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I hope their plan isn't to 3D print safety critical parts like the rotor blades, that would certainly end poorly in the way you mention.
I would say the opposite: No. While it might be _legal_ for them to kick me off, I don't think a private company should decide what I say on their platform. For example, should my ISP block websites of competing ISPs if they so choose? What about posting on Facebook that Comcast sucks, should I get my internet disabled for that?
I think it's very likely that git is solving a problem hard enough that it can't be simplified much further. If it can be simplified, I would expect to hear a growing minority of users pushing for people to switch to the next system.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_version-control_...
When I have an issue that's blocking me, if I don't get a response from someone within 10 minutes I'll start reaching out to other people. If I know the first person is already looking into the issue I won't waste other peoples' time.
Have you considered buying two dish washers? I don't think this needs an invention.
I could be wrong though, very interested to see how this will turn out.
[0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B085BNBZDR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/respirators/testing/results/...
In the past I tried various different times ranging from 6:30pm to 9:00pm. Even taking it at a suboptimal time is better than not taking it at all.
There are also a few other things I do to keep my sleep schedule on track:
1) I heavily use bluelight filters on my computers and phone in the evening. Redshift/gammastep on Linux gives me full control.
2) I have low blue light lights which I use in the evening [0], then I switch to fully red bulbs in the hour before going to sleep.
3) I have a super bright daylight LED lamp which turns on automatically at 8:30am, a few minutes before I wake up. This is my solution to automate light therapy [1].
All of this combined lets me function mostly like a normal person. Hope some of that helps.
1) The proper dose of melatonin for me is somewhere between 150ug and 400ug, but most melatonin sold comes in 3mg to 10mg pills. That's around 10x too much, taking that dosage of melatonin destroys my sleep schedule. It takes a lot of hunting to find the right dose. I tried once to crush up some melatonin and make my own pills with a precise dosage, but that ended up being a bit of a disaster.
2) Melatonin is regulated as a supplement in the US. Basically that means there is no regulation and even the active ingredient can vary wildly in a pill. When I visited a sleep specialist they mentioned to always buy the same brand, because "Each supplier has a different incorrect dosage, your best bet for dialing in on the correct dosage and timing is hoping that they're at least consistent among themselves".
But I do agree with you, regulating it as a prescription medication would do more harm than good for most people. I wish there were some middle ground that would both solve the above issues but still keep it easily available for people who rely on it.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder
gammastep[1] is a fork under active development and has support for wayland. I'm using it in sway right now.
[0]: https://github.com/jonls/redshift/graphs/code-frequency
Maybe it's just because of the pandemic, but if I look at the last 6 months of my life right now I don't really remember too much. Mainly sitting at my desk and programming. Then one time my parents came to visit. Comparing that to the average month of college, of course I would perceive that time as longer as longer than my recent 6 months.
What actually happened is people in rich countries have plenty of food/water/shelter to continue reproducing... if they wanted to. The thing the models didn't account for is that people would choose to have fewer children based on standard of living.
To me it seems this had nothing to do with the standard limits of nature, but based on individuals' choices. Given those models' assumptions, I think they were valid. I would have made the same assumption based on past data as well.
The only annoying situation I've encountered is having to manually install a non-free network driver, but once that's done I haven't found a single thing I miss from Ubuntu.
At most companies IT handles logins and credentials for all internal systems. Things like email, vpn, internal sites, and chat. Usually this is all centralized, and when someone leaves IT revokes that user's access to everything.
I'm guessing what happened here was that the engineer got access to AWS manually. Maybe IT wasn't responsible for handling AWS credentials and it was expected that the person who gave him access would revoke it too. Alternatively, the person who gave him might not have gone through the company's regular policies.
Either way, the process in place for handling credentials here clearly didn't work and they got burned in it. Would love to see the internal postmortem here.
I zoomed in to various areas in the Midwest US, and I didn't see a single use of the circular devices, only square fields which are likely using the linear irrigation device you described.
However, in areas where water is more expensive such as Colorado, I see the opposite: Only circular irrigation devices.
I think what's happening here is that circular devices shoot the water down which causes all of it to land on the crops. The farms in my area generally use a firehose style sprinkler which shoots the water up. This causes a large chunk of water to get lost but it hits the corners of the land. Due to the cheaper water costs in the midwest, this is acceptable.
The farmers here are constrained in space by roads on all sides and by the price of each irrigation machine. Many small circular irrigation machines will be more expensive and harder to maintain than one large one.
The article you linked shows how given a square area, the packing efficiency of a non-square packing order increases past 80% only after you have around 30 circles and even then the increase is negligible. It would take well over 100 circles to hit the 10% additional area usage you're talking about.
For farmers who want to make use of those corners of their field just use an irrigation system which can handle corners and make 100% use of their land.