But that's the whole issue. Who am I supposed to reach out to? The 2 people at work I occasionally talk to because they happen to sit in the same office as me?
I'm late for this comment, but finding a recreational team sport club in your area is what I could recommend. You have immediately something in common with everyone and it's a healthy exercise.
Those two people might be a start, and it's a low barrier to their participation to say you want to try a nearby cafe for lunch tomorrow if they're interested.
Longer term: make opportunities to occasionally talk to other people. Join a club, join a fitness group of some kind, take a class at your local library. It's got be something in person with enough repetition with the same people that everyone involved can overcome inertia enough to talk.
Try to say 'yes' should an occasional contact invite you to something, because it's pretty common that you won't get asked a second time if you pass on the first - I assume that's because we're all scared stiff that no-one likes us.
I need to take a heaping spoonful of my own advice here, but: yeah, kind of yes. You don't have to think of them as the people you've been searching all your life for, but to meet people, you need a source of people to draw from. Those two people you talk to on a semi-regular basis are entry nodes into the social network.
Funny how it went from "just get an Nvidia card for Linux" and "oh my god, what did I do to deserve fglrx?" to "just get an AMD card" and "it's Nvidia, what did you expect?"
> Recently, GPT informed me that the strong force is really a tiny after-effect of the "QCD force"
Maybe you should not take everything GPT tells you at face value? I have no idea what this QCD force is supposed to be. The strong force is _the_ force of QCD.
The Standard Model still considers the electromagnetic, weak and strong force. The description of the weak and EM force can be unified into the electroweak force and there are theories that try to also unify it with the strong force and even gravity, but there are issues on the theory side and no clear evidence on the experimental side as to which direction is the correct one.
The Standard Model and General Relativity are still our most successful theories. It is clear that they don't tell the whole picture, but (annoyingly?) it is not clear at all where this is going.
Just for dark matter there are probably a dozen proposed hypothetical particles, but so far we have found none. But maybe it's something completely different...
Isn't Incus/LXD separate from and running on top of LXC?
People sometimes seem to use the names interchangeably which can be annoying because I run just plain LXC but when looking stuff up and come across "this is how you do XYZ on LXC" they are actually talking about LXD and it doesn't really apply.
I can't recall what is was last time, but this has happened a couple of times already...
Meanwhile, the DPO4054 I use at work has issues with half of the buttons, the data returned by some commands doesn't match the manual, and the probes from some newer scopes don't fit even though they all just use BNC?
Maybe the software on it is just outdated? Nope, the only version you can get from the Tektronix page is older than what is on the scope. And there are newer versions, but they are only for the DPO4054B and not the older DPO4054...
Right, I'm not surprised. The DPO4054 is a much later machine dating from I think after 2000.
My hands-on experience started with the 535 and it was beautifully built, it was a work of art and I still have a plugin for it. So too were the early solid state ones such as the 453 but they were harder to work on.
In my opinion the 'dream range' was the 7000 series, they were easy to work on and like the 535 the manuals are superb. I've used a lot of that series including the 7834 1ns storage unit with various plugins including the 7L13 spectrum analyzer.
In fact, I've still six functioning 7000 CROs including the 7L13 and about a dozen other plugins. An examination of their PWAs show copyright dates in the early 1970s, so that puts these instruments well over 50 years old and the majority have never needed maintenance other than calibration.
In recent years things have changed. With the advent of much cheaper Asian equipment from Anritsu et al Tek had to change to complete, 'bulletproof' engineering unfortunately had to give way to more modest designs.
Reckon those 50+ year old CROs will outlast me. That quality speaks for itself.
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Edit: Their CRO products were always excellent but I cannot say that about Tek's 1411 modular PAL sync pulse and signal generator. The design was good but it had a build fault, the IC sockets had edge-wiping contacts instead of side-wiping ones which often went intermittent. Not good for a sync pulse gen when say a TV station relies on its output for its whole operation (if the sync gen fails, the whole operation goes black).
There's a long story about that unit, it was returned to Tek for repair under warranty and was still intermittent upon return. So I assigned one of my techs—much to his chagrin—to replace every IC socket (hundreds of them) with the best available-Augat's top gold plated range. From then on the 1411 worked perfectly. Sometimes the best of companies produces a bummer.
This brings back memories of my old HP laptop with an Athlon 64 and a Radeon X200M.
The crappy FGLRX driver only supported overlays (afair) and so when running something like Compiz it would transform the window with the green background but the video itself would stay in place and it would just stick parts of the video on top where it happened to overlap.
I still remember being excited when the open source drivers finally gained support for r300 and could do proper textured video...
Can confirm. My 3TB Seagate was the only disk so far (knocking on wood) that died in a way that lost some data. Still managed to make a copy with dd_rescue, but there was a big region that just returned read errors and I ended up with a bunch of corrupt files. Thankfully nothing too important...
"Hey Claude, translate this piece of PHP code into Power10 assembly!"
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