you've compiled the "python" executable, normally you would run a .py file with `python myfile.py`, is GP2X different? Why would you need to write a compiler?

With some groups saying the spike protein is bad for you, won't it also be bad for you if you catch the virus?

On the Pandora I felt the keyboard was stiffer than I'd like, not all keys took the same amount of force, and I did have some issues with not being sure when I'd actually managed to press one.

Hmm, I'd been hearing before that the keyboard feel would be better, but people don't seem to be saying that. If I don't much like the Pandora's keyboard, will I like this one better?

But masks are a lot more effective at protecting other people from you than at protecting you from other people. It would make more sense to end that sentence with "wear a mask at home"!

I was wondering about whether the people who write most of the messages are doing it by email. And if the web interface is really a view into something else, it's not about whether 2D or tree is itself better, but about which gives a clearer view of that something else.

With forums like this one vs tree-structured forums, people change the way they post depending which type it is. With a mailing list, if the main posters are reading it by email and the website is just a view onto that, I guess the logical structure of the conversation gets built onto the...

As I said, putting on the jacket and then taking it straight off again doesn't seem to do this. Hence my slightly-more-complex theory above. I could do some experiments to test it.

IIRC there was also the question about whether the chip shortage might delay later units.

After an injury, it does make sense that the body's systems are spending those seconds assessing whether we're under attack, to determine what the blood should be doing. I knew that certain combinations of materials transfer electrons from one to the other when rubbed together, and if your body...

Why do minor cuts often start bleeding like 20 seconds after the accident? Why do I get a static shock from touching ground after removing a fleece jacket I've been wearing for a while, but not if I'm still wearing it, or if I just put it on and take it off again?