No, see, how it would work without timezones is:

• Everyone would use UTC and a 24-hour clock rather than AM/PM.
• If that means you eat breakfast at 1400 hours and go to bed around 400 hours and that the sun is directly overhead at 1700 hours (or something more random like 1737), fine. (Better than fine, actually!)
• Every area keeps track of what time of day daily events (like meals, when school starts or lets out, etc) happen. Though I think generally rounding to the nearest whole hour or, maybe in some cases, half hour makes the most sense. (And it’s not even like everyone in the same area keeps the same schedule as it is now.)
• You still call the period before when the sun is directly overhead “morning” and the period after “afternoon” and similarly with “evening”, “night”, “dawn”, “noon”, “midnight” etc.
• One caveat is that with this approach, the day-of-the-month change (when we switch from the 29th of the month to the 30th, for instance) happens at different times of the day (like, in the above example it would be close to 1900 hours) for different people. Oh well. People will get used to it. But I think it still makes the most sense to decide that the days of the week (“Monday”, “Tuesday”, etc) last from whatever time “midnight” is locally to the following midnight, again probably rounding to the nearest whole hour. (Now, you might be thinking "yeah, but that’s just timezones again. But consider those timezones. The way you’d figure out what day of the week it was would involve taking the longitude and rounding. Much simpler than having to keep a whole-ass database of all the data about all the different timezones. And it would only come into play when having to decide when the day of the week changes over.)
• Though, one more caveat. If you do that, then there has to be a longitudinal line where it’s always a different day of the week on one side than it is just on the other side. But that’s already the case today, so not really a drawback relative to what we have today.

The creator of DST gets the first slap. Then the timezones asshole.

I’m planning to do a presentation at work on how to deal with dates/times/timezones/conversion/etc in the next few weeks some time. I figure it would be a good topic to cover. I’m going to start my talk by saying “first, imagine there is no such thing as timezones or DST.” And then build on that.

How is this getting upvotes?

If anyone’s fooled, the video is edited from the original. In the original, the old man yells the word “mom”.

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Someone needs to teach me this trick of buying pizza with the pizza’s own money.

“Dominoes hates this one weird trick.”

Where’s the love for SatansMagottyCumFart?

Stop giving Republicans ideas.

Minetest is an excellent candidate for this use case, I’d say. I play Minetest on a Raspberry Pi 4 connected to a Minetest server hosted on a different Raspberry Pi 4 (both running Arch Linux Arm) over Wifi regularly and don’t find latency or lag or anything to be a significant issue.

The world I’ve been playing in that particular way is on the game VoxelLibre (Formerly Mineclone 2). It’s intended to mirror Minecraft’s functionality as closely as possible. It’s not 100% implemented, but a lot of it is implemented, and it’s very playable. The default Minetest Game is great too. It lacks mobs, but mobs can be added with mods like the various Mobs Redo API plugins. (And it’s easy to have mobs but not enemy mobs that can kill the players if that’s the vibe you’re going for.)

For a second there I was worried there was something I hadn’t heard about Robert Downey Jr.

Shouldn’t his answer be “Yes. I signed an NDA.”?

That little detail of the backwards exit sign (just because it’s viewed from “the back”) is the absolute cherry on the top of this photo.

I have 21 tabs open right now, including this one. That’s on my personal machine. Don’t ask how many I have open on my work machine that I haven’t rebooted in a few weeks.

And everything freezes for like 3 seconds while it churns through that process. Lol.

What I’ve used for this purpose is one of these. And I can attest that 60C° is nowhere near high enough to set that kind of thing for purposes of getting a Google Pixel 3a off safely.

But I bet ThetaDev is right that a flat plate heater can work just as well when set to lower temperatures because they heat the whole screen at one time.

Doesn’t that require a much higher temperature than most beds would be able to safely achieve.

I had to take the screen off of a Pixel not terribly long ago to replace the battery. I used a heat gun and I remember it requiring a temperature of like… 240C° or some such? And when I’m printing PLA, my printer bed only gets to 60C°. (Not saying it couldn’t go higher, but 240C° seems way higher than 60C°.)

Jordan Peterson. Not even once.

And they say America has no culture.

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A small triangle of tape, or just tape adhesive?

I’d definitely be more inclined to think tape could be more of a concern than jist the adhesive. Probably if it were me, I’d just try to be more thorough about removing all the tape from the spool (and not worry about small amounts of residual adhesive.)

Also, a description and/or picture of the filament and tape you’re talking about could help.

Would it really cause problems if it did? I’m thinking if it got into the hotend (especially at the small amounts we’re talking about), it would probably just melt into the molten filament and not really cause any issues.

There are “filament filters” that are for keeping foreign materials from getting into the hotend, but they’re more for particulate things that won’t melt and might clog the nozzle. Tape residue (again, at such small quanties) surely would just flow through with the molten filament and be unnoticeable in the final prints.