Living in central europe I rarely see Temperatures lower than -5°C. But when it's colder than that, I just put up my ski goggles and they are great for that. Also a full face mask will be added at -8 and lower.
Without goggles at those temperatures my eyes would start hurting after around 30 minutes of cycling. Might not be healthy to get the eyes freezing either.
As a tangent, as long as you're alive and kicking your eyes won't freeze. Eyes are in sockets inside your head and the heat radiating into them is enough for them not to freeze. (Otherwise prehistoric humans living in cold climates would've been thoroughly screwed.)
Won't freeze, but extreme temp. difference might lead to long term damage.
Also, I don't think prehistoric humans, living in colder climates, had to endure long term exposure to direct wind at ~8m/s, used machines that created such scenarios, or relied on feeding themselves by running after prey.
I have never felt it, so what do you mean by extremes? I do not think a daily commute for 50 minutes in -15°C at ~25km/h on a bicycle is extreme. I never feel affected. I also go Nordic sking in -30°C for hours I have never been affected. The sun with snow blindness is not fun though never doing that mistake again.
I suspect this is one of those cases where people who don't live in cold climates overestimate how rough it is. I also live somewhere where -30C is not rare and it's perfectly normal to spend hours outside in that weather. You just layer up, but outside of mountain skiing I don't think I've ever worn goggles.
I also live in a cold climate. I get very bad eye problems below -15 C. at -10 I can handle just using my normal glasses but below -15 I need goggles. At -20 I put on a balaclava with goggles on top. It all depends on your age and medical problems.
The temperature problem can also be underestimated. You really need the right clothes. I have a little list on my phone for what to wear at what temperature and I pack some alternative clothes to add if needed. In case wind was harder than anticipated or it's so slippery and bumpy that you will never get any sort of speed.
I use Lungplus for breathing. I have two models, one for below +10 C and one for below 0 C that heats better. Asthma isn't funny. Cold allergy neither. I'm probably not totally sane going biking at -35 C.
I was out the other day cycling in -13°C, and I was the perfect temperature, didn't sweat, wasn't cold. The next day it was still -13°C, so I wore the same clothes, but I was cold, my fingers and toes went numb, and I ended up cutting the ride short. The difference between those two -13°C days was the humidity. It`s huge!
I can only imagine what it's like living somewhere actually cold. I've got pretty bad asthma (severe enough that I'm on a maintenance med on top of the rescue inhaler) and allergies. Cold is a big trigger for my asthma, and yea, after doing the conversion 10C is about when I'd start to really notice, but I probably start seeing some effects around 15C or so. Luckily I live in a temperate area, the coldest it ever gets is about -5 or so. My other big asthma triggers are exercise and my allergens - which are all the basic boring stuff - pollen, ragweed, mold, dust, etc. So basically walking outside is like getting punched in the lungs. I started wearing N95 masks basically when I was able to get my hands on them (so, early 2021) and eventually settled on the 3M Aura actually mentioned in another post. They really do warm the air quite a bit, enough to mostly not trigger my asthma, and help a lot with the allergies too. I've also only gotten sick once in 4 years, and that was last year when I took my mom out for a mother's day meal at a packed restaurant. I really try to avoid restaurants during peak hours. Ironically strep and not COVID. So, basically, starting wearing them for one health reason, have kept wearing them for that and for several side benefits that were happy discoveries.
I have to be really careful as I have a number of other chronic conditions, including diabetes, and between them, and the meds I take for 'em, I'm usually rather fatigued and run down at the best of times. It's quasi-stable, but I've been hospitalized several times foe respiratory issues, and I'm only in my 30s, and to be frank, none of what I have exactly gets better with age.
I'm sorry to hear that, I can only too well imagine how it's like. I'm just like you but several notches better and 20 years older and no diabetes. It helped a lot to start biking and I'm getting better and better thanks to the lungplus. But I do feel like I got hit in the lungs now and then if I don't start very slowly. After 15-20 minutes I can start with uphill and higher speeds and all feels fine again.
It's a really vicious cycle. Right before the pandemic, I had a decent routine up, was down about 40lbs.. still big, shut down...then the pandemic, everything shut down (including my gym, permanently). About a year later for no real reason any doctor has been able to really explain beyond "well, you're diabetic and have unfortunate bone structure" I developed pressure ulcers on the bottom of both feet nearly simultaneously, in roughly the same (mirror imaged) spot. The second broke out just as the first was starting to heal in earnest. Basically spent June 2022-March 2023 on near bed-rest as that was the only way to actually get them to heal. They've both since healed, but my feet are never really gonna be the same again, plus there's nerve damage etc that basically means I don't have a ton of sensation down there anymore. Which is a long way of saying... you know how in TV commercials for gyms and the like it always says "consult your doctor before starting any exercise routine"... that's my actual life.
Maybe when going fast on a bike, they'd cool down faster. I remember from ice skating below 0C that if I didn't wear sports glasses, my eyes would hurt afterwards in the warm dressing room. I've always attributed that to them "thawing" although that's probably not literally what they do.
I live in the Canadian Prairies, run outdoors year round. One thing I've experienced a few times is my contact lenses feeling much more rigid, which I've attributed to them starting to freeze up in extreme situations. Typically near the end of longer, 3+ hour runs where I'd be facing the wind and moving slower. Temps lower than -25 celsius and a 10 km/h wind cools things down fast.
