Maybe just set a reminder in your phone annually to replace all AirTag batteries
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running101 commented on Ask HN: Do you track how your email address is used? · Posted by u/themingus
Use unique plus addresses for each service that requests email address.
Quite a few people here report getting anxious even when taking their BP themselves:
https://www.innerhealthstudio.com/phobia-taking-blood-pressu...
I'm one of them. I bought a device with memory and covered the screen with a piece of card. Then I take BP for two weeks and ignore the first few days' readings. I seem to get used to it after a few days. This gets me readings that are very close to 120/80.
I've had anxiety about blood pressure ever since running for an appointment, while being on the first day of a new job when I was really amped up, and so (of course) had a dangerously high reading. I still remember the guy's eyes widening as he looked at the screen. Ever since then I've hated having BP taken and I can feel my BP and pulse increasing the moment I step into a doctor's office. Fortunately my doctor understands and doesn't try to push pills on me.
I wish there were some way of measuring BP without knowing it's being done. The act of measurement can greatly affect the result, which is counter-productive in several ways (not the least of which is un-needed anxiety).
York Cardiologist on Youtube is good on BP, and why apparently high BP should not automatically mean pills, although undoubtedly it sometimes should. (Usual disclaimer: this is not medical advice, ask your doctor about your specific situation.)
Try the 4-7-8 Breathing technique while you are traveling to and right before you take the reading. Also just focus on something else like counting things on the wall while they take it. Mine has been high when I take it at the Dr office. But at home fine. I think tried the 4-7-8 Breathing technique this last time and it read normal at the dr office.
My wife had a Cryo Chamber Therapy for a few weeks and had to measure pressure and pulse before each session so they let her in. After about a week she was refused entry because her pressure was too high (when she measured it at home - it was normal).
Since then she had problems getting admited every time, and she started to fear the measurement (she had to drive there during work and do overtime later).
She started arguing with the guy and wasted like 5 days driving there and back during work without having another session because the pressure and pulse were too high (despite both being OK at home).
Eventually she went to another person in that hospital to measure her pressure. It was perfect. But when the guy near the entrance to the cryo chamber measured it - it was too high to let her enter.
They tried different instruments and the difference was the same. When the guy measured it - it was too high. When somebody else measured it - it was fine. Finally they let her do the cryo chamber without the guy permission :)
We assumed the difference was just that she was anxious and frustrated when she's seen the guy, but now I wonder if the difference was the position in which he measured the pressure.
I get anxious when taking blood pressure as well. There are techniques your wife can try before entering the cryo-chamber look up the 478 breathing technique. I developed a white coat blood pressure readings over the last several years measuring a stage one or stage two hypertension at my last doctor visit. I use the 478 breathing technique and my blood pressure readings are normal at my last dr visit.
One alternative is a cuff that measures on the upswing, rather than the downswing. It does not tend to squeeze quite as hard, because it stops as soon as it has the systolic reading.
e.g. Omron BP7000
I have omron it has been at least 10 points lower then my other ihealth cuff. I even sent it in, they said was fine. Had the dr check it as well. It was always 10 points lower. I read that omron measures differently than the typical bpm.
running101 commented on Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC timculpan.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/colinprince
This news could be bad for Taiwan
running101 commented on Crows are even smarter than we thought nautil.us/crows-are-even-... · Posted by u/dnetesn
Have posted this before, but it really left an impression about crows, and the bond between their mates:
Years ago I was putting out the garbage in the back alley behind our building where I lived on the 8th floor. A crow attacked me out of the blue. Distracted by the attack, the back door slammed shut behind me. Since my key was only good for the front door, I had to walk around the building. That damn crow followed me the entire time, dive bombing my head, and screaming bloody murder at me. It was a little spooky.
When I finally got back inside and upstairs, I went and looked out the living room window, which looked out the same direction as the back alley. The crow had flown back around and was at the 8th floor looking in the window, from the other side of the pigeon netting we had on our balcony. On the inside of the pigeon netting, was another crow, desperately trying to figure out how it could escape. Not really sure how it had got itself through the pigeon netting in the first place.
I went out and sliced a hole through the netting and the trapped crow quickly joined its mate outside, who finally stopped screaming bloody murder. To this day it still amazes me that the crow's mate, knew which apartment I lived in and spotted me downstairs.
Maybe it was because you were A human, not the fact it was specifically you.
running101 commented on I'm blocking connections from AWS to my on-prem services consulting.m3047.net/duba... · Posted by u/m3047
Wireguard is quite good too, and if you’re up for some complication in your life you can do full mesh quite easily with it if your online infra is a bit distributed.
It has no dhcp
Edit: for clarity, by "multiple OS" I mean multiple Linux versions. Like if one project has a dependency on Ubuntu22 and another is easier with Ubuntu24. You don't have to stress "do I update my OS?"