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If all you need is screen recording, as per your parent, and you're on windows the default screenshot tool (Win + Shift + S) does screen recording.

That looks very cool. Are you planning on adding Apple Watch integration?

I cannot stand having to fiddle with my phone while at the gym.

What do you think led to the fall off?

What did you use to do the scraping?

Sync to Dropbox -> Dropbox hourly & monthly backups to my NAS using Bvckup2.

(One of these days I’ll setup my NAS to backup offsite fo a #3 backup).

I know that others with Macbooks sync their whole library to their Macbook and then Time Machine to a NAS as their copy #2. Is this vulnerable to the problem in TFA?

The smaller armies, heroes, economy management, and increased micro-control that came from these things really push w3 to the top of the pile for me as well.

I love the term “migraine head”. I’ve never seen that before. It’s gets across the idea that it’s just the way one’s head is quite nicely!

Ah yes. I do get those, but also just get migraines (as well as hypnic headaches) which caffeine is a wonder at ameliorating.

I quit caffeine for about 2 years and the headaches never subsided (except the caffeine withdrawal ones of course).

They are just a fact of my life I’m afraid.

As much as I’d like to get off of caffeine I am very grateful to have is as a remedy.

Yes, my morning coffee and cigarette breakfast was the most rewarding ritual. I basically couldn’t start my day without it!

Even though I quite smoking over 10 years ago I still remember it with the fondness of an old friend.

That’s cool. I’d like to quit again sometime but right now caffeine staves off migraines for me. And with a baby in the house I really don’t have the resources for that battle.

Is it the addictive substance or the ritual I created around it?

I used to think this same thing, that my enjoyment of coffee was largely the ritual. But then I switched to decaf for quite a long time and all my little rituals fell away quite quickly.

I still occasionally drank coffee when I felt like the taste, but I certainly wasn’t performing daily morning ritual.

They recently did a massive recall on a line of power banks for being fire hazards. Make sure it’s not one of them.

A great way to do this is to subscribe to a weekend edition of a good newspaper.

I completely agree. Life as a parent is only about oneself insofar as looking after yourself is good for your family.

Have you read John Cheever’s diaries? It’s the same story.

I can’t really get into his fiction, but the diaries are astounding.

He gave them to his son to read and publish posthumously.

These kinds of demands are becoming more common in b2b software.

My only guess is that, if they are making more money from services, they need to sell less phones. Therefore hardware obsolescence becomes less important as a means of getting revenue.

Yes, but QLC has much higher density.

I think it's the higher density that makes it better for cold storage, which generally has infrequent access, and more reads than writes.

Hence the QLC's endurance being "sufficient for cold storage".

You could probably circumvent this by putting the display into Gaming Mode, which most TVs have. It removes all the extra processing that TVs add to make the image "nicer". These processes add a hell of a lot of latency, which is obviously just fine for watching TV, but horrible for gaming or using as a pc monitor.

I think that's the deliniation between a hobby and an addiction.

This was a good comment until it suddenly became bizarrely insulting in the last paragraph.

Sleeping for longer than 8 hours frequently gives me hypnic headaches and terrible migraines.

I recently had a baby and the lack of sleep has reduced my headache frequency dramatically!

Beware of Philips in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE58YisgFeQ

They've mostly sold off bits of themselves, and/or licensed their name to other producers. It's highly unlikely that Philips actually made that camera.

Similarly, my own position is that the person suggesting I ignore my baby's crying is the one who needs to do the explaining.

Bad advice that has a very long return on investment is quite sticky.

For instance the "cry it out method" did massive amounts of psychological damage to more than one generation, but it seemed to work in the short term as the babies eventually learned to "self-soothe".

Even now I still see parents and grandparents suggesting it in parenting groups; and taking extreme umbrage at the idea that it might have damaged them/their children.

Yes, a fallacy is a reason to dismiss an argument, not necessarily the conclusion; it is a very good reason to doubt a conclusion though.

My parent's formulation can be used with other drugs in cases that are still reasonable. For example:

  1. Many smokers I know have lived to old age.
  2. Therefore "I'm not particularly interested in theories about how my heath demands" not smoking cigarettes.

It also makes an implicit assumption that living for a long time is both necessary and sufficient to describe a healthy person.

Alcohol abuse is can have a negative impact quality of life as well as the length of the life (this comes from mental and physical health effects). So you could live a very long life with alcohol induced depression/anxiety/diabetes etc.

The last part definitely applies as well to your own statement that we generally seem to handle it just fine. It's interesting to see what happens to communities who don't have thousands of years of history with alcohol when it's introduced. For example the Native American population, or the coloured population of south africa.

Europeans and other groups who have had much longer exposure to alcohol do seem to handle it better, but possibly just because the people who couldn't handle it were selected out of our respective gene pools. But, even then, not really. There's a very good documentary about drinking in the UK called Drinkers Like Me, that really shows the hidden cost of alcohol on the health of people in the UK [0].

There are many other things we've done okay with for long periods of time, like lead plumbing (which we used for about 2 thousand years!), which definitely had long term negative effects on us.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8SvnmNo48A

This is a logical fallacy called Survivorship Bias.

Me too. My lifelong tinnitus is the result of standing too close to a monitor at a single loud concert. If I’d worn earplugs just that once I’d never have got it.

Well, I guess you're not supposed to talk about it haha.

But since it's irritating you I had a quick look at your comment history.

I would say that the downvotes are because a high percentage of your comments are argumentative, and occasionally just flat out insulting. Within that your tone is often condescending and dismissive.

And this comment will most likely be flagged now for whining about getting downvotes.

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

"Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."