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Joke's on them. I have Comcast. My internet is molasses-in-January slow, anyway.

If Wikipedia edits can cause civil unrest in your country, there are fundamental problems with your country.

Well, that wasn't very effective, was it?

Back in the day, my internet connection was so Comcastic that I couldn't watch a video on youtube, either. I'd have to cache it with youtube-dl and watch it the next day, or whenever it finished. It was weird the first time I tried to watch a video on the web page and it actually played.

Thank you. Exactly the info I was looking for.

Now, where did you find it, so I can look there next time?

I think this is a case of a word having one colloquial meaning and a different technical meaning. If you "lift" something, you're probably picking it up.

In a hydrodynamic sense, "lift" is a force on a foil moving through a fluid. This kind of lift is a force orthogonal to the direction of motion through the fluid and the surface of the foil. That could be upward lift, like that on the wings of an aircraft. That could also be the forward and leeward lift on the sail of a sailboat, or the windward lift on the sailboat's keel. It could also be the lateral, stabilizing lift on the control surfaces of a rocket.

This feels very much like a proactive, defensive decision. Did they recently end up on the receiving end of some legal action?

If I'm reading the article correctly, the legal threats were from the authors of the retracted article. Dr. Lisco only sent the journal an email notifying them of the plagiarism.

Garg isn't "out". He's taking a vacation until this blows over.

h/t Hackaday: https://hackaday.com/2021/12/19/your-next-oscilloscope-might...

Looks like it's still there: https://www.facebook.com/hn.hiren.news/

The US military is currently accepting recruits with autism, as long as it doesn't interfere with duty or training. Or something like that.

Frankly, mild autism is an asset in the military. It's an environment where the rules don't have to make any sense; they just have to be followed.

Pardon the pessimism, but no. No, we can't. Some other species in some other reality might have been able to. But we can't.

Start looking for new work when your current work is burning you out. You seem to have the opposite of that problem.

Keep your current job, and start using your surplus time more effectively. Take some classes to pick up new skills and résumé candy. Contribute to some open-source project. Find somebody to mentor.

Absolutely. Between Einstein's general theory of relativity and Newton's law of universal gravitation, one is more correct and the other is more useful most of the time. Between Newton's law and HeAvY rOcK WaNt To fAlL, one is more correct and the other is more useful most of the time.

See? Bloody Marys are good for you.

That's not really that shocking. It's pretty much the same way everywhere.

That was a really long way to say "Lots of people still use work as their only social engagement." and "Lots of people can't form a coherent thought long enough to write an email."

> ...create perfect lighting throughout your day...

Okay, time and location aside, how is this lightbulb supposed to know how much light I want?

I would have appreciated that blog post more if the author had explicitly stated that those charts weren't based on any actual data. It feels scummy to plot random points just to make a conversational point.

Correction: it's been continually updated since 2019. I'm not sure how to judge that one.

But given the uselessness of his git commit messages, I'm not inclined to judge leniently.

A lot of this is incredibly myopic. The author seems to think that because a tool isn't useful to him that it isn't used at all. Also, there's the repeated notion that some currently-popular new toy has "won" and forever displaced everything before it. Nothing really works that way.

It was written in 2019. He even mentions that at a few points.

> Today in 2019...

> Now, in the year 2019...

> Up to now (2019)...

... for less than half an hour.

This app can

Access all your files, peripheral devices, apps, programs and registry

Access your Internet connection

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I can't open that link (thank you, paywall), but a great read on the subject is Dopesick by Beth Macy.

"I’m not going to have the vehicle towed. Amazon should be able to figure this out. So now it’s an act of defiance. I did not follow Amazon’s instructions to just call the cops and have it towed."

There's a simple fix, and he didn't want to do it. Instead, he's whining on the Internet, blaming a company that doesn't own the vehicle and can't do anything about it, either.

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All three.

Start looking for a new position. Things could go well, but if they start going badly, you want to have options outside the company.

Start fishing for new opportunities within the company. If you're not also leaving, there must be something there worth keeping. So, if it looks like you're not on a project that is good for you, another project could be a better hole for the you-shaped peg.

Start talking to your manager. If they haven't cancelled the project yet, maybe there's something going on behind the scenes. If you're going to be the senior employee on the project, you should have the pay, title, and fancy business cards to match.

But do all three concurrently. There's no reason to let any one of those interfere with the others.

Old video, but still super-cool.

That might be an interesting way to visualize other data. Load on a cluster of servers, maybe?