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| paulca:
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 03, 2020, 10:57:42 am ---Time will tell if that is a good idea or not. We've just been told we're working from home until September earliest. Possibly not even going back until new year. Turned out the office just cost a lot of money and we don't really need it :-DD --- End quote --- We are getting similar, but possibly start of July. Even the CEO and exec teams say they don't want to return to working in the office 5 days a week. This presents a problem though. Obviously we don't need as many desks and it would be very wasteful to assign people a desk. So all desks become "hot desks" and you would have to book a desk on the days you want to come in. That gets complex if teams want to have days when all team members are in.... if a lot of teams want to be in on Monday it would require more desks that would sit unused the rest of the week. They were suggesting using the parking booking app to book desks LOL |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 03, 2020, 09:00:11 am ---That's what's good about the UK. The weather is always sort of "okish". If it's pissing it down it's usually warm enough for it not to be too bothersome. If it's hot it's not usually hot enough for it to be bothersome. Most of the time it's just overcast. Also where I am in London it's mostly flat and littered with cycle lanes :) --- End quote --- This must be a different London from the one where I grew up. Cycling to school was a miserable experience for most of the year. The problems with staying dry on a bike in the rain meant I gave up the bike and walked to school. It a lot easier to walk in the kind of clothes that will keep you dry, and you can use an umbrella on the days where the wind is not too strong. Cycling in London even makes London Transport look attractive... if London Transport actually operates in the direction you need to go. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on June 03, 2020, 10:51:52 am ---Gyms reopen here in two weeks. All kids back at school full time country-wide. AirBnB (non-interstate travel) have gone nuts as people want a weekend away. Kids soccer training started again. Football has started again (without crowds). We haven't had a new community transmitted case in many days in NSW now, our handful of cases have all come from travelers coming in. All but big gatherings are back open, like concerts and public football matches. Basically it's starting to feel like no one gives a frig any more, get back to it. --- End quote --- Here's hoping it all works out and things don't flare up again. It would be great to see things start getting back to normal and we have to open things back up at some point but I also think it's important to remain on guard and keep expanding testing. A huge resurgence in infections would be disastrous from both a public health and economic standpoint. Things were really starting to look optimistic here in the Seattle area very recently, but then all these protests and riots broke out so I would not be surprised if we see a massive resurgence. If I were trying to think of a way to spread Covid to as many people as possible, a massive protest with thousands of people in close proximity screaming and yelling and marching all over a major city sounds like an absolutely ideal way to do it. Perhaps I should clarify, I'm not suggesting some kind of conspiracy or intent here, only that what is going on is close to the absolute worst case behavior people could be engaging in when there's still a virus going around killing people. Especially when the hardest hit communities with the highest Covid death rates are precisely those that the protests and riots are advocating for. It's just a bad situation any way you look at it. |
| maginnovision:
https://retractionwatch.com/2020/06/01/top-journal-retracts-study-claiming-masks-ineffective-in-preventing-covid-19-spread/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/health/coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine.html NY times is sort of behind a paywall. Some quotes from the article. --- Quote ---Data from Africa indicate that nearly 25 percent of all Covid-19 cases and 40 percent of all deaths in the continent occurred in Surgisphere-associated hospitals which had sophisticated electronic patient data recording,” the scientists wrote. “Both the numbers of cases and deaths, and the detailed data collection, seem unlikely. --- End quote --- --- Quote ---Another of the critics’ concerns was that the data about Covid-19 cases in Australia was incompatible with government reports and included “more in-hospital deaths than had occurred in the entire country during the study period.” --- End quote --- --- Quote ---Scientists who wrote and signed the letter criticizing the study included clinicians, researchers, statisticians and ethicists from academic medical centers, including Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt University and Duke University. --- End quote --- --- Quote ---Dr. Sapan S. Desai, the owner and founder of Surgisphere and one of the paper’s authors, vigorously defended the findings and the authenticity and validity of the company’s database. He said official counts of coronavirus cases and deaths often lagged behind actual cases, which might explain some discrepancies. --- End quote --- The other paper is about a retraction of a paper about the effectiveness of masks. --- Quote ---The paper only involved four participants. Apparently, the authors thought a correction — adding more patients — would be enough --- End quote --- From retraction watch: --- Quote ---The article joins our ever-growing list of retracted COVID-19 studies. It is a reminder that for all of the alarm over publicity of preprints, because they are not peer-reviewed, “Peer-Reviewed Studies Also Require Caution.” Perhaps the real problem is speed, not peer-review status. If only someone had warned us. --- End quote --- That last quote has quite a lot of links to interesting stuff. |
| paulca:
Figured it was relevant to put this here. I know a lot of people are using Teams, Zoom and other video conference/chat platforms for work these days. I had a small epiphany last night, did a bit of googling and you can indeed use OBS to produce a virtual camera image which both Teams and Zoom will pick up as a webcam. It's just a standard Windows video input so I imagine anything that uses a camera will work with it. I'll post an article link below, but the TLDR is ... 1. Install OBS (http://obsproject.com/) 2. Install the Virtual camera plugin (https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-virtualcam.539/ ) 3. Enable the virtual camera output in OBS (Tools->Virtual Camera) 4. Now add some sources, move, resize, change stacking order etc. 5. Open Teams/Zoom and select the OBS Camera as your video input device. Now spend all day playing with different sources. I recommend "Window Capture" rather than "Display capture" for business use as this will lock to the window contents and not display any popups or appearances such as facebook notifications that appear. It will even display the window contents if you move another window over it. Each source can be scaled, if you select Default scaling it will automatically scale the source to fit your OBS screen, even if you change the size of the source window "live" it will rescale the output. You can also crop/pad sources, which is handy to remove, for example your browsers address/bookmark bars etc. You can switch sources in and out "live". You can also define "Scenes" and switch between those with tranisitons etc. You can of course use your existing camera as a source and put your self in the corner of your presentation. If you are such inclined it supports color keying, so if you put a green or blue sheet behind you, you can make your background transparent and have your presentation appear around you seemlessly to the point you can point at things with your hands or appear in exotic locations. Beyond that, just have fun. Be careful with your personal desktop it is very easy to share something you didn't intend to. For example if you want to share your browser and enable it in your scene, but forget it's on your facebook tab... then your meeting members will see you facebook! So be careful! Also why I don't recommend using "Display capture" or capturing an area of your desktop. https://collab365.community/using-obs-studio-with-microsoft-teams/ |
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