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When people say it's bad to turn off the computer via the power button, they're not talking about tapping the button and letting windows go through the shutdown process. Instead, they mean the act of pressing and holding the power button to turn the PC off, which cuts the power to the computer and turns it off suddenly.

If the power to the computer is cut suddenly, files may become corrupted. If your computer was in the middle of writing information to the hard drive, this may cause that information to not be stored correctly, meaning some programs may not work properly in the future.

Also, many older computers didn't tell windows to shut down when the power button was pressed. On an older computer, pressing the power button just immediately shuts the power off.

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>a very small umbrella against the soft rain of post-it notes.

yes

Humans love the feeling of superiority and we are far superior to any other creature on this planet. Gotta love that rush

Edit: The feeling of superiority isn’t innately malicious. I hope you all realize that wasn’t my intention.

Usually consultants are brought in to be a hired gun to solve a singular or tightly defined range of problems on things that they are Subject Matter Experts regarding. That subject might be software, engineering, HR related, any number of areas.

A consulting company or professional services firm basically 'rents out' their employees to other companies that may need help with a specific task (1) or can't do a task on their own for legal/business reasons (2).

1. Sometimes, a company just needs a specialist to help them achieve their goals with a specific project. Maybe they need the services of an appraiser, or an actuary, or a PR person, or a software developer, or a lawyer with a specific specialty, for a limited time. So, this company asks a consulting firm to 'borrow' someone with the specific skills they need.

2. Consulting agents are often hired by companies to do audits. A company can't really audit itself effectively, since everyone in the company has a vested interest in making themselves look good. Bringing in an auditor from outside allows a more neutral look into how a company is running. This is especially important if the results of the audit will be shared outside the company that requested the audit to be performed.

Because they are innocent, something us humans never are.

They also can’t tell us what they’re thinking, so it’s nice for us to think for them “they must really love me” when in reality, they know you give them food

Thank you!

Its called a torque converter. Simplest way to explain it is that its an automatic clutch that engages/disengages the transmission. At low rpms with the brakes pressed it slips so the transmission sits idle. They are designed to require certain amounts of torgue to engage the transmission to make it work.

Yeah the GUI isn't exactly current-millennia, but it's unbeaten on features. There are even basic colour correction tools inbuilt, you can copy chunks of an image straight into photoshop or whatever just by selecting an area and hitting ctrl-C (saving having to drag the whole image in there), and as long as the thumbnail previews have generated it can skip through fairly large images as fast as you can spin your mouse wheel (and wrap back around if you've enabled the setting). Irfan plus Pureref for transparent imageboard overlays is an indispensable combo to any sort of visual artist / 3D modeller.

Ritalin user here, but since it's often used for the same purpose, I figured I could add my 2c.

When I don't take my meds, my brain is like a car with play on the steering rack. I try to control the car but the more play there is, the more it can jerk around and veer off from where I want to go. Compensating for it results in overreactions, irritation and exhaustion. Sometimes I feel like I just want to lie down and curl up in a fetal position wherever I am.

Some things worsen that feeling. Interruptions, task switching, social media, coffee, dealing with people. When I take my meds, it's like it reduces the fatigue and tightens up the steering and I can relax a bit and focus on driving as opposed to what frustrates me.

I get by on pretty low doses, and only take it when required, which is mostly work days.

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A lot of the trading is done electronically or is computer aided.

The currency markets operate like the stock market - foreign exchange markets (and currency futures are traded via computer.

Most of modern harddrives have an autopark function. Old drives had to be parked before shutting them off. It's like with a record player: you have to put the pickup arm beside in advance to remove the record iteself. A harddrive has pickup arms, too, and they have to put away before the disk stops. The reason for this: The pickup arms are flying above the disk with the wind the rotating disk produces. When the disk stops, the pickup arm will land on the surface and scatch it and destroy the data written on the disk.

Autopark is a little energy buffer that rips the pickup arms into the innermost part of the disk where they can land without damaging active data.

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To expand (pardon the pun), muscles work by contracting when electricity goes to them. Your nerves send electrical signals, and the muscles pull. If you constantly pass electricity through them, they'll stay pulled, and you won't be able to relax them to be able to breathe.

The heart is a muscle. Chambers of it expand and fill with blood, then contract (thanks to a wee electrical timer) and fire blood around the body. Rogue electric signals can mess with this timing and can make it stop.

It powers up your lock-on a bit, and gives you a place to stand; a very small umbrella against the soft rain of post-it notes.

It's not a fix, it just makes it a little easier.

You still need a lot of discipline, otherwise you'll just spend your first hour at work hitting the character limit on reddit posts.

I'm pretty sensitive to the stuff, and do fine on a very low dose - I never noticed any loss of efficacy or need to increase the dosage. Other people who take a fair bit more, I imagine there's a higher risk of dosage-creep.

>And why separate gay and lesbian when both are just as homosexual

Serious question or am I missing obvious satire?

Looks like someone needs a safespace without dictionaries.

All of the components in your PC are tested against static electricity.

If your drive is plugged in, it's grounded and any stray charge will pass harmlessly through the case and never touch any of the electronics inside.

If it is not plugged in, there is no path to ground and the charge will not pass through the drive at all.

If you pulled off the case, you are already doing something dumb and likely to damage your drive regardless of any static charge. Even so, the amount of charge you'll get from a mild static discharge is unlikely to damage any components. At most you might corrupt a couple of bits of data, but honestly even that is unlikely.

Right. Well there will be very small amounts of blood in there, and you can't boil it out.

Sounds like you need to go dairy free.

I'm talking about hard drives not thumb drives. Those that require sata cables and clip into your motherboard.

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