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A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is acontinuously self-configuring, self-organizing, infrastructure-less network of mobile devices connected without wires. It is sometimes known as "on-the-fly" networks or "spontaneous networks".
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Wireless_ad_hoc_network
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/WeNeverLearn
Deep Underground, a Chinese Miner Discovered Poetry in the Toil
Chen Nianxi has risen to fame as a “migrant worker poet,” adding the voice of China’s often-invisible laborers to the cultural conversation.
I while away my middle age at 5,000 meters deep
I explode the rocks layer by layer
And through this rebuild my life
My lowly family is far at the foot of Mount Shang
They are sick, their bodies covered in dust
However much of my middle age I cut off
However much their old age can be prolonged
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/world/asia/china-miner-poet-chen-nianxi.html
Anhedonia
The clinical termanhedoniadescribes an absence of pleasure felt in the presence of something that normally gives you pleasure. The word combines the negative prefixan-with the Greek roothēdonē, meaning “pleasure” (as found inhedonism).
Yoga, for Dederer, started out as an attempt to fix something that was wrong: not just searing back pain, but her tremor, her anxiety, heranhedonia, her judgemental nature, her marriage.
Dani Shapiro,The New York Times Book Review, 26 Dec. 2010
Leucocholy
Leucocholyis defined as “a state of feeling that accompanies preoccupation with trivial and insipid diversions.” (Seeking distraction on the internet would seem to meet this description.)
The word is attributed by many to the 18th century poet Thomas Gray, who created the nonce word by replacing the first half ofmelancholy(melan-, meaning “black” or “dark”) with the New Latin spelling of the Greekleuko, meaning “light.” In a 1742 letter, Gray writes of “white Melancholy, or ratherLeucocholy, for the most part; which though it seldom laughs or dances, nor ever amounts to what one calls Joy or Pleasure, yet is a good easy sort of state, andça ne laisse que de s’amuser.”
SPLIT Function in Google Sheets
The SPLIT function in Google Sheets is used to divide a text string (or value) around a given delimiter, and output the separate pieces into their own cells.
=SPLIT(text, delimiter, [split_by_each], [remove_empty_text])
Chuunibyou (中二病 / 厨二病), often shortened tochuuniorchuu2, is an often-derisiveJapaneseslang term for the embarrassing behavior of 13-to-14-year-olds. The term literally means "Middle [School] 2[nd Year] Syndrome" (oftentranslated as"Eighth-Grader Syndrome" in US media). Despite the name, it can manifest in peopleof all ages.
As a colloquial term, the exact "symptoms" ofchuunibyouaren't entirely set in stone, but in general, chunnis act like overlymelodramaticknow-nothing know-it-allswho think of themselves as more awesome than everyone else because of experiences, abilities, and evenspecial powersthat they clearly don't have. Imagine kids trying to convince you (in the most obnoxious way possible) that they're accomplishedNinjaswho could kick your ass, and you kind of have the idea.
TheTrope Codifier, on the other hand, is Hyouya Saegami'sChuunibyou User Manual
, which categorizes chuunis broadly into three types:
its ownTrope Codifierin the popularBoogiepoplight novel series, which starts a main character with a superpowered split personality that only differentiates itself by wearing a costume and talking in a cooler way.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Chuunibyou
https://filmcolossus.com/perfect-blue-movie-explained
Lecture Series with Satoshi Kon | Perfect Blue (1997) - Special Feature
If all goes well, the spacecraft that NASA plans to launch Tuesday will smash itself to bits against an asteroid.
If all goes absolutelyperfectly, that impact will jostle the asteroid into a slightly different orbit, meaning that for the first time, humans will have changed the trajectory of a celestial object.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/interactive/2021/nasa-rams-an-asteroid-planetary-defense
| SKU |
| Stands for "Stock Keeping Unit," and is conveniently pronounced "skew." A SKU is a number or string of alpha and numeric characters that uniquely identify a product. For this reason, SKUs are often called part numbers, product numbers, and product identifiers. |
He Cared About Me, So I Broke Up With Him
A month after that, he dropped me at a music studio where I curled up on a leather sofa with my dear friend Nataly’s dog and “A Room of One’s Own” and listened to her band, Pomplamoose, record an album. I had massaged my temple in the car, and he noticed. I said that I was out of ibuprofen, but it was just a little headache. When he picked me up, a bottle of water and a packet of Motrin waited on my seat.
And so, four months after we met, I broke up with him. He was standing outside a movie theater, wearing his cardigan, backpack and boat shoes, and I couldn’t take it a minute longer. His earnest love had become repulsive. Imagining the way he wanted to care for me — the inevitable loyalty and acceptance and protection — filled my throat with bile.
