Cryptomuseum.com has information on listening devices and countermeasures that some kind poster on HackerNews linked a long time ago. https://cryptomuseum.com/df/tscm.htm
I've had three keyboards with red switches, two from Ducky that were Cherry switches and one from Lenovo that may be another company's switches, but feel the same. None failed on their own but I spilled drinks on the first two and they were never the same. Maybe check out some of the lighter switches, even reds are way lighter than my old 1990s model M. https://www.cherry.de/en-gb/products/switches
In the United States, AT&T Wireless has an Office of the President, while Verizon has Verizon Executive Relations. Other companies might have something similar. I remember the Office of the President doing some amazing things for customers, mostly related to billing that were the customer's own fault, when nobody at any tier of the call center could help them. Even calling your own phone company, they may have internal contacts at the old number company if it is different. You could also try the executives at Google or their legal team, who almost always respond to certain types of requests. When I worked for government, other governments would bend over backwards to help us, maybe companies do the same for each other or would respond to someone from the FCC or another level of government. Just brain storming but you seem like the kind of person that will eventually figure this out.
You could try logging into Gmail just to the point before the SMS is sent, then phone the number you used to have and speak to the current owner. Apologize that you forgot to take the number off your account and so they are receiving text messages meant for you, but you would like to get one more message from them and they won't be bothered anymore. Then you will switch to a new number on your Gmail and they will not receive your messages. Many people will be happy to help a stranger if you are nice and polite to them.
The other option is to contact the phone company and explain, asking an open ended question if there is any way they could help you, with the permission of the current owner of the number, to get one more text message and move your Gmail to a new number. It doesn't sound in any way like you are trying to pull a scam, so they might help.
I bought this book in the early 1990s and still have it with the red cover. My favorite part that stuck with me all those years was this section:
"And right here let me say one thing: After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!"
I've been giving cash and encouraging them to put it into diversified exchange traded funds. I may offer to match any returns for a year this time, so they are less likely to spend it all. It's a tough sell for young people but I want to help them develop good habits early.
I've been running a 2080 TI with AMD 5600x on Linux Mint Cinnamon for three months 24/7 with no graphics issues. Previously ran the proprietary nvidia-driver-550 but now use the nouveau open source drivers. There are five choices for Nvida drivers either open source, closed or open kernal (up to 570/580 now). This was a complete switch off Windows 10, which I've only had to boot twice in three months, to transfer some data.
Every game I've tried on Linux was either gold or platinum on ProtonDB and ran fine so far. WINE worked for running a couple non-game apps. Lutris is another way to run programs but I haven't needed it yet.
Definitely try it if you have a machine sitting there. There is so much support for Linux and Mint on the web it was easy to answer any questions I had setting things up.
Fast Acting Humalog 1000 unit (10 ml) vials cost CAD $40.34 = USD $28.73 in Alberta. Anyone can get Blue Cross from the government which is CAD $720 a year. Then each 3 month supply of a prescription like insulin has a co-pay of $28 a quarter, for however many vials you need. I last used Lantus 24 hour insulin in 2020, when it was around CAD $60, but the government has been switching to biosimilar brands and providing free insulin pumps and supplies including test strips, which only use fast acting insulins. Lantus is most similar to this California insulin.
Faster Than Light is another great roguelike, especially with the Multiverse mod [1]. You pilot and crew a ship, relentlessly pursued by your enemies and forced into ever more difficult battles. It teaches you how to think long term but also survive in the short run, so you can prosper in the long run. A bargain for $3 recently.
That's an interesting question. According to Rich and Greg's Airplane Page[1], the A320 has three generators rated for 90kVA continuous each, one per engine and a third in the auxilary power unit that isn't normally deployed. Cruising demand is around 140 kVA of the 180 kVA supplied by the engines, leaving 40 kVA to spare. The A380 has six similar generators, two in reserve. They give the percentages so you could calculate how much fuel each system is consuming.
I would get out of the investment at the best possible price. Imagine you think your shares are worth $5 million right now, but you could only get out at $3 million. If you were not invested in this company, would you take $3 million cash right now and buy into half the company at a deep discount? If you really think there might be an 8 or 9 figure exit in the future, sell 90% of your investment and keep 10% as an option. Staying invested with shares heading to zero makes no sense to me.
The Killer (Chow Yun-Fat by John Woo) There was a box in the Blockbuster that said, "This movie used more bullets than any in history!" There are multiple stories pulling in different directions, not just action.
In my city, the signal controller registers when a pedestrian pushes a button for the walk signal on a crossing that conflicts with a protected left turn. If it is fully protected, with a green arrow followed by red ball, then pedestrians are not given walk signals during that turning phase but prior during the through phase in their direction. If it is protected-permissive, when motorists see a green arrow followed by a green ball, then the pedestrian gets their walk signal ahead of the turning traffic, so they can clear before the left turning vehicles intersect their crosswalk. The collision you saw is the same issue that happens with right turn on red. The pedestrian has a walk, the car behind them turns into the pedestrian, even though they have a better view than a left turning vehicle of the nearby person. One alternative is to give separate phases to each traffic movement, such as the pedestrian scramble where all directions of pedestrians go with all vehicles stopped. The issue with delaying the left turn while the pedestrians go first is it increases cycle time or gives a greater percentage of cycle time to lower volume side road traffic, which tends to reduce the service level for most motorists waiting at conflicting red signals for these movements to complete. Lower service levels lead to more complaints, especially when there are thousands of vehicles per day vs. 100 pedestrian crossings, but Traffic Engineers have to fight for those pedestrians using what is often a difficult compromise.
