If you don't have a bottom layer the sand will immediately fall

Actually thinking about it - why not have everything encased in sand all the time, you'd just have to be a kid playing in a sandbox when doing maintenance

Heat management. A battery that's surrounded by air can cool itself by convection. A battery that's buried in sand will eventually reach thermal saturation with the sand... at a temperature that it really really should not be at.

Because sand everywhere is kind of annoying?

And dangerous for any moving parts?

Very few moving parts in most batteries.

But batteries are often close to machines in need of energy. And even walking with sandy hands to the sink to wash then, will spread sand. Also some batteries have active cooling.

But a home installation might be done in a way that it is managable though.

like in Minecraft

That will break if there's comments in the file, or if any one of the variables' values contain spaces. You can use `set -a` to load .env into an existing shell instance instead:

    loadenv() {
        set -a
        source ./.env
        set +a
    }

Cool! This answers a question someone had in this thread.

... except I'm thinking this may `set +a` if the environment already had `set -a`, which maybe could cause problems? I wonder if it would make sense to record the existing status of "-a" (allexports) an set it / unset it as necessary.

You could do that, and it'd still be POSIX-shell comptible:

    loadenv() {
        case "$-" in
            *a*) source ./.env ;;
            *) set -a; source ./.env; set +a ;;
        esac
    }

Although I have yet to see a long shellscript utilise `set -a` globally :)

You'd need to `set -a` or pass the `-a` as a flag to have them auto-exported though, so:

    sh -ac '. ./.env; ./prog'

Also if you use the `.` builtin it's a good idea to specify the path with a slash in it, so that `.` doesn't search $PATH first.

This video is about motorcycles, not cars. Also, the data on this is in the linked video - the author demonstrates you can do a controlled stoppie to decelerate faster without ABS, because that's its main feature - preventing you from flying off the bike.

I've seen the video, but the comment I'm replying to seems to be referring to a car driving course.

I'm a little surprised there's no "pro ABS" for motorcycles which allows you to do a stoppie if you enable an option, and/or are keeping the bike perfectly straight.

There is, that specific bike has it and it's really close to the best performance you can get as an expert. But it's not very common

It's an option you can use when invoking `make` - so no need to specify extra cmake options, just during `make` invocation after `cmake` is already done

That's crazy. Where do you live? In Poland I just skipped the insurance system to get ADHD meds and went to a psychiatrist specialising in ADHD privately - $70 for a 20 minute visit seems a bit steep but it's better than waiting years.

Could you possibly do something similar?

No, that's impossible. I live in a Canadian province where the provincial healthcare situation is very, very bad.

There are no private doctors and private psychiatrists are not legally allowed to perscribe. ADHD medication is controlled so only NPs, GPs, and (I think) psychologists are permitted to write a script for it.

Basically there are no options for me except the ones I have already taken, short of moving to a different province thousands of kilometers away.

Can they prescribe non-stimulant ADHD medications? I imagine those are less-strictly regulated.

My previous psychiatrist said he's had some luck with patients on stimulants lowering their stimulant doses and adding a non-stimulant treatment like Strattera, but his patients rarely had success stopping all stimulants and taking only Strattera. That's just one docs opinion, but having been treated for adhd for 15 years, it doesn't surprise me.

So, consider yourself lucky you don't already need stimulants to get by. Some of the newer non-stimulant options may be effective for you, and you won't have to deal with the "druggy" aspect of being on stimulants for work. Stimulants can seriously affect your life, both positively and negatively. You might be able to get things done that you never would have done before - I felt like I was finally able to compete at a normal level when I started - but you might retreat from society at the same time, be less interested in spending time with loved ones or building relationships, and then there's all the short-term side-effects like trouble sleeping or losing interest in eating.

Basically my experience has been a double-edged sword and it's bittersweet. For every way that it's benefited me, ADHD meds negatively affect me in some other way and it's hard to quantify the net balance.

> So, consider yourself lucky you don't already need stimulants to get by.

I wish that were the case, I've been heavily "abusing" Redbull and Claritan-D (non-drowsey with sudafed, I found this helped purely by accident a few years ago) for years just so I can barely function enough to hold down a job. It's probably part of why my blood pressure is so bad in the first place.

I have to put literally all the energy I have into work, by the time 1700 rolls around I have no energy left to give for anything, I just crash. Most nights even getting supper is a huge ordeal, much less anything else.

