Rechtsstaat (u/Rechtsstaat)

Rechtsstaat commented on Higher ultraviolet light exposure is associated with lower mortality sciencedirect.com/science... · Posted by u/janandonly

heroiccocoa · a year ago

Of course, there exists the whole field of photobiomodulation. Red light therapy (630/670/810/830/850/1060 nm red and NIR light) helps the eye in the morning (see Prof Glen Jeffery's work at UCL; the mitochondria are only sensitive to RLT during a certain window of the circadian rhythm, that coincides with early morning sunlight that is shifted towards the red/NIR), particularly when it comes to preventing and slowing age-related macular degeneration, but also improving colour perception, controlling blood glucose levels, improving athletic performance and recovery, mood and cognitive performance, and some other benefits. When I first got interested I thought I'd just get a small handheld LED device, but as I got deeper into it I decided to buy a large mains powered full body panel with 5 wavelengths. In particular the benefits to my sleep and skin have been fantastic, with the caveat that I live in northern Europe at a latitude of 53.3 degrees north. Perhaps those nearer the equator will feel more muted responses. That being said, improvements to vision are counterintuitively very difficult to actually judge without measuring, because the brain is constantly adjusting/hiding our defects.

Rechtsstaat · a year ago

Hi, do you happen to have to have some resources for someone interested in using red light therapy? Or even just a simple buying tip to get started. As someone with quite high myopia and a little bit of astigmatism thrown in, I'm at higher risk of myopic macular degeneration, so red light therapy might be extra useful!

Rechtsstaat commented on VanMoof, the e-bike darling, skids off track: Sales paused, execs depart techcrunch.com/2023/07/10... · Posted by u/j-a-a-p

RC_ITR · 2 years ago

Personally, I love the idea but the execution was very strange.

Only offering automatic shifting (and lurch-y automatic shifting at that!) made the bikes basically unrideable for anything beyond a slow flat ride.

I guess the Dutch never see hills so gearing is sort of foreign to them anyway!

Rechtsstaat · 2 years ago

Hills, sure, not too many of them. But there are sooo many bridges that require shifting. And the flat landscape can also give you terrible headwinds where again, shifting is very handy. So I don't think that /that/ is the reason for the lack of manual shifting.

Rechtsstaat commented on Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To oracle.com/news/announcem... · Posted by u/geerlingguy

n6h6 · 2 years ago

What's up with the way you write the letter s? Is it a catch-all for apostrophes? I haven't seen anyone do that before, just curious.

Rechtsstaat · 2 years ago

On some keyboard layouts, pressing the quote mark starts a modifyer and then depending on the layout the following character is combined with the quote mark. Most English layouts don't include ś in this, but some Eastern European (?) languages use that character more often and so include them in this modifyer shortcut.

Rechtsstaat commented on Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom nltimes.nl/2023/07/04/dut... · Posted by u/the-dude

Rechtsstaat · 2 years ago

This is an older article. Today, the coalition decided on a measure with 'urgent advice' to not be allowed smartphones, tablets and smartwatches in the classroom [1]. Starting Jan 1st 2024, and so far only for secondary education, though they're deciding on primary education today.Schools are free in how they implement it, could be in the entire building or just classrooms. I don't expect any hard rules any time soon, with the coalition being so divided on the topic.

There's been interesting debates in parlement preceding this measure, with several interesting position papers on the topic from researchers, and even student associations [2]. The researchers emphasize that adolescents are much more susceptible to the bad effects of smartphones, due to inexperience with dopamine and its effects on dopamine production, being easier to condition, FOMO. The main adverse effect they name is what they call a 'crumbling brain', with a short attention span unable to focus on one thing for a longer time. An often-repeated soundbyte is that students using smartphones often score in average 1-1.5 points less on tests, on a scale of 1 to 10.

I dunno what to think about it. As noted by the student association, it seems like children won't get the chance to learn how to handle the traps smartphones pose. Then again, I was free to use mine in high school and I'm still addicted to the thing :/

[1] https://nos.nl/artikel/2481424-kabinet-geeft-dringend-advies...

[2] https://www.tweedekamer.nl/debat_en_vergadering/commissiever...

Rechtsstaat commented on Can you buy the same ticket at a lower price if you buy it from another country? travel.stackexchange.com/... · Posted by u/beatthatflight

Traubenfuchs · 2 years ago

You are a climate masochist. I recommend emotionally disengaging from topics that cause you grief and that you absolutely can not impact. The thought of personal CO2 emission reduction behavior having any kind of measurable impact on the climate is laughably naive.

