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There's a really simple solution that people will hate: server goes offline at night.

I've seen this a few times, and it's pretty annoying as a user, but ultimately it's not that bad usually. If you are ordering something at 3am, the physical shipment still occurs during daylight hours. Many banking operations are not actually instantaneous, they settle in a batch job overnight.

And this doesn't have to be binary. Providing a read-only interface provides lots of value while having a reduced attack surface.

There is path loss to consider. I would imagine that large scale electricity generation is more efficient than small scale ICE engines, and EVs have regeneration, so probably the EVs still come out ahead.

And the emissions can be more easily controlled/scrubbed at the large scale.

There is evidence that CBT is detrimental for several psychologies, including BPD, C-PTSD, OCD, autism spectrum.

It's my own experience that CBT was only helpful at recognizing distorted thinking, which didn't resolve any of my other problems, and worse, was effectively gaslighting me by claiming that if I feel bad, I must be distorting my thinking somehow. It effectively has the therapist invalidating the patient, which is often the patient's core injury (parental invalidation).

CBT also reinforces certain maladaptive coping strategies, like intellectualization, rationalization, emotional numbing, etc. Repressing your feelings and intellectualizing everything is mistaken for progress under CBT.

Lastly, I think that CBT being first-line and so widely available means that most people seeking therapy will probably get CBT first. The practitioners of CBT won't always be able to recognize that CBT is limited for this patient and refer to a specialist in another modality, like schema therapy, ACT, DBT, etc. So many people will go to therapy multiple times, get very little benefit, and come to believe that their situation is hopeless or that therapy doesn't work, when the problem is that they've been offered the wrong treatment.

I feel it's more complicated than that. I wouldn't be surprise if Beijing does not actually know whether this was a lab leak or not.

The local government might know. They would have started a cover up reflexively.

But in either case, it could be that neither the local government nor central government wants to know or to find out. Ultimately, destroying the evidence and failing to cooperate with foreign investigators has cost China very little or nothing, even.

In short, I feel China should be admonished for covering things up, but not that the cover up proves the lab leak.

That's an interesting idea, but it could be argued that this assumes that all of the world's timezones will agree to observe the same set of leap seconds as they currently do.

Otherwise, it shifts timezones from being 15 minute granularity to 1 second granularity. Not technically impossible, but will definitely make cross-boarder meetings interesting once the discrepancy becomes large enough. I feel the 15 and 30 minute timezones are already bad enough.

An interesting project, that buries the lede to another interesting thing: abolishment of the leap second.

> In November 2022, the General Conference on Weights and Measures decided to abolish the leap second by 2035

I think the story goes that when the leap second was standardized in 1987, the wold was much less connected, there were fewer systems, and hence it was practical to keep astronomical time and civil time coordinated.

But this causes so many bugs and difficulties in practice that companies like Google don't perform leap seconds, they do leap second "smearing". But even smearing has issues, since there are multiple algorithms.

Even worse, the Earth sometimes accelerates, and there was a prospect that we might need a negative leap second, which has never been put into practice.

And as daylight savings makes everyone painfully aware, the public can tolerate even hours of misalignment between civil time and astronomical time, and even an hour adjustment.

So if we decide that we can tolerate a whole minute of skew, we need no leap minute for 50-100 years. And if we could tolerate an hour of skew, we'd not need a leap hour for millennia.

Of course, this is all can-kicking. If a leap second is difficult in practice, a leap hour in UTC (not a flip between a daylight savings and standard time zone) would be even more difficult. I feel the eventual solution would be to very slightly adjust the civil second to be shorter, so that the error begins to reduce.

Can you give an example "their side" that explains the outcomes the parent comment expressed?

What you are describing is emotional neglect and a failure of parenting.

You were meant to learn to recognize and name that energy and emotionality, and then learn to sit with it and develop adaptive coping strategies as needed, not maladaptive ones like negative self-concept and emotional repression.

It can take quite a long time to realize all of this and unlearn the patterns, and unfortunately, first line therapies like CBT are possibly detrimental for these issues.

Edit: also, you need not be fair to your parents. They are meant to adapt to parenting you, even if you were legitimately overactive or overemotional. Instead, you adapted to them.

Does anyone know how UV indexes reported by weather apps (including forecasts) work?

I've found that some sources report lower UV index on cloudy days, whereas some seem to indicate the same index as a sunny day.

It's not clear if these sources all have a different model for UV, some being more sophisticated or conservative, and whether any of them are backed up by a UV meter.

Would an eye patch work? Maybe a flesh colored one?

And the charging port will be on the bottom.