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Take your pet for a walk.

Personally I find biphasic sleep pretty normal and easy to do when I'm working a job in a timezone that's behind mine by a few hours.

Go to bed at 12:30, sleep 4.5 hrs til 5:00, wake up with the cat at dawn, take them outside and enjoy the morning tranquility for a bit, go back to bed at 6, sleep til 9, get up to start my job at 10 or 11.

I don't do it when I have to be up early though, I both always struggle to go to bed early, and I find waking up and being up in the middle middle of the night, to feel more stressful than doing it at dawn.

Lol did it solve anything though?

If you actually watch the full episode, the timeline of events is:

• Someone rents a new house and finds a skeleton in the marsh behind it. It's a ~30 year old woman who died in the winter and was bludgeoned and stabbed repeatedly.
• They send away for DNA sequencing but the lab doesn't get back to them for like a year and half.
• In the meantime they look at missing persons cases (over 100 in North Carolina they state, though presumably ~half that once you filter for skeletal women)
• They determine that this woman's case seems most likely based on all the other details about her case. The forensic tech who's oddly interested in how much pain people feel as they die is interested in using "impose an image of a skull on a face technique" to see if it matches.
• She reaches out to a skateboarding computer science professor who uses gimp to paste a semi transparent layer of the skull on top of a picture of that victim's face and thinks it probably maybe matches.
• They get fed up with the DNA lab and send it to a second one that responds in three weeks confirming it was who they thought.
• They talk to the victim's friends who point out what party she was at the night she disappeared.
• The people at the party say that she was hanging out with this one big truck driver after everyone else. His story has been that she walked home after everyone else left, in January, for 7 miles.
• They interview him a few times and he eventually says that they had sex that night and she belittled him for not getting it up and he pushed her and she he hit her head on the nightstand and he left and she was fine when he left.
• He's convicted of murder and dumping her body because that's an obvious crock of shit.

Kinda feels like the whole GIMP escapade was just a waste of everyone's time and all it took to solve the case was basic police work in terms of interviewing people who saw her last. By the time they tried GIMP they already had a prime missing person that they thought it was, and they wouldn't have had to try gimp if they just went to a second / competent DNA lab immediately. The way they present it is a little unclear, but it sounds like they didn't even pull the suspect in for further interviewing until they finally got the DNA confirmation for who it was.

I mean, these are nice changes but the real customization we want is to hide the four double sized ads, not our recently played games.

To talk with human words requires a bump in intelligence which would end up in severe depression once it realises the dynamics of ifs existence.

A bump up in intelligence that allows for speech, doesn't mean it inherently becomes aware of all the existential dread in the universe or becomes unhappy with its station.

See: children.

Uh, yes there is, by the inherent nature of how addresses (i.e. public identifiers) work.

An IP address, email address, physical address, etc, is a mechanism to have a string of text, become a unique identifier for something, so that you can just share that piece of text to refer to it.

Once you give out that piece of text, you no longer have control of it. I can give it to someone and then someone else could ask them about it, and they pass it on, and now I have no idea who has this unique identifier that represents me anywhere out there in the world. I can ask the first person to update their records but I have no guarantee that they'll do it successfully or that they'll remember every single person who they gave it out to you update.

By the very nature of being an identity provider, you are inherently offering your users something that they should be able to fully own in perpetuity. In those circumstances, it's problematic if an identity provider insists that you always have to pay for its services, just to have communication from your old identity forwarded.

I think OP is overblowing things, and is especially misguided in recommending gmail, but at the same time, they do have a valid point and I think you're somewhat misrepresenting what they said.

For one, they specifically said that the proton domain email addresses are problematic (protonmail.com, pm.me), and weren't talking about custom domains that sit in front of Proton mail.

For two, their point is valid. Auto-forwarding being paid, does create vendor lock-in and make it hard to switch away from Protonmail if you use the OOTB addresses. It's something worth considering.

