I'll second the fake news thing. I sleep with a CPAP (and have for 25 years), and the one I have now is nearly silent. I have to sometimes pull my mask off slightly to check that it is even on.

I'm sure there are some that are noisy, but that hasn't been my experience. If my mask leaks because it isn't on quite right that makes a lot more noise than my machine does.

This.

I'm having a sleep lap study in the coming weeks. It will be my third. Going on my 3rd CPAP (may be a BiPAP this time) in 25 years. So yes they still do them - sleep overnight in a lap with a bunch of sensors on you with someone watching your sleeping and adjusting your CPAP/BiPAP settings throughout the night to come up with the correct settings for the individual.

I took a at-home sleep study weeks ago to look into getting a MAD device (through a company not affiliated with my sleep doctor), but as my sleep doctor told me earlier this week, in my case it probably wouldn't help as at my last sleep study 15 years ago I had 144 episodes per hour. That isn't a typeoo. Thats nearly 3 a minute. That at-home study, which I did without my CPAP, was the worst night I've had in over 20 years. But I wanted to do it to see if the numbers aligned with the range where a MAD has been seen to be effective. Sadly probably not.

My CPAP is my best friend at night and has been for nearly 25 years. I even have a battery/inverter that I use when the power goes out or I go camping.

I do know of people where a MAD device was able to completely replace their CPAP. But all of those cases were mild compared to mine - having 30-50 episodes an hour versus my 144.

Yes being overweight is a contributing factor for my sleep apnea, but when i was diagnosed 25 years ago that was much less so, and I was still having about 120 episodes an hour back then. So it isn't all about weight.

Bottom line: it isn't a one size fits all thing. I'm sure the pill will work with some people as the trials are showing, not so much with others, in the same way that MAD devices do not always work. As for CPAP/BiPAP, my setting is currently a 14, and I hardly notice it. But I've heard plenty of stories of people who simply can't get used to or tolerate a CPAP. For me, I can't live without it.

I also know a pediatric "airway" dentist personally who told me last year that the goal was to get people off of CPAP with newer treatments, such as MAD devices. And I would tend to agree because its much easier to lug around a MAD device than a CPAP when traveling or being outdoors, and you don't have to worry about having power. But I don't think the shoe will fit for everyone.

That was all PR coming from Musk in March 2018 of what Musk wanted to do by 2022, not what actually happened in 2022. If there had been any such launches in 2022, it would have been all over the Internet. Given that its not, there were no SpaceX cargo launches towards Mars in 2022. The vehicle that will be used to do this just completed its not-so-successful 8th test flight last week. Hasn't even made it to Earth orbit yet, let alone a transit orbit to Mars.

Sigh. The two astronauts who traveled to the ISS back in June of 2024 have had the ability and means to return to Earth since September 2024, with no further launches from Earth required. The Dragon capsule that will bring them home next week has been docked at the ISS since September 2024.

The delay on returning them to Earth is due to how long its taken to get a replacement crew up to the ISS. And apparently that is important because if Butch and Suni and the other two astronauts, all part of crew 9, came home before their replacements arrived, it would leave the US side of the ISS unoccupied and with no one to tend to any experiments that that are running, or maintenance, etc... Thats the risk with all of this. There is no reason why the already docked Dragon capsule couldn't have left the station months ago to bring crew 9 back to Earth, except it would leave a staffing gap at the ISS. There would be three astronauts remaining on the ISS that flew up on Soyuz, but removing over half of the staff for a time will certainly cause issues on the ISS simply due to not enough hands available to maintain the station.

If the risk of an astronaut having a major medical issue in Space outweighed the risk of removing 4 of 7 astronauts from the ISS for a period of time, Butch and Suni would be on the ground already.

The launch was scrubbed for today's launch attempt. The countdown displayed on the live feed got down to about 15 minutes or so, and then it was scrubbed.

And one more reference. The new (well, 8 years since opening) Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland took 7 years to excavate at a cost of about $10 billion USD, The boring machines started from both ends and the middle, otherwise it could have taken 10+ years. And this is a 35.5 mile tunnel, the longest railway tunnel in the world. One crossing the Atlantic would be about 85 times longer than this one.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

So, no, this will never be built.

Discovery Channel had a series called "Extreme Engineering" about 10-15 years back and one of the episodes explored this idea, except the tunnel would not be the entire way but be under the surface of the water, tethered to the seafloor so it doesn't surface.

It would take time to get up to speed on the way out and then to slow down on the other end, and would add time onto the total travel time. A 10 minute acceleration to 3000 MPH from 0 would impart about 0.23g on the passengers. A 20 minute acceleration would impart about 0.11g, but would reduce the distance you'll be going at 3000 MPH. That acceleration/deceleration shouldn't be too uncomfortable for passengers ( see https://rechneronline.de/g-acc... ).

