Back in the day, my internet connection was so Comcastic that I couldn't watch a video on youtube, either. I'd have to cache it with youtube-dl and watch it the next day, or whenever it finished. It was weird the first time I tried to watch a video on the web page and it actually played.
I think this is a case of a word having one colloquial meaning and a different technical meaning. If you "lift" something, you're probably picking it up.
In a hydrodynamic sense, "lift" is a force on a foil moving through a fluid. This kind of lift is a force orthogonal to the direction of motion through the fluid and the surface of the foil. That could be upward lift, like that on the wings of an aircraft. That could also be the forward and leeward lift on the sail of a sailboat, or the windward lift on the sailboat's keel. It could also be the lateral, stabilizing lift on the control surfaces of a rocket.
If I'm reading the article correctly, the legal threats were from the authors of the retracted article. Dr. Lisco only sent the journal an email notifying them of the plagiarism.
Start looking for new work when your current work is burning you out. You seem to have the opposite of that problem.
Keep your current job, and start using your surplus time more effectively. Take some classes to pick up new skills and résumé candy. Contribute to some open-source project. Find somebody to mentor.
Absolutely. Between Einstein's general theory of relativity and Newton's law of universal gravitation, one is more correct and the other is more useful most of the time. Between Newton's law and HeAvY rOcK WaNt To fAlL, one is more correct and the other is more useful most of the time.
That was a really long way to say "Lots of people still use work as their only social engagement." and "Lots of people can't form a coherent thought long enough to write an email."
I would have appreciated that blog post more if the author had explicitly stated that those charts weren't based on any actual data. It feels scummy to plot random points just to make a conversational point.
A lot of this is incredibly myopic. The author seems to think that because a tool isn't useful to him that it isn't used at all. Also, there's the repeated notion that some currently-popular new toy has "won" and forever displaced everything before it. Nothing really works that way.
"I’m not going to have the vehicle towed. Amazon should be able to figure this out. So now it’s an act of defiance. I did not follow Amazon’s instructions to just call the cops and have it towed."
There's a simple fix, and he didn't want to do it. Instead, he's whining on the Internet, blaming a company that doesn't own the vehicle and can't do anything about it, either.
Start looking for a new position. Things could go well, but if they start going badly, you want to have options outside the company.
Start fishing for new opportunities within the company. If you're not also leaving, there must be something there worth keeping. So, if it looks like you're not on a project that is good for you, another project could be a better hole for the you-shaped peg.
Start talking to your manager. If they haven't cancelled the project yet, maybe there's something going on behind the scenes. If you're going to be the senior employee on the project, you should have the pay, title, and fancy business cards to match.
But do all three concurrently. There's no reason to let any one of those interfere with the others.