The thread of learning something new every day
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@NTA said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Today I learned there is a fuckload to Google Cloud Platform. This is the benefit/burden of working from home during COVID-19 and spending hours trying to find ways to do shit I'd have otherwise knocked off in minutes on SQL Server.
/nerdchat
Massive citrix farm here is coping (barely). At one point yesterday scrolling emails was like loading gifs over dial up
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@antipodean said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@NTA said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Today I learned there is a fuckload to Google Cloud Platform. This is the benefit/burden of working from home during COVID-19 and spending hours trying to find ways to do shit I'd have otherwise knocked off in minutes on SQL Server.
/nerdchat
Massive citrix farm here is coping (barely). At one point yesterday scrolling emails was like loading gifs over dial up
internet.One of our farms shit the bed earlier today, taking down some of the remote access stuff with it. Inconvenient for me but showstopper for others.
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In the absence of Radio Sport I've taken to other recorded content.
Found the following quite good but specifically the bit (fairly late in the interview - dont ask me a time) about the correlation (note, not causation), between cyano bacteria (blue green algae) and MND.
. Available now through the ABC listen App - http://bit.ly/ABCradioApp
Unlocking the mystery of Motor Neurone Disease - ABC listen
Dominic Rowe is asking how common degenerative brain diseases begin (R)
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Also, on the back of having borrowed a number of books form the library in advance of the WuFlu shutdown I've got a book called 'Pandora's Lab'.
About various scientific discoveries that were thought to be miracle breakthroughs, but ... kinda ... like weren't.
Two chapters on I hate my parents* for making me eat margarine.
Let me rephrase that: I hate my parents even more for making me eat margarine. The stuff was foul, and was guaranteed to give you heart disease.
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- I don't really hate my parents ...
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I have been doing a 'on this day in history' message to my work colleagues each day (in our Whatsapp group)...it is greatly appreciated, I know this cos the day I was late sending, it was asked for
Today was interesting;
Julius Caesar was assassiated in 43BC
John WIlkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln in 1865
The Titanic hit the iceberg 1912 -
@taniwharugby One of the advantages of still reading a newspaper is that there is a Today in History section in my local.
Amongst other facts on today:
- The 1st Edition of the Webster's English dictionary was published in 1828.
- The vaccine against typhoid was also discovered in 1903 by Dr Harry Plotz.
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@Bovidae said in The thread of learning something new every day:
ts on today:
The 1st Edition of the Webster's English dictionary was published in 1828.
The vaccine against typhoid was also discovered in 1903 by Dr Harry Plotz.yeah I saw both those on the page I was looking at...some of the younger generation probably would never have picked up a dictionary!
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Assassination of Julius Caesar (Famous Painting)
By the time of his assassination on 15 March (the Ides of March) 44BC, Julius Caesar was at the height of his power, having recently been declared dictator perpetuo by the Roman Senate. This kind of power made many senators nervous that Caesar would overthrow the senate and establish one-man...
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Given the Titanic mention above, and today being the anniversary of the sinking itself:
- four thoughts from the authors of "On a Sea of Glass" - which is probably the best and most comprehensive/thoughtful single volume there will ever be on Titanic."Dead men tell no tales" is an overlooked part of the Titanic story. Of the crew, the survivors tend to be portrayed as the energetic ones. Sometimes the dead get unironically painted as curiously quiet (see: the Chief Officer, also James Cameron throwing Captain Smith under the bus during his portrayal of the sinking itself). When mainly it's that their stories were much harder to reconstruct....
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@MajorRage have we seen the nz govt say it's an eradication goal? I haven't caught that anywhere as yet.
I think the NZ goal is elimination, not eradication, as people will still travel here with it from time to time (and be quarantined on arrival).
Those 2 words are synonyms, I even went to the dictionary to check.
Your post sounds like govt PR spin. Swap elimination with eradication in your sentence and vice versa and nothing changes.In epidemiology, eliminate means to have no cases in a region, and eradicate means to have no cases anywhere in the world.
An example of a disease which NZ has eliminated is rabies - can't get it here other than from overseas sources, but obviously it's still around in other parts of the world.
Smallpox is the only disease to be eradicated under the epidemiological definition.
No spin, just science.
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Who knew this about keirin, not me?
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haha
Rosie Ruiz, age 26, finishes first in the womenâs division of the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:31:56 on April 21, 1980. She was rewarded with a medal, a laurel wreath and a silver bowl; however, eight days later Ruiz is stripped of her victory after race officials learned she jumped into the race about a mile before the finish line.
The Cuban-born Ruiz, an administrative assistant from New York City, qualified for the 84th Boston Marathon by submitting her time for running the 1979 New York City Marathon. Although Ruiz never explained why she cheated, it has been suggested her boss was so impressed she qualified for the prestigious Boston race that he offered to pay her way. Itâs believed that Ruiz intended to jump into the middle of the pack of runners but miscalculated when she joined the marathon one mile from the end, not realizing she was ahead of the other 448 female competitors.
Ruiz was unknown in the running world and her victory raised suspicions because it was a 25-minute improvement over her New York City Marathon time. Additionally, her winning time was then the third-fastest marathon time in history for a woman. After studying race photographsâRuiz didnât appear in any of them until the very endâand conducting interviews, Boston Marathon officials stripped Ruiz of her title on April 29, 1980, and named Jacqueline Gareau of Canada the womenâs division champion with a time of 2:34:28. Ruizâs New York time was later invalidated when officials discovered she had taken the subway during part of the race.
The controversy surrounding Ruiz overshadowed Bill Rogers, who won the menâs division of the 1980 Boston Marathon for a record fourth year in a row. At the 2005 Boston Marathon, Jacqueline Gareau served as grand marshal and re-enacted her 1980 marathon performance by breaking the tape. After her cheating was revealed, Ruiz, who maintained she had won the Boston Marathon fairly, lost her job in New York. She encountered further trouble in 1982 when she was accused of stealing money from an employer. The following year, she was caught selling drugs to undercover officers in Florida. In both cases, Ruiz served brief stints in jail. Ruiz died in 2019 in Florida.
The first Boston Marathon was run on April 19, 1897. Women were officially allowed to compete in the race starting in 1972. Following the Ruiz incident, race officials instituted tighter security measures to prevent future episodes of cheating.
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Ruizâs New York time was later invalidated when officials discovered she had taken the subway during part of the race.
Balls of steel.
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@taniwharugby There was a documentary (Free to run) on MÄori TV last night that covered the start of women running in the Boston marathon. The picture below is of race director Jock Semple trying to remove Katherine Switzer from the race in 1967. The dude in race #390 is her boyfriend. Puts in a decent shoulder to remove Jock.
Documentary was pretty sh*t overall. Not even a mention of Lydiard.
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Just found this tread.
See it's more daily facts but interested to know what others have been learning that's been on the to do list that was for when you had some spare time and now by a sock twist of fate you now have time to do it.
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@Toddy said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@taniwharugby There was a documentary (Free to run) on MÄori TV last night that covered the start of women running in the Boston marathon. The picture below is of race director Jock Semple trying to remove Katherine Switzer from the race in 1967. The dude in race #390 is her boyfriend. Puts in a decent shoulder to remove Jock.
"Tom Miller, a 235-pound ex-football player and nationally ranked hammer thrower" according to wiki so, he was probably going easy on him!
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Crap picture but the hit is about 4 seconds in.
Apparently Kathrine now lives in Wellington for half the year with her kiwi husband Roger Robinson (works at Vic Uni). Hope for their sake they're in Wellington and not New York at the moment.
Rosie Ruiz fakes Boston Marathon win | April 21, 1980 | HISTORY