I recently had to figure out the cheapest flights I could find to keep my star alliance frequent flier status, which I was at risk of losing because covid changed my business travel behavior. So in the end I was just visiting random European cities, sometimes with a connecting flight (I was keeping my status via flight segments).

Rechtsstaat · 2 years ago

That's like saying you shouldn't worry about reducing your personal wasting of food because it doesn't solve world hunger—like when choosing not to fly often there's a small impact that is very much noticeable on a larger scale if more people did it.

Even if the industries, the western world, developing countries forced to use coal plants for cheap energy (and you can choose many more actors that play a larger part in causing the climate crisis) contribute to the problem more than you as an individual, at least you're not actively making the world a worse place.

Rechtsstaat commented on Poor sleep drove me insane, and my long path to recovery writing.samsonhu.com/how-... · Posted by u/Wagthesam

Razengan · 3 years ago

I am extremely affected by outdoors noise during sleep. Traffic, construction, kids crying, people shouting..

I try my best to convince myself "I'm perfectly comfortable, nothing's happening in my bedroom, whoever is causing that noise can not affect me in any way" but to no avail :(

If the source is indoors, like the whirr of a hard disk (very annoying on recent Macs + external hard disks, constantly spinning up and down) I have to turn it off before trying to sleep.

It gets so bad that even the mere anticipation of an expected noise, a clang or a honk or a yell, prevents me from falling asleep. For me it's definitely psychological than physical. Sort of an arrogant insistence that everyone and everything should be silent while I rest.

Thankfully when I'm really tired I stop caring about noise and just drop like a log.

Rechtsstaat · 3 years ago

Oh man, I know that feeling of dread as you're waiting for the next shout or clank. It took some time to try out various earplugs, which at first made me sleep even worse, but once I was used to wearing them while sleeping (after 2 weeks) the difference was night and day.

Rechtsstaat commented on Enclave: An Unpickable Lock ominoushum.com/lock/... · Posted by u/lisper

can16358p · 3 years ago

I have zero knowledge about the topic and something in the video confuses me:

In the YouTube video explanation around 2:30, when individual positions (not sure if it's the correct word: talking about the different parts of the lock's inner array moving based on the position of the key/pick) are picked, why doesn't the inner mechanism at snap back to its initial state by the spring's force when key/pick is moved out of that position?

And how do they reset when lock is turned and unturned back to initial rotation state if they don't reset when individual positions are released?

(Sorry if I used a terribly wrong terminology)

Rechtsstaat · 3 years ago

The pins usually don't fit exactly (because they still need to be able to move up and down), meaning that you can turn the lock slightly even without the pins at the right positions.

If a pin is pushed up completely, and you turn the lock slightly, the pin can get stuck in the right position. This is done with a torsion wrench, keeping torsion on the lock while trying to get the pins in the right position with picks, hooks, or rakes.

Rechtsstaat commented on For natural theologians, proving God was beside the point aeon.co/essays/for-natura... · Posted by u/Tomte

badrabbit · 3 years ago

You don't care so much you use every opportunity to tell people how much you don't care?

Clearly I meant atheists that criticize things they don't even believe in.

Rechtsstaat · 3 years ago

What's wrong with criticizing things one doesn't believe in?

Especially if, as the parent noted, that thing one doesn't belief in has—through the actions of people that do believe—negative impacts on one's life?

Rechtsstaat commented on Mammals can breathe through their intestines (2021) science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/FeaturelessBug

Andrew_nenakhov · 3 years ago

You better not know what else scientists do to rats. And please, don't even start on the argument that they do it for science and not for entertainment. Entertainment in the form of science fiction is crucial for inspiring new generations of scientists.

Rechtsstaat · 3 years ago

> You better not know what else scientists do to rats.

Most people know what scientists do to animals—there have been enough awareness campaigns over the years. Animal experiments are tolerated, and usually strictly regulated [1], because they can potentially improve the lives of people.

> Entertainment in the form of science fiction is crucial for inspiring new generations of scientists.

I don't see why that (if it is true at all) is a reason to abuse animals for movies. If you wanted, you could make 'inspiring' science fiction showing harm to animals by using special effects.

[1]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

Rechtsstaat commented on Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix matrix.org/blog/2022/05/3... · Posted by u/anthropodie

tabbott · 3 years ago

I don't think this is an acquisition -- Rocket.Chat remains an independent, venture-backed company. Unless I'm missing something hidden here, this announcement is just Rocket.Chat implementing an integration with Matrix, not a change in control of their open source project or associated business.

Rechtsstaat · 3 years ago

I think that is what they mean—the 'acquisition' in Open Source land is just the successful integration of one open platform into the other!