David is handsome and hilarious. Every new thing I learned about him impressed me more — his adamant humility belied his intellect and confidence. Kissing him felt natural and our conversations were easy.
Nevertheless, I broke it off.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/style/modern-love-he-cared-so-i-broke-up-with-him.html
Could you take a day off from work to take a long weekend to visit one of your far-flung friends or family? Why not throw some clothes and a book you’ve been meaning to read in a bag and hop a train to see a friendly face? You need a change of scene and to be in a room with someone who loves you. Combine the “celebration of milestone” with “short break” and “refilling your friendship well.” And don’t gently hint at it –ask/tell. “Old Friend, I would love to see your face this weekend. If I make it into town for a day or two can we meet up for brunch or dinner?” “Friend, I want someone to celebrate this big work deal with. If I hop the train this Friday, can we meet up for a drink?” It’s okay to flash the “Hey, I need you!” symbol in the sky. If travel doesn’t work, institute a Skype date or a long gossipy phone call. Email isn’t working, social media isn’t working, gently holding back isn’t working, and you’ve been trying so hard not to impose on anyone that you’ve started to disappear. It’s okay to say, “Friend, I’m a little lonely right now and I need you.” Vulnerability connects us as much if not more than celebrating achievements. You’re allowed to want that and ask for it.
These are three pieces about nurturing friendships among adults that I really like:
My Mother Showed Me How To Hit The Jackpot, by Kate Harding. (You might cry when you read this). I have a group of far-flung friends who make the effort to get together in one place at least once a year, and it is the best. If you can’t visit a friend now, can you try to plan a trip with a few people?
Friday Night Meatballs(about hosting a regular get together, which seems like a weird thing for an introvert to do, until you realize that you control every aspect of it and then kick people out of your house at a set time). To implement: Pick a day, gather your three local friends together at your place, and feed them. “I’m celebrating finishing [MILESTONE], please come join me.“If you enjoy it, try doing it once a month. Every now and then invite someone new and get to know them better.
How Do I Make Friends In My Late 20s, Ask Polly. An excerpt:
“This is the downside of living in a gigantic country like the U.S.: You move away for college, you move away for work, you move away because you meet a great guy or girl, and one day you wake up and you’re 2,000 miles away from anyone who knows you really well. For someone who’s faintly allergic to small talk, who can never quite hit that lowest common denominator of casual chattiness, who can never quite manage to burble happily about the weather and the news and those cute shoes and the new restaurant down the block, making brand-new friends sounds about as appealing as a trip to the podiatrist.”
https://captainawkward.com/2016/06/28/876-loneliness-and-anticlimax/
As with every question that touches on responsiveness to communications, chronic lateness, and relationships between planners and non-planners on the site, I think the issue is about a balancing act between affection andcompatibility.Sometimes all the affection in the world isn’t enough to make a relationship work, and sometimes the answer is “wait, back up, do you even like these people?”
It is okay to want friends who are compatible with you and who meet your needs without you having to coax them into it. For readers whose first thought is“COME THE EFF ON, how hard is it to text back????!!!!!!???????,”please know I think that it is perfectly okay to decide to not be friends with people who continually infuriate you.“I could never be friends with someone who __________[expects immediate responses][takes a while to respond].”COOL, DON’T BE. A lot of failures of “manners” and reciprocity in friendships that I see in letters are really mismatches in affection, and being honest about that would set everyone free.
https://captainawkward.com/2021/11/03/1353-my-friend-always-takes-over-a-day-to-respond-to-messages/
“I feel like there was something I wanted to communicate about the seemingly illusory nature of human identity, the criteria we use to decide when someone no longer gets our empathy, how little we actually know about each other, especially online,” she wrote in a follow-up email. In those questions about identity, both real and invented, “how strange it is to wrap all that in capital and ‘making a living.’”
https://www.inputmag.com/culture/pictures-for-sad-children-webcomic-simone-veil-interview
It has done so not only because of the violence that was visited upon an enclave of proud homes just north of Cannes, or because the protagonists were from diametrically opposed backgrounds. There was also the enigma of the locked room that was never satisfactorily unraveled. And there was the final message — which contained a grammatical error.
“Omar killed me,” Ms. Marchal appeared to have written in her dying moments. Or, in the original French, “Omar m’a tuer” — not “m’a tuée,” as it should have been. The mistake raised very French questions about class and language, primarily whether a woman of her station would make such a trivial error or if instead the gardener was being framed and was easily convicted because he was of Arab descent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/world/europe/france-murder-ghislaine-marchal-omar-raddad.html
You write that debutantes were necessary — were, in effect, manufactured — to “solve a problem.” What was that problem in post-Reformation Europe, how did it shift over the centuries to come, and what, broadly defined, is the problem that they solve today?
