I’m a scrub that pays for YouTube Premium and I’ve also been running into songs and videos that just don’t play recently because I’m using uBlock Origin.

I use it a few times a week, usually while at work. Normally to visit a dead link or to find old or outdated info.

Yep. I’m so over American politics and I think the nation is headed in the wrong direction. I feel that the people are powerless against changing our trajectory. I had been considering doing a PhD abroad and this is really pushing that decision now.

Maybe Thriftbooks? They do offer shipping to Canada but it’s not always cheap.

I use it all the time to help simplify long excerpts, giving me an introductory gist of what something says.

If you have a memory-mapped peripheral where there’s a readonly register, I could see it being const volatile.

Most of the embedded world uses those.

These would be great for backups if they’re cheap enough.

Here in Seattle, the main scary natural disasters are earthquakes. We haven’t had a major one since 2001 or so, but supposedly there’s a massive one coming relatively soon.

Signal works. The adoption is fairly slow, but I’ve had friends slowly begin to use it.

I hate how tipping is now customary at every single restaurant now, including places without servers.

I don’t think it’s very useful at generating good code or answering anything about most libraries, but I’ve found it to be helpful answering specific JS/TS questions.

The MDN version is also pretty great too. I’ve never done a Firefox extension before and MDN Plus was surprisingly helpful at explaining the limitations on mobile. Only downside is it’s limited to 5 free prompts/day.

You can (could?) get Thinkpads with Ubuntu preinstalled.

…such as?

I’ve had Ziply Fiber before (but not 50 Gbps) and would max their upload for months and they didn’t even bat an eye. It’s the only ISP that I would ever recommend.

If you had really slow Internet, like smoke signals or semaphores across a nation, you could characterize it as millibit:

1 bit over 1000 seconds = 1 millibit/s.

But yeah, it’s basically meaningless in today’s age for Internet speeds.

I remember in 2013 building software for HMIs running WinCE and back then, it was horribly outdated and a trudge to work on. I can’t imagine how bad it would be today.

It was just a dock, so not terribly expensive but expensive enough to hurt if it got lost.

Scihub for most things. You can also sometimes find preprints (or contact the authors) on RG.

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