There's all sorts of day-of-week phenomena during regular times. Late Fri and Sat night are the usual hot times for ERs, but Tues morning the low day of the week. big jump in heart attacks show up at the ER on the Sun night after the Super Bowl, but empty in the hours beforehand.

But for that graph... needs a few more weeks to confirm the pattern (whether from reality or from how things are recorded)

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@Robusto Also Blade Runner. Both poetic drivel mad up on the spot. Batty had Decker to pontificate to at the end.

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@Robusto Isn't the frame a bit too shaky under his hands?

Then again, he's got heavy hands. But yea the sound is good.

The boy (Jesus Molina?) is an up-and-coming piano player. I don't know much about the technical aspects but I enjoy his style.

Funny how he has "ALL THE GLORY TO GOD FOREVER" on his T-shirt and under all his posts everywhere.

That's quite different than my god was.

> Copies handed over to third parties, with consent of the General Director, must be marked with an "UNCONTROLLED COPY" stamp in red. (an or the?)

> Absolutely all AEs must be recorded, regardless of the presence or absence of the (an?) assumed relationship with the investigational drug.

Articles kill me.

I think it must be an.

But I'm never sure.

I hear there’s a glut of chicken wings because of all the sports that got cancelled.

> In this case, the investigator must inform in writing of such decision the specialist responsible for the CT within 24 hours from the moment of code unblinding

Can we use from here?

Shouldn't it be of always?

> We are working for you. Stay outside your home for us. (Literally - "Go take a walk for us")

@CowperKettle That's because you didn't grow up with them.

@Færd He's a big guy, but he really moves those fingers.

@Færd I don't hold that against him, just as I don't hold it against Chick Corea that he's a scientologist.

@RegDwigнt: Getting back to your Bolero link, I think it's interesting that the flute is not close-miked like some other instruments. Instead, you hear the entire room act as a reverb unit. youtu.be/D3UW218_zPo?t=23

@CowperKettle I would use of there, but I don't find from particularly troublesome. I would, however, recast the first part of that sentence thus: "In this case, the investigator must inform the specialist responsible for the CT in writing within 24 hours ..."

@CowperKettle Use an there unless the stamp is a known, specific item. In other words, if there are certain specific "Uncontrolled Copy" stamps that are issued from some authority, then use the definite article; otherwise use an.

@CowperKettle Indefinite article there.

@Færd: Here's some Chick Corea for ya:

@RegDwigнt: Take note ^

@Robusto Thanks a lot! I'm in the process of proofreading a Russian to English translation, and article questions come up a lot in my brain.

Understandably.

@CowperKettle What is "code unblinding"? Typo for "code unbinding"?

@Robusto Also nice.

It stirred me to shake my body a bit. I'd gotten stiff from sitting and lying around for ages it seems.

@Robusto Oh not so big anymore!

I can't fill out no matter how hard I try, but if I could, I would look like this after the quarantine: youtu.be/hwb4ozNE6w0.

Turns out the unemployment insurance systems for most of the states is programmed in COBOL, and their offices are sending out desperate distress signals trying to find COBOL programmers to fix them to withstand the unprecedented volume of claims.

U.S. Unemployment Surge Highlights Dire Need for COBOL Skills.

So I guess they're still using IBM 360 computers?

COBOL was old when I started programming, and all you knew if you wanted to do software was that you didn't want to do it in COBOL.

@Færd Damn. What happened to the rest of him?

@Robusto Uh, that's a lot of videos at once. Who are you, me? I'll put them on my list. Only listened to the first one for a bit.

And currently listening to

@Robusto that's fucking brilliant.

> Why do we need to wait for a rainstorm to fix our leaky roofs?

The thing is, as many flaws in as many systems as the current catastrophe highlights, in a couple months it'll be over and whatever doesn't get fixed in that time will not get fixed for another forty years pending the next catastrophe.

> Almost all (92%) of the aforementioned survey believe their organization’s COBOL applications are strategic.

Nice strategy right there.

If your strategy is for everything to go to shit, you should be very happy once everything goes to shit. Finally you've reached your goal and all the years of planning are paying off at last.

@RegDwigнt Yeah? Well, because you were lazy there are consequences.

See? Even more to listen to now.

Go ahead, run, you can't hide. 上原ひろみ will chase you down.

You really need to watch it, btw. Not just listen to it, but watch the dialogue that develops and how much they delight in each other's ideas.

Hi

how are you ?

In times of corona, I would like to check on you. I hope everyone doing well.

@Mitch hope you doing well, Keep safe