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No, that's your implication.

I personally read "sceptically" to imply the idea of seeing whether the study falls victim to significance bias -- e.g. once you see it, you see it a lot, but is it an indicator of a widespread habit, or just a not-particularly-unusual one?

Edit: And indeed if you read on a bit about Ekrich, he suffers from sleep disorders for which he takes medication. That's a potential risk factor for significance/confirmation bias here, I'd have thought. But there's no reason to jump to the conclusion that fabrication is being suggested.

> but it's not exactly the case that he is drawing on forged entries with no other examples to be found.

Did anyone suggest this? I think it is rude to suggest that the comment you are replying to did any such thing.

(I have noted the long Spanish siesta elsewhere)

I have to tell you, 4am-5am, between sleep phases, is the best time to clean a kitchen. It's vaguely contemplative and when you go into the kitchen later that day it's like the cleaning fairy did it.

(Who scrapes? There are better ways.)

I do not. And no, it isn't.

My dad, I think, had occasionally polyphasic sleep, and he often took on-call rota slots as a result. He'd be in the kitchen cleaning, or in his study, but since the house was big, it was rarely a problem. Sometimes he'd be napping in his study, and I know he slept easily on the train to and from work (with an efficiency that meant he woke up a minute before his stop on the way home).

When I was a student I just forced my polyphasic sleep periods into normal sleep as best I could, which typically manifests a bit like delayed sleep phase; by the middle of the week I was two hours behind everyone else, and I actually did worse in the courses that had early Friday lectures. But when you're a student, being awake or asleep at odd hours is normal enough not to be remarked upon.

As a programmer, polyphasic sleep is sometimes unnoticeable to others. These days probably more apparent in git commit logs.

I was sure I remembered there was more than one, but likely I misremembered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ob7EEr3t8k

It's very short, too. I'm surprised by that. But it definitely stuck in my head.

Is this really the case?

Don't most people who invest in gold use ETCs/ETFs, certificates etc.?

I don't think gold trading is significantly far off instantaneous, at this point, and it's probably easier to cash out.

Along with one of the low-key greatest white folk-soul ballads ever written -- "Good Times" by Edie Brickell.

And some amazing Bill Plympton animations!

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=32853

> Hardly a singular obsession of one person

The parent post means the study of the practice, not the practice itself.

It might make sense -- I think it probably does -- but that doesn't mean that it's not true, when you dig into it, that the major study here is Ekrich and all the articles about it, articles about Ekrich.

Making intuitive sense isn't really enough. It's difficult to study the habits of the long dead, but the parent poster is right to be skeptical of the nature of coverage.

I think it feels bad because it inevitably messes up one's digestive clock (which is implicated in robustly configuring the sleep clock) and by implication, particularly with modern food, blood sugar levels.

(I suspect that the long cultural stability of the Spanish long siesta has a lot to do with the cultural stability of mealtimes -- and meal types/sizes -- that developed around it.)

The other day I felt queasy, suddenly, after lunch at a normal time -- so queasy I had to write off the day. I then proceeded to sleep for the best part of 24 hours, because all the phases seemed to merge. A literal 24 hour period, useless. Other people lived normal lives in that period; for me it just vanished.

I think blood sugar had a lot to do with that, as well as the time of year (winter in Britain) and it has definitely unnerved me.

I cope by just accepting it; trying to do things when awake. But there are things you can't really do in the middle of the night if you live in a close, quiet neighbourhood; hoovering, running laundry, shredding documents, even some printers are noisy.

You are right (and very observant) that this is mostly Ekrich when you dig into it. I didn't realise this until quite recently, and I too had assumed there was a lot more work about this.

But what he's found in literature is pretty consistent, and biphasic sleep was once quite normal in a specific context: the siesta.

It's dying out in continental Europe alas -- a lost cultural touchstone -- and in the contemporary West, a siesta is short (literally a nap). But a traditional Spanish siesta is the best part of a sleep cycle -- a good couple of hours, with an hour's rest spread either side. More than enough that you could have four hours sleep overnight throughout the longer days and not be incompetent the next day.

My sleep is currently polyphasic, which is not a great time. But it has taught me that sleep in the absence of natural light (or the presence of consistent artificial light) does have a habit of going polyphasic.

I woke up at 4:15am after about five hours of sleep. I just cleaned a grill pan. I may go back to sleep again.

Sleep scientists seem pretty sure that polyphasic sleep is bad.

This is definitely on my mind as I consider whether (approaching my half-century) I can switch careers at all, without going back into a full-time role.

Freelance word-of-mouth has a habit of drying up in difficult times (like the times we've been through), and at any rate it is rarely useful when you want to significantly switch direction; those mouths likely have far less interest in the new words.

