ultracrepidarian: a person who criticizes, judges, or gives advice outside the area of his or her expertise.
Found via Hacker News – free and open source tracker and ad blocker, works on-device using VPN hooks. That means that it’ll block in apps as well as Safari. I’m trying it now.
Note – they pay their bills with the subscription-billed VPN but you can decline that and just use the blocker. That’s what I’m trying.
For iOS devices and Mac only.
Police helicopter. I always wonder.
What he said.
You see odd things on ADS-B sometimes when you view traces.
Googled and it was an acrobatic plane.
Guess they were doing a routine?
Melody from “Seven Nation Army” and rewrite it as a vocal fugue. Genius!
Forwarded on a local Slack from a former co-worker, whose wife found it on Facebook. I’m looking for the author and will update if I find him/her.
Although most of the studies in the Cochrane Review were on medical workers in a hospital setting, one study followed community transmission of SARS in Beijing. It found that consistently wearing a mask in public was associated with a 70% reduction in risk of catching SARS. Additionally, the authors of the paper noted that most people in the community wore simple surgical masks, not N95 respirators.
What’s the Evidence on Face Masks? What You Heard Was Probably Wrong
Yep, early advice was wrong – get masks and wear them. Can’t find them in stock? Sites are popping up with instructions on how to DIY:
Found via the invaluable Kottke, this omnibus post covers a lot of my worries. We’re isolated but with a family of four, we need to buy food roughly weekly and I’ve been losing sleep over questions like this. Well worth your time.
The antimalarials are much in the news due to Covid-19, so here’s an actual expert who knows them well and can explain. TL;DR – they’re unlikely to be much help as treatment.
The author is Derek Lowe, long a favorite of mine for his “Things I won’t work with” series and I recommend him highly.
I used to covet the Omega Planet Ocean, in the orange-accent model:
The Omega, ref 215.32.44.21.01.001, is $6,450 USD. It’s lovely. This Christophe Ward, ref C60-42ADD3-T0BB0-B0, is $1,680. It has a lot to recommend it, but lets start with pictures. All of these are from their press release.
Looks good on a bracelet, doesn’t it?
That blue/orange.
Up close, the applied markers and three-dimensional hands look beautiful. This thing looks, in a word, luxurious.
I’ve owned CW’s (three maybe?) so as expected the lume is first rate.
Yep. I want one.
So, now that we’ve blitzed the pictures, some information for the rational part of your brain:
The movement is the Sellita SW220, a close copy of the ETA 2836 day-date:
There are versions in black too if the orange is too bold for ya:
CW has done several iterations of their logo and its placement, which is of no interest to me. The hands are their most recent and I’m more fond of the minute than the hour. Legible day and night.
At 42mm by 49mm, its Pelagos sized and a lot less expensive. The bracelet even has an on-wrist length adjustment, like the Pelagos.
I’m liking it. I’m talking to Christopher Ward to see if I can review and maybe buy one.
https://www.christopherward.com/c60-elite-1000-blue-orange-1
