patrickdavey

So, what's your plan?

I'm genuinely curious: why would this be flagged?

I found this hard to read. I have struggled with poor sleep for years (like, 10 years probably). It's not _that bad_, but, memory isn't great and definitely don't feel rested in the mornings. But I'm still reasonably functional, can hold down a job etc.

A while back I got tested for sleep apnea, had a 6 or a 7 on the scale (mild). I tried the CPAP machine for 6 weeks (inside the time I could return it). My number went down to 1 or something, but, I didn't feel any different, so I gave it up (this was about a year ago, maybe a bit longer).

I decided to try get to the bottom of my tiredness again and was recently at my doctors. He said it would take 3 to 6 months of using the CPAP machine before you'd know whether it would make a difference! I'm trying some other things first (giving up alcohol for 6 months as of yesterday!), taking nasal sprays and a device to stop me snoring.. Really hope something works out as it's just so annoying!

I'm very jealous in a way that the author found out the root cause of their issue. Well done keeping at it! For anyone who has successfully used CPAP, did it really take 3-6 months before you found it made a difference?

That's no moon

Did you read Mindf*ck? Fascinating book. I'd be so so angry about Brexit after reading it if I'd been affected.

Having lived through the Christchurch quake, this was the thing I hadn't properly appreciated. It's a sequence, so, you can expect literally thousands of quakes after a big one like this.

It's completely and utterly headwrecking! Every time one happens you don't know whether it's going to build into a big one.

My heart goes out to them.

Yip, I just stopped reading news for a year 2 years ago. Then I restarted again last year, and now I've stopped again. Definitely better for my mental health! (and you see enough headlines here and other places that I still feel pretty informed)

I find it slightly interesting that it's US only to begin with.

Imagining a future where use of technology like this was restricted by geography. It'd give US workers an _insane_ advantage.

Attributes do support defaults. You can absolutely do:

   attribute :my_time_at, :datetime, default: -> { Time.now }
   attribute :persisted, :boolean, default: false

What I like about the types is that it will automatically coerce the messy user data automatically (this is what AR is doing under the hood anyway right?), you can just be more intentional about it.

Anyway, glad you're happy with portrayal :) I definitely agree with you on the "freeze, read-onlyness" etc. being good things to have!

Have you looked at ActiveModel::Attributes ? That coupled with ActiveModel::Model makes for simple form objects quite nicely. Also, you can write your _own_ ActiveModel::Type so you can require that a particular attribute is a particular (business) model. I've been finding it a very nice way to write form objects.

It's a bit dated now, but, I did a short presentation for my local ruby meetup and the slides are here [1]

1. https://slides.com/patrickdavey/rails-5-2-attributes-api#/25

Firewatch I enjoyed, I'll have a look at the others.

Thanks :) happy new years

Stop reading 24 hour news.

Hah! Love your nick! I haven't played games in years, but, I really enjoyed half life and the bioshock series (and portal, absolute classic).

Any others to recommend in that vein?

Love this idea. Could you just expand a little on PlayOS? It's this running an underlying OS which then boots into a bash console running your repl?

Just curious, would love to do something similar (or use yours if it was available!)

Also, consider just printing out the legal two letter words and leaving them there for anyone to check ... Saves on the "win by memory" and allows more tactical play by all.

I've been playing like that with my parents (in their 80s) and it makes for a much more fun game!

How do you end up in a situation where your dad, knowing nothing about coffee plantations, ends up buying one and then leaving it to you?

This was great! It prompted me to check what the story is for Android/Google. I hadn't realised there's https://www.google.com/android/find which lets me find/lock/wipe it.

Also extra handy: I can make it ring _even if silent with my one-plus physical silent switch on_. I'd not actually worked out how to do that before, and it has been very annoying the odd time I lose it and it's silent.

Very good.

Just curious - what's wrong with backup codes?

That is a neat enumeration, but, the question did ask for classes and inheritance which this definitely isn't.

Would you really just ignore the requirements and give the simplest starter as a way to start a conversation?

If you don't already know about it: combining fzf with Ctrl-r is _amazingly good_ https://github.com/junegunn/fzf it's a fuzzy finder combined with reverse history search..

Awesome - wish it had Dutch!

We ended up rebooting our server, that brought everything back up again.

I own an rm2 and love it. However, I also love my Kindle and if I had to choose I'd choose the Kindle.

When my Kindle (or RM) dies, I'll almost certainly replace it with the new writable Kindle, especially as I assume it's backlit which I feel is something really missing from the RM.

I would love a Kickstarter (or something similar) with this. Would totally buy a nice set.

Got it in Italy

If I bought Twitter shares today ($42) would Musk be forced to also buy my shares at $52 if the sale was forced through?

? How did you pull that off? Can they not just set their own DNS so you can't block them finding sites, and then if they're communicating over tor how do you even know what they're looking at?

Most impressive!

Oh that looks amazing! I just ordered a yoto [1] but that looks a lot more fun!

[1] https://us.yotoplay.com/

The way I think about it (which I hope is correct): when you first chose your probability of guessing correctly was 1 in 100. It doesn't magically become 1 in 2 when the other 98 doors are opened.

Tens of millions is only "pretty close to financial security". Wow.