I take it that frog hadn’t been de-boned.

for the love of everything don’t look at your keyboard

Signed,
Xennial who was in IT for 25 years and never learned to touch type

“Sorry doc, was thinking about work. Did you say something about line go up?”

That sounds like mental illness.

ETA: Replace “work” in that quote with practically any other activity/subject, whether outlandish or banal.

I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about baking cakes.

I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about traffic patterns.

I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about cannibalism.

I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about shitposting.

Obsessed with something? At best, you’re “quirky” (depending on what you’re obsessed with). Unless it’s money. Being obsessed with that is somehow virtuous.

Huh, it seems Kai and Jukka have been busy. Nightwish’s new album comes out next month.

I turned amber alerts off. The only time alerts have come through is tornado or flash flood warnings.

I think it’s more to do with what drugs/classes will be effective/ineffective/dangerous based on known genetic markers. It’s not necessarily hard info, but it can inform the direction of treatment. I’m all for skipping as much of the pharma-go-round as possible.

No results yet, it just arrived yesterday lol. Fingers crossed it has some good info. Feels like I’ve been in a holding pattern for months.

I took a spin on the pharma-go-round about 20 years ago. Went through just about every stimulant on the market over the course of two years. The only one to have a noticeable effect was Adderall… but the effect was panic attacks for routine issues at work. I was done at that point. I rawdogged reality for 25 years, how bad could it get?

Narrator: yes.

I went through some shit this past winter that basically required me to seek intensive mental health treatment. After one psychiatrist (who declared after 20 minutes of talking to me post-trauma that I didn’t have ADHD) and one useless APN that worked for the program I was in, I found a psychiatrist that listened… but he wanted to slow-walk the ADHD treatment due to severe depression and anxiety while the SSRI did its thing. After a few months of relative stability he wanted to try Lamictal… which promptly gave me hives. I said fuggit and asked for the DNA analysis. I’m not fond of getting put into yet another big database but shots in the dark take too long.

…huh. I’d never really thought about it before, but for whatever reason I was surprised to learn that this had only been a thing within my lifetime.

You know what this feature is really useful for? Seeing who upvotes spammers to preemptively block them. Admittedly, I haven’t had much of a use for that aspect since kbin.social died, but it was neat while it lasted.

Terminator is part of a double feature. We need to sit through Multiplicity first.

Also a long time fan - seen his act live 4 times lol. I can relate to missing some things - it took me 30 years to get the joke in “She Never Told Me She Was A Mime” - and it’s in the title. There are some absolute gems hiding in the earlier albums. I’ll Be Mellow When I’m Dead, One More Minute, and Stuck In A Closet With Vanna White are all standouts for me.

One that really came out of left field for me was Skipper Dan. It felt like I was simultaneously being called out and heard. Subtle genius.

Just watch it.

Ok, you convinced me.

6 minutes later

Depression has now been augmented with Appreciation For Al.

They did (in the US). Bain Capital bled them dry and then sold off the scraps. There have been a few attempts to revive the brand but to my knowledge nothing has stuck yet.

You are correct, generator is the way to go, with the UPS covering for the transfer time. AC goes on the generator.

Unless you don’t spec the generator to be able to handle the AC and have to do a song and dance with rolling units for every power outage. Then the AC sits idle while the undersized rolling unit just barely keeps the room below 95 degrees.

Or if you build out an office in an area famous for hurricanes and instead of a generator you buy a shitton of (physically compatible but logically incompatible) battery banks, reinforce the floor to hold the weight, then complain about not being able to have an accurate remaining runtime during an outage and bitch about people having to be sent home because it’s now 90 degrees and humid inside the cube farm and why isn’t the AC on battery we have so much battery.

And then the same people walk away with millions when the company gets bought out and they move on to their next victim to do it all over again.

I’m not the right person to ask for that kind of differentiation… it’s been a long time since I’ve had to do much of anything with component-level circuitry, and it’s use it or lose it as they say.

My experience is mostly at the data center level. And I got real tired of having to explain to uninformed C-suite micromanagers and their sycophants why it’s a Bad Idea to run the industrial AC off of the UPS, for instance. Or they’re nitpicking because a UPS is 40kVA and saying 96% capacity while “only” supplying 37kW and completely ignoring the fact that we REALLY should not be running it that close to max, as stated many times, instead choosing to “investigate” why the math doesn’t add up (hint: it’s because the power factor was less than 1).

(And if my math doesn’t add up, I’m blaming it on exhaustion and being out of practice. Roast as needed.)

I really enjoyed this video. It went into a few things I was fuzzy about despite having to ELI5 power factor to corpo suits on a semi-regular basis for about a decade.

Nebula link for those that partake.

This is exactly it. But it doesn’t fit on a hat or bumper sticker so the details get ignored.