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If you ever worked shifts and transitioned to a 9 to 5 job, how difficult was the change?

I’m a nurse working shifts and sometimes 5 days without a pause and I still don’t know if I’m gonna take one of the 2 9 to 5 jobs my hospital system has offered. I’d earn less money, but I’m already 45 years old and I don’t know if I should call it quits and settle for a regular job 5 days a week and free weekends...

catloaf ,

Bruh how many different accounts do you have?

catloaf ,

Exactly how pure are you trying to get? You can buy 99.5% pretty easily.

catloaf ,

Oh, I missed that it was for 3d printing.

Maybe an actual chemist will chime in, but I couldn't find any sources about purifying or recycling IPA, at least none that you could do at home. At a guess, maybe a reverse osmosis system without the finest membrane? Like you said, the water and IPA molecules should be smaller than the dyes and resins.

Maybe also consider washing with the dirty IPA, and just giving a rinse at the end with the clean IPA in order to conserve. Ultimately it sounds like everything I've found is material you're already familiar with, unfortunately.

catloaf ,

Same anywhere that reporting an injury means lost pay.

catloaf ,

All living spaces, even for remote workers, unless you want to live out in the sticks.

And there's a dreadful lack of public transportation.

catloaf ,

Rubber is just stretchy plastic. It has all the same problems.

Regarding sleep quality, why did humans evolve to require full darkness?

I know evolution is governed by chance and it is random but does it make sense to "ruin" sleep if there's light? I mean normally, outside, you never have pure darkness, there are the moon and stars even at night. In certain zones of the Earth we also have long periods of no sunshine and long periods of only sunshine....

catloaf ,

The experience of people working the night shift, who use blackout curtains to sleep during the day, would disagree.

But that's for a relatively highly regimented sleep cycle. If you slept and worked completely at your leisure, you might end up with one shorter sleep period at night, and one even shorter nap during the day. And without any day-night cycle at all, some people naturally adopt cycles of varying lengths.

catloaf ,

And the universe's expansion is accelerating, so even if you have the most sensitive receiver that can pick up very low frequencies, at some point the waves will be stretched so thin that they'll be essentially nothing. Of course they won't be zero, but where you draw the line for "essentially zero" is up to you.

Private Equity Firm Bought My Employer

It was majority employee-owned before the acquisition but is now majority owned by private equity firm. The main change I'm noticing is that everyone is being pressured to work uncompensated overtime (we're all on salary here) and requests for training/professional development have been all but eliminated. They also initially...

catloaf ,

Same happened at my company. I had seen the writing on the wall, so I bounced right before it happened.

catloaf ,

Before I answer any of these questions, are you autistic or otherwise neurodivergent in any way?

catloaf ,

It denies everyone the article, it's not searchable, and it's inaccessible for people using things like screen readers. People who screenshot text deserve a special place in hell.

catloaf ,

There will always be more work to be done. You can work until your dying day and there will still be more. Make your life worth living.

catloaf ,

Gravity is "emitted" by an object with mass. So to use what might be a better example, if a massive object popped into existence at a particular place, it would start "emitting" gravity waves from that time. Another object one light-minute away would start feeling its gravity about a minute after it appeared.

Jeff Bezos revealed his secret to Amazon’s success 25 years ago: ‘I asked everyone around here to wake up terrified every morning, their sheets drenched in sweat’ ( www.cnbc.com )

Back in the 90s, Jeff Bezos went on record as hoping his employees would wake up on the wrong side of the bed—for the greater good, or for the customer at the very least....

catloaf ,

Do you think we could put him and Elon Musk and all the other billionaire assholes on the B ark and send them to Mars?

catloaf ,

Such as how much light is reflected, whether any windows have UV coating, how much exposure you get, and how susceptible you are to burning.

But it's possible.

catloaf ,

Or Office 365. Yeah, I know people hate SaaS, but businesses love it. Licensing is flexible and scales up and down as you need it. And you get major updates as long as you have a license, unlike when you buy 2021 Pro Plus or whatever, where you'll always be on 2021.

catloaf ,

Libreoffice it is!

catloaf ,

You got pretty good answers last time you asked this. Were they insufficient? I don't see that you responded to any of those answers: https://linux.community/post/837122

catloaf ,

Sociology is not exclusive to humans. Animals are often studied to provide a simpler view of social interactions, and parallels can be drawn to humans.

It's a lot easier to get a study approved with animals than with humans.

Also, yeah, humans are animals too, but I'm not writing out "non-human animals" every time.

catloaf ,

To put it in English, each blob is an atom, the thing as a whole is a crystal lattice of praseodymium orthoscandate (PrScO3).

In the article, figure 1d and 1e annotate the image to tell you exactly which part is which. The bright pairs are Pr-Pr, the single bright blobs with wings are O-Sc-O, and the dimmer blobs standing alone are O.

By my count that means each repeating section has two Pr, one Sc, and four O, which doesn't add up to me, given the chemical formula PrScO3. But maybe that's because they're arranged in three dimensions and we're only looking at two. I haven't read the full article.

catloaf ,

Have you done a site survey? How big is the place, and what are the walls made of? If it's easy to cover, you might just get a cheapo Netgear, and set it and forget it.

