EverydayMoggie

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 5 days ago to Victoria

Victoria: Hundreds of patients died after catching COVID in Victorian hospitals, new data shows

Almost 1 in 10 patients who caught COVID in hospital died.

Documents obtained by ABC News under Freedom of Information laws reveal at least 6,212 patients caught COVID in hospital in 24 months — 3,890 in 2022 and 2,322 in 2023. Of those, 586 died — almost 6 per week, on average — with men dying at a higher rate than women (11 per cent vs 8 per cent).

#COVID19 #Victoria @auscovid19

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-06/hundreds-died-catching-covid-victoria-hospitals-testing-masking/103784896?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=twitter

RickiTarr, 6 days ago to random

Awww this takes me back! What has been the most important in your life?

notjustbikes, 7 days ago to random

So, I'm on this Shinkansen train in Japan ...

Seating area of car 2 on the Hello Kitty Shinkansen
Pink and white Shinkansen train

RickiTarr, 7 days ago to random

I'm not saying anyone should do this, but if you were looking to get revenge on a colonizer, this would be a really good time to take over Britain.

compost, 10 days ago to climate

Feeling miserable because of allergies.

I was not always suffering from those issues as I grew up on a farm and used to help with the hay work in the summer.

So the fact that I am now experiencing hayfever symptoms is the consequence of #ClimateChange.

Despite taking a powerful allergy medicine it is still not safe to go outside for me.

This is why when we talk to you so often about the #climate on this account, it is not because we are being greenwashed.

It is because it is affecting my health and our #gardens in a significant way.

It is also why those who would like to deny the climate issues are very unwelcome on this community, I could not give less of a damn about their opinions.

drahardja, 11 days ago to random

The slow collapse of downtown commercial real estate is continuing. I suspect news like this, and stories about the decline of retail around downtowns that depend on daily commuter traffic will come in at faster and faster rates.

Workers are not returning to the office to work. #RemoteWork and #flexibleWork are showing to be a perfectly viable solution that is more friendly to workers. Even with hybrid work, the volume of people commuting is far lower than it used to be.

#CBRE is slowly declining to a new, lower-value equilibrium.

“Once-hot tech office in SF's SoMa sells for a fourth of its 2019 price”

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/410-townsend-sale-downtown-sf-price-19408862.php

compost, 13 days ago to climate

There is no such thing as to "believe" in climate change. It has nothing to do with beliefs, it is not a theory...

It is real, it is measurable and if you observe the facts you can easily tell that the climate around you is changing.

I don't believe that climate change is real, I have experienced the #climate changing in our gardens and it has affected my health.

At the end of the day, your beliefs are very irrelevant to the situation, what matter is what are you going to do about it?

drahardja, 18 days ago to random

Holy shit, they fixed it.

Voyager 1 had a failed chip, and the engineering team patched around it.

Put THAT on your resumé. FUCKING BADASS.

#voyager1 #softwareEngineering

“NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth”

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

compost, 18 days ago to climate

We can be angry at #ClimateChange and those who could not care less for it.

Do I want to be remembered as the angry one in the corner who did not act?

If one day my kids ask me what have you done for the planet I want to tell them what I did and prove them that I cared for their planet.

Happy #EarthDay we only borrow this planet from the next generation, they will see us as careless and uncivilized fools if we keep doing nothing.

sysop408, 19 days ago to random

Does anyone else get angry at their box of spare computer cables and power adapters?

cabel, 24 days ago to random

I really don't love this thing

• I don't love that I can't turn OFF file sync that I never use
• I don't love that many top-level items (like ‘Stock & Marketplace’) are false fronts that just open a web browser.
• I don’t love that prominent UI here is trying to sell me more seats — and I can’t hide it!?!
• I don’t love that it can’t auto-fill the 2FA login codes when they come in via text message

Thank you for letting me vent about this thing

dnc, 24 days ago to Korea

Could anyone help me with the instructions on this? https://www.diningandcooking.com/1336371/could-anyone-help-me-with-the-instructions-on-this/

