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| | ==== 2020-12-31 ==== |
| | ??? what does blood do? |
| | !!! https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/blood.html - easy to understand; well written. |
| | ==== 2020-12-14 ==== |
| | * The human brain consumes about 20 W. The human body consumes about 100 W.\\ https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/JacquelineLing.shtml |
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| | ==== 2020-12-11 ==== |
| | * By delivering high dose of radiation in a targeted area of brain, doctors are able to cure tremors caused by multiple sclerosis. The procedure is called 'gamma knife radiosurgery'.\\ https://www.rwjbh.org/patient-stories/staying-steady/ |
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| | ==== 2020-12-03 ==== |
| | * S3 now has strong read-after-write consistency - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/12/amazon-s3-now-delivers-strong-read-after-write-consistency-automatically-for-all-applications/ . Previously, they had what is known as "eventual consistency" meaning that you may not be able to read something immediately after writing it. But now with strong consistency you do not have to worry about it. The strong consistency is enabled automatically for all applications. |
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| ==== 2020-11-30 ==== | ==== 2020-11-30 ==== |
| * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax - Window tax was a property tax based on the number of windows in a house. It was a significant social, cultural, and architectural force in England, France, and Ireland during the 18th and 19th centuries. To avoid the tax some houses from the period can be seen to have bricked-up window-spaces (ready to be glazed or reglazed at a later date). | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax - Window tax was a property tax based on the number of windows in a house. It was a significant social, cultural, and architectural force in England, France, and Ireland during the 18th and 19th centuries. To avoid the tax some houses from the period can be seen to have bricked-up window-spaces (ready to be glazed or reglazed at a later date). |
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| ==== 2020-11-21 ==== | ==== 2020-11-21 ==== |
| * "rc-alert -d T" will show release critical bugs in packages that are currently installed on a system but only those that affect the testing distribution. This is useful to figure out how many RC bugs my system will have if I were to upgrade from stable to testing (but without actually changing sources.list or downloading the packages etc.,) | * "rc-alert -d T" will show release critical bugs in packages that are currently installed on a system but only those that affect the testing distribution. This is useful to figure out how many RC bugs my system will have if I were to upgrade from stable to testing (but without actually changing sources.list or downloading the packages etc.,) |
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| ==== 2020-11-19 ==== | tags | bugs affecting installed packages |
| * The account on https://ankiweb.net/ can be synchronised with anki (installed on a Debian machine). The advantage of the Debian version is that you can delete the cards as needed. The online version does not support card deletion. I am currently using | |
| <code> | |
| % anki --version | |
| anki 2.1.8 | |
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| % dpkg -l anki | grep ^ii | |
| ii anki 2.1.8+dfsg-1 all extensible flashcard learning program | |
| </code> | |
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| ==== 2020-11-17 ==== | ==== 2020-11-17 ==== |
