I didn't see a clear answer in the other threads. Is this a picture of the stars, or is it noise?

It's wonderful that Europe in particular is reacting to protect individual privacy.

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Let's hope it continues.

Remember when you made your own geocities webpage? I miss the pre-billionaire internet.

These are bad, they've been done in the ast and they suck. Frequently the ideal speed required for hitting the next green is so slow they create bottlenecks for traffic behind them. Which has flow on effects all the way through a system. There is no workaround for this. As long as intersections exist there will be people stopping at them. It would be better if the intersections themselves were variable and would change to allow traffic through based on the conditions around them , even then, once capacity is met, there will be people stopping and waiting.

Can't wait to be stuck behind a robot asshole going 7 under.

JAGUAR'S GREEN LIGHT OPTIMAL SPEED ADVISORY SYSTEM WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST TO YOU THAT THE IDEAL SPEED FOR YOU TO DRIVE IN ORDER TO AVOID THE NEXT 5 STOPLIGHTS IS:

80 MPH

I don't work those kind of hours any more, but I still start at the sound of a pager; still bolt my food as though I'm never going to have an opportunity to eat again; still get irrationally angry if I hear the words "Just ringing to let you know ..."; still shudder when I think of working 19 days on the trot, every second or third night an 'On Call' with a normal day before and after; still have vivid memories of hallucinating on ward rounds ...

You'd think people in the medical profession, of all people!, would understand the consequences of lack of sleep on employees' ability to function.

I really don't get these insane hours.

Medicine is full of all sorts of weird hazing. It pretty much never gets called out on it because you get a career that is high paying, so there's a very ingrained feeling that you have to prove yourself no matter how intense it gets.

This hazing shit really needs to stop. It's unsafe. We all know that. Yet we decide to haze new doctors too. Smart.

My surgeon does 350+ surgeries per year. She removes my tumors every few months, and she even treated my mother's cancer.

Other patients in waiting room complain whenever she's late. Just last week ago they were really pissed, she was running 1-2 hours late. When I finally entered her room, the first thing I did was thank her for her time.

I knew what it would mean to resign — I would be blacklisted and I would never get a job in plastic surgery again in Sydney.

WTF kind of institution is this?

I worked long, intense, crazy hours when I was deployed. It breaks you. It took my body and brain years to recover from the intensity of that time.

Incidentlaly, I also found having a newborn who never slept more than 3 hours a night absolutely horrendous too. I knew it would be tough but nothing could have prepared me for just how awful it was - especially because I was committed to exclusive breastfeeding so my husband couldn't take a shift.

Makes me really not want to put my life in the hands of any surgeon. Don't hospitals know this puts their doctors and patients at risk? Not only is this cruel, but it leaves those same hospitals vulnerable to getting sued. Is there any way for doctors and surgeons to unionise?

Last December I worked like 176 hours as a RN in a busy ICU level two facility. I don't remember (ironically) how many days/nights, but I know it was a total of 27 of 31 12+ hour shifts that month. Hospital administration didn't bat so much of an eye. The same cannot be said about my coworkers or clinical team lead. I had many eyes on me looking back on it now, but hey we were short and busy AF. And its Christmas time..

I worked like that 3 times that year [2018]. I've noticed I've started to have short term memory issues as the most significant side effect. My schedule has readjusted as has my dietary habits. But I can tell the exhaustion has left at least for now left a permanent change in my day to day life. Age on an accelerated rate. I can remember standing at the medication computer (often called Pixis or Accudose) and just completely starring at the screen until until a prompt came up saying I would be logged out for inactivity, and I would not even remember what I needed to grab from it. Forget patient names and room number I knew them by condition only.I could go on. So I get where this gal is coming from. She proved a point, but the cost is great.

This doesn't just happen in the medial field. I am in Forensics. Right now, I'm on call every three weeks from 0700 hours on Monday until 0700 hours the following Monday.

This past Monday we had a homicide. The call for service came in just as I was about to head home after being on duty nine hours. I ended up being on duty fifteen hours that day. I then worked nine hours Tuesday, ten hours Wednesday, nine hours Thursday and eight and a half hours Friday. I then got called in yesterday (Saturday) for a suicide and worked that for about four hours. I'm still on call and I'm hoping I can get a full night of sleep tonight so that when my alarm goes off at 0700 I'm no longer on call. About once a year I'm awake and on duty more than 24 hours straight. Because of this line of work I know that at being awake for 30 hours, I can no longer drive. I know that being awake for forty-two hours, my body makes me sit down.

I commonly get calls all night long from detectives, my technicians, officers, etc. And I'm salary so I get paid the same amount each week no matter how much I work.

Due to this schedule, I'm sick and I mean SICK about once a year and it usually takes me down for a full week. Mind you, the phone calls and emails don't stop but I can skip the office during those times.

All of this is common in my field of work too (which happens to be a female dominated field). Everyone I know in Forensics has a knowing nod when you mention how long you've been awake today (or on your last call for service) because it's expected of us too.

I'm glad she recognized she needed to quit and even more happy for her that she did.

For anyone else confused like me, she didn't work 180 hour shifts. She was on-call for 180 hours straight. You can obviously sleep during that time. She didn't literally stay awake and work on patients for 7 straight days.

Medicine is no longer a profession, it has become a business. Doctors serve to enrich the hospital and shareholders. There is no physician union for obvious reasons - we would make the hospital less money. And doctors are too busy to advocate on their behalf. Docs are just told to suck it up, and you’re weak if you can’t. It’s pretty sickening. If anyone has any ideas how to make this better, please share.

Absolutely horrible! I am a Veterinarian who would love to specialize as a Surgeon. Unfortunately, I have a baby on the way and my husband and I decided going back to school and going through a residency would be hell. The hours and zero work-life balance are unrealistic!