[20200416_005831 UTC; Updated title and corrected spelling of balanceTags(). --martyb]martyb writes:Ooops! Things should be working correctly, now.tl;dr: Back on March 20th, someone tripped over a bug that appears to be in the balanceTags() routine in our Perl code. I found a way to made a quick fix to prevent its happening again, but the fix was missing a couple steps. I caught and fixed one of them, but only now just handled the other.Workaround: When writing a comment, writing or editing a journal entry, or when submitting a story, use "DEL" instead of "STRIKE" to make text look like this.This story is the result of something I learned in the process: properly notify the community of any changes to the site!Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for both AzumaHazuki and SoyCow8192:Medical device "jailbreak" could help solve the dangerous shortage of ventilators:
wirelessduck submitted a link which brought us to:In a number system where the real numbers could not have an infinite number of digits, how would our physics models change?Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math.:
canopic jug writes:Tom's Hardware is reporting that Raspberry Pi Foundation is increasing production of its $5 Raspberry Pi Zero to meet demand from ventilator manufacturers which are using the board in their designs. The higher end Raspberry Pi boards are also reasonable desktop units for many typical home office uses, so they are being distributed in place of laptops to many working at home for the NHS. The Raspberry Pi is a low wattage single-board computer with convenient input-output hardware suitable for embedded applications but running a full Debian-based GNU/Linux distro, Raspbian.
canopic jug writes:Ross Anderson, a researcher at the Security Group at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, has written aboutcontact tracing in the real world enumerating in detail some of the many shortcomings with and false assumptions about contact tracing as means of fighting a pandemic.
An Anonymous Coward writes:Looking out at a city with no cars and realizing they were unable to help out directly with the pandemic, some artists at a Detroit advertising agency found another way to help,Originally found here, http://www.autoextremist.com/on-the-table1/2020/4/6/april-8-2020.html:[Ed note: It is a long article and, sadly, there are no anchors to permit a direct link to the quoted text. Scroll down to about the mid-point to find it. Also, emphasis from the original article is retained here. --martyb]
acid andy writes:John Horton Conway, mathematician and inventor of Conway's Game of Life has been reported by a colleague to have died from COVID-19 at the age of 82.Conway's death has also been reported (in Italian) by the Italian website "MaddMaths!".From Wikipedia: