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• Comment on The Technology You’ll Love by wzrd1 December 14, 2020 01:28
  In reply to <a href="https://epidemiological.net/2020/12/12/the-technology-youll-love/comment-page-1/#comment-6627">René F. Najera, DrPH</a>. Pretty close, the dinosaurs were gone and it was really, really cold out..
• Comment on The Technology You’ll Love by René F. Najera, DrPH December 13, 2020 14:24
  In reply to <a href="https://epidemiological.net/2020/12/12/the-technology-youll-love/comment-page-1/#comment-6626">wzrd1</a&gt;. Vacuum tubes? The dinosaurs used those, right?
• Comment on The Technology You’ll Love by wzrd1 December 13, 2020 04:28
  I just built up a Pi 4 media server, running libreelec and for good measure, got the new model that's C=64 style inside of its keyboard. I did splurge on an absurd capacity memory card, as a hedge for future projects. Might also play with clustering a bunch of zeros. I'm quite favorably impressed with the performance! I did get one hiccup with my USB 3 HD, which drew enough current that I had to remove the power switch dongle, that modest resistance was enough to put the HD intermittently into a logically indeterminate state, resulting in IO hangs. I also bumped the 7 inch touch monitor power cable to a higher quality model, lowering its resistance as well. Used to be an electronic tech, equally experienced in analog and digital, not to mention from vacuum tube through VLSI. 🙂
• Comment on Quarantine Shmarantine! Pandemic Edition by René F. Najera, DrPH December 1, 2020 21:29
  In reply to <a href="https://epidemiological.net/2020/11/24/quarantine-shmarantine-pandemic-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-6621">Bravo Fox</a>. You seem very fixated on the word “millions.” Is this word of particular importance to you, or is this the only flaw in my thesis and, as a result, the only target for your vitriol? Should I un-publish this blog and then re-publish once the reported death count reaches 2 million? Yeah, I'm not going to do that, and I'm not changing my stance. Have a great day, “Bravo.”
• Comment on Quarantine Shmarantine! Pandemic Edition by Bravo Fox December 1, 2020 21:11
  In reply to <a href="https://epidemiological.net/2020/11/24/quarantine-shmarantine-pandemic-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-6620">René F. Najera, DrPH</a>. Uh, millions means millions. I’m sure with all your degrees, despite English not being your first language, you understand the importance in the language differences. Millions, as in two or more millions. The same holds true for any numerical grouping. Tens would mean any grouping of 10 more than 20 but not 15 or even 19. Dozens would mean 2 or more dozens; i.e. 24, 36, 48, but not 16.
• Comment on Quarantine Shmarantine! Pandemic Edition by René F. Najera, DrPH December 1, 2020 19:43
  In reply to <a href="https://epidemiological.net/2020/11/24/quarantine-shmarantine-pandemic-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-6619">Bravo Fox</a>. Yes, millions. More than one million = millions. English is not my first language, so forgive me for thinking that more than one requires a plural noun.
• Comment on Quarantine Shmarantine! Pandemic Edition by Bravo Fox December 1, 2020 19:39
  Millions dead? Are you using some sort of ESP powers as creative license
• Comment on My Obsolete MacBook Pro by wzrd1 July 19, 2020 22:09
  In reply to <a href="https://epidemiological.net/2020/07/19/my-obsolete-macbook-pro/comment-page-1/#comment-6593">René F. Najera, DrPH</a>. I swear by it and frequently enough, at it. 😉 It does what I need it to do and I don't have to worry about software licenses, for the most part. At the end of the day, that's what counts the most, getting function out of hardware.
• Comment on My Obsolete MacBook Pro by René F. Najera, DrPH July 19, 2020 21:21
  In reply to <a href="https://epidemiological.net/2020/07/19/my-obsolete-macbook-pro/comment-page-1/#comment-6591">wzrd1</a&gt;. I dabbled in Linux for a while, when I was poor and could only afford old laptops that I would re-build and sell cheaply with some Linux distribution that allowed people to use the web and some version of OpenOffice (or LibreOffice). It's not bad. A lot of my techie friends swear by it.
• Comment on My Obsolete MacBook Pro by wzrd1 July 19, 2020 06:42
  I had splurged, while stationed in Djibouti, for a 2009 model, their last 17 inch model. It's in storage, alas, I killed the motherboard with a glass of after dinner Sangria. Still toy with getting it fixed, once the whole world starts working normally because leaders stop misleading and listen to their SME's for a change. Had a similar 15is inch model, that was stolen by burglars, leaving me half-macless. OK, entirely macless, got some notebooks for cheap and installed Linux on them. Afterward, I figured I should've kept dual boot of one Windows 10 machine for companies that stubbornly refuse to write for anything not OS X or Windows. Never had a Mac with a Retina display, but then these days, I barely personally own retinas. 😉 Growing older sucks, but not as much as not living to grow older!