The biggest hurdle after the massive cost of construction and maintenance, is what happens if there is an accident with a train going 3000 MPH in a tube that is in vacuum. That is a whole lot of kinetic energy that would need to go somewhere. The over-engineering required to handle just about any kind of accident, not to mention handling a leak somewhere, would be massive and expensive. Have an accident 1500 miles in, under the seafloor (assuming its buried)? Whats the contingency for something like that? Cannot evacuate to the tunnel because its a tube in vacuum. Pressurize the tunnel so passengers can transfer to some other train, and then you'll need to depressurize the tube when done. Could segment the tunnel into chunks that could be pressurized and depressurized in a reasonable time frame, but that adds complexity of airtight doors between segments that need to open/shut as trains pass through, and so forth.

And it won't be built because it will never recoup its cost. How long would it take to recoup the 20+ trillion price tag? How expensive will be the tickets? It will be competing with $1000 airline tickets from New York to London. At $1000 a ticket, that would be 20 billion tickets to make up the $20 trillion cost. Even at $2000 a ticket, that is still 10 billion tickets.

The Channel is about 24 miles long. This would be 120 times longer.

Regular user of Terraform and Vagrant here. Not trying to be a troll on the subject of open source. But this change has brought to the surface a couple of thoughts I've had about the whole open source thing for a while now.

I took the time to read the information about the license change on HashiCorp's website. Reading through the FAQ alleviated some of my concerns about the license change.

It seems the biggest change is that the new license will prohibit a competitor from taking, for example, Terraform, free of charge, and package that up and distribute it for a fee, in competition to HashiCorp's own Terraform offering (some of which I'm sure is in the form of paid support and similar).

I'm all for open source. I've written some myself years ago. But I don't view open source as freeware. Say I create widgets that I give out for free. I also have a paid support plan that gives you support should something go wrong (businesses often like to have someone to hold to the fire if something goes wrong with a piece of equipment or software or whatever my widget turns out to be).

You can take my widget and do whatever you want with it. You modify it at your own risk. The worst that could happen is you break it and you simply come to me and get a new free widget and go on your way. You can even submit your mods back to me for consideration for inclusion in a future version of my widget.

What I would be less happy about is if someone took my free widget and turned around and started giving them away and selling their own support plans, of which I get no money from. I do want to make money off of my widgets and the paid support plans is part of that. But if someone else who I don't know and have no kind of relationship with starts taking my actual widgets and making money off of them without me being compensated in any way, why would I even make the widgets and give them out for free in the first place?

Those who are unhappy with my views can, of course, take my widget, "fork it" and start their own line of widgets that may or may not continue to share similarities with mine, and do their own thing. And in this case that is what someone has done. Its one of the things that open source allows. Its why we have many software products that are forks of others that have become mostly closed source.

I also read in the FAQ reference above is that code changes made by HashiCorp will eventually be made open source under the MPLv2. It could take up to 4 years (not disagreeing that is a long time in software development terms), which gives HashiCorp a leg up to capitalize on their own changes before the code is made open source. But HashiCorp does need to look after their own financials, as no one works for free.

Which is to say, maybe I'm completely missing the whole point here. I often hear people say that open source means free as in free. They can take something that someone else wrote and released under some open source license and turn around and profit off of the work without a thought about the copyright holder. The author probably wrote the software out of the kindness of his heart or something - maybe wanted to do something to make them feel good about themselves contributing something to society, and maybe doesn't care if someone else they don't know monetizes it without receiving any of it in return. Don't know many people who write code for free.

Why would such a company need 14,000 employees to begin with? It boggles my mind why Indeed would need that many employees to do what they do, or am I missing something?

I don't know much about their business model except that its a jobs site. Is there anything unique that they do that others like Monster or other resume posting sites do not do?

When you find one cockroach, you know there will be more. You never only find one.

How many you find is the question.

Several lives ago we used Spectra Logic tape libraries. So when I started reading the summary, I assumed they would simply recover from backups (be it snapshots, nearline backups, or tape backups) and go on with business, since backup hardware is one of their business specialties.

I have never known any company who has fully tested their disaster recovery by having to rebuild their live systems. Usually its a DR site somewhere, and the recovery will get most things, but there's always the little things here and there that fail.

The fact they were able to recover their data and basically rebuild their network in a month's time and only have a few files that were lost is a disaster recovery that went right.

Disclaimer: I've been a part of backups and DR planning for nearly 30 years.