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The 1/8th Sleep 2 years ago

Do people use this only in the hot months? It's beginning to get cooler where I live and from now until around April we do the opposite and use a heated mattress pad. For me there's nothing better than getting into a warm bed in a cold room. I immediately turn off the heat after getting in though, otherwise I overheat and sweat.

Not the author but I'd often seen him at the local coffee shop in Princeton reading or working. He was incredibly kind and generous with his time (I also made sure to not ask about GoL because I'd read about his feelings regarding it). He even showed my 6 year old a few puzzles. Even though we'd see him all the time, each time was like seeing a celebrity for me.

I was looking for something like this when redoing my bathroom tiles but surprisingly couldn't find anything. I ended up using draw.io which worked but not that easily.

A few suggestions for your tool. Add millimeters as an option. I'm using 12"x24" tile for the floor but they're really 300mm x 600mm. I learned most 12"x24" are that size. Another thing I learned is with that size it's recommended to use a 33% offset pattern. This guy explains it well https://www.diytileguy.com/12x24-tile/

Xmas.c (1988) 3 years ago

I'm not so sure about this.

Wikipedia says "The earliest known publications of the words to The Twelve Days of Christmas were an illustrated children's book, Mirth Without Mischief, published in London in 1780" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_(...

This site https://www.birdspot.co.uk/culture/the-birds-of-the-twelve-d... tries hard to link them all to birds but it's a far stretch, considering it falls apart at "Five Gold Rings". "However, Mirth and Mischief includes an illustration that clearly depicts the rings as jewelry." Archive.org even has a scan of the book: https://archive.org/details/mirth_without_mischief/page/n7/m...

There's a huge community of people actively doing this. Type 1 diabetics were tired of waiting for a "closed loop" (aka artificial pancreas) insulin delivery system so they developed their own. One open source project is called Loop https://loopkit.github.io/loopdocs/ It's very mature and I know a few people who have been using it for years.

If a person can't breath through their nose, I suggest trying Afrin.

Be careful of the "rebound" effect with nasal sprays. Years ago I was "hooked" on Afrin. Not in a getting high sense but in the sense that I started to constantly need it in order to breath out of my nose, even after my cold went away. It was a terrible feeling and took weeks to wean off.

With a bad cold and miserable congestion, nasal spray like Afrin is like a miracle. I still use it in those instances but only for 2-3 days max and very sparingly.

If you really can't breath out of your nose well see a doctor.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/allergies/exp...

https://www.goodrx.com/conditions/nasal-congestion/rebound-c...

It's funny sad that every year is the year of Linux on the Desktop. I used it as my desktop from around '97-'99 and eventually gave it up for Mac. It was fun to tinker with and get my Enlightenment setting just right but I can't see it ever taking much marketshare.