I cycle to work everyday with my roadbike. My current job is quite close (only ~5-6km!) and below 1-2°C I wear my rain pants and only at like -10 and lower do I actually dig out the ski mask. For everything else my Oakley Jawbreakers work great.
Generally it's not as bad as many people think, it only becomes hard if the trip takes longer than an hour and temperatures are below -2 -5 degrees.
This. Short distances (~15 minutes of ride time) are very doable with no extra cycling-specific equipment, just a thicker jacket, pair of gloves and a warm hat. You kinda get used to it.
I had one good experience with a Chatbot recently when I needed Telco support by Deutsche Telekom. For some reason I lost my internet connection one day and when it came back up it was only half the bandwidth that DSL would sync up to usually. Also after rebooting my Edge Device.
The Bot offered to restart my DSL from their end and I assume the profile gets updated along the way there as well. So after a few minutes Internet was running at the desired speed again.
But I agree. Most of the Chatbots and Phone robots are useless to the point of directing you to the right department - asking for your authentication verification data for on-call support and then forwarding you to a Support Guy after 30 Minutes of waiting in the Queue. And even then in most cases you need to proof the same Auth data to the Support Guy again...
Charter Spectrum does similar if you play along with the IVR. First thing it offers is a whole-home reset signal which appears to clear stuck line cards and provisioning issues while all your stuff reboots.
It will end the call with you, and if the issue's not resolved, when you call back in it picks back up where you left off and immediately dumps you to a human. It also knows if there's a possible signal-related issue with your equipment based on things like CMTS alarms, and will also kick you right over to an agent to get it scheduled for a truck roll.
Oddly, the time I really needed the human (I had a cable modem for data and a cable modem elsewhere in my home wiring for the home phone system and the provisioning was screwed up and voice was nowhere at all) I was able to get them, explain the issue at hand, offer the data they needed, and got the call fixed and both modems reprovisioned and online correctly in a record 7 minutes.
My office is a 20 (tarmac) - 25 (forest) minutes bike ride. I don't have any problem working from home but if the weather isn't too bad I go to the office regulary - even if I sit there in the same remote meetings all day as I do at home.
For me the change of the scenery and the "off" time by doing the commute are worth it.
Going to move out of range of an office for this company in a year. Thinking about joining a coworking space then for it.
The solution at the end almost looks like the manual setup of terragrunt which we are using to manage lots of base infra in many different accounts.
What would be interesting here would be to see how they actually reference the outputs from one layer onto the next layer. That is something that is not even solved nicely in terragrunt and one of the major annoyances for me there.
Using dependencies and the mock_output option is creating lots of noise in the plan outputs as the dependencies are only completely resolved when terragrund applies all the modules.
But it seems I also missed a few additions to terraform - so probably there are better ways to take outputs from one terraform run into another one.
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I think the game changer of this ticket is to replace the second or third family car. The few occasions that you actually needed more than one car you could now just do with public transport without a lot of hassle.
Question is if the 600€/annum is cheap enough for people to opt for this. But at least many companies are looking into giving the 49€ ticket at a discount - and that is actually desired from the state as the state also gives the company a discount if they do so.
Well, you could of course use some tickets from other operators in the same region. In NRW there is the handy eezy NRW[0] ticket system where you just pay the kilometers travelled "how the bird flies". So even the connections that would be expensive otherwise could be cheap.
I use it sometimes for the last bit of my long distance travel if I visit my parents (not directly in VRR region but in Regionalverkehr Münsterland (RMV)). It states that it works for all stops within NRW - which is annoying as one of the busses I could take actually goes to Osnabrück (Niedersachsen) and I cannot use - even though it's actually operated by the NRW regional transit provider.
Overall public transit is / was a mess in germany and 9€ Ticket really was an eye opener on how easy it could be to hop on and off of everything that's moving however you like.
I did my bachelors and masters degree in cooperation with different companys in germany. Over here it is quite normal that companys have open positions for cooperative degrees.
For most it comes down to some evening courses or courses crapted together on a few days so that the other days are available for part time working.
At my university we had it a little different. For Bachelors it was:
- 1. Semester: Studying (Full time)
- 2. Semester: Studying (Full time)
- 3. Semester: Working with writing a paper on some work project specific stuff to gather some more Credits
- 4. Semester: Studying (Full time)
- 5. Semester: Working with writing a paper on some work project specific stuff to gather some more Credits
- 6. Semester: Studying (Full time)
- 7. Semester: Working with writing a paper on some work project specific stuff to gather some more Credits (3 mo) + 3 months bachelors degree (most of the time based on the stuff you worked on before)
The Semester breaks we needed to work full time but also needed to take our 30 days of vacation in that time.
So I think we got the best of both worlds. Hands on experience on the work and full time studying on campus.
In the companys I joined since then I'm heavily opting to get some cooperative students. Usually by the time of the 4th semester they are up to speed and help a lot in the 8 months they are there.
Interesting. For me the amazon-linux-extras part was the most annoying part. Using automation tooling (Terraform for instance deployment and Ansible in User Data of instances) it was so annoying to work with. Fallback to the shell executor in Ansible to get something installed is a pita.
Also good that they finally get out of a python2 default Amazon Linux - only 2.5 years after it's EOL.
Without goggles at those temperatures my eyes would start hurting after around 30 minutes of cycling. Might not be healthy to get the eyes freezing either.