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Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:00PM (#50321083)
Minutes - you're still staying in the 60-second spike interval then.
Android work profiles allow you to run multiple isolated copies in parallel - with separate address book and all. Works very well for Signal. I wish there was something similar for iOS.

There are some tools available to make management even more straightforward, like Insular, a fork of Island: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.oasisfeng.island.fdroid/

"there is conflicting caselaw in Germany already" "Neither ruling is precedential until there are higher court rulings."

There simply is no such thing as "caselaw" in Civil Law countries.

Re:Vegemite is not a human right on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:00PM (#50250872)
> One invokes a supernatural higher power

Like the flying spaghetti monster?

Re:Anthropic rushing IPO before AI bubble bursts on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:48PM (#50250709)
"Many of the incoming Dems aren’t what you’d call mainstream politicians who search for ways to cut deals with the administration. Instead, they hail from the extreme left. Some are outright socialists who want to burn the system down altogether rather than work within its contours."

[ ] i lol'd

Re:Android apps running native on macOS on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @08:25PM (#50174538)

    oathtool --base32 --totp "SECRET2429190" | pbcopy # servicename
servicename as added comment for convienient reverse search.
Re:What Does Childhood Trauma Have to Do with White Supremacy? on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @06:34PM (#49809215)
please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Sources? When I look at the law and their mandate, it sure looks like they can't. That's not part of their soft powers. They can excusively go after a very narrow band of criminal acts.
Re:Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever on Saturday August 15, 2026 @08:48AM (#49310144)
How is it "interesting"? I think it's fairly obvious: Anything you can act upon is your very own responsibility, and has influence on what is happening or not happening around you; be it one or six "steps" away from you. Anything on top of that is just a story you tell yourself.

"Oh, me?! No, I just built the Jew inventory for the Nazi death camps, loyal to my American company!"

Ah! Maybe they went to a priest to confess, and got absolved. All fine then. Nothing to see here.

Re:Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever on Saturday August 15, 2026 @06:51AM (#49309504)
> which is still few steps removed from the actual genocide

Like, one, or two.

Re:The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment on Thursday August 13, 2026 @02:01AM (#49282234)
> I actually consider this to be "normal/natural", and what most other people seem to be doing "wild".

For example, I do not need stimulants like coffee or sugar drinks to get through my days.

Re:The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @05:02PM (#49278507)
What do you want to know?

I do not track my sleeping hours. I guess it started in school, where I always stayed up way too late, so I used an afternoon sleep to catch up. I continued like that.

I despise alarm clocks, I think it goes against natural sleep rhythm and is bad for mental and physical health. We should ban them in civilized societies. I see it as one of the biggest luxuries of my life that I only have to use them on very limited occasions.

I also never grasped the concept of "every Monday at 10 am, you have to be willing and able to work". I don't understand how that can be done without messing you up after a few years.

I made it a necessity to only work jobs where I can decide on my hours with sufficient flexibility. Some weeks I work 80 hours if I feel it, some weeks I work only 10 if I don't. I co-founded a couple of projects, rarely had a boss to report to, and if I did, they cared about results and not when.

People are always more than happy with my 'productivity' and amazed at my flexibility. For clients/business partners, I actually seem to be available more often in terms of time slots than others with fixed "day" hours. I also mostly work(ed) in international teams, so people are all over the place in terms of timezone anyway (and a few at a time traveling around to conferences etc).

In my relationships, we either cuddle and I stay around until my partner sleeps and I quietly get up again to enjoy the quiet late hours (some of the best productivity, if I feel it!) and then come back later, or I sleep for a few hours next to them, and wake up early. I can then use early quiet hours for myself or for work, and then without stress prepare our breakfast. My second sleep shift is flexible, sometimes as early as 8 or 9 am, sometimes as late as 4pm - but usually within a certain more limited range for some months at a time. As long as I feel it.

I actually consider this to be "normal/natural", and what most other people seem to be doing "wild". :)

Re:The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @07:04PM (#49265689)
> the need to nap is an indicator of poor sleep.

Is it? Where do you get that from?

I remember the NASA doing extensive sleep studies, determining that the optimal pattern would consist of basically "naps only"?

I've been sleeping my adult life in usually 2x3-4h "shifts", which I also remember reading is a historically often used pattern. I do not see any negative effects.

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