Actually I had some good luck with hiring people that have the minimum marks and huge amount of outside adjacent skills. One example is someone who was running a manufacturing operation on second shift and completing an engineering degree at the same time.
Isn't this similarly hard on your joints to running, though, which is part of the problem with running when you're overweight? Or am I overestimating the joint impact?
Think of it as similar to hi compression automobile engine (race car) being more efficient vs a low compression engine (tractor engine). Not exactly correct but a way of starting to think about it
How are you taking your temperature? Infrared sensor on the forehead? Infrared only measures surface temperatures and can give false readings of temperature based on how the body "radiator" system is working.
The fluctuations aren't that bad. Now, I don't trust the infrared sensors myself, because I can't see the "local gradient" of what they're measuring, nor how it changes momentarily (why does it always take a second or two to measure?), and there certainly are areas on the face that vary by whole degree centigrade in temperature.
How do I know? Because I got so annoyed at the IR thermometers that I recently got myself one of those USB-C thermal cameras (UTi721M, specifically). It's like a 256x192 array of IR thermometers, measuring continuously, so you actually see what's going on. Lots of interesting things you can learn that way, for example that cheeks, chin and nose can easily be 1-2℃ cooler than the forehead, or that the neck/throat shows about the same temperature that the forehead, but seems more stable. And, it's much faster to take temp of everyone at home in one go. And then you also can learn a lot about your own environment, too. I highly recommend this to anyone.
That said, I found in-ear IR most reliable, and use it as a baseline for health checkups. You do however need to watch out for insertion - if you put the head in the ear too fast and measure immediately, you can get a result that's a degree or two centigrade above correct, which I imagine is because of momentary friction heating.
Wait in line, and give me back those 8" floppies that you borrowed.
Seriously though: the amount of miniaturization in storage is something I'll never get used to. From punch cards and papertape via cassette to floppies, harddrives (in various incarnations and densities) and now to solid state so compact that you could store all of the data that I've created in my whole life in something about the size of your smallest fingernail. Incredible.
I once got to visit a jewelry manufacturing site where to get in and out you had to go through an MRI to ensure you didn't pick any gold or platinum dust on the tour. There were pallets of gold lying on the floor worth about 200 million. We got a chance to try to pick up a bar of gold about the size of a large loaf of bread and our tour guide said, "if you can pick that up and walk it to the front door, we'll let you have it". Turns out it weighed about 200 lbs and I could not get enough of grip to move it let alone pick it up. Fun visit.
