Here’s why the NHS were happy to vaccinate me with MMR the other day. From UK govt advice from 2019:
• individuals born between 1970 and 1979 may have been vaccinated against measles and many will have been exposed to mumps and rubella during childhood. However, this age group should be offered MMR wherever feasible, particularly if they are considered to be at high risk of exposure.
• individuals born before 1970 are likely to have had all three natural infections and are less likely to be susceptible. MMR vaccine should be offered to such individuals on request or if they are considered to be at high risk of exposure.
Tl;dr: younger GenX and older Millennials in the UK were likely given inadequate protection against measles and none against mumps and rubella: vaccinate on sight.
Older GenX and boomers: just give them the vaccine if they ask for it.
I recall that you had whooping cough many months ago, which I was reminded of because I also got it last autumn. Somebody on here told me recently that it was included in the tetanus booster. Research done some years ago shows that people don't need to the tetanus boosters, but I guess whopping cough wasn't part of the study? Anyway, I haven't had that shot in 20 years now and I'm guessing virtually no others adults have either.
@Ghost of Hope The single dose measles vaccine they used in the 70s was not as effective as they’d hoped long term, but to be fair the thing was on the verge of being eradicated and they didn’t think it needed to be.
@Alexandra Lanes Dupuutren's appears to have gone into remission overnight. I guess my body is too busy doing measles things to worry about fucking my hands.
If I were still teaching methods, I could use these boost numbers to illustrate a double barreled question (triple barreled if you add "boosted for survey methods teachers" #sociology )
Look, you don't write 120,000 words of fanfiction set on the Federation-Romulan Neutral Zone without understanding every bit of canonical text written about the Treaty of Algeron.
I haven’t been able to watch any Trek after TNG, some Voyager (sorry, lost in space) and some Enterprise. None of DSN or Discovery.
And since paramount has so utterly failed to deliver Trek, I can’t see myself subscribing to watch Picard or that other thing that produced a musical episode.
It can have phasers and transporters and warp driven starships and still not be Star Trek. Embarrassing. Untenable. Wrong.
I did the written Autism test and included 5x pages of notes detailing the issues with (British) English (spelling, syntax) and the issues with too vague questions that it had.
Because engineering keeps having to fix other damage and isn’t given time to maintain the consoles.
You can’t even go do routine maintenance like degaussing your ship with baryon rays without criminals trying to steal your trilithium resin or commander Hutchison and Data killing you slowly with small talk.
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Anxiety is my constant companion. I’m always anxious and it only varies in degrees. It’s been this way my entire life. Nothing really changes that fact.
I try to be aware emotionally and physically which is difficult so when I feel 😬. I used to try to hide it from myself. Mostly because most things I tried didn’t work. Probably those memories were shaped when I was a different person. So if I take my old anxiety’s and acknowledge that happens and I wasn’t so aware I try and be incredibly kinder in general to myself. I also try to see what I was doing before the emotion sets in to process what came before.🧐
I’m pleased to announce that almost all of the episodes of Just Plain Sense from Jan 2009 (episodes 52-90) have been archived on the Internet Archive. Approx 170 snapshots of the web site are also available through the WayBack machine. Access the audio content at archive.org/details/jps-90-ali…
Reminds me of when I was working in a computer bookshop and someone had ordered the "Microsoft Mouse Programmer's Reference" -- but somehow it came out as "Microsoft Mouse Programmer's Revenge" when she came to collect it.
this actually sounds kind of cool, but also it worries me that it's necessary?
Like, a knockout mouse is a mouse that's had a specific gene messed with so that scientists can learn about what that gene does. Some of those probably would affect a mouse's body or behavior in easily observable ways, but not all would be obvious so how do you figure those out? Interesting challenge.
More importantly: what the hell went wrong at your lab, that you have genetically modified mice but don't know what kind?! Did someone leave a window open and all the labels blew off the cages, and also no one remembers where *their* mice are housed? Did the rats of NIMH set all the mice loose in the lab? Was Paul in procurement drunk-shopping for mice? I am Concerned.
Once when I was a kid, my biologist uncle asked my sister, cousins and I for ideas on getting rats to pee, because he needed urine samples. (My sister was the only one who had an idea. It was, "just squeeze them!") Now I wish I knew how to make rats *not* pee while I'm holding them.
Yeah this is actually a really good simple breakdown of GOT as an algorithm that cuts through the FUD. and BS that shroud the real logic of how it works
well written explanation that no in fact this AI emperor has no clothes. Pattern matching. Yes. Getting quite good when scope is limited. But this is blatantly obvious because none of these AI firms particularly google are using these tools in their core business. Like detecting gmail spammers. And where used horrible results. Like current google search. Which is worst ever.
I was wondering if 10 series of Robot Wars taught us nothing? No srimech? No flipper? With the low gravity, imagine the potential for a backflip on the moon.
Combined answers from the Microsoft Community forum to the important question: "What's the maximum number of slides allowed in Microsoft PowerPoint?"
"Every slide is identified numerically by a Long number, meaning that the theoretical maximum is around 2,147,483,648" "Personally, I make it a rule never to include more than 10,000,000 slides in a presentation. One slide a second is about all people can absorb at best, and very few audiences will sit there and absorb information at that rate for half a year."
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Americans wondering how on earth all the Taylor Swift fans got to last week’s concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when there’s no sea of car parking next to the stadium:
If you use a laptop with a trackpad which you can scroll with two fingers, and you don’t have a pinkie related disability, does your little finger do this?
There are white sauce, brown sauce, and orange sauce. The last one only just counts because it’s really named for the fruit not the colour. But ANYWAY can fedi think of any other sauces named for their colour?
