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So, the Government isn't following "the latest scientific advice" at all. It's just following the plot (and quoting huge chunks of the script?) of this 2011 film. 
I recorded it back on 26th March (ITV2) and got round to watching it last night. It is genuinely scary how close this is to predicting our current situation. And it's quite a watchable film.
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Have you played "Plague Inc"? it's pretty scary how close that is to the current situation as well.
In that, you are the plague, and your "job" is to kill the entire human population. One of the easiest ways is to start with something that shows few symptoms, does no real damage, but infects like crazy. Once you have it well and truly established, start it killing as fast as possible. And the later countries close borders, ban flights, and so forth the easier your job is ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote: Have you played "Plague Inc"? it's pretty scary how close that is to the current situation as well.
I know this is going to be huge shock, (and big disappointment) to my fellow loungers, but I don't play computer games! Having worked in IT for 40 years, the last thing I want to do with my spare time, is go anywhere near a computer - apart from the odd visit here at the weekend. 
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 With the rare exception, no computer games for me either. And never anything fast-paced. For that, there's tennis.
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Although I respect your stance on computer games and working with computers all day, I have to play a few games every now an then to help escape the real world. In moderation, it is quite therapeutic.
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Slacker007 wrote: In moderation, it is quite therapeutic.
Exactly
Some days I like to read a book, other days I want to see a film, other days I want to play...
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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5teveH wrote: I don't play computer games!
I played some games in my student years (in the years of command line interfaces only, and the classical Adventure game!) Then a couple of my classmates went completely crazy, spending all their time on it. They got hold of the Adventure source code (in Fortran!) and started extending it, trying to outsmart each other by adding new tricks you had to use to grab the treasures, and so on. One of them later stated "Being a University junior was the three best years of my life".
So I got it up my throat, watching those guys. It expanded to other sorts of games as well: Since my student days, I haven't really played a single game, neither board games, computer games, quizzes or whathaveyou. (Exception: When small kids beg me to play children's card games with them, Ludo or other plain-luck games.)
So you are not alone as a non-gamer!
The one "game" I really wished for as a student, I never saw (and never got around to develop myself): I was quite interested in astrophysics, non-Euclidian space, black holes and such, and dreamed of a space invasion inspired "game" made in strict accordance with current cosmological theories, that would allow me to navigate a space ship towards black holes or super-gigantic stars, to see how close I could get without crashing. I bought one of the standard bibles of astrophysics, Misner, Thorne, Wheeler: Gravitation[^], having a section headed something like "The fate of an astronaut who is dragged into a black hole", describing how his body will be pulled out to a thin strand, the different speed of the clock at his feet and head, and so on. I really wished to have a model where I could see this happen! (Of course a major requirement would be an adjustable virtual time, to let you travel many light years a second in open space, and to slow down the fate of that astronaut to slow motion.) I don't know if you would call that a "game", but I never found (or made) anything like that anyway.
I wonder: Do astronomers / cosmologicans have that sort of visualization tools to use for themselves? Or don't they need it - do they just imagine in their heads? (Similar to "Radio plays have so much better images than TV plays!") If they have it, can they adjust parameters like the amount of dark energy/matter? DaveAuld presented some astronomy pictures the other day; if you read this: Do you happen to know of any such visualization models?
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I like computer games, primarily ones that have a good story to keep me interested and that have simple controls, but my problem is that I never have time to play them.
I have an 8TB drive (and back-ups) that's almost full of installers for games, and shelves full of game CDs/DVDs, that I will never play.
So I'm not so much a video-game player as a video-game buyer.
Shopaholism is a real thing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This is, in a way, how the old "Stoned" virus worked. You can have countless infected diskettes and yet not have the virus yourself - until you accidentally try to boot from one (left in Drive A:, remember?). Now, every floppy that goes into your system becomes a carrier. And it doesn't kill your system (the Michelangelo knockoff, unfortunately, did).
Or, put in more draconian terms - just for illustrative purposes:
Think of some undesirably genetic trait. It could be a dominant or recessive gene - so consider both scenarios.
Dominant Gene: Essentially if you kill every one who has this gene before they breed you can wipe out the trait. As a dominant gene, anyone with one or two copies shows the trait and all vectors of transmission can be observed.
Recessive Gene: Many carriers who, having only one copy, show no undesirable physical traits - only those with two copies are apparent. Genocide won't help as you don't know who to target.
Similarly, a parasite that (quickly) kills its host will not be nearly as successful as one that lives off it - and even less successful, still, than a symbiotic relationship.
Covid-19 carriers, it seems, are mostly asymptomatic, or nearly so. It's pretty obvious as to which category it falls into.
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5teveH wrote: It is genuinely scary how close this is to predicting our current situation
That's because it was written by a real writer, not the hollywood variety.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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watched it a couple of weeks ago myself. It was like "What?"
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I am using the stay at home time to show my kids my box-from-when-I-was younger : my whole life until now holds in a 60x30x30cm box, in which I have put all my important stuff so far. It is nothing to say that this was a blast in the past.
In the box is the report of my master thesis in 2002, in the acknowledgment part of which I have 5 lines for thanking people who help me, and of these is dedicated to ... Code Project for the awesome help I got from everyone here. 
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I also have a box full of useless st*ff.
It's called my house.
[edited for kid-sister safeness[^]]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 19-Apr-20 3:49am.
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And here we are - still making the same bad jokes so many years later.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Which is why I am still here.
But I do own y part of my thesis to Nish, Christian Graus, toxcct, Chris losinger, ... and of course to you for that awesome website.
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Is there any good links to learn the core JS fundamentals thoroughly ?
Most tutorials online assume everybody wants to learn JS to develop Web.
For example W3Schools:
function myFunction() {
document.getElementById("demo1").innerHTML = "Hello Dolly!";
document.getElementById("demo2").innerHTML = "How are you?";
}
oh, no "document." stuff  That confuses the kids.
I just want JS that's used at the backend. i.e Node.
But when I search for Node.js based Tutorial they talk all about the libraries and APIs in Node. Like FileSystem, Network and other stuff directly.
Not much of JS fundamentals.
Is there a site where I can learn JS, the python or C way.
Just data structures and fundamentals.
This is for my cousin btw.
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Nand32 wrote: This is for my cousin btw.
Yeah, yeah - they all say that when they start to turn to the Dark Side ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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JS is more the Dumb Side of the Force. I am on the Dark Side and like it, but would not touch JS without gloves or perhaps better a complete protective suit.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Are you mad? Where the heck are you going to get enough PPE to protect you from JS?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I just have to ask my former employer. They had me running around in such a suit an entire summer long, measuring radiation, decontaminating trucks and other such nice activities.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Don't forget the welding mask - JS enters through the eyes, and contaminates the soul ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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So that's why some of the the raiders wear welding goggles, even at night! Damn! Now you have brought me to dig out that game again. Skyrimk with guns. With a new character. Little Mary Sue has just found that old power armor suit plus minigun and given the raisers what they deserve. Power armor protects you from everything: Fallout 4 Power Armor vs Raiders - YouTube[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Yeah, yeah - they all say that when they start to turn to the Dark Side ..
You mean back to coding the dark screen CLI ? 
Hehe, my cousin wanted to escape programming and wanted to pursue management degree. But because of the lockdown things changed and now he's desperate for any job. What we have mostly is technical jobs with low pay. So he's gonna learn the stuff.
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