So, yes! The original problem the Reformation created was a glut of daughters. Fathers had always married off their daughters to the best possible suitors to keep their wealth as concentrated as possible and to create powerful strategic alliances. Until the Reformation, many rich European families would invest all their money in their “best” daughter and send the daughters they deemed less valuable to convents to avoid having to dilute their fortunes by providing each one with a dowry. The family would pay a nominal fee for the daughter to live in respectable seclusion, which some young women preferred given that they were not choosing their husbands.
When Henry VIII separated from Rome and dissolved all the Catholic institutions in England, these fathers were no longer able to cloister their unmarriageable girls and had to find ways to pair them off. Because marriage was the only remaining respectable path for women, a daughter’s failure to marry could embarrass her family and keeping her at home was more expensive than the convent. So, by the time Mr. Bennet throws up his hands in exhaustion about “what’s to be done with all these girls?” in the early pages ofPride and Prejudice,the daughter problem had already been brewing for several hundred years.
https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-problems-solved-by-debutantes
https://twitter.com/GabrielUrbinaTM/status/1464363300133691397?s=20
What is the meaning of the word Philharmonic?
adjective. fond of or devoted to music; music-loving: used especially in the name of certain musical societies that sponsor symphony orchestras (Philharmonic Societies ) and hence applied to their concerts (philharmonic concerts ). of, noting, or presented by a symphony orchestra or the society sponsoring it.
“The industry is delighted to frame the debate around either this emerging privacy approach or its existing contract permission strategy. Both let you say no and be (more or less) forgotten. With forethought and effort, you may be able to cut yourself out from the databases. But excluding one DNA profile, or even ten thousand, is largely costless to the industry so long as it controls the real prize, the millions-strong databases of people who did not realize the stakes in deciding whether to check “I agree.”
Excerpt From
How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
Michael A. Heller
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More Women Than Men Are Going to College. That May Change the Economy.
The rising gender gap in college education — currently three women for every two men — might turn out to be one of the most transformative trends of our time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/business/dealbook/women-college-economy.html
The numbers alone are staggering. One in 500 children in the US has lost a parent or caregiver to Covid, according toa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studypublished last month. One in every four Covid deaths leaves yet another bereaved child behind.
The deaths are not evenly distributed. American Indian or Alaskan Native children are 4.5 times more likely than white children to have lost a caregiver, Black children 2.4 times more likely, and Hispanic children nearly twice as likely, per the CDC study. That means that without support, Native, Black, and Hispanic communities are likely to bear the brunt of the long-term effects of childhood bereavement, from depression to problems at school, as well.
No crisis in recent memory has produced this much loss in such a short period. “We haven’t really had an experience of mass bereavement here in the US in the same sense,” Kidman said. “And we’re not done.”
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22774601/children-covid-parent-deaths-grief
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As virtual worlds grow,we need to nurture our sense of touch,JoAnna Novakargues in The Times.“I, for one, will not go gentle into the metaverse.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/opinion/touch-starvation-metaverse-virtual-worlds.html
Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.
https://www.katechopin.org/story-hour/
Not all deaths are created equal. In February 2020, the world began to panic about the novel coronavirus, which killed 2714 people that month. This made the news. In the same month, around 800,000 people died from the effects of air pollution. That didn’t. Novelty counts for a lot. At the start of the pandemic, it was considered unseemly to make comparisons like these. But comparing the value of human lives is one thing the machine of modern civilisation does relentlessly, almost invariably to prioritise and absolve the rich – when, for example, the global supply of Covid vaccines is apportioned primarily to the highest-income countries, or when the cost of natural disasters in Bangladesh is measured against the impact of sea-level rise on Miami Beach real estate, or when Joe Biden’s onetime economic adviser Lawrence Summers proposed that Africa, as a whole, was ‘vastly underpolluted’, and suggested that ‘the economic logic behind dumping a whole load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable.’
https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n23/david-wallace-wells/ten-million-a-year
https://hkbus.fandom.com/wiki/%E9%81%8E%E6%B5%B7%E9%9A%A7%E5%B7%B4680%E7%B7%9A
When the economists Anne Case and Angus Deatonfirstpublished their research on “deaths of despair” five years ago, they focused on middle-aged whites. So many white working-class Americans in their 40s and 50s were dying of suicide, alcoholism and drug abuse that the overall mortality rate for the age group was no longer falling – a rare and shocking pattern in a modern society.