As you said, the recommendation should be to use a custom domain that sits in front of Protonmail rather than switching to Gmail, but paid auto-forwarding is a valid criticism.

It's still just as crazy.

Israel only does what it does because the US lets it and arms it. That doesn't happen because of a pro Israel lobby, that happens because the US military likes having an extremely armed, and intelligence gathering ally right in the middle of an otherwise volatile and hostile region.

Precisely, flirting signals to someone else that you're potentially attracted to them.

If they've written you off as a potential romantic partner for whatever reason (they assume you'd never be interested, they thought you had a partner, they thought you were only ever going to be just friends, etc), then that signal can cause them to start considering you as a romantic option.

No, literally no goal posts have ever been moved.

The point was and always has been, that widespread availability of guns does not effectively resist tyranny in the modern era, but does kill numerous people needlessly.

All you have shown, is a couple random examples of guns being used to take ineffective pot shots at governments that ultimately crush them.

You have provided literally not a single example of people successfully using personal firearms to resist government oppression, let alone at a scale that would justify the thousands and thousands and thousands of needless deaths.

You're just a gun lover blindly trying to justify a reason for owning them when one doesn't exist.

Old man yells at cloud isn't an age, it's a bitter mindset.

Oh so you're advocating for resisting in unproductive ways that don't accomplish your goals? Glad to get that out in the open.

Also, the Provisional IRA primarily used military weapons leftover from WW2, modern ones to the era smuggled in from Libya, and homemade IEDs, so not a particularly relevant example.

You're referring to the Provisional IRA?

Tell us again how successful they were in their goals of ending British rule in Northern Ireland.

Exactly, even if you had no front end language at all, and just requests to backend servers for static html and CSS content, those sites would still suck because they would ship the first shitty server that made them money out the door and not care that it got overloaded or was coded garbagely.

Yeah, did you read the examples you gave?

Your literal only modern example is a case in Fiji, an island with a population the size of Nashville, Tennessee, and army of 6,500 people.

And the coup was only successful because the special forces unit of the army that was run by a former SAS commander joined the coup and armed them.

Personal firearms have basically never been used to resist government tyranny in the US or entire rest of the developed world in modern times.

What does consistently work is mass mobilization and turning out in numbers.

No, it really didn't benefit them in any meaningful way.

Widespread gun ownership has gotten an enormous number of innocent people killed though.

No one cares about whether or not they use a dashboard to track signals intelligence data. The interesting part of this story is the unpublished assassination weapon, not how they selected targets.

Lmao, oh yes bruv, let's provide our users with a card catalog to find information on our website.

It worked for hundreds of years so it's good enough for them right?

People want pleasant UXs that react quickly and immediately to their actions. We have decades of UX research very clearly demonstrating this.

An fuck off with these dumbass, utterly vacuous Anti JavaScript rants.

I'm getting so sick of people being like "I keep getting hurt by bullets, clearly it's the steel industry that's the problem".

Your issue isn't with JavaScript it's with advertising and data tracking and profit driven product managers and the things that force developers to focus on churning out bad UXs.

I can build an insanely fast and performant blog with Gatsby or Next.js and have the full power of React to build a modern pleasant components hierarchy and also have it be entirely statically rendered and load instantly.

And guess what, unlike the author apparently, I don't find it a mystery. I understand every aspect of the stack I'm using and why each part is doing what . And unlike the author's tech stack, I don't need a constantly running server just to render my client's application and provide basic interactivity on their $500 phone with a GPU more powerful than any that existed from 10 years ago.

This article literally says absolutely nothing substantive. It just rants about how websites are less performant and react is complicated and ignore the reality that if every data tracking script happened backend instead, there would still be performance issues because they are there for the sole reason that those websites do not care to pay to fix them. Full stop. They could fix those performance issues now, while still including JavaScript and data tracking, but they don't because they don't care and never would.

Yeah, HTML is simple and completely and utterly static. Its simple to the point of not being useful for displaying stuff to the user.