I take a round trip around every Christmas in particular, so it may be seasonal. but also, an average delay of 2 hours is absolutely indefensible and doesn't contradict what I said?

yeah my last train was scheduled at 2am (only option out of my largeish city) and was delayed until 6am

unless you're in the US riding Amtrak. it's never not been delayed for me, frequently by several hours

when I started wfh I basically locked myself in a dark room for daylight hours 5 days a week and gave myself SAD after a month or so. going crazy following the light suggestions from these articles helped a ton

https://meaningness.com/sad-light-led-lux https://meaningness.com/sad-light-lumens

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first mathematician orders a beer

The second orders half a beer

"I don't serve half-beers" the bartender replies

"Excuse me?" Asks mathematician #2

"What kind of bar serves half-beers?" The bartender remarks. "That's ridiculous."

"Oh c'mon" says mathematician #1 "do you know how hard it is to collect an infinite number of us? Just play along"

"There are very strict laws on how I can serve drinks. I couldn't serve you half a beer even if I wanted to."

"But that's not a problem" mathematician #3 chimes in "at the end of the joke you serve us a whole number of beers. You see, when you take the sum of a continuously halving function-"

"I know how limits work" interjects the bartender

"Oh, alright then. I didn't want to assume a bartender would be familiar with such advanced mathematics"

"Are you kidding me?" The bartender replies, "you learn limits in like, 9th grade! What kind of mathematician thinks limits are advanced mathematics?"

"HE'S ON TO US" mathematician #1 screeches

Simultaneously, every mathematician opens their mouth and out pours a cloud of multicolored mosquitoes. Each mathematician is bellowing insects of a different shade.

The mosquitoes form into a singular, polychromatic swarm. "FOOLS" it booms in unison, "I WILL INFECT EVERY BEING ON THIS PATHETIC PLANET WITH MALARIA"

The bartender stands fearless against the technicolor hoard. "But wait" he inturrupts, thinking fast, "if you do that, politicians will use the catastrophe as an excuse to implement free healthcare. Think of how much that will hurt the taxpayers!"

The mosquitoes fall silent for a brief moment. "My God, you're right. We didn't think about the economy! Very well, we will not attack this dimension. FOR THE TAXPAYERS!" and with that, they vanish.

A nearby barfly stumbles over to the bartender. "How did you know that that would work?"

"It's simple really" the bartender says. "I saw that the vectors formed a gradient, and therefore must be conservative."

I think bikeshedding is more commonly that people will argue about the materials of the bike shed over more important points of discussion. ex a bad thing because it detracts from more important decisions, not because it requires unnecessary change

queens duck as mentioned below better fits the tip (which is valid)

the problem is that someone is San Diego county

or perhaps their interest started there as a child, causing them to study further later? that doesn't sound like a crazy statement

nowadays I think it's more likely fetterman

I think having to get a cert is even worse.

and some will get camped by bots, but that's fine since different projects have different tolerances for contribution quality. I'm thinking like the bluesky moderation system, where each repo can subscribe to a particular pool of vouches in addition to their own. you may have lists for no ai, lists for responsible ai/abides by repo rules, or good intentioned but pure ai and minimal human contribution.

the amazon one came with one of each filter. not sure about directly from them but I imagine it's the same?

how does this compare with something like the vouch system, possibly with some sort of federated mechanism, so you could choose which list of users to trust