so I actually had a friend years back who worked at a junkyard.

I was hanging out there with him one time (definitely probably not smoking anything...) and he was still clearing things out.

so he grabs a propane tank and brings it up to where he has an oxyacetylin torch, lights the torch and starts cutting into the tank.

I about shit my pants and took off at least 50 ft back behind a car asking if he was trying to die today.

apparently I was the one that didn't know what I was talking about though because of a second later he cut through and it just popped a little flame.

he just let that flame burn until it was out and that's how he knew the tank was empty.

apparently these things are very hard to blow up.

if only Thetis had done what I do with Oreos and stuck a fork in to fully submerge!

I think this guy works for Kimmel making fun of the protesters at events like this?

I love some of the dangerous upgrade commands too, my favorite:

hdparm --fwdownload-mode7 firmwarefile.bin --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing --please-destroy-my-drive /dev/sdb

yeah I enjoyed it too, a couple of different friends mentioned it being funny I don't know anyone that was upset about it.

probably just another article about some random vocal minority complaining

I definitely spent a frustrated 45 minutes trying to figure out why curl wasn't working when it was supposed to be supported in PowerShell.

then I hit tab a couple of times and noticed curl.exe was an option, that works exactly the same as I had expected with original syntax.

they do this to a lot of things though a lot of common commands end up being an alias to a powershell command with a specific option set that doesn't always line up

oh great I'm sure the training for this will not result in a bunch of things getting "reviewed" and no one being responsible for mistakes at all...

1070ti gang here. no problems playing anything on medium/high.

I don't do 4k though but VR is fine.

because salaries would have to go up and we all know that won't happen lol

it's funny because this reads like something exaggerating for effect, but anyone in this kind of position knows that it's not.

at my old company I had a co-worker who was moderately competent if he tried but didn't seem to do so all that often.

My boss had been dangling a promotion for me for a few months, and I'd put in some extra work during that time related to my co-worker who seemed to be unable to manage a development team for one of his projects.

promotion time came and even though my manager was very aware that I was doing a significant portion of a co-worker's job, they offered the co-worker the promotion in order to keep them around since they had another job offer.

I think I was gone in about 2 months? didn't take too long to line something better up.