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Theoretical answer; Provides a lower noise power feed for the device than a switching PSU will. Contentious answer; If the device it is being used with already takes that noise into account... nothing.

And yet another piece in the puzzle as to how this world comes about is revealed

There are huge complexities in calculating death rates that give unfortunate scope for argument and it’s been rammed home by a sad event today. A good friend of mine lost his father this afternoon. He was 93, had advanced dementia and had fallen badly roughly two weeks ago. While in hospital...

That, I can drink to.

Look- contrary to what you might think- I don't care about the minutiae of your beliefs and biases, they're yours and you're welcome to them. I'd rather you didn't pretend you don't have them though. I certainly have mine.

You don't even need austerity- although obviously it didn't help. Everything is calculated for the here and now. If there was more money being spent, it has to be spent on stuff that wins you the next election. Something open ended won't get a look in. EDIT @BazookaTooth- love this.

A less glib summary might be that the UK planned for a pandemic response in manner that was pretty thorough* but unsuited to what has actually happened. It then acted too slowly to adjust the plan in light of new information. What hasn't happened is that ideologues tore the plans up- for better...

The article does make it quite clear that the Government has followed the advice of the people employed to be listened to- for better or worse- and those people filtered that information to fit an existing model. FWIW, the EU's role in this has been secondary to individual governments across...

No- it was the long standing government policy (ie before Johnson, Cummings, et al) policy as evidenced in the bloody article I just linked to clearly visible in the policy recommendations in the 2011 document they obtained. Which you'd know if you'd bothered to read it. Now, do you think that...

You might find THIS an interesting read. Don't worry, for the benefit of any pre-existing beliefs, it doesn't exonerate Johnson but it does provide rather more context to how and why things have happened here as they have. In short, the UK government didn't ignore scientific advice- it has in...

That's literally, frame by frame, the end of Contagion, less Gwyneth Paltrow.

I’m a pretty poor human being. I’ve little issue with being described as a pretty poor human being. My irreducible minimums on behaviour are slight. This being the case, one of those minimums concerns situations like this. If someone is seriously ill, I’d like them to recover. I’ll either voice...

How heartwarming. I too celebrate with strangers over the deaths of random old people, long since deposed from the positions of authority they once held. Oh no sorry, wait. I don’t.

Yes, it’s the automatic thought of any human being to have memorised the date someone who was last Prime Minster 28 odd years ago died (and who didn’t die in office) and make reference to that with reference to the present situation. Completely normal stuff...

If you find that amusing with reference to; - Another human, - A parent, including to an unborn child, - Someone who is undoubtedly in receipt of the best medical care we’ve got and is still at risk, suggesting that the outcome for you are I is no less of a fucking lottery, I’ll make a mental...

There's a degree of Occam's razor to the cause in so far as the means by which the likely vector and its new host come into contact are not easily explained by any other means. This also pretty much comes back to the basic tenet of do no harm. Ultimately, with the standard caveats about some...

Ignoring the nomenclature for a moment, it is generally presumed that this global event has its origin point in culinary practises- both in terms of what is being eaten and what it is being prepared near- that have now largely been eliminated almost everywhere else. I'll be candid- I don't want...

I'm conflicted. This is appalling, insanely dangerous and the bloke is clearly not right in the head; https://abcnews.go.com/US/engineer-allegedly-crash-train-usns-mercy-los-angeles/story?id=69926172 On the other hand- this must have looked ABSOLUTELY FUCKING AMAZING.

In other alcohol related news; this is heartening stuff from VPI https://www.whathifi.com/news/vpi-has-taken-a-break-on-turntables-to-manufacture-free-hand-sanitiser