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Comment Re:The new America. (Score 1, Insightful) 210

This is more like working construction and suing because your muscles are sore at the end of the day. If you aren't physically, mentally, or emotionally capable of handling a job, don't take it! I'm sensitive and north of 50, neither content moderation nor construction are in my future career path. I can live with that.

If the scaffolding was defective, you have a case; if you fall off well-constructed scaffolding with all safety protocols in place, you HAVE screwed up. Yeah, workman's comp should cover it, but if it happens multiple times, you should look for another job. You're clearly not suited for construction work.

Comment Re:Glad I opted out of... (Score 1) 330

Which end user is truly concerned about the file system?

Me! I work in a lab with nearly every OS imaginable, either on instrumentation or user-facing systems. A robust multi-OS filesystem is very important. I'd settled on HFS because I almost never use Windows, find FAT too small/limited, and find NTFS support a bit tedious and not MacOS friendly

I wander back and forth between Mac OS and Linux depending on how much coffee our BSOFH had today, so it's hard to guess what kind of file system I'll need to use to resurrect the smoking ruin of my workspace (Eurocratic, Military, Third World, IT and Management).

Just sayin'

Comment Re:Not deadly yet (Score 1) 416

Man, there was a lot of argument on this. Yes, wet-bulb and dry-bulb are different, which is why I referenced the relative humidity. NOAA has a handy calculator

  1. The summary mentioned "dangerous" wet bulb temps above 31 and "deadly" above 35 (with no mention of 40). At my cited 45C (dry bulb) mark, that corresponds to relative humidities of ~38% and 52% respectively. The temperatures I observed were relatively dry, but I don't recall the exact humidity.
  2. The guy who cites Texas temps of 107F and 77% humidity wins the prize. Y'all ought to be dead.
  3. As an overweight middle-aged male of Northern European ancestry, I certainly wouldn't want to try living in these temps! It's 31C in my house at night right now, and that's plenty hot enough for me.

Comment Not deadly yet (Score 0) 416

While I definitely agree climate change, especially in this region, is a major problem, I think their definition of "deadly" is a little off the mark. I spent several weeks in India in April, when the temperatures routinely topped 40C(104F) and occasionally reached 45C (113F). It was clear the locals found it hot, but it didn't seem to affect the frenetic pace of commerce in the cities I visited. Then again, that was pre-monsoon, so the humidity wasn't as high.

Comment Already have a monitor... (Score 1) 163

The iMac is really cool, sleek, pretty, minimal, yeah... but many pros I know already have monitors they like. How about a little love for their other desktops (mini and Pro)! I'd also wager that most "pros" aren't, in general, people with white offices and squeaky clean desks on which art-like computers sit.

And keep your confounded sticky fingers off my screen!

Otherwise, yeah, a long-time Mac user drifting away from the fold. Then again, there aren't many systems left that aren't larded with proprietary sh** that fubars something in Linux. And Windows is not to be abided.

... grumble, grumble, grumble, mutter, mutter, Millenium... Hand... Shrimp, I tol' 'em, I tol' 'em.

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