How long has she been doing the job?

Ours is very good with time. I’m not sure he knows it’s Saturday except we get up later; he’s not thrown off by holidays, though.

However, he can tell time, in a way. He is overweight (it’s a journey, ok‽‽), and when we put him on a diet he was regularly waking us up in the middle of the night, begging. So we got him an automatic feeder, to distance ourselves from being food providers. One day, my wife notices him sitting in front of the grandfather clock, staring at it… and a couple of minutes later it chimed and the food dispenser went off! He’d only do it around feeding times. I think he could kind of tell by how hungry he was, and he could tell where in the hour it was because of the different chimes on the quarter hours. So - my guess - is that based on how hungry he was and how long the chimes went, he could figure out that the food would go the next time it chimed. So about 10 minutes before feeding time he goes over and watches the clock. It’s kind of amazing.

He doesn’t do it as much anymore; I guess he’s figure it’ll go when it goes, but he absolutely stops and listens for the food dish, whatever he’s doing, when the grandfather clock chimes the hour.

Maybe your’s is still figuring out the pattern.

Can he be sane while being eaten alive? I’m Ok with him going insane during the process.

During COVID, my wife gained a supervisor; one of our’s appointed himself to the job and sleep in a corner on her desk and complain loudly if she left the office during office hours. He was a fair supervisor, though, because he’d also get irate when she worked past 5.

Lost his job with the RTO policy, poor guy.

Oh. Oh, have I got a story.

When Star Wars came out, I was 11. It was making a lot of noise, and my mom kept trying to convince me to go see it, but we’d driven by the theater and I was convinced - convinced - that it would be boring, and refused. Of course I did end up going, and spent the summer in the theater; this was before they kicked you out and made you buy tickets for each showing. I ended up seeing it 16 times in the theater, that summer.

Anyway, fast forward a couple dozen years and I’m watching an 2001, and I notice that it was originally released and advertised as being in “stereophonic sound.” Checked with mom, and she confirmed that they had taken me to see 2001 in the theater at some point, and I realized that I must have recognized the “In Stereophonic Sound!” on the Star Wars billboard and made the association that that meant “boring.”

There must be a hidden, middle group for whom the job market is easy, because it’s also shit for people later in their career.

I recently came across a statistic that employers are using AIs for applicant filtering because there’s something like 300 applicants on average for every skilled (white collar) job posting in the US.

Go’s not included, but Go doesn’t need a beautifier, so that tracks.

Yay! Good for them. Great band.

Edit: Oh, man, that looks like a good show. Too bad I’ll probably have to travel out-country if I ever want to see them.

Yup. Widespread block incoming, which fElon will have an online tantrum about.

He’s starting to become better known for losing money than making it. It’s good to see. I’m hoping that with Tesla cratering and X floundering, he’ll drop of the “richest men in the world” list soon.

Nice color combination. We’re constantly fighting monochrome meals.

Also: I just figured out how to reliably sauté beautiful scallops, and I’ll say your’s are glorious.

Right now, Ukraine is teaching the world about what innovation and access to relatively high tech can impact the battlefield. I think that just took everyone by surprise, and I have no doubt the US military - or, rather, companies who manufacture arms - are furiously developing counters for specifically this. Even Russia is necessarily innovating, even if it’s just by trial and error and often ineffectively.

Defense always trails offense. It’s simply a harder job to protect than destroy. I don’t think drones dropping mortars are going to remain that effective, and if you think tanks have it hard, imagine Russia’s invasion without tanks. Tanks is still king of the the ground offensive.

Oh! Ok, the value of cheap graphene sheets at scale, I understand. I mean, in a layman’s way of understanding.

grumbles in Northern White Faced Scopes

I’ve had a breakup where, at the time, this would have seemed a kindness.

Chemist, or physicist, want to ELI5 this? I got lost within the first paragraph. I don’t understand what the point is: is it, how can we make more, or how can we make less? Or something else?

When other countries have better, more modern-looking tanks, it really underscores how much the US is falling behind. I mean, we spend more money on defense than the next 6 countries combined, and we’ve got… the Abrams. The same basic tank frame we’ve been using since I was in the Army, in the 80’s.

The Armata looks goofy, and like a step backward from the T-90. But this Merkava looks like I always imagined a Bolo would look. And, hey! Turns out it might have being fired by an AI!

Looks are not specs, and I have no idea how Israel were using Microsoft’s software, or whether it was in the Merkova. I’m just rambling, because, dang, that’s a sexy tank, and I’m not particularly a tank guy.

Big Caveat: Oh, and yeah, this is unrelated to the fact that Israel is perpetrating a genocide in Palestine. I’m not being cavalier about the genocide, or war, or weapons of war; I was just captivated by the photo. I’m sure I’d feel differently if one had ever been shooting at me, and I’m sorry for all those innocents: truly, if you or your’s was a victim, I don’t intend to trivialize your suffering.

I’ve been following-ish C&H for years; I just didn’t recognize this style.

It doesn’t. That’s why I said “what they’re not telling us”.

It was a joke.

I solved this by adding a layer for games.

Since I use Dvorak, games usually meant reconfiguring every game key layout, and with Factorio, that’s every key, and key combination. So I made a QWERTY layer and bound a layer switch to pressing both shift keys at the same time. I just toggle between the layers between games and non games.

Yeah. That’s sort of canon for all headgear, from construction, to motorcycle, to bike: if it gets hit (hard), you can no longer trust or verify its structural integrity, and you replace it.

On the one hand, it sounds exactly like a “how do we get people to buy more of these?” marketing, but in this case I think it’s reasonable. If you’re spending too much on helmets, maybe you’d better reevaluate your situational awareness capability, and whether or not riding really is for you.

Of course, BMXers are more likely to fall, so that’s an exception. And with construction workers it’s the company paying for helmets and its probably a comparatively tiny expense; and if you’ve got that many people getting hit on the head, you too should maybe look at your safety policies.

It does seem like a sketchy claim.

Edit I haven’t tried this myself, but from what I can find the gparted part is not necessary. You can get rid of Windows and re-use it for Linux with a single command: btrfs device add / /dev/old_windows_partition. The rest of the considerations below still apply.

The answer to the question you asked is: make sure you know which partition it is and run dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/<partition> bs=1024. Then you’ll probably want to find which boot loader you’re using and remove the Windows option. That will delete Windows.

To re-use the free space, which most folks are focusing on, might be far easier than all of the other comments.

Odds are decent that you’re using btrfs. Most reasonable Linux distros default to it, so unless you changed it, it’s probably btrfs. With btrfs, you can simply change the position type and add it to your existing filesystem.

1. Use the program gparted. You can do all of this on the command line with fdisk, but gparted is a GUI program and is easier if you’re more comfortable with GUIs. Find the Windows partition, make sure you now it’s the Windows partition and not the boot partition (the boot partition will be the really tiny one), click on the Windows partition and choose the “change partition type” function to switch it to a Linux partition. There will be warnings; heed them, double check, and then save and exit.
2. Add the old Windows partition to your existing filesystem with: btrfs device add / /dev/sdx2 . This adds the partition /dev/sdx2 to the filesystem mounted at / – your root partition. Replace /dev/sdx2 with whatever partition Windows used to be on.

That’s it. Now your Linux filesystem is using the old Windows partition. Without changing the boot options, when you reboot your system may still believe there’s a Windows to boot into. If you’re using EFI, it should just disappear, but with grub you’ll have to tell grub that Windows isn’t there anymore or else it’ll keep offering it to you at each boot.

You are almost certainly not using RAID, so you don’t need to worry about rebalancing.

Summary: it is very likely your distribution used btrfs for your Linux partition. In that case, the absolute easiest way to get rid of Windows and use it for Linux is to add the partition to your btrfs filesystem. No reformatting, repartitioning, reinstalling; just tell btrfs to use it and you’re done.