"platinum production"

We wish! :-) Actually, plutonium production.

The waste isn't "anything". It is reasonably well characterized, and there are plenty of records. It's just that there is no cheap way to deal with it.

Only one reactor (N) produced electricity (in addition to its primary isotope mission). The other dozen or so reactors were isotope production only.

I was in a similar situation. I spent some time over a period of a couple of years making sure that every possible process was documented. When the time came for me to leave, I gave them a few weeks notice and it all turned out fine. I did get two phone calls in the weeks after I left, but that was it.

Make sure you actually can restore. Do it regularly. Restore to different hardware. If using tape, restore using different tape drives. Make testing restores a routine thing. When I was a boss, we did daily backups onto tape and same day read the tapes at the offsite recovery site (about 30 miles away).

During my career, I've seen two restore failures where they'd been backing up for years but the backups were no good and they had no idea.

Yes it updated. Yes it works fine. For most users, it doesn't matter. Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari are all ok.

I'm in my 60s, still programming for a living. This is my fourth job, with a small instrument manufacturing company. I previously worked for a national lab, an engineering firm, and a large credit union. I've programmed in a variety of languages, OSes, databases, ... over the years, and just keep learning new things.

The guys I work with now are 29, 34, 36, 38 and 41 years old. It's all good though, and we get along great. I'm actually the new guy here (3 yrs), but had no problems settling in.

We actually have one remote, part-time programmer (about 10 hrs a week) who is about 75. My long term goal is to be like him. :-)

We were in the 95% zone, but my youngest son and I chose to make the drive. About a five hour round trip. We took relatively back roads into central Oregon and had a great time. We saw just a little over one minute of totality. Even though I have an old, not great camera, it is still more capable than I am. :-) I did get two really good pictures though, one of the crescent moon and one during the totality. Lots of fun and good memories.

Who doesn't make a backup in three months? Sorry dude, not much sympathy here.

Excellent book.

Also, Guns Germs and Steel is very good.

I'd pay $1 a month, even if that only got me access to a dozen articles a month. That's about all I ever clicked through to anyway.

I get a local (electronic subscription) newspaper that meets most of my needs.

I'd sign up for WaPo, NY Times, maybe LA Times as well for $1 a month gets me a dozen.

This is about the financial derivative blowup in the 90s.

Cyber computers by CDC. Designed by Seymour Cray. He then left and start Cray Corp because his opinion on the future machines differed from other senior managment.

The Cyber supercomputers by Cray did everything in octal. 6-bit characters packed ten to a 60-bit word. Double precision FORTRAN was 120 bits. All the core dumps, etc. were in octal. I had to learn hex after spending a few years in the octal world first. It didn't seem temporary at the time! :-)

"I thought they were selectively removing reviews, but they just disabled reviews and made the (low) star rating disappear completely just for that monitor. Funny."

Wrong. There were NEVER any reviews of that product. The review button was never enabled so there were no low or otherwise reviews to "disappear".

There never were reviews to remove. The original reddit poster was wrong.