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Canadian Luke

03:06

@MichaelFrank And where was that monstrosity?

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Burgi

09:06

@djsmiley2kTMW my GF has had a cough/bad cold for about 3 weeks

she seemingly picked it up after a child she teaches came back from mecca

djsmiley2k TMW

ouch

Burgi

it could be coincidence but my spider sense is going crazy about

djsmiley2k TMW

yeah

it'd make sense I think

kid could of easily got something while there, or during traveling

Andy K

09:45

morning

how do you keep up with containtement?

Burgi

you don't?

Andy K

@Burgi I do

Burgi

the UK isn't locked down yet

Andy K

@Burgi damn. we're contained in France

supermarkets are swamped with people queuing

Journeyman Geek

We never locked down

and well

it calmed down in sg after the initial panic

Andy K

09:55

@JourneymanGeek SG did a good work

most of Asia did a great work

Burgi

10:18

apart from china

Andy K

@Burgi even China

Burgi

10:35

i strongly disagree

china has really poor public hygine and food safety controls

the virus came from contaminated meat in a market in china

Andy K

@Burgi I said that China managed to curb the infection spread. That is originated from China is another story.

Burgi

no they didn't

CaldeiraG

they lockdowned everything hoping it would go away, it did though

Burgi

if they had curbed the infection, europe would not be in lockl down now

CaldeiraG

true

Burgi

10:39

the head of WHO has a massive conflict of interest, his doctoral research was paid for by the chinese government

he is a full member of the communist party

bertieb

Isn't that a bit like Pope Whatshischops being a member of the Hitler Youth back in the day?

I'd've thought that anyone in any reasonably senior role in CN would be a CP member

but could be wrong

Michael Frank

11:04

@CanadianLuke One of our client sites.

Burgi

@bertieb i don't think he is chinese

bertieb

Ah okay

Burgi

Tedros Adhanom

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Ge'ez: ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ; born 3 March 1965) is an Ethiopian politician and academic who has been Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2017. He previously served in the Government of Ethiopia as Minister of Health from 2005 to 2012 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2016.Tedros joined the Ministry of Health in 1986, after graduating from the University of Asmara. An internationally recognized malaria researcher, as Minister of Health, Tedros received praise for a number of innovative and system-wide health reforms that substantially...

he has done a really poor job with managing this virus

he refused to call it a pandemic because that would have "upset the chinese"

but not calling a pandemic has meant that poorer countries couldn't access emergency funds and made the crisis worse

Pandya

11:25

Hi! Some times I found an old scanned pdf document contains text also. That mean by just looking, it seems a scanned image but text can be searched/selected/copied. I want to know how are such pdf made? Thanks

Michael Frank

@Pandya OCR

Pandya

@MichaelFrank I know by using OCR tool we can get text from images but I am still not getting how are such pdf made which looks like images but contains text also.

Michael Frank

@Pandya During scanning, depending on the software you use, you can get the text by OCR, and then have it bake in the searchable text when you save to PDF.

https://helpx.adobe.com/nz/acrobat/how-to/scan-paper-documents-searchable-pdf.html
https://files.support.epson.com/docid/cpd5/cpd52728/source/scanners/source/scanning_software/tasks/epson_scan_2/escan2_creating_searchable_pdf.html
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2017/06/transform-any-document-into-a-searchable-pdf-with-adobes-scan-app/
https://www.pdfconvertonline.com/pdf-to-pdf-ocr-online.html

Pandya

ok, Will check and go through it. Thanks.

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bwDraco

14:34

theverge.com/2020/3/16/21180727/…

Only a matter of time.

anandtech.com/show/15623/amd-ryzen-9-4900h-4900hs

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Ne Mo

16:10

I just asked it but really need to sort within the next half hour... if anyone can help with this excel question that would be great: superuser.com/questions/1533152/…