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You can buy a “battery case” for a phone but I am yet to find one for an iPad mini. All I want is a iPad mini with 1TB of storage, a 5G modem, and a battery that lasts 30 hours.

As I mentioned earlier, I switched to Thunderbird (Mozilla) for all of my email collection. Been using it for over 24 hours and have it set up the way I want it on both pc and phone. Excellent program.
Now here is a stupid security? rule that just doesn't work: ANU emails can't be configured to a 3rd party email client like Thunderbird even through IMAP. However, one can set up, in ANU's web Outlook interface, to forward them automatically to a bloody Gmail account! 🤦‍♀️<…

Do you know it's cold in Poland today?
I've discovered around 4 PM that the heat pump driver froze around 11 AM, and I suspect it hasn't been heating through these hours. It was hard to notice because the water pump just kept pumping. so the boiler room sounded normal. I noticed when I looked at the thermostat and noticed "AL".
Damned technology.

I have several email addresses, some from a time before most people became aware of "the Internet".
I have long noticed that the spam load to these addresses has a distinct time/day signature. Most spam I receive comes in during early business hours (Pacific tine zone) on weekdays.
I am wondering whether others see a similar pattern.
(I have also noticed a massive increase in spam on all platform types, not just e-mail, since lawlessness became fashionable under …

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

To be clear, the ICE attack at the high school happened in the afternoon, some 4-5 hours •after• they murdered Renee Good. ICE paused nothing when the news broke.
I want you to imagine what the day was like for all the observers out there: knowing ICE shot somebody, and continuing to observe anyway.

Because I constantly hear myths about the good old compact cassette here's a longer post dispelling them:
1. They can sound as good as CDs
2. They don't wear out
3. You can't use a pencil to wind them
4. You can go to specific tracks automatically
5. You don't need to carry around extra batteries
I will elaborate below:
1. Sound Quality
Many higher-end decks can record cassettes on metal tape with various Dolby noise reduction settings; especially the combination of metal tape and Dolby S will make tapes that are pretty much indistinguishable from listening to a CD.
Even normal or chrome tape with Dolby B (around since the 1970s) will give great results; likely indistinguishable from a CD when played in a car or while out and about with a personal player.
Some extremely high-end tape decks produce better than CD results in some regards (for example some Nakamichi models go to 26KHz with frequency response, while CD are inherently limited to top out at 22KHz).
It's true that the dynamic range of CDs is much better than either vinyl records or tapes. However, unless you're super into classical music there's likely not much music for which this truly matters, as 99% is mastered to use much less dynamic range than provided by any audio media format. (If you're super into classical music you probably want SACD or other high-res lossless sources anyway, not CDs.)
2. Yes, it will wear out mechanically but you will wear out mechanically before it does. Please watch VWestlife's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dgJ4hRHBiw
3. European and American pencils are too thin to engage the cassette reel cogs. (You'd need to get a Japanese pencil. People mostly used BIC pens for this purpose which have the right thickness.)
4. Most (nice) decks and personal players from the early-to-mid nineties onwards have track skip features (e.g. Sony has AMS, Automatic Music Sensor), which allow precise winding to a specific track.
Some decks even did this in the early 80s!
5. My late-90s Walkman has seventy-eight (78) hours of playback on one (1) single AA battery.
Anyway, the main reason why I like them is they're fun to use and recording them is very deliberate instead of algorithms selecting music for me. :)

Not all heroes wear capes; some just wear ∀s and ⊃s.
https://forum.cspaper.org/topic/191/iclr-i-can-locate-reviewer-how-an-api-bug-turned-blind-review-into-a-data-apocalypse

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …