What's ludicrous? Having a career? Working for money? Following the prescribed visa processes for working in the US?

Since leaving my mega corp of the past 21 years, I've been working with startups. They uniformly don't give a shit where employees are. Everything is online and people are employed all over the world, where they are.

When you care about the costs, efficiencies and efficacies of engineering, WFH is the best option for design work. The data supports it and small companies are way more sensitive to costs. RTO is the preserve of large companies with lots of case and warped priorities.

>I've always wondered if it's true or not that the mostly Indian workforce in US is paid way below.

I came in on an L1 for a temp assignment. I was paid competitively. I did bring specific skills that were unavailable otherwise.
25 years later I'm still here. VP of engineering in a tech company and doing ok.

I'm not Indian though, although I work with many. Skills tend to count over origin in my field.

The author doesn't know the differences between WiFi, fiber and the internet.

But a body of text, taken from the book, including the equations in exactly the format in the book (when there are 32 ways you could choose to arrange the terms if you were doing it from scratch). That's not ok.

Citing "So and so in the book xyz derived the following equation ...." would be fine. Copying and pasting with neither attribution nor rephrasing to make it fit the narrative of the chat is copyright infringement. More importantly they clearly have absorbed my book into their model without paying for it.

I saw a chatgpt conversation directly copying equations from my book - The equations for computing SCC from pattern counts which appear only in my book as far as I am aware.

I haven't seen them or any lawyers or publishers offering me money for this blatant copying.
 

Change 'as' to 'while' and it would not have been ambiguous.

Detecting the supernova as a black hole did not cause it to explode.
The blackhole caused the star to explode. Detecting it doing it was probably not the cause. Unless you apply some weird quantum interpretation of measurement causing things to happen.

Yes. People will ignore the email and carry on oblivious until they find all their passwords are lost.

I have my password file on a google drive. It syncs automatically to my local drive. I can access it with Keepass clients on my phone, MacBook, linux machines and windows machine.

There's a sync process that frequently transfers a copy to a backup drive locally, which isn't otherwise mounted, so malware wouldn't be able to get at it if it landed on my machines.

This has worked for many years. I had to do some hacking when google messed up the google drive client and made a bunch of files "cloud only" without asking. That's why I am dropping google drive and moving my off site data hosting to another provider.

Read TFA. That's what happens when you rely on an outside password management service.

Use a local, open source password manager. Keep the password file synced locally and remotely for backup.

>I put Moblin [wikipedia.org] on my Acer Aspire, it was lovely

That brings back memories. Moblin got tied up with all that Meego nonsense and the Microsoft parasites in Nokia twisting the knife if I remember right.

>I haven't seen a PS/2 connector on a keyboard cable in years.

I have. People hang on to good keyboards from the past.

I had reasons to visit the floor where the clear Linux developers were when I worked at Intel (pre covid so everyone was in the office). A number of the people involved were kernel developers also and that's why I was talking to them - I was designing security hardware in the silicon that the kernel uses.

I have no deep insights other than any org that wasn't making money got whacked recently. I was first out of the door when the redundancy packages were offered. I imagine they weren't given an option. Clear Linux got cancelled because there was no one left in the Clear Linux team is my best guess. I hope they found good places to go.