'scuse the thread drift, but I really miss Lancashire sauce. It's a vegan alternative to Worcestershire sauce, which is aka English Garum (fermented fish sauce). I must see if I can get some Lancashire sauce smuggled.
@sesquipedality @karohemd this made me laugh, because as kids we used "pink flavour" to describe sweets which were pink in colour and vaguely fruity but you couldn't tell if they were supposed to be raspberry or strawberry or something else.
Dear Lady Chief Justice, We write on behalf of the Courts and Tribunals Observers’ Network, a UK-based initiative focused on how the public can be supported to observe courts and access court infor…
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people say the big class one railroads don't do innovation, but here is norfolk southern demonstrating their new folding trainset on the acela mainline
There are a few weird differences between opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, and civil partnerships. In particular, in the grounds on which the partnerships can be annulled on the application of one partner.
The first is that same-sex marriages aren't voidable for reasons of non-consummation; basically it used to mean "PIV sex" and Parliament didn't fancy trying to define consummation for same-sex couples in legislation.
The stranger one is that only marriage is voidable for reasons of venereal disease.
All sorts of people have tried to palm off doing real work on ChatGPT and friends. Has any legislature yet considered or passed legislation suspected of being autogenerated?
Bonus marks for working out how the rules of statutory interpretation apply to robotically created legislation
patreon.com/posts/98498779 has leaks about the Hugo censorship thing. I’m not convinced self-censorship is the whole story and there’s almost certainly more to come out. However if it is accurate about Kat Jones’ involvement she probably ought not to be involved in Glasgow’s Hugo admin.
@Sion [main] The 2-3 days of growth before a zapping are horrid. I just hate that bristly feeling. (It doesn’t look so bad as so many of my chin hairs are white)
The Ukrainian navy is just trolling now: the original Major Kunikov died on February 14th, 1943. They literally waited until the anniversary of his death to sink his nautical namesake. kyivindependent.com/media-russ…
If confirmed, it would be the fourth landing ship from Russia's Black Sea Fleet that has been sunk since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022.
@addressforbots In the 70s the expected thing was particle accelerators. Math got done about how you hit a high altitude target with a gigajoule worth of protons.
One answer is that you build your particle accelerator emitter so it's coaxial with a laser and precede the protons with enough laser energy to create a vacuum tunnel to the target. (The laser won't work on its own because the target is shiny.)
The tunnel doesn't need to last or be very wide; it's energetically doable.
@rabidchaos @graydon @addressforbots More likely, I think, would be large nuclear-powered navy support ships. A multipolar world means fewer ports open to foreign warships for resupply, and also more supply chain disruption. Also, we may see another shift in warship design towards ship as modular mobile launch pad for different weapons systems, a bit like the [failed] Independence-class LCS's huge mission bay—or the FREMM/Constellation-class frigate.
@addressforbots This does assume the energy budget of a major ground installation or a CVN, and it did NOT assume today's solid state lasers, but in terms of plausible energetics, it's an implementation problem. (Magnets and the ability to control everything have massively improved, too.)
"Volume contests you" is going to be low altitude, low energy (except when it isn't), cryptic, and frequently immobile.
Attacking is going to look like faunal succession in a soil biome.
@graydon @addressforbots As DEW systems work their way down the TRL scale, I wonder if we'll see a return of the nuclear cruiser? In addition to the power aspect, they also have great strategic mobility. With the world getting complicated, that's going to be worth a lot more than it was in the cold war.
@graydon @rabidchaos @addressforbots@social.apcn.nz Also, aren't SSGNs a whole lot more expensive than even a nuclear-powered [surface] cruiser? The whole "submarine" angle doesn't come cheap ...
@rabidchaos @addressforbots That's more or less what the Zumwalts were meant to be without the nuclear powered part. It's apparently consensus that the highly experimental design mostly works EXCEPT for the guns intended as primary armament, and the plan now is to replace the guns with hypersonic missile silos.
SSGNs are a better way to evade the drone swarm for coastal bombardment than a large cruiser. On the other hand, for everything short of sink-them-all, the cruiser is better.
@rabidchaos SSGNs are more expensive[1], but this gets into expected effectiveness. No amount of money spent on useless is worthwhile; the least much you can spend for useful is exactly that.
It mostly comes down to the rumoured mass interferometer applications for submarine detection being effective or not.
[1] The USN stopped building SSNs some time ago; they're ALL SSGNs. The degree and flexibility to which they're SSGNs has tended to increase with time.
@graydon @rabidchaos fn[1] is a good point: the RN has done similarly (the Astute class SSNs all carry Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles as well as other stuff: the tubes are horizontal, not vertical, that's the only difference from a converted SSBN).
... although they do have six vertical tubes for cruise missile launch.
Note for potential use by Charlie:
"The third ship of the [Seawolf] class, USS Jimmy Carter (SSN 23), has a 100-foot hull extension called the multi-mission platform. This hull section provides for additional payloads to accommodate advanced technology used to carry out classified research and development and for enhanced warfighting capabilities."
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., (Sept. 27, 2023) — HII shared today (NYSE: HII) that its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division has reached a significant milestone in the construction of Virginia-class submarine Arkansas (SSN 800).
I'd always taken it to have any one of multiple meanings, sometimes more than one simultaneously. Pretty much the same list as you: - be aware of it, know it's there - leave it outside at the door before you enter this space - keep it within due bounds
Sometimes I love negative reviews: "While the inclusion of non-binary and lesbian characters was great to see, the sheer volume was disproportionate" 😂
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