Non-stimulant drugs might be an viable option, I haven't inquired about that yet, but I intend too.

I apreciate you giving a small window into what the medication has been like for you. How it would affect me and how I'd change on it has been one of my main concerns should I somehow actually get perscribed anything. At this point I'd try anything because the older I get the less sustainable this all becomes.

Medical tourism is an option too, I think. If you visited a doctor in another country, and obtained a prescription, you'd be allowed to bring it with you back to Canada, right?

> you'd be allowed to bring it with you back to Canada, right?

You’d never be able to get a foreign prescription filled in Canada, federal and provincial regulations forbid that. Brining medicine back would be fine, but then you can’t get more without an expensive flight again.

If I lived near the US border I’d just get an American doctor and get prescriptions filled in America, but I’m nowhere even remotely close to the border.

You may need special permits to move scheduled substances across borders. ADHD meds can even be problematic between EU states.

>"ip addr show" lists interfaces and their stats. It's harder to read than ifconfig -a but gives you the same information in a similar format.

It's worth noting that `-br` gives you a brief version of the output, and `-c` colors it, so that it's possible to do something like this:

  ip -br -c addr

to get a very readable and colorful table-like output.

There's also `-j` for JSON, and `-j -p` for pretty JSON.

>Humans can delay gratification for larger payouts later on, which if we could not consciously do then I personally would probably do nothing with my life besides the basic biologic urges and whatever gives me the strongest immediate dopamine hit.

That's basically living with ADHD - so about 2% to 7% of all people have a lot less free will than the rest.

I'm a physicalist, there's nothing in my view that says biological disorders can't affect the effectiveness of the software, free will must in my view be an effect provided by our bodies and a disorder can surely remove it.

Just as sure as if you were lobotomized, you'd lose free will.

Edit: Plus upon re reading this and not just giving a two second flippant response, you did not clearly read my reply (which I ironically did not then read yours correctly either). I was talking about the ability to prioritize desires, not free will itself on the part you quoted.

Just to be clear, I'm not trying to argue with you - just trying to share an observation from my own life.

The experience of the inner monologue in my brain not being able to control what the rest of my body is doing when not on meds sure does feel like a crippled down version of free will

Sorry that's fair, hard to tell sometimes on forums. Yeah that's absolutely valid and thanks for sharing your perspective.

From what I remember about SSE, no Microsoft browser supported them. It seems like they've finally added support to Edge this year though.

I dislike this comment because it's such a 'well DUH' thing. Obviously OP isn't suggesting people break the law or quarantine, he's suggesting they go for a run if they have access. Treadmills are not outlawed anywhere to my understanding. Context folks, people might also be triggered if they are physically unable to run, but OP isn't it to them, he's suggesting an excellent way to stay sane and physically fit if you have the ability.

I don't know why these two comments bothered me so much, I guess I generally expect better discussion from the community.

ON TOPIC, Cool site, I got a chuckle out of the link, information was presented nicely, I felt like there was enough content without overwhelming me while still having enough to keep me entertained.

As someone who is not able to run, the comment made me feel sad for a few seconds, but I am used to that feeling since I feel it every time I see someone jogging down the street. I am lucky that I can still ride my bike for that cardio fix. It's been a process to try to be happy about the things I can do instead of focusing on the things I can't.

Congratulations on your healthy strategy for dealing with this, and, as a fellow cardio addict, I am deeply sorry for your loss of this vital activity.

Where is it illegal to go out for exercise? Every stay-at-home order I've seen, at least in the democracies, carves out an exception for that. (On the other hand, I've hardly made a survey of them, so this is an honest question.)

El Salvador, it is not exactly illegal, you get thrown into a quarantine center for 30 days if you're not outside for anything but essential needs or your job (if you are an essential worker), I do think it's for the best for now, most people would simply not understand how bad it could get otherwise, our country does not have the resources to handle this disease if it gets out of hand, it is a slippery slope though

https://covid19.gob.sv

The government has put up a site where they update stats daily, it's in Spanish though

Poland. It was the most criticised part of initial restrictions, fortunately it is being relaxed on Monday (going out for recreation is allowed, opened parks and forests, however masks mandatory when going outside).

India

Argentina.

But it definitely is legal in lots of other places, here in Norway for instance. And going out to exercise once a day is not merely legal but encouraged even in the UK.