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fonix232

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  • Netflix kills casting from phones

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  • To streaming?

    Never.

    Streaming is a finite market that is already covered. The moment old money (aka existing media companies) jumped on it, it was done for.

  • Wake up

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  • It's quite random, the time between wakings. If I go by smartwatch data it's anywhere between 10 minutes and 4 hours. Consciously remembered ones, those are almost always 2 hours on the dot.

  • Wake up

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  • Clearly the cycle doesn't restart every time I wake up, if it ends at the ~1.5hr mark (which by the way is quite fluid, sometimes as little as 30min, sometimes it doesn't happen until 9am).

    I have tried figuring out both cycle length and falling asleep time, but thanks to my raging ADHD I sleep quite restless (it's frequent I wake up 2-3 times during the night), and need lots of time to fall asleep (and no, melatonin sadly didn't help). So for me this trick works.

  • Wake up

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  • If you can wake up naturally.

    The goal is to find the sweet spot between sleep cycles - a cycle interrupted means you feel like shit. If 9am happens to be in the middle of a cycle, you're fucked.

    But by "waking" up (not fully) at 7, then picking the time when you're not mid-cycle, you can avoid all that.

  • Wake up

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  • I've actually found a trick against this!

    1. Pick a "must get out of bed before this" time. For me it's 9am.
    2. Pick a time 2-3 hours before that. For me, best was 6:30am
    3. Set up alarms evenly spaced, at least 10 minutes apart. Ideally the spacing should reduce as you get closer to the "must be out of bed before this" time. E.g. for me, it's 6:30, 6:45, 7:00, 7:15, 7:30, 7:45, 8:00, 8:15, 8:30, 8:40, 8:50, 8:55 and finally 9:00
    4. Go to bed and be asleep at least 6 hours prior to the first alarm. I often can't do this but I try.
    5. Once the alarm wakes you, take a moment to assert just how tired and shite you feel, and if you don't, time to get out of bed.
    6. If you're still feeling like a piece of week old dogshit that got put through a full washer and dryer cycle, go back to sleep(ish), nap, or just rest with your eyes closed.
    7. Rinse and repeat steps 6 and 7 until you feel optimal or need to get out of bed.

    In a few days your body realises that while it is waking early, it also has an opportunity to rest to the optimal point, and said optimal point will start appearing. For me that's usually between 7:45 and 8:30.

    There's a number of apps that promise to find this sleep sweet spot, but in my experience they're quite hit and miss. This method though has been super precise for me.

  • Senators to investigate Pete Hegseth ‘kill everybody’ allegations

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  • Now that you mention it, the real life DoW does feel like a parody of the TV show Space Force.

  • Your Microwave | Poorly Drawn Lines

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  • I wouldn't mind it as long as the fucker doesn't judge me. It's enough that my fridge keeps complaining about the food I put in it...

  • Do you think standard batteries like A, AA, AAA, C, and D, 9V etc will eventually become obsolete?

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  • And 18350s and 13400 (very common in "disposable" vapes), and a bunch of other sizes.

    The issue with 18650 is honestly that it's too big for most applications, especially when you look at what currently uses disposable batteries - remotes etc. - and their sizes.

    Also, for li-ion, a cylinder isn't an optimal shape, for a number of reasons, first being physics - the rolled up layers result in gaps that reduces the per volume capacity. The form factor also requires a very strong can, is prone to shorts, and doesn't allow for easy addition of protective electronics.

    For household purposes I think the best approach would've been utilising Nokia's standardised battery formats (BL-5 family is still ubiquitous even though Nokia hasn't made a phone that uses it in nearly 15 years), scaling them as necessary, while keeping a standardised pinout - with Li-Ion you kinda need more data than just the two poles can provide on a cylinder battery (temperature, internal resistance, etc.).

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  • Or, hear me out...

    Do away with the fucking tipping culture and pay your workers their true worth?

    I know it's scandalous to think of it this way, you can even call me a communist for wanting livable wages...

  • OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica

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  • PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage

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  • Not really speculation. DRAM manufacturing capacity is split between like, 4 major manufacturers, and all of them already contracted out their full capacity for the next year - all the sales going towards AI hardware, B2B sales (because B2B is guaranteed big contract vs B2C where you're literally relying on every buyer and every sale separately). Which means little to no capacity for RAM module manufacturers, which means little to no supplies after current stocks run out.

    Of course current stock being upmarked is end seller greed, and to prevent a sudden rush (just like with TP during COVID, if people hear about something being in limited supply, they panic buy, FOMO is a dangerous drug after all).

  • PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage

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  • And when it's not AI, and not crypto, it's a "sorry the rain kinda fucked up our DRAM factory, limited capacity for a year" or "sorry COVID kinda fucked up our resource pipelines, reduced capacity for a year".

    There's always an excuse to pump up the prices, and never a reason to lower them. I do hope DRAM manufacturers get bitten in the ass for it though, have the AI bubble pop, leaving them with a bunch of orders that can't be fulfilled because the buyers no longer exist...

  • MAGA world heads left spinning by Trump’s warm welcome for Mamdani

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  • y. pronounce it.

  • Zohran Mamdani’s Proposal For A Millionaire Tax

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  • Oh no. How will France survive now!

  • Zohran Mamdani’s Proposal For A Millionaire Tax

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  • Well, the rich didn't get rich by giving away their money.

    To them it's a status symbol - like how Apple products used to be status symbols for the plebeian (aka us).

    Having multimillion dollar supercars, villas, mansions, seven bedroom apartments, etc., works well, but you're only truly rich if you can show off how you didn't actually lose any value to get those benefits. How you didn't need to spend a single penny of your wealth to live the rich life.

  • Junoir vs Senior

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  • I found most Japanese whiskey to be too sweet for my taste. GJ has that balance of smoothness while keeping the sweetness at bay.

    Plus I'm not that big of a fan of non-scotch whisky anyway.

    By the way if you want something truly smooth, and not too sweet, the cheaper Mackinlay's Shackleton remake, usually around £20 a bottle (should be around $25-30 in the US), is an amazing choice.

  • Zohran Mamdani’s Proposal For A Millionaire Tax

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  • The idea is that "rich people spend their money" - which, let's be honest, is blatantly untrue.

    The rich don't spend their own money. They trade favours. Hell, if you have $1mil on your hand, you can easily walk into a "rich people bank", open an account and get free shit every month, beyond the very generous interest rates. Free concert/theatre tickets, and such. It's like a casino hotel that tries to get you to stay with the freebies, but on an "I have a few million dollars in your bank" level.

  • Junoir vs Senior

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  • There's two products of Jack Daniels that I do appreciate:

    • their BBQ sauce (I know there are better ones but none of them reached the UK yet, sadly, it's a "good enough" substitute at a good price)
    • Gentleman Jack - pretty much the only commercial bourbon I find drinkable, albeit not worth the price

  • Junoir vs Senior

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  • Except every single MacBook you can buy right now (directly, from Apple, not second hand) directly beats pretty much every other device in its price range - unless you go super crazy with the specs and want to do 128GB RAM with an M5 Max and 8TB storage.

    So it's hardly overpriced.