I had the 1.2gb comcast service for years. Never once saw anything over 300mbit upstream, and downstream was somewhere around 30-ish on a good day. I spent hundreds of dollars on my own cable modems, which upgrading didn't seem to do squat. Then comcast started sending me emails saying that I should upgrade my cable modem to increase my speed -- which shouldn't have been true, since I had a modem rated for > 1gbit speeds. Then they did what they always do, which is start jacking up prices.

AT&T fiber came to the area. I was a bit hesitant for a while, because previous experience with AT&T DSL was atrocious. When I finally made the switch, and taking advantage of the 8311 project to use my own gateway, I knew I made the right decision from the first time I connected my phone to the wifi and hit refresh. It's a low latency, symmetric fiber connection with ~1.2gb up and down. I routinely see over 120MB/sec transfers over a VPN - upstream and downstream. No caps to worry about. It's almost as good as the first time you went from dialup to broadband.

n/t.

As much as I support the idea of LibreOffice, "Calc" is just too different from Excel. Word processors are a dime a dozen, no one really cares enough, and I would prefer LaTeX anyway... But spreadsheets basically need to be standard, even down to the keyboard shortcuts... And for what it's worth, Excel is the standard.

(more recent versions of Excel are, sadly, increasingly enshittifying, though, with all the "integrated" features... 2016 was probably the last great version)

I think you mean:

JFC.

Despite what most people's initial reaction is, it's extremely efficient AND highly reliable. You can even fall back to hand writing the strips in the event of a failure. Electronic systems? not so much...

I challenge you to come up with a more efficient and resilient system than the "paper strips".

You solution must have 99.999% uptime, work without mains indefinitely, survive hardware failures, be intuitive and easily understood, and a host of other properties that the paper strips have, which is why they are still in use. Not because they are "old and underfunded", but because the alternatives are worse.

The electronic systems? Sure those probably need to be upgraded. But making something digital just to make it digital is stupid.

First, the most revolutionary of those "Space Race" technologies were likely inevitable.

Second, there is absolutely no reason to believe a second "Apollo" program would result in the same advances, in the same time frame. NASA has been funding research into all of these areas for literally decades, and no miracle breakthroughs have occurred. Simply setting a deadline to launch will not accelerate this, if the miracle technology is even possible. It's like all the claims that AI will bring about utopia - evidence-free extrapolation.

Now we can just directly dump all our trash into the ocean guilt-free.

Holy shit can I finally get seamless, invisible, automatic notepad++ updates?

Is that students are paying for them? They were just free at the campus book stores when I was in college.

So they found some jackass to publish a "hey hey look over here" article. Clickbait.

Jordan was terrible at writing female characters.

Sanderson came in and cleared out the rat's nest of plot lines Jordan had bogged himself down with and ended the series on a much better note. The final ending was a little surprising, but from what I understand, Jordan had already written the ending when he started the series, so it's what he intended.

And if an episode is poorly received, they can just remake it almost instantly.