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  • masterspace@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•If biphasic sleeping was normalized again, what would you do in those few hours between sleeps?English
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    10 days ago

    Take your pet for a walk.

    Personally I find biphasic sleep pretty normal and easy to do when I’m working a job in a timezone that’s behind mine by a few hours.

    Go to bed at 12:30, sleep 4.5 hrs til 5:00, wake up with the cat at dawn, take them outside and enjoy the morning tranquility for a bit, go back to bed at 6, sleep til 9, get up to start my job at 10 or 11.

    I don’t do it when I have to be up early though, I both always struggle to go to bed early, and I find waking up and being up in the middle middle of the night, to feel more stressful than doing it at dawn.

  • masterspace@lemmy.catoFree and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•when GIMP helped solve a murderEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Lol did it solve anything though?

    If you actually watch the full episode, the timeline of events is:

    • Someone rents a new house and finds a skeleton in the marsh behind it. It’s a ~30 year old woman who died in the winter and was bludgeoned and stabbed repeatedly.
    • They send away for DNA sequencing but the lab doesn’t get back to them for like a year and half.
    • In the meantime they look at missing persons cases (over 100 in North Carolina they state, though presumably ~half that once you filter for skeletal women)
    • They determine that this woman’s case seems most likely based on all the other details about her case. The forensic tech who’s oddly interested in how much pain people feel as they die is interested in using “impose an image of a skull on a face technique” to see if it matches.
    • She reaches out to a skateboarding computer science professor who uses gimp to paste a semi transparent layer of the skull on top of a picture of that victim’s face and thinks it probably maybe matches.
    • They get fed up with the DNA lab and send it to a second one that responds in three weeks confirming it was who they thought.
    • They talk to the victim’s friends who point out what party she was at the night she disappeared.
    • The people at the party say that she was hanging out with this one big truck driver after everyone else. His story has been that she walked home after everyone else left, in January, for 7 miles.
    • They interview him a few times and he eventually says that they had sex that night and she belittled him for not getting it up and he pushed her and she he hit her head on the nightstand and he left and she was fine when he left.
    • He’s convicted of murder and dumping her body because that’s an obvious crock of shit.

    Kinda feels like the whole GIMP escapade was just a waste of everyone’s time and all it took to solve the case was basic police work in terms of interviewing people who saw her last. By the time they tried GIMP they already had a prime missing person that they thought it was, and they wouldn’t have had to try gimp if they just went to a second / competent DNA lab immediately. The way they present it is a little unclear, but it sounds like they didn’t even pull the suspect in for further interviewing until they finally got the DNA confirmation for who it was.

  • masterspace@lemmy.catoProgramming@programming.dev•JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)English
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    13 days ago

    An fuck off with these dumbass, utterly vacuous Anti JavaScript rants.

    I’m getting so sick of people being like “I keep getting hurt by bullets, clearly it’s the steel industry that’s the problem”.

    Your issue isn’t with JavaScript it’s with advertising and data tracking and profit driven product managers and the things that force developers to focus on churning out bad UXs.

    I can build an insanely fast and performant blog with Gatsby or Next.js and have the full power of React to build a modern pleasant components hierarchy and also have it be entirely statically rendered and load instantly.

    And guess what, unlike the author apparently, I don’t find it a mystery. I understand every aspect of the stack I’m using and why each part is doing what . And unlike the author’s tech stack, I don’t need a constantly running server just to render my client’s application and provide basic interactivity on their $500 phone with a GPU more powerful than any that existed from 10 years ago.

    This article literally says absolutely nothing substantive. It just rants about how websites are less performant and react is complicated and ignore the reality that if every data tracking script happened backend instead, there would still be performance issues because they are there for the sole reason that those websites do not care to pay to fix them. Full stop. They could fix those performance issues now, while still including JavaScript and data tracking, but they don’t because they don’t care and never would.