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Well ... In the northernmost parts of Norway, in some villages the nearest birth clinic is 400 km (250 miles) away ... except when it closes for the summer; then you may have to travel close to 1000 km if you want to deliver under medically controlled conditions. Usually, the delivery can be planned a few days in advance, and you can also do some economic planning to cover the hotel expenses for maybe a week ...
For events that comes without planning, the local doctor may not have the full expertise to handle it. (S)he can, however, over the internet contact experts at the central hospital, using a webcam (of higher quality than the one in your portable!) to let the expert view wounds, rashes, unknown pills or chemicals, patient behavior and reactions etc., and discuss the best treatment. If I were living in such a place, I would be very happy if my local doctor consulted experts over internet if I have a medical condition that falls outside his field of expertise.
Certainly, this is quite different from surfing Wikipedia to find a possible answer. But it is using internet for obtaining information that the doctor needs for the best treatment.
(Actually, it started up before internet was established in Norway: They used a 2B (128 kbps) ISDN channel, and the doctor's office had a laserdisk player with thousands of very high quality medical pictures that the expert could refer to, e.g. for comparing the patient's rashes to. The first trial project ran from about 1985 onwards. Laserdisks never had any success in Norway/Europe (in USA, it had a moderate success for a few years), and when internet fiber became available everywhere, the player was replaced with a video camera.)
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The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Alphabet's Google on Tuesday over allegations that the company abused its dominance of the digital advertising business, according to a court document. Oh right. It's budget season, isn't it?
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I'm hoping the judge tells the US to take a hike on this one. There's already an DOJ anti-trust lawsuit against Alphabet that is set to go to trial later this year.
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I think this is the DOJ one? Unless they have multiple lined up, but I wouldn't be surprised.
TTFN - Kent
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Whether you’re passing secret notes in class or downloading images from a space probe, Reed-Solomon codes offer an ingenious way to embed information and correct for errors. "Don't know much about the algebra"
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Quote: One surprisingly effective method uses Reed-Solomon codes, which are built on the same basic algebra that students learn in school
Fun fact: everything is based on that. Literally everything.
Also, I hoped to read some mind-opening basic math article, which I love (I had a complicated relationship with math during Uni), and yet I found the most verbose and convoluted explanation of Linear Equations Systems I ever found in 35 years.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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There are a number of ways that Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code enable you to interact with remote machines. Reach out and crash someone
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Gone are the days where I spent the nights crashing my development environment.
Now I can crash everyone else's too!
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Two new studies suggest that ransomware isn't the lucrative, enterprise-scale gotcha it used to be. Profits to attackers' wallets, and the percentage of victims paying, fell dramatically in 2022, according to two separate reports. Not to mention all the people counting unmarked bills, and checking behind the third park bench
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Damn, what bummer, if one can't ransom and pillage anymore like in the good old days!  
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Yeah, the cloud is killing the age of RAIDs
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The word is out - even if you pay there's no guarantee you'll get your data back.
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IMHO, the best way to kill the ransomware "industry" would be to make paying the ransoms illegal.
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Researchers say they have captured a radio signal from the most distant galaxy to date. I guess this means they're not coming over?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I guess this means they're not coming over?
Probably not before the end of earth...
(as long as they don't have a working worm hole or something like that)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Last line of the article The research shows scientists may be able to probe the cosmic evolution of neutral gas with low-frequency radio telescopes in the near future.
Do you understand how important it is that we will be able to "probe neutral gases"?? It's so freaking amazing!!! This is a game-changer. And, it's a lot of fun too. 
Also, I wish my office mates' gases were neutral. 
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Dave Farley's exploration of seven common excuses that software developers make for doing a terrible job. Let me count the ways...
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"I got a degree in programming but it didn't teach me anything about real life software development."
Oh wait, that's not an excuse, it's a valid reason.
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That's sadly true, though I am grateful for my Computer Engineering degree. It didn't teach me anything about coding in the real world but it gave me a lot of tools I used to learn that fast and to do what the average programmer can't due to lacking scientifical knowledge.
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May I say that I never hear any of those excuses? They seem made up just to repeat obvious takes sounding intelligent by faking strawman counter-arguments. There was an XKCD on that somewhere.
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Every office has one – the inexplicably cheerful, kind and generous co-worker who brings in cake and/or biscuits and leaves them somewhere for their weight-sensitive colleagues to graze on. "Donuts…is there anything they can’t do?"
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If it's supposed to move, but doesn't - use WD40
If it moves, but shouldn't - use Duck Tape
If it's silent, but should talk - use alcohol
If it talks but shouldn't - use donuts
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Might get slapped down for this but, I gotta try.
Quote: Professor Susan Jebb
sounds fat.
Or, more reason to not go to the office.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Just one more busybody trying to tell us how to live. Are we sure her first name isn't "Karen"?
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Damn, I knew I should have brought more in my previous companies.
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