5% acetic acid vinegar, a squirt of lemon dish soap and a few tablespoons of sugar mixed together in a bowl kills the fruit flies within a day of arrival. It will evaporate over time but adding water back to the original level reconstitutes the trap and it will work for months. This is just an interim solution until the lasers and machine vision are working.
Google maps shows that directly across the street from the library is a Federal building with a lawn and five tents of campers or perhaps homeless people, installed on the sidewalk. I take sacnoradhq's word for it, though you are correct in saying the lawn appears to belong to the Federal building and not the library.
Bedbugs invaded my apartment after a new tenant moved in above fall 2020. Infestations were discovered in apartments above and next to me in the summer and fall of 2021 but not sprayed until then.
I captured over 300 bed bugs and documented them to the landlord, who had to get exterminators to eliminate them. They sprayed the apartment 11 times from 2021 to early 2022, but nothing reduced the numbers until they attacked the source infestations.
What worked:
Buying white box spring and mattress covers that bugs cannot get through and make them easy to see. Steaming and vacuuming the bed.
Putting glass and plastic traps on the floor under the bed legs. Bugs can't climb (some/all?) smooth, vertical metal, plastic and glass surfaces. Test for yourself. Large numbers of bugs could fill the traps so they have to be checked.
Tucking in bedding so that covers and sheets never slide onto the floor during the night.
Vacuuming floors every day to pick up bugs in the carpet or hidden under the baseboards.
Sealing pipes, lights, electrical plugs and switches with clear tape so the bugs cannot enter that way. I found two dead bugs trapped in a hallway light and then two more crawled out while applying the tape.
Completely sealing the vent above the stove after several crawled down, followed by more that were trapped in the clear plastic.
Sealing the bathroom vent with clear plastic packing tape around all edges of the wall, which bugs cannot climb, then sealing the fan cover onto the wall on all sides except the top so air could still escape. Every surface inside the cover and outside had smooth tape.
Some appeared on the floor near the front door into the common hallway, so I covered the first 60 cm / 2 feet of floor in bleach. This seemed to kill smaller bugs but a few larger ones made it through alive. The exterminator said they follow the smell of each other.
My freezer is -20 C. I put every bug in there for at least 2 hours, in a plastic bag, and none came back to life after they were removed and thawed.
Almost everything I have was put in either clear plastic bags or dozens of 60L clear plastic storage bins. I only found one bug in a clear bin that was right under a fire sensor I could not cover. It appeared to have crawled inside through the sideways U shaped top seals on the ends and died.
The plastic traps on the bed were in this form:
TTT Window
TDT
TDT Put these letters in 3 rows with the TTT at the top and window to the right of TTT in your mind.
The darkest traps labeled D had most of the bugs I found in the bedroom (~20 total), which led me to think they avoided light even though I slept head near the window where they would smell CO2. So, I started leaving all the lights on every day. I also turned down the heat but don't know if either helped.
Before I knew they were bed bugs, I killed about 12 in the bathroom over 3 months. Most would burst in a strange gray cloud.
Secure your bed, clothing and furniture. Then it is easier to deal with the stress and sleep in comfort. If you have to move, everything in plastic is safe and can be checked at the new home.
If it is really bad, make sure you and movers have covers on your feet. The first exterminator tracked them back to his house because he didn't cover his feet, but the government inspector always wore them when inspecting the building.
The money is gone but you have a lot of qualities, you can learn from this valuable lesson and do better in the future. For example, I know someone who buys companies that have 20 years of consistent profits. He is down 9% this year, but fell far behind people who were making money from technology stocks in the boom times. He only looks at his stocks every 3 months and worries about nothing.
In one of the Market Wizards books, an investor said that if he cannot sleep from worrying about his positions, he sells them until he is comfortable.
If your company is granting you call options, all your new ones will be at lower prices and they may even lower the strike prices on the old ones to retain good employees.
Try to get investments that are not correlated with the success of your company or industry or where you own property.
The boss that hired me 15 years ago told me to save 20% of my take home income and invest it in quality companies with consistent earnings. He later retired at 55.
Cut your costs, pay off your debts and lower your personal overhead, so that you are more resilient if you have to switch jobs or earn less money.
Timing the market over the long term is very difficult and it is better to assume you cannot. It has been known for decades that if you miss a couple dozen up days because you were flat or short the market, your returns over decades are much lower.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-missing-out-on-25-days...
If you are going to buy stocks or an index like the S&P 500, take a look at 50 years of data and see how bad the top 10 declines were and how long it took for those investments to reach new highs. The stocks I own have gone down 50% previously and I assume they could top that with a 60-70% decline. The worst time it took almost 3 years to get back to new highs. Once you know that about your investments, you can rest easier.
Look for chances to buy quality companies so you do well when profits improve. You have all your valuable skills, you know more now and will do better in the future.
There are some Contour Next Link (non-2.4 version) listed on Ebay and other sites. Unless Medtronic locks the meter to one user account, maybe you could then pair it and get the data out, if they will ship to your country.
Here in Canada, the infusion sets Mio 30, Mio Advance, Sure T and Mio that I have used all came with a cap in each set. They also charge the government C$26 each, but still that cap cannot be worth more than a few cents, so it is a strange way to save money.
The sets have been failing early for me as well at the rate of about 1 in 10. I started with the Mio Advance and my nurse said to call Medtronic and report the failures. Medtronic sent a box of 10 Mio Advance plus boxes of 10 Mio and 10 Sure T (metal) to try for free. The Sure T failed less than the Mio Advance and Mio, but I just had one fail the first day so am trying the Mio 30 which goes in at an angle but uses plastic.