I'd also look at mesh equipment (but NOT just repeaters). They're pretty good these days.

I hear Unifi equipment being recommended a lot less these days. And I imagine that you want something that's not going to take management and supervision, preferring something that will Just Work, especially if you're not nearby to fix it when it breaks.

Do we have any estimates as to how long it takes for a species of bacteria to go technically extinct entirely via genetic drift?

So, let’s say there’s a species of bacteria that is known to dwell in Greek yogurt. How long would it take before that species of yogurt-dweller only has modern descendants different enough to qualify as one or more new species?

catloaf , (edited )

Speciation is really a judgment call. We don't really have objective criteria that says "99% or more genetic similarity is the same species".

But that assumes that there is evolution happening in the first place. Plenty of organisms are quite happily living in the same form as they did hundreds of millions of years ago. The nautilus, for example, evolved about 500 mya, and remains largely unchanged today (though many of its siblings are extinct, and the nautilus itself is endangered). For simpler organisms, you can probably find examples much older.

Edit: forgot to answer your question directly. It could be "never".

catloaf ,

Yes, natural selection isn't really survival of the fittest, it's survival of the good enough.

(Also I assume you meant descendant; decedent is someone who is deceased.)

catloaf ,

Dolt.

catloaf ,

Can we stop calling every behavior we don't like "gaslighting" already please?

catloaf ,

No, a modem modulates and demodulates a signal. Basically, they're a converter. For example, to send your Ethernet traffic over coax. They don't often understand or care about what's in an Ethernet frame.

can you help me formulate an answer to a colleague who is not my boss but feels entitled to tell me how I have to work?

the colleague in question feels that only her way of doing things is the right one and expects me to adapt to her way of thinking and her logic. This is tiring and burdensome because I have to force me to stop doing things automatically and efficiently, but think how she wants it done and do it her way. I work worse when this...

catloaf ,

Please tell me you're not going to be crossposting your weird weekly questions on a new account.

That said, yeah sure talk to her about it, and then your boss if that doesn't work.

Is it possible to receive an electric shock when you *stop* touching something?

I seem to remember as a young child being told that it is safe to touch a Van de Graff generator (for the hair demonstration), but that if you let go before it is safe you will get a nasty shock. I know a bit more about electricity now, and I'm a little skeptical now. Is it possible to get a shock from letting go of something?

catloaf ,

The generator is generating a difference. Even if you have the same potential when you're holding it, as soon as you let go, that ends.

catloaf ,

Enough for a change in potential to cause arcing, as we can see. I'm sure you could find relevant experimental studies, or even conduct them on yourself with a proper transformer and voltmeter.

catloaf ,

You can pass through integrated graphics. I'm doing it right now for Jellyfin.

catloaf ,

They report you to the cops for passing bad checks, which is criminal fraud.

catloaf ,

What is going on that this is necessary? I’ve never been expected to be reachable outside my working hours.

I’ve been on call, but those are scheduled, and I got paid if anything happened. I can only think of a very few unscheduled calls, including one where I had to call in and didn’t even have to unmute, but you bet your ass I still counted that time on my timecard and got paid for it.

catloaf ,

You’re going to need to be more specific about your use case, because if you say “enterprise grade” I’m going to say “poweredge”, and those are not at all small.

catloaf ,

Maybe “industrial PC” is the category you should be looking at.

This is probably a dumb question, but if we eliminate the hydrophobia caused by rabies, would it increase the survival rate of active rabies?

I’ve been learning some about rabies and learned about rabies causing hydrophobia. This is just a theory, I’m not saying I know anything about this topic to be knowledgeable, but if we could get someone with rabies to not fear water, could they survive?

catloaf ,

Unlikely. Rabies kills by infecting brain cells. This means they’re converted into virus factories instead of doing brain things. That also causes swelling as an immune response, which further damages the brain. Both of these result in coma and death. Eliminating hydrophobia and increasing water consumption would not really help treat an infection (at least any more than treating any infection, which is to say, not very much on its own).

catloaf ,

It’s a space jellyfish!

No, really, that’s the name for that phenomenon: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_jellyfish

catloaf ,

Yup. Raindrops originate from water vapor collecting around a particle in the air. When the rain falls, it pulls those air pollutants to the ground, where they either enter the ground or run down to rivers, lakes, or the ocean.

catloaf ,

It doesn’t. If anything, adding something as reactive as chlorine to pollution would only make it worse.

catloaf ,

*harkens, but perhaps you wanted “yearns”, because harken means listen.

catloaf ,

Subway already bakes cookies. Starbucks bakes a bunch of stuff. I’m sure McDonald’s would be happy to put a single tiny oven to bake their apple pies in each location.

catloaf ,

The random ones interspersed throughout the article are to get you to read other stories for more ad views. If the links in the text point back to the same site, they’re probably automated, for the same reason. The article text itself doesn’t seem generated.

catloaf ,

Don’t feel bad about using government benefits. I don’t mind paying taxes because they go to fund those programs. Please, use my tax money!

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