No, I think they’re being literal. There is value that they want in your privacy.

Yes. I started during the pandemic when a significant portion of the people I respected suddenly deemed me as expendable.

I have a lung condition that put me at high risk, especially during the early days when there was no treatment available. Everyone I know with the same condition who got covid during the first ~8 months either is dead or has pretty severe long term damage that has left them practically bed ridden.

So when people I respected said they would not wear masks around me or even just stay the fuck away, I was the problem because sUrVivAl Of ThE FiTtEsT. I was unable to telework due to having a hardware specific job, and apparently it was too much to expect them to just keep their distance and/or wear a mask. Instead they would cough in my direction, literally say “I hope people like you die soon so this can all be over and we can go out to eat again” (ironically that same person still has a cough from their three months bout with covid in 2021). Yes I told them I had a lung condition, that only made the harassment worse.

I went to therapy for specific issues, how to handle the direct harassment and how to deal with having all the respect for a large amount of people disappear in about a month. I went through two different therapists on betterhelp. The first one was good at helping me through it, but they took more than a week to respond to messages. The second one was really good though. They really helped me just write off those people entirely, even if we used to be friendly those times are over and they made their choices. They also gave me some advice on how to convince my manager to provide reasonable accommodations and gave me a different office on the other side of the building.

I’ve been debating going back for some advice on some lingering health anxiety I still have from those days.

But a professional photographer taking a staged picture should know how to frame the shot so that the shadows work in your favor.

Truly a once in a lifetime offer.

Averages are fine if you have a pretty clean dataset. But if you have significant outlier data, like most do, averages can be misleading.

Mode and median are generally better ways to get look at a “central tendency”

I’m curious what query you used.

This is why “average” is a shitty way to measure what values are likely.

If you have a thousand people who have a thousand dollars, and one person who has a billion dollars, the “average” person has a million dollars.

It’s people having their battery die while they wait for an open charger.

Toasting to the new year?

I didn’t say I think it’s a good thing, just that the truck guy probably think it is.

It’s supposed to be a good thing. I don’t get the context of the stickers either unless it’s just supposed to be a useless explanation of the situation.

Imma leave this here since they put it quite nicely. https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/6818226

Also, just read their username and you’ll see it’s clearly exactly what we all think it is.

He would do it during halo free for all for this exact reason lol

It was pretty funny tbh. He wouldn’t do it all the time, just when a lobby was kinda dead. We were young immature teenagers during the beginnings of prank culture.

I had a friend that would play stuff like that over his mic. Load up a juicy YouTube video with lots of drama and let everyone in the lobby think it was real. Especially if he went AFK.

Why did you get the sleep study? It kinda sounds like you did it for fun if you don’t know what you’re potentially expecting from the results.

Pro tip, your hot water tap probably gets to like 120, you can mix it with cold to get 100-103 pretty easily.

Except they were generating zero revenue during the time they were closed. That is pretty close to a fine.

I do also think they should be fined for preventing a union from forming, but having them pay back wages would be more of a fine than most places would be fined because there are basically no penalties for this kind of behavior.

This is a good tool for visualizing your raid needs from your capacity and total number of drives.

https://www.seagate.com/products/nas-drives/raid-calculator/

I’ll preface that I’m no raid expert, just a nerd that uses it occasionally.

The main benefit of most raid configurations is the redundancy they provide. If you lose one drive, you do not lose any data. It’s kinda obvious how you can have 1:1 redundancy, you just have an exact copy of the drive. But there are ways to split data into three chunks so that you can rebuild the data from any two chunks, and 5 chunks so that you can loose and two chunks. Truly understand how raid does this could easily be an entire college course.

Raid 0 is the exception. All it does is “join together” a bunch of drives into one disk. And if you lose an individual disk you likely will lose most of your data.

Another big difference is read/write speed. From my understanding, every raid configuration is slower to read and write than if you were using a single drive. Each raid configuration is varying levels of slower than the “base speed”

I typically use raid 5 or 6, since that gives some redundancy, but I can keep most of my total storage space.

The main thing in all of this is to keep an eye on drive health. If you lose more drives than your array can handle, all of your data is gone. From my understanding, there is no easy way to get the data off a broken raid array.

I’ve literally never heard GUI said as “gee ewe eye” before.

You could just say UI, avoids the gooey phobia and sounds less weird than g u i.