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  • Naps are not recommended by sleep psychologists if you are someone who has trouble falling asleep at night anyway, unless you are extremely fatigued, and in those cases, the earlier in the day the better so you can recharge your sleep drive before night.

    But yeah, I too wish I could give myself an actual refresh during the day with a siesta, but alas no.

    I am not a sleep psychologist and this isn’t medical advice, second-hand info.





  • MisterFrog@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlI hate these icons
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    1 month ago

    I actually think these are fine. If I can quickly recognise each on my homescreen (I don’t use labels) then it’s fine, and I’ve never had a problem with any of these.

    I like it because each company each has its own set of apps, and they have somewhat unified app icons.

    Proton is the same, which similar icons as google but with their own unified branding.

    I like it, personally.





  • MisterFrog@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldGuess I'll km/s
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    2 months ago

    I used to do it this way in highschool, but could never remember if it was divide by or multiply by 3.6

    Instead I now do it as you have shown, except it all goes in the same expression.

    10 km/h * 1000 m/km * 1h/3600s = 2.778 m/s

    No need for the extra steps. Slap it all in the same expression and put it in the calculator (being careful to check that the units cancel as intended)


  • I dislike that my highschool never once gave me the concept that units can simply be treated like constants to be cancelled out.

    I used to do the conversions for each variable before putting them in the equation like a fool.

    Now I’m slapping all of the conversions alongside the original values/units in a single expression like god intended.





  • Remember in Australia, if you’re persistent enough, you could get this replaced under Australian Consumer Law, if something breaks in an unreasonable amount of time (outside of warranty, even). Considering fridges can easily last for 10 years, anything well within that should be fairly easy (but require many, many emails and threatening to taken them to your local small claims) to get replaced.

    That is if you can do without a fridge in the meantime 😅

    This is not legal advice.



  • The drawbacks are many and the benefits are few.

    Watching foreign films would be a pain, where is this in the world again, what does 19:00 mean for them? More exposition, or you just have to guess based on languag and accent.

    I need this work done by our team in XYZ country, what are their working hours? (wow, look at that, still using timezones?)

    When you arrive somewhere on holiday, now you have to get a sense of the time there. Or continually be thinking “what’s that in my home time?/what’s that in solar time”, which is why solar time just makes more sense.

    People aren’t going to stop thinking in solar time, ever. We’re hard-wired to be awake with the sun. It doesn’t matter what the numbers are, you will associate them with the sun. The question then becomes, would we rather all use roughly the same numbers (timezones, what we currently have), or different numbers (everyone using UTC).

    Using UTC solves only 1 problem, you can say verbally to someone across the world, let’s make the meeting 15:00 - but this is already easily solved by using a calendar which converts for you…

    There’s a reason we have never used a single non-solar time, it’s just worse and I think there’s a reason these posts always end up on programmer focused places on the internet. Yes, I’m sure their job is annoying, and it would be easier to not have to solve time conversion problems, but the time conversion problems wouldn’t even go away if you forced everyone to use UTC. You’d just start having to do conversions to solar time, or looking up waking hours (which is just timezones)

    This is a solved problem.





  • MisterFrog@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlGot no time to code
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    4 months ago

    Problems caught early are much easier to fix than problems caught later. This applies to any project (I’m not a programmer, but an engineer in the traditional sense).

    Just “doing it” without coordination and review is a great way to waste a bunch of effort down the line with re-work.

    Edit: typo