So, firstly he tells us near the start that the music we're listening to the oldest known musical piece and then at the end he tells us that we don't really know what it sounded like?
Plenty of stuff you pay for has ads. Newspapers, Cable tv even Netflix are talking about getting them. The corporate imperative to serve the shareholder trumps all others.
Newspapers is free or dirt cheap. You basically pay the paper and distribution costs if anything. Those that do charge to read it online don't show ads to subscribers.
> Cable tv
The main selling point of cable TV was no ads. Eventually they started adding ads, and that's probably the reason cable tv is fading away.
> Netflix
Doesn't have ads right now, and if they do in future, people will just move away.
We planted our own trees 15 years ago and now, we cut, split and dry our own firewood, it's a lot of work, though it is an extra pleasure to sit in front of such a fire
I can see why people stopped doing it.
Although some of their time was freed up by not having to diagnose issues with CI pipelines on the cloud, or writing meta-manager code to tame Slurm :)
My father taught me how to chop wood in the early seventies at the age of 8 in the remote territory of suburban Connecticut. More dangerous was the wasps whose nest I disturbed near the wood-pile, and my face swelled up like a balloon. We didn't call an apiary to humanely remove them back then, my dad used kerosene to burn the nest.
Isn't that a bit different?
As I understand it, he's talking about just copying the sql db file while you're talking about running a cluster wide backup tool to create a separate set of files, that you can then copy elsewhere as a backup.
I was pretty nervous about Lyme Disease a couple of years ago after there was a lot of publicity about it.
Now I feel like it's all a bit overblown.
I come from a family that's worked in dairy farming for generations on both sides.
People who've worked in hay meadows and silage fields all their lives and there's no history at all of Lyme disease that I know of.
It seems to be towns' people who occasionally visit the country side that are overwhelmingly get struck down with this which sounds to me like there's an element of hysteria about the whole thing, not least because of the number of cases where testing has proven inconclusive.
It depnends on the country I suppose. Here on Poland the problem is real . I personally know two persons (my father and my cousin) who were affected by it. My father had to go to early retirement and stop being a laywer beause lyme destoyed his nervous system and he could not read longer texts anymore. My cousin almost got thrown from medical university (he could not keep up after the symptoms kicked in).
Both of them did not even noticed when the tick bitten them and got through quite a long period of no symptoms.
After this events I am seriously afraid of lyme - as a knowledge worker this is like a death sentence.
Nice anecdata to share from Poland! I did not know that Lyme disease also exists in Europe. Related: Does Poland vaccinate for TCE (tick-borne encephalitis)?
>> Related: Does Poland vaccinate for TCE (tick-borne encephalitis)?
I would say yes, but only on case by case basis - it's recommended for people who work around and in forests (forest rangers, holiday camp caretakers etc.).
I believe TCE is far more rare so the vaccine is not so important for regular people as vaccine for lyme would be (if I read stats correctly there is two orders of magnitude difference between them - 200 cases per year for TCE versus 20000 for lyme)
The rule is if you are anywhere near high grass you can bet you can find ticks there. My parents have a quite large garden with private forest (2,5 acres or 1 hectare of fenced terrain) and there is no week in summer where cat would not come back with big tick attached to it. There were two separate occasions where one of their dogs almost died from fewer after tick bite (and we are talking about dog that have every conceivable tick preventive measure applied)
At that point I’m surprised people want to walk around at all. I would only venture into such areas without any exposed skin and with a bug net on a wide brimmed hat.
the only person i've heard that were affected by lyme also were living in Poland, in the woods.. They were badly taken care of for years until they couldn't even move from their bed.
There was this guy that was locally known gangsta-like alcoholic - this whole thing taking place in small town, gangsters life style were scaled down to the size of the town. He lived in apartment in residential estates near one of my best friends (hence I know the story). One day, after some big party, he got so drunk that while getting home by foot, he fell asleep in some gutter (or rather trench full of grass).
Next day, after regaining consciousness, he found more than 30 ticks stuck all over his body. Being gangsta and all around tough he just removed those and failed to go to doctor in time.
Only after some serious symptoms started to appear he managed to get to hospital but it was to late - the damage was done. He lived about few months after this and died because his nervous system was so devastated that there was no way to for doctors to help him.
Lyme disease is one of those silent diseases. You don't see or hear that much about it because it's so debilitating that those who suffer from it are effectively removed from society. To put it in perspective, a lot of people that suffer from ALS hope that they have Lyme disease, since you might get better with time, but the symptoms are quite similar.
From what I understand, both tick populations and Lyme disease cases are increasing. However, Lyme disease horror stories seem to be from people who had undiagnosed Lyme disease. My partner is currently going through medical school (M4) and believes that we are far better at detecting it today than we used to be (and she is not one to trust the medical system overall.) Of course, this is all anecdotal.
I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I know it does, it's more that it is maybe not as serious a public health issue than the coverage of it would suggest.
i had an old encloypaedia when I was a kid. It had been published in the 1960s.
In it under the computer section it had a colour photo of a processor or something and it was this incredibly dense criss-cross pattern of what looked like wiring. I never knew why but that picture used to give me a funny feeling in my brain that I didn't like.
