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  • Magnets mostly messed with tapes, floppies and hard disks. I believe you could also mess up a CRT’s calibration with one.

    None of those technologies are particularly commonplace these days, especially not in those glasses.

    I mean an MRI level magnet could crush them, but you’re gonna struggle to move that around



  • The damage wasn’t really reversed, rather overcome.

    If the world (not just the UK) didn’t see the massive increase in bond yields over the years following the mini budget, we would still very much be in the hole. The Bank of England had to intervene to buy an unprecedented number of bonds at not great prices, if they weren’t able to sell them for profit, we would still be directly facing the consequences.

    If the bank didn’t have to intervene, we would be better off today because we’d have that growth without the hit. Most other developed countries got that, so in comparative terms we’re still behind.


  • 9point6@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzCan we go back to 2019?
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    I feel for you guys that didn’t get to live in the world pre-9/11 and pre-2008 financial crash. The world was just significantly worse in many ways after each, and never got to recover.

    Though I will say the rate of these perma-shittening events does seem to be getting worse. Here’s what I consider to be the big ones with related shit in sub bullets (caveat I’m British so a couple of things are more specific to my country):

    • 2001: 9/11 and all the pointless war and islamophobia that followed
    • 2008: subprime mortgage crash
      • 2010: Murdoch successfully blames the above on Labour causing the Tories to get in on an austerity manifesto
    • 2016: Trump & Brexit, leading up to this:
      • 2011: Alternative vote campaign fails thanks to the propaganda directed by the guy who does the same for the Brexit campaign. We didn’t realise at the time but this was the trial run.
      • 2014: Putin tests the water in Georgia
      • 2015: David Cameron changes the BBC charter to allow government appointments to the board. What follows is a defanging of the news department and the installation of a load of right wing editors. This is a big contributor to Brexit happening and everything else that follows.
    • 2020: COVID
    • 2021: failed Coup in the US
    • 2022: Putin invades Ukraine
    • 2022: Liz Truss gets in and delivers an actual real-deal right-libertarian budget and policy platform, despite everyone with a brain telling her it would tank the economy. She does it anyway and instantly wipes £30bn of our country’s wealth out of existence in a day.
    • 2023: the current Israel-Gaza conflict kicks off, quickly turns into a genocide with the support of the western world leaders
    • 2025: Trump gets in again and goes mask-off fascist
    • 2026: Trump starts invading other countries in an effort to distract everyone from the mounting evidence he is a disgusting human trafficking pedo












  • Oh that’s cool to hear, I was under the impression in research that whilst a lot of the processing actually happens in FORTRAN-written code, it was nearly always reusing already-written functions and primitives in a higher level language (such as python, via the aforementioned SciPy). And then those libraries being maintained by a handful of wizards on the internet somewhere.

    Can you elaborate on the kind of research where people are still actively writing directly in FORTRAN? Did people typically arrive with the skills already or was there training for learning how to write it well?




  • Not a doctor and I don’t have an exact answer to your question, but this might be helpful:

    This may not be a thing in Italy, but check if you’re actually able to get enough vitamin D naturally all times of the year where you are.

    if you live in northern England near where I am, for example, you can only really guarantee you’ll get your RDA of vitamin D from the sun during the summer months. I believe in north Scotland it’s not ever possible to reliably get enough naturally.

    I try to take a 3000/4000 (honestly which one depends what’s on offer) more or less daily outside of summer. During summer I still take them but maybe every few days.

    I would probably try what your doctor recommends (assuming you’ve already flagged your specific concerns, otherwise I’d do that first), it’s entirely possible the 50,000 pill is formulated in such a way it manages to be (somewhat incredibly) slow release. If you experience any issues, schedule an appointment as soon as you can, so they can do some tests to help figure out what’s going on. Your doctor has a degree in this stuff, so it’s good to try what they suggest and discuss any changes with them

    This also might not be much of an issue for you since I assume you’re getting your supplements from the same, trusted place. But if not, there’s a load of fake and low quality supplements out there, make sure you research the brand you’re getting has been tested and had its contents verified independently. Any issues could be down to unexpected adulterants rather than the vitamin dose itself