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  • US House to vote on bill to make daylight saving time permanent

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  • I think the idea of 9-5 being "normal" is a stereotype that doesn't stand up to scrutiny. If it was ever actually "normal", it was in a bygone era. I don't actually have anyone in my social circles who starts a scheduled morning shift after 8:00AM. Most people seem to start morning work shifts between 6:00 and 7:30. My last (manufacturing) employer had regular shifts 07:00-15:30, 15:00-23:30, and 23:00-07:30.

    The only people in my social circles who might work 9-5 are people on flexible schedules, who are already free to ignore the biannual time change.

    That being said, the earliest standard-time sunset in my area is around 4:30PM. Evening twilight lasts until 5:00. No daylight, no twilight for this 9-5 standard time worker.

    With permanent DST, this supposedly "normal" 9-5 shift worker gets sunset at 5:30, and half an hour of twilight after that. They get at least 60 minutes of evening daylight in the darkest of winter in December/January. They get much more than that hour in November, February, and March.

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  • States are allowed to opt out of DST. They are allowed to adopt permanent standard time. They are forbidden from adopting permanent DST.

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  • I don't agree at all. I have a ton of outdoor activities after work that get cut off when winter time doesn't give me any daylight to do them. The heat isn't the problem; the lack of evening daylight is the problem.

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  • Where in your time zone do you live? I bet you're way out on the eastern end of whatever zone you're in, because your complaints don't seem to match mine at all. The November time change is the one that sucks, because it suddenly and unceremoniously steals the only hour of daylight I have for myself, and holds it hostage for four months.

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  • "standard" time is only used about 1/3 of the year. We use DST most of the year. Minimizing disruption, we should just drop that exception.

    With DST, solar noon is pretty close to 12PM on the eastern end of the time zone. With standard time, solar noon lines up closer to 11AM on the eastern edge. Standard time just doesn't make sense.

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  • Landscapers and construction want to start as early in the day as possible, but are restricted by noise ordinances designed to protect the sleep of everyone else. They have to wait until after sunrise, and work in the heat of the day in the summer. Daylight Savings Time pushes the summer heat back an hour, letting them work longer and safer.

    On standard time, summer sunrises can occur as early as 3:30AM on the eastern edge of some time zones. Forcing landscapers and construction to wait four hours after sunrise until a noise ordinance expires is absurd. Standard time is terrible in the summer.

    DST does push the morning back, with morning twilight as late as 9am at high latitudes on the western edge of a time zone. But the solution to that is to redraw the time zone boundaries, not force the entire country to continue doing something as stupid as the time change. These places can adopt DST of the next zone to the west, which is standard time for their current zone.

    DST in winter takes an hour of morning daylight from the boss, and gives it back to us as an hour of daylight after work, where we can put it to use. Kids can enjoy year-round outdoor extracurriculars, instead of being limited from November to March due to entirely arbitrary clock settings.

  • Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight

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  • I suspect you're right. I'm in that process myself, but with balloons.

  • Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight

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  • Agreed, but the article did expressly point out that she was required to have an instructor or a safety pilot, and that she was not actually qualified to solo in that aircraft.

    I have a private license. I am certainly not "more than capable of flying solo" in a Cessna 150: I am rated to fly hot air balloons. I am reasonably confident I could get a Cessna 150 on the ground safely, but that confidence alone does not make me "more than capable" of doing so.

    And it’s probably the type she got her license in.

    Based on the claims in the article, that is very unlikely. If she got her private license in it, she would be qualified to solo. But they explicitly claimed that she was not. It is likely that she is qualified in some other single-engine fixed-wing aircraft and just needs to be checked out in the 150. But the article does not specify, and we should not assume.

    If Argentina's licensing structure mirrors the US, she might have a private license in "weight-shift-control aircraft". She might be qualified to hang glide with a passenger, but that license would not make her "more than capable" of soloing in a 150.

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  • Having a private license does not imply she was qualified to solo the aircraft she was in. If her private license was for hot air balloons or gliders, for example, her private license alone would not qualify her to solo a powered aircraft. Assuming Argentina's process is comparable to the US process, she would need a solo endorsement from a qualified instructor in her logbook before she would be considered capable of flying solo.

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  • That's kinda strange. The process I'm familiar with, you get your student pilot license during training, then you get an endorsement from your instructor to solo. After you've had sufficient instructional and solo time, you take your practical test / check ride, and get your private license.

    Maybe this was a requirement of the flight school rather than a licensing requirement? Maybe she got her private license in gliders or balloons, and wasn't yet qualified to solo a powered aircraft?

  • Is they're an easy way to make my Jellyfin accessible outside of my home network for free?

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  • You don’t need a static IP, you just have to keep track of what your current dynamic IP is.

    You still need a public IP address. More and more often, IPv4 services are provided behind CGNAT, which won't be able to work as you describe.

    If you don't have a public IPv4 for your LAN you can use IPv6. Or, you can reverse proxy your services through a gateway with a public IPv4.

    I use a a reverse proxy (Pangolin) running on a VPS. A Newt tunnel connects my LAN to to Pangolin, exposing my local services via subdomains.

    /edit; vpns are good and all, but they require you to setup software on the remote device to connect to it, and that typically routes most if not all your traffic back to the vpn server then out to the internet. That can create speed/bandwidth issues.

    Tailscale, ZeroTier, and other similar services generally establish direct tunnels between devices, without a separate VPN server. They use a central service merely as a sort of common meeting point (STUN/TURN) for the devices to figure out how to establish direct tunnel(s).

  • Ford employee fired after 11 years for stealing cookie he’d actually paid for

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  • Should buy a Komatsu D355A and a mig welder.

  • Is there a solution to use tailscale (or pangolin) alongside a traditional VPN on grapheneos?

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  • What are you trying to accomplish with that?

  • Is there a solution to use tailscale (or pangolin) alongside a traditional VPN on grapheneos?

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  • I've got pangolin running on a VPS. It was dead simple.

  • America’s carmakers cannot escape Chinese EVs for ever

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  • Lordstown Motors got done in partially by its own management, partially by a short seller making an ass-ton of money by screwing them over. It had little to do with fleet customers.

  • America’s carmakers cannot escape Chinese EVs for ever

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  • I really wish EV manufacturers would get around to targeting fleet pickups. Generic, bare-bones, featureless trucks.

  • Trump, 79, Triggers 25th Amendment Calls With Sleepy Oval Office Slump

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  • Vance needs the support of both the Cabinet and Congress to complete his 25th coup. If he doesn't have Congress, the Cabinet isn't going to back him. And he doesn't (currently) have Congress. He won't have Congress until the incoming congress is seated in January.

  • Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished, say experts

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  • I believe the politically correct term is "Women". They tend to bitch a lot when you call them "birds".

  • Did Donald Trump Just Hand Texas to Democrats?

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