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The saving on the knob alone would pay a reasonable chunk of a basic but useful printer. Use it for a few more things and you’ll be in the black even ignoring the more fun things you might do. The time it takes to learn a CAD system can also be fun if you enjoy that sort of thing.

Yeah, they really had to rise to the occasion here. Some people would have disposed of it irresponsibly, but I guess they’re just bread better there, although whoever left it in the sun must have been baked.

No need to make snippy comnents, he had to do it, there was a claws in his contract.

Pawns can be promoted to queens when they get to the other side, and when the elite pieces get past the pawns they get promoted to ‘media’, and can slowly, but surely, pick them off.

They’re special onions, err… bath onions. Very good for you.

That’s also true in a lot of fieds, yes. Networking is important.

Absolutely. Its absurd that the system works like this, but it does. Candidates understanding this evens the field somewhat, or, at least, expands the opportunities.

Yes, I agree it’s ridiculous, but it’s the way it is. Remember that the company is basically shopping for a new employee though. I you’re looking to buy a new T.V., for instance, you probably start out with a list of things you really want it to have. Then you start looking for T.V.s and find that while that one has all the inputs you hoped for, it’s twice the price of that one, which is just missing one, that you can probably get by without. Companies have to make a value judgement on every candidate, weighing thingsvlike length of experience against breadth of knowledge or how they’ll fit in.

It would be better if the hours and pay were as stated, but they’re part of the negotiation too. The harder the job is to fill, the stronger the candidate’s position is in those negotiations, and visa versa.

I really wish more people understood this. Assuming you manage to get past the automated screening (which, to be fair, can be hard if you’re missing something obvious from their list), what matters is whether you appear competant and a good fit. Of course, if two candidates are similar, but one has more experience, they’re more likely to get the job, but it’s not a hard cut off.

Thanks for the analogy, that really helps to put it in perspective. I was trying to work out the number of molecules per metre that would leave you with, but either my sense of scales is off kilter or I’ve got it wrong.

From what I can find, there are approximately 2.5e25 molecules per m³ at 1atm. Given an 11km cube has a volume of 1.3e12 m³, that gives around 2e13 molecules per m³ per m³ released. That sounds high, have I got the figures wrong somewhere?

“Gelatinous tuna mold concoction” is a concept I don’t want to have to think about ever again, and I ate similar things when I was a young’un.

Fastration?

Building up tolerance? That’s a smart move. When the vampire hoards attack you’ll be able to fend them off without risking harming yourself.

It might not be windowless; consider midwinter, when a real window will just be a dark rectangle for most of the important parts of the morning and evening. Having a fake window showing somewhere bright and warm could help lift one’s spirits if you didn’t think about it too much.

But all I remember is that it was a possibly interesting page about the problem I’m dealing with. I have 42 tabs open on the same site, and none of them have useful names. If I google it I’ll end up with about 52 uselessly names tabs.

It is cathartic closing an entire window fullof tabs when the problem is dealt with though. You can almost hear the machine sigh as it releases a big chunk of memory.

You’re probably not far off in how the presciption pad evolved, but pharmasists, at least here, have extensive training, and some can actually write prescriptions for certain medications. The system has evolved over a very long time, and security is definitely one of those things that’s had to evolve with those changes.

It used to be fairly normal, the pharmasists knew the various doctors in the area, and they also know what is a reasonable prescription. If there was any doubt, they’d contact the doctor before dispensing the drugs. I had the ‘interesting’ experience of having to go to multiple pharmacies, filling part of the total prescription at each, when I tried to fill a largeish morphine prescription for a family member. There’d been some sort of issue at the main supplier, and none of the induvidual pharmacies had much stock left. It was resolved a few dats later fortunately.

Things are a lot more digital now-a-days, which hopefully makes fraud less of an issue, and definitely makes getting medicines easier.

Fair, that maybe came across harsher than I meant. Refusing to provide packages because you don’t use the system is fine, but please provide a tarball that I can unpack, rather than some dodgy script that has to try to work with the differences in those ststems anyway.

Better to do away with the entire concept of downloading and running a shell script like that, and use distro native packages instead. It’s not hard to create DEB or RPM packages, ebuilds aren’t too bad either, and it sounds like AUR packages are managable too.

The entire concept of blindly downloading a script, running it as root, and hoping that, in the best case, it’d install the version of the software you want is a bit crazy. If the upstream developers refuse to provide packages, please, at least, provide a tarball.

If you’re in the bathroom and it’s hitting the fan, you’re doing it wrong.