Interestingly, we all descend from just one woman, but not from just one man.

Uh what? That's illegal. It's both trespassing and creating a public nuisance. And if you do normal things that people do when they live, then it's a lot of other things besides, some of which are actually legal at home but not under a bridge.

Amen. And I don't even use the term SJW. But it's the truth that men aren't really encouraged to go into computer programming, either. Society sees programmers as nerds and dorks, and the only way it cares about them is if they are also successful businessmen. Men are simply more likely to get sufficiently involved in programming to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous assholes.

I don't think there's any question that some women suffer in the workplace due to the actions of some men, though. Whether women overall should earn the same money per career for less days worked per career is another argument, and one I don't care to have. Still, misogyny would be unlikely not to be part of the reason why women don't want go into tech. They know it's a men's world, and they know what it's like working in those environments. Cause, effect, vicious circle, still true.

Unless panic is warranted!

A hacker could hack the hospital doors and windows and everybody would die of starvation sooner or later!

while that's true, at least half the time they're swapping. Put in enough RAM and disable swap and they speed right up, too. Maybe not as much as SSD, but more RAM benefits you whether you have SSD or not.

It isn't. Most of those updates only require a reboot because of laziness, not because open files can't be replaced.

I think you've really nailed it here. Wood is a poor choice for something like this, because a boat only has to be aggressively sealed in certain places, but this is exposed to water everywhere. The best choice I can think of is probably polycarbonate, which has the added advantage of additional resistance to sharkbite. Plus, you know, it's transparent. That would be seriously cool. You can sand and buff out the inevitable scratches. Barring that, I'd use sheet Aluminum. Heck, I probably have enough for the job right here, since it doesn't need to be any heavier-weight than necessary to prevent deformation.

Now, if only I had some bending equipment, I could get some heavier sheet than what I've got (.025 6160, IIRC) and make some ribs. I suppose I'd also want a recumbent Aluminum bicycle to start with.

Frankly though, I would just use a prop. Which would not be nearly as cool. So this is still cool :)

Wow. I mean, seriously, wow. Because they're only allowed 40 stamps at a time, they can't possibly have more than that? You do realize they're not allowed cellphones or drugs at all, and they still wind up getting their hands on those? Logic, it's not just for a tiny part of your comment any more.

I don't know if they should spend billions, but they should really institute some logic to detect and correct routing loops. Right now these are detected by humans. If there's one ZIP on the address and another zip in the metadata (due to data entry failure, or misaddressing by the sender) then you'll get a routing loop until a human notices. That's pathetic given that every package is scanned when is passes through a sort facility, and they really ought to know where it's going.

I read it, and it doesn't say what you want it to say. It says that "Various lab tests all came back within normal ranges" but it doesn't say what those lab tests were, or if they were in fact the ones that you'd want to perform. Clearly they weren't. If you have a point then make it, don't just pound on the table harder.

It's working no worse than before for me. Before Obamacare, there was nobody to take my insurance. After Obamacare, same thing. Some people are now having this experience and paying more for the privilege, however.

You mean it's oriented towards crony corporatism. Remember, you have no choice but to secure health care through an approved insurance provider, unless you are rich and then the laws do not apply to you. There is nothing free market about it whatsoever.

There are also very many shitty doctors and nurses in it, and no means for screening them out because we're desperate for health care professionals. But since we actually don't treat them very well, not many people want to go into the line of work even if they're capable. We also require doctors to do certain things which could be done by lesser professionals (thanks to the AMA) which exacerbates the situation. It won't be long before most of these assholes are replaced by expert systems, and they really should have been already but the initial diagnosis still requires a human to input stuff into the machine. When we get to the three probes, they're toast.

I don't mean to imply that they are all bad, or anything. But there's lots of 'em who don't give a flying fuck about you, and just want to get you out of their hair. You can tell by how they treat you. If they do all the typical depersonalization shit they are literally taught in medical school, it's about a paycheck.

It's all high-risk, because you never know what you'll come in contact with in a hospital. For one thing, it's been shown time and again that they are full of filthy things, like doctors' ties, and keyboards. For another, sick people go there. By definition, the scary stuff will be there. Unless, of course, people avoid seeking medical care due to concerns over cost.

Yeah, this happens every day. It's not Ebola every day, but nonetheless. It's not unique to Texas. It just happened to happen there. It could have happened in any state with noticeable population.

I will not be the first, but may I say "duh"? And also "fucking duh"?

But possibly not using it correctly, which has been an issue at that facility in the past.

Right back to people not being willing to consider others. An obvious result of the way we treat health care in this country.

That part is normal, too. But it shouldn't be. It's why hospitals are death boxes.

That's only useful if you have a bunch of applications which force full screen. The solution there is to unfuck those apps, not to goof around with weird screen-splitting ideas. An idea which might be useful and perform the same function, though, would be to give new ways to resize windows. For example, when I resize a window, maybe I could merge its border with a neighboring window by dragging and hovering. Then they'd have a shared border (reflected by drawing them appropriately) and moving the shared border would resize both windows, dragging one window would move the other, etc.

Realistically, that's going to have to come in the video driver, and some of them already do this. It would be nice to have OS-level support for controlling it, however.