But as Case and Deaton continued digging into the data, it became clear that the grim trends didn’t apply only to middle-aged whites. Up and down the age spectrum, deaths of despair have been surging for people without a four-year college degree:
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Diseases_of_despair
difference-between-access-point-and-router
What is a Router? A router is a network device that serves two primary functions: (1) it connects multiple computers, phones, tablets, or other devices to form a managed local area network, and (2) it provides Internet access to all of the compatible devices that are connected to the router.
A local area network (LAN) can be set up by simply deploying a router and connecting one or several devices to it. Modern routers allow users to connect devices both via Ethernet cables or wirelessly (using Wi-Fi).
However, in order for the router to distribute and deliver data to the devices within the local area network, it must be connected to an Internet service provider’s customer premises equipment (CPE) via an Ethernet cable.
What is an Access Point? An access point is a wireless network device that acts as a portal for devices to connect to a local area network. Access points are used for extending the wireless coverage of an existing network and for increasing the number of users that can connect to it.
A high-speed Ethernet cable runs from a router to an access point, which transforms the wired signal into a wireless one. Wireless connectivity is typically the only available option for access points, establishing links with end-devices using Wi-Fi.
Main Differences. The router acts as a hub that sets up a local area network and manages all of the devices and communication in it. An access point, on the other hand, is a sub-device within the local area network that provides another location for devices to connect from and enables more devices to be on the network.
Wireless routers can function as access points, but not all access points can work as routers. While routers manage local area networks, communicate with outside network systems, acquire, distribute, and dispatch data in multiple directions, establish a point of connectivity, and ensure security, access points typically only provide access to the router’s established network.
testimony (n.)
c. 1400, "proof or demonstration of some fact, evidence, piece of evidence;" early 15c., "legal testimony, sworn statement of a witness," from Old North Frenchtestimonie (Old Frenchtestimoine 11c.), from Latintestimonium "evidence, proof, witness, attestation," fromtestis "a witness, one who attests" (seetestament) +-monium, suffix signifying action, state, condition. Despite the common modern assertion, the sense of the word is unlikely to have anything to do withtesticles (seetestis).
Earliest attested sense in English is "the Ten Commandments" (late 14c.), from Vulgate use of Late Latintestimonium, along with Greekto martyrion (Septuagint), translations of Hebrew'eduth "attestation, testimony" (of the Decalogue), from'ed "witness."
When wrestling with a first draft, take off the pressure by remembering that ultimately all our efforts are absolutely meaningless at a cosmic scale so we may as well lie on the floor and stare at the sky until the soil reclaims us. Also, you can make it less shit in a 2nd draft.
https://twitter.com/kierongillen/status/1467867885968232454?s=20
i had forgotten how many minutes the nutcracker devotes to the experience of being a child trapped at a boring adult party
https://twitter.com/robertjbennett/status/1467959305093750784?s=20
Phineas P. Gage(1823–1860) was an American railroadconstruction foremanremembered for his improbable[B1]: 19 survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's leftfrontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his life—effects sufficiently profound that friends saw him (for a time at least) as "no longer Gage".[H]: 14
The iron's path, per Harlow[H]: 21
Long known as the "American Crowbar Case"—once termed "the case which more than all others is calculated to excite our wonder, impair the value ofprognosis, and even to subvert ourphysiologicaldoctrines"[2]—Phineas Gage influenced 19th-century discussion about the mind and brain, particularly debate oncerebral localization,[M]: ch7-9[B]and was perhaps the first case to suggest the brain's role in determining personality, and that damage to specific parts of the brain might induce specific mental changes.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Phineas_Gage
Young or middle-aged people who come to us from the medical examiner often look the most like themselves after embalming, but sometimes those differences are especially marked and heartbreaking. A young woman who hanged herself, leaving her face swollen and discolored. The family gave us a photo of a laughing woman with clear skin and freckles. Those freckles were lost under the thick foundation we used to cover her purple cheeks. I was an art student once; I was not artist enough to give this woman back her laugh. Others who die violently or by trauma may be as much wax as flesh by the time they’re viewed. We spend hours rebuilding their faces, even days. The results can be remarkable, but in the end, just an effigy.
https://thedeadlands.com/issue-06/ana-paint/
My corner of the underworld is also short-staffed right now. (During a pandemic? Quelle surprise!)And not just us, but many of our third-party psychopomp services as well. But hospitals need those beds. Families would prefer not to leave their loved ones lying on the floor. Bodies in those refrigerated trucks need to be embalmed as soon as possible. So we pick up the overtime, and maybe cry in the cooler a little. That’s just back of house–the directors are also stressed and overworked, but I don’t know where they go to cry. Maybe the casket selection room.
People have many different opinions when it comes to deathcare, but I suspect most everyone accepts that it’s necessary. For me, the part where necessity, ethics, and good intentions sink like Artax in the Swamp of Sadness is the intersection of death and capitalism.
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