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#2989219 28-Oct-2022 13:02

Mrs Floyd's laptop has 23 screws to remove/replace the cover (which needs to be done to access the hard disk, RAM slots and battery removal).

Thanks for explaining "plethora".

It means a lot.

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#2989222 28-Oct-2022 13:04

Ridiculous, isn't it? My first laptop, circa 20 years ago, had a couple of spring-loaded thingies at the top of the keyboard and you just pulled them and removed the entire keyboard to get at the internals, which was all documented in the manual. Now there are countless screws and probably no documentation.

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#2990829 2-Nov-2022 07:42

A story on Foxconn and its workers on 9to5mac.com today:

"Foxconn is Apple’s primary iPhone assembler, and its Zhengzhou campus is the company’s largest plant. Foxconn’s iPhone production facility has around 300,000 workers …"

Holy Moly.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#2990993 2-Nov-2022 13:59

eracode:
A story on Foxconn and its workers on 9to5mac.com today:

"Foxconn is Apple’s primary iPhone assembler, and its Zhengzhou campus is the company’s largest plant. Foxconn’s iPhone production facility has around 300,000 workers …"

Yup, and that explains the worker-suicide media scaremongering from a few years ago (for those who missed it, the shock, horror, click-on-this story was that working conditions were so bad that workers were committing suicide). If you take the suicide rate in a city of 300,000 and compare it to the Foxconn plant, the rate at the plant was well below what it'd be in a general population of 300,000.

Much like the roleplaying-games and heavy-metal suicide moral panics of the 1980s, where kids were actually less likely to commit suicide if they were gamers than kids who weren't.

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#2991022 2-Nov-2022 15:15

Bought (Ordered) a Windows 11 Pro Laptop, and just received this email from PBTech "to go with it"!!!!!!!!!!

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#2991111 2-Nov-2022 16:21

eracode:

A story on Foxconn and its workers on 9to5mac.com today:

"Foxconn is Apple’s primary iPhone assembler, and its Zhengzhou campus is the company’s largest plant. Foxconn’s iPhone production facility has around 300,000 workers …"

Holy Moly.

Apparently, Apple shipped over 200 million iPhones in 2020, which is still 2 phones a day, every single day, for every worker in that factory.

Lots of Fermi estimates in there, but it shows it's about the size you'd expect. Big numbers!

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#2991255 2-Nov-2022 23:44

neb: Yup, and that explains the worker-suicide media scaremongering from a few years ago (for those who missed it, the shock, horror, click-on-this story was that working conditions were so bad that workers were committing suicide). If you take the suicide rate in a city of 300,000 and compare it to the Foxconn plant, the rate at the plant was well below what it'd be in a general population of 300,000.

Imo it's a complex question. Foxconn is not a normal town by any stretch. Likewise the rate in the general population is an average over a country higher or lower in many places.

One interesting thing. Foxconn took a multi prevention approach and that appears to have been a massive unprecedented success by your criteria.

This needs a closer look to understand if similar approaches can be generalized to similar sized towns and other environments. If similar prevention efforts really can be used elsewhere with the same result this is something everyone should be looking at very closely to understand the key components.

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#2991392 3-Nov-2022 09:40

msukiwi:

Bought (Ordered) a Windows 11 Pro Laptop, and just received this email from PBTech "to go with it"!!!!!!!!!!

Buy one and they'll suggest a phone to go with it.

Mike

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#2991661 3-Nov-2022 20:12

Photo of the Day: Foxconn workers follow party on 'iPhone Long March'
Foxconn workers 'forge a new journey' as they flee factory's COVID restrictions on foot
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4706156

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#2994409 10-Nov-2022 16:18

Microsoft Entity Framework has a feature where it works out singular and plural forms of words. For example, it will refer to a collection of Person objects as People.

In my current project we have figures that we abbreviate to "NDA". First of all, Microsoft seems to have an aversion to capital letters so the first thing Entity Framework did was convert this to "Nda". It then decided that this was a plural, and that the singular form should be "Ndum". It took me a while to figure out that it apparently thinks it's Latin (e.g. agendum/agenda)!

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#2994433 10-Nov-2022 18:26

Behodar:
In my current project we have figures that we abbreviate to "NDA". First of all, Microsoft seems to have an aversion to capital letters so the first thing Entity Framework did was convert this to "Nda". It then decided that this was a plural, and that the singular form should be "Ndum". It took me a while to figure out that it apparently thinks it's Latin (e.g. agendum/agenda)!

As soon as I saw the "dum" suffix I suspected it'd be pseudo-latinisation. It's the same as people trying to pluralise octopus to octopi when if anything the plural would be octopodes since it comes from Greek, not Latin.

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#2998863 20-Nov-2022 19:07

Finding out that Auckland is in a different country than the rest of NZ. A friend was looking for a tradesperson to do job X and I recommended Nocowboys, there are about two dozen listed just in our suburb. There are exactly three listed for all of Wellington, apparently it doesn't reach far outside of Auckland.

A little later we were talking about Paxsters and I found out that the country of Auckland is the only place that has them, I thought they were used all over NZ.

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#2998866 20-Nov-2022 19:16

England kicking the ball out causing a draw rather than risking a loss. UGH 😣

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#2998869 20-Nov-2022 19:20

neb: Finding out that Auckland is in a different country than the rest of NZ. A friend was looking for a tradesperson to do job X and I recommended Nocowboys, there are about two dozen listed just in our suburb. There are exactly three listed for all of Wellington, apparently it doesn't reach far outside of Auckland.

I just tried a test query in Whakatane and got 17 hits.

neb: A little later we were talking about Paxsters and I found out that the country of Auckland is the only place that has them, I thought they were used all over NZ.

Conversely, I have no idea what a "Paxster" even is.

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#2998957 20-Nov-2022 22:19

We have Paxsters down here on the mainland in Christchurch.

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