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jvm_on Wuhan hospital traffic, search engine data indicate virus activity in Fall 2019

The Spanish flu is called the Spanish flu because all the other countries refused to report on it, so all the news of this new disease came from Spain, hence the name.

Sounds like a similar thing might have happened here.

jvm_on A Fast, Cheap and Scary Way to Cool the Planet

Could we change the inclination(?) of the moon's orbit to cause solar eclipses once a month? Would that be enough? Paging /r/theydidthemath

jvm_on Stockholm Won't Reach Herd Immunity in May, Sweden's Chief Epidemiologist Says

https://www.facebook.com/1515215380/posts/10222241141166862/...

jvm_on Two capacitor paradox

Hadn't coded much in the 9 months I'd been off. Googled Java interview questions, practiced on the first few results.

Interview question was the first result... 7 years later.

jvm_on Siri, What Time Is It in London?

Heading west from Clappison's corners near Waterdown.

jvm_on Siri, What Time Is It in London?

Anyone want to guess where this sign is located?

https://imgur.com/XyTJHEc

jvm_on US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay at home

My used video game sales went from $X00/2 weeks to $X,000/2 weeks after the lockdown started in my area.

jvm_on Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

www.thispersondoesnotexist.com

already exists

jvm_on How to play board games online with your friends

They have a beta site that was less swamped last time we played. No rankings, but we didn't care.

jvm_on How to play board games online with your friends

Jit.si is as easy as https://meet.jit.si/joemasilotti Just give browser permissions and you're in.

jvm_on How to play board games online with your friends

Jit.si is as easy as https://meet.jit.si/bluetidepro Just give browser permissions and you're in.

jvm_on How to play board games online with your friends

The ticket to ride app is only $8-9 depending on your platform. It's pretty easy to find other players and make an online game. We played a few games as a family with a meet.jit.si running in the background, it worked pretty good. If you assume the price of the game is the cost of the gas it would take to drive to someone's house, it evens out in the end.

jvm_on Thousand-year-old mill has resumed production due to demand for flour

We've moved into a real-world board game. This tile over here has wheat, if you go get it and then move to this tile, you can process it and gain bread - but your bread resource declines by 1 loaf per day.

jvm_on Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”? (2018)

The scientist speaking before him was describing testing scenarios. If you have light you get one result, and then you inject disinfectant, you get a different result. So the scientist was saying the words inject disinfectant - except he didn't mean needles but someone assumed he did.

jvm_on Show HN: Video conference and synchronized YouTube video to do fitness in groups

There have been these posted here, I forget their names though.

I've been thinking of doing some with all my Aunts watching their 60's-80's home videos. They all Zoom in, watch it synchronized and commentate. Would be interesting to have the family history documented, otherwise it's just an old video of a familiar face in some place.

jvm_on How a nuclear submarine officer learned to live in tight quarters

Civil war subs...

jvm_on Play social games with friends over Zoom

colonist.io

jvm_on Play social games with friends over Zoom

Would this be easy enough to setup for a class of 11-year-olds who'd all be in their own homes?

jvm_on Show HN: Chess and Video Chat, no login required

My friends and I played euchre at Playok.com and then just made our own Euchre room on Jit.si. We even had a main room and then sub rooms 00, 01, 02 and you'd just join the main room, get assigned a table and jit.si room and then just join both.

jvm_on Bank of America: 58,000 small businesses ask for $6B in loans since 9 a.m

Your local diner probably doesn't have months worth of cash sitting around. They make food, sell it, pay employees and open the doors the next day. That falls apart pretty quickly if people stop buying their food.

jvm_on Deep underwater, submariners are likely unaware of pandemic

There were people kayaking the Columbia river through the Grand Canyon for 25 days heading into when everything shutdown. They had the same thoughts as you and thought the people telling them at the end was a joke.

jvm_on Why Walking Meetings Work

"This is the Memory Palace - I'm Nate DiMeo"

https://thememorypalace.us/2016/02/the-wheel/

jvm_on Modeling the effectiveness of respiratory masks in reducing influenza (2018)

Foxconn (iphone maker in china) was re-tooling to produce them.

jvm_on Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference

I picked up this one on craigslist, Northern Light Technology Boxelite, Light Therapy Box. The effect is enough that I bought a smaller Verilux touch model for work, but it's a third of the size (but much slimmer so it'll fit on my desk in the office). Haven't remembered to bring the smaller one to work, but I'd imagine I'd need more time in front of it.

The big one I have is the 4th one on this page. https://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-sad-lamps.html

jvm_on Early riser or night owl? New study may help to explain the difference

So my natural rhythm is working 10-2 and then a lull until 4-6, and then a lull until midnight, I wouldn't get tired until 2am.

Not ideal for a 9-5 job with kids. I'd also need a nap around 5:30-7 or so, also not wife-compatible to fall asleep at 5:30pm for an hour.

I started using a SAD lamp and it makes a huge difference, 30 minutes in the morning, I just browse my phone in front of it. It feels like a cup of coffee and a 30 minute nap.

The biggest is not needing the evening nap followed by actually being tired at midnight, and the ability to fall sleep between 10pm-midnight if I need to get up early. It makes a major difference to me, it has about a 2-day effect, I can skip the 30 minutes for a day or two, but after day 3 my clock resets.

I'd get a 4pm boost at work, I could tell the time by how productive I was being. Same thing with midnight, I'd sit on the couch from 9-midnight, and then find myself cleaning up exactly at midnight. With the light, everything is 2 hours earlier, 2pm work boost, and 10pm boost at home.

I have one of the larger lights, don't want to be accused of shilling.

jvm_on Trunk Road Gritter Tracker

Same just down the road, but they're also service vehicles, so they're out and about regularly. http://hamilton.plowtracker.com/

jvm_on Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention?

The 1751 Machine that Made Everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djB9oK6pkbA

jvm_on Apollo 11 Guidance Computer vs. USB-C Chargers

The docking (like find your way back to the mothership radar) was still turned on, so the CPU was receiving the data and having to process it.

The CPU was throwing an I'm overloaded signal, but dealing with it, as the process priority put docking radar as less priority than the landing sequence.

So the CPU was complaining but still doing it's job.

All this is from memory :P

jvm_on Board Games of the Ancient World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I

25 minutes of "Tom Scott vs Irving Finkel: The Royal Game of Ur". Great to watch.

jvm_on Phone services disrupted across B.C., but emergency calls still working

But who answers? California 911 - because that's where I'm physically located. or NY 911 because that's where my phone is from?