> Bill has been the archetype for what a moderator on Stack Exchange should be. His patient, fair and calm demeanor even in the face of criticism is legendary; his diligence and skill in handling the numerous difficult problems that face Stack Overflow users are inspiring.
Effective immediately, I'm going to be making major changes aimed at addressing self-control issues that have repeatedly cropped in this chat room. My focus will be on being a calm and stoic person at all times, never losing control of myself, so that I can always act in a constructive and controlled manner even under the difficult conditions. I will not let anything like this happen again.
It'd be great if they also had an ionizing radiation geiger counter of sorts on a smart watch or smartphone. For those who work in nuclear power plants, Chernobyl, Fukushima, Nevada, etc. :P
> Training one's self to be "deliberately stoic" in order to shunt away emotional reactions can be an effective, non-pharmaceutical defense against anxiety, panic, and phobic disorders.
> In essence, shoving one's emotional reactions aside (be it gently or forcefully) allows the more calmly rational mind to take over control of the reactions until the episode passes, and can also lessen the chances of the amygdala "hijacking" the brain and causing an explosive activation of the "fight or flight" response.
> The UV Index does not exceed 8 in the UK (8 is rare; 7 may occur on exceptional days, mostly in the two weeks around the summer solstice). Indices of 9 and 10 are common in the Mediterranean area.
@qasdfdsaq I wonder what it feels like to be hit by particles so energetic that they cause almost every atom comprising your body to either fission or fusion...
@qasdfdsaq Probably. For about a couple milliseconds. :P That neutrino thing is really amazing when you think about it. I'm 30, and I may have absorbed a dozen or two neutrinos in my life, despite an unimaginably huge number of them passing through me.
The load on my system, even when playing a game, is nowhere near 1200W, but most PSUs are most efficient in the middle range of their utilization, so I didn't want to buy something lower and have it closer to red-lining.
@Bob That's with my 32" IPS LCD HDTV and my computer plugged in to the battery side of the UPS, and some miscellaneous junk (printer, USB hubs) plugged into the surge protection only side (they lose power when the mains die)
@qasdfdsaq Actually, no. I mis-remembered which PSU I have. I searched in my gmail and found the receipt. Here is my actual PSU. Got the wattage right, just a much older model.
BTW Bob, I wish shipping weren't so punishing for you in Australia. It probably costs you over $100 to get a PSU (large, heavy box) delivered even domestically, doesn't it?
The first PSU I bought after I became old enough to have my own money was the Corsair HX1000, back in the late 2000s. Before that, I'd have cheap, bog standard white-box PSUs (probably no PFC, not 80+ Gold, etc.) that parents would buy.
I had... let's see... the original Voodoo 3d accelerator, the GeForce 1, the GeForce 4 Ti (I think), some kind of ATI Radeon knock-off... I used an ATI Radeon X800 for a long time... and in like 2006 I owned an Nvidia "GTS", but I can't remember the 3-digit number.
@qasdfdsaq If power's a problem, just get something like a GeForce GT 720 or Radeon R5 230. Don't expect to game on it, but it'll do the trick for a server.
@qasdfdsaq Sorry. I saw you mention STO earlier and meant to ping you about it, but there was other stuff going on at work and then I had to leave work and pick up two 16 lbs bags of ice to keep our refrigerated items from spoiling (fridge died, new one coming this weekend)