#Korea #KoreaFood #Korean #KoreanFood

Jaden3, 25 days ago to random

Had a long ass chat with my gramma last nite. She said ' Jaden you will never find happiness because all you do is plan for the next thing, always looking for something new and better. Just sit back and enjoy what you got'.
Think she may have a point??????
What yall think 🤔

drahardja, 26 days ago to apple

Man, not again. #Apple sells seriously under-specced devices to maintain their “starting from…” price and then upselling people to actually-usable models. Remember those 16 GB flash iPhones they kept selling (2010–2016! I checked!), even though that meant people didn’t even have enough space to update their OS? 8 GB RAM is that, once more, but for runtime memory.

I think the 256 GB flash, 8 GB RAM minimum-spec Mac is a low-resource trap for anyone who wants to use a computer for more than light web browsing (and I mean light—web pages are resource hogs these days) or a messaging client. They are certainly not suitable for anyone wanting to locally store or edit media.

For 2024, I think 512 GB flash and 16 GB RAM should be minimum for MacBook Air, while 1 TB and 32 GB RAM should be minimum for MacBook Pro.

“Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM”

https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/12/apple-8gb-ram-mac/

cd24, 26 days ago to Israel

Well, that's something! Glad to hear we’re not planning to be dragged into more violence by Israel.

https://ground.news/article/60e5df4f-be44-419d-a61e-9f49bd8420b9

#Israel #Iran #POTUS #JoeBiden #politics #MiddleEast

slcw, 27 days ago to random

In other words, the people walking around with guns are the exact same people you wouldn't want to be carrying guns.

https://www.psypost.org/study-finds-56-of-americans-who-carry-firearms-in-public-believe-political-violence-is-justified/

dcreemer, 29 days ago to AdobePhotoshop

Every time I get asked to help someone “fix their slow computer” I’m amazed at the variety of shit people install and forget about. But there’s one constant: f*cking #adobe #CreativeCloud sitting there chewing up RAM and disk. Typically installed (and still being paid for!) because the needed to fill out one PDF form once.

mekkaokereke, 1 month ago to random

People on Twitter are debating whether a person using uncommon words like "delve" are trying to sound smarter than they are, or worse, are ChatGPT bots, because "normal" people don't talk like that.

You don't have to get upset, or embroiled in the debate. Not worth the time or attention. But I'll share some important context as your friendly neighborhood Nigerian 🙋🏿‍♂️

Many Nigerians have bigger English language vocabularies and better command of grammar than the typical American or English person

barackobama, 1 month ago to random

Congrats to @GamecockWBB and Coach @DawnStaley on a perfect season and their third title! It's been an incredible year for women's basketball, and this team was so disciplined and talented. Well deserved.

johncarlosbaez, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

The tallest building in Taiwan, half a kilometer high, survived the big quake just fine - in part thanks to a 'tuned mass damper'.

It's a 660-tonne steel sphere hanging from wires: a pendulum designed to reduce quake vibrations by 40%. It's yellow and it hangs from the 92nd to the 87th floors, visible from inside the building. On 8 August 2015, strong winds from Typhoon Soudelor made it swing by 100 centimeters. I don't know how much it swayed during the quake.

It's inspired a popular mascot in Taiwan, called Damper Baby. I'll show you the actual steel sphere, and then Damper Baby.

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drahardja, 4 months ago to ai

I’m more certain than ever that the first quarter of 2024 will see a grand reckoning for companies that have bet big on #AI. As I said before, I predict a lot of CFOs getting sticker shock at their compute bills, and we will see pivots and downscaling of expectations across the industry. By the middle of the year, there will likely be a general cool-down as users and investors come to grips with what “AI” can realistically do at reasonable cost (hint: not as much as the hype claims). Strategically deploying smaller models will become quite attractive, rather than monolithic solutions.

I also think 2024 is the year of the legal reckoning for the industry. Creators whose work have been used for training (i.e. plagiarized) will likely make big inroads into establishing legal frameworks for compensation, and some models will become poisoned because they were trained with unvetted data. Hopefully this also means that model-makers who have been meticulous about their training data’s providence will reap rewards.