There is, to some extent, a way forward, which is that you do a chunk of your primary promotion mutually. That is, find someone else you are working with a lot, or multiple someones if you are organised, whose work you respect, and agree a simple, mutual cross-promotional scheme that you can both monitor.

Or agree to swap writing biographies, marketing blurbs, all the things you find difficult about writing about yourself.

I also think Bitcoin and crypto generally have a lot in common with the sovereign citizen movement. But I think where you and I differ is that I think that’s a uniformly bad thing.

HN should maybe try engaging with this with the same urgency and focussed outrage as they would if they were told the perfidious, unreconstructed Brits were doing it.

Something something US citizens something something unaccountable governments something something secretly breaking laws.

It is well-understood already that alcohol makes it easier to fall asleep but worsens sleep quality and reduces REM sleep. (Google “alcohol and REM sleep” to see what I mean)

Medical Xpress has misunderstood that the novel element here is the study of the impact on regular, consecutive consumption of alcohol, I think?

But those will be, yes? Apart from the Ondsel-specific Lens stuff, are there things that will not make it into main FreeCAD?

Indeed, though Canterbury pilgrims generally walked. For the majority, walking it was part of the religious point of the journey.

Yes, but that just would cause the derived product not to be needed, when it was actually actively banned because it was proven to have caused some cases of CJD.

Not “mad cow disease”, but CJD.

“Mad Cow Disease” specifically refers to the variant form that is said to have been caused by prions from infected animals turning up in beef products.

Though in fact all we know for sure about the link there is that it’s the same prion in the cattle and human cases; the suggestion that there’s a direct food chain connection is still only considered very likely, not proven.

Because it was shown to also spread a prion disease (CJD, though not the variant kind as far as I have understood)

> Logically when you then are creating media where cars don't exist, you're going to need to create an equivalent and it's "common knowledge" that horse carriages were the big thing cars replaced. So you instead get a horse, something that whilst obviously much slower than a car, still gives the impression of "this lets you move faster" than how a human would walk on foot.

This is very well put. It's a sort of category error with an associated conceptual leakage.

I don't know. I suspect they are proportionately as well as absolutely better at carrying large loads at slow speeds than we are; momentum is in our favour as we're on two legs.

But I do know there's a guy currently training to run the London Marathon with a refrigerator (OK a British one, but a refrigerator) on his back.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7wq4y9w5jo

We have a really distorted view of what humans are capable of!

Right —- I find it interesting that Hollywood and modern life (horse racing and our own sedentary existence) has skewed our perception of this.

An averagely fit horse can travel maybe ten miles further than an averagely fit person in a day. But not as far if you expect them to maintain a pace faster than a person, with a person and belongings on their back.

At the limits of our endurance, human ultra-runners perform about as well as horses over very long distances in terms of simple endurance — carrying our own weight without stopping. It’s only over short distances that horses have such obvious advantages.

If you had a horse and you needed to cover great distance, you spent as much of that time as you could doing your own walking.

I believe Fastext was implemented with pre-caching. Since the page declared which the four page numbers were, the Teletext decoder was able to pre-fetch those pages while you read? This is what made it fast.

Essentially if you spent half a minute reading a page, the four coloured fast text pages were already received.

Perhaps this is fundamental attribution error:

You don’t worry because it’s inevitable. You perceive them not worrying, but they aren’t scared enough?

What if they also have the (intuitive, but not necessarily correct) sense that it’s inevitable?

This is a distribution of FreeCAD 0.22 (the current developer version) with the Ondsel Lens collaboration tools preinstalled; so far I have not seen anything else that is unique to them.

Ondsel are a big part of some of the biggest improvements in recent FreeCAD versions, among them the integrated assembly workbench, some significant improvements in Sketcher, and they are organising the continued work towards mitigating the Topological Naming Problem.

The TNP mitigation is not complete yet; the developers are still progressing this.

> Dissent around Mr. Stoll at the time is evident in Phrack

You don’t say!

It might have just made it up, though. It’s very good at making up source references.

“Knows” is such a useless word now; we have debased it by using it loosely in non-AI code contexts so now we can’t sensibly debate whether a non-sentient thing can “know” anything.

Mr Stoll internationally traced a KGB-affiliated hacker when almost nobody had heard of the internet[0], more or less invented the long-game honeypot to catch him, and testified at his trial.

One hopes “the community” listened at least as much to him, considering the internet security community apparently was hardly worth a damn before all this happened.

[0] and was, coincidentally, basically the first person to use the term “The Internet” (proper noun, emphasis on The) in widely read non-fiction, outside of a training manual and research document or two.

OmniChord Heaven on FB has confirmed it works with NiMH batteries (and in a way that confirms my hazy recollection that the older models did not like NiMH C cells)

https://www.facebook.com/Omnichord.Heaven/posts/pfbid02GPS3J...

Oh I am so tempted.