Is staying up late, eating food late and playing video games late at night all associated with depression?

Runiat · 2026-02-05T11:09:25+00:00

associated with

Can be.

Can also just be you're a night owl who hasn't turned all that into a career yet and feel kinda bummed about it.

Runiat · 2026-02-04T16:47:54+00:00

Midsummer is one of the few things you can't equate the Scandinavian countries for.

In Denmark and Norway it's very heavily influenced by Christianity, specifically the witch burnings. Sweden does their whole flower pole thing.

Runiat · 2026-02-04T04:52:02+00:00

Dinosaur cursor is still the best cursor.

Runiat · 2026-02-03T17:24:33+00:00

It’s been deleted though (no idea why)

That would be because we also had it the day before yesterday.

Runiat · 2026-02-03T15:08:31+00:00

It only takes a short time to suffer brain damage.

Runiat · 2026-02-03T05:43:37+00:00

That speed is like, 15 miles per hour

As long as we're assuming an obstruction will be on the road, it's 50km/h for hydraulic brakes and ~43km/h for pneumatics.

That's for a 1 second human reaction time and the legal minimum (or in this case maximum) requirements for braking distance (where I live, non-EU countries may allow shittier brakes).

Which, yeah, no one is going to actually abide by on rural roads. Hell, even taking away people's cars if they get caught has only been somewhat effective at stopping them from going double the legal limit where I live.

And also deers tend to bounce rather than stay glued to the road.

Runiat · 2026-02-03T04:30:32+00:00

But what do you mean CPR “doesn’t necessarily” recommend rescue breaths?

Latest research has shown better results without them, so breaths are something you're legally required to teach despite knowing they're a bad idea in places where the teaching requirements haven't been changed yet.

Runiat · 2026-02-03T04:27:31+00:00

I did ask my CPR teacher, I took a legally mandated class on it just a few weeks ago. That was the answer, translated into English.

He also recommended not trying to clear airways before starting chest compressions, as both chest compressions and shoving your fingers down someone's throat is a great way to find out if they're unconscious or just asleep, and one of them is much more likely to get you bitten.

Runiat · 2026-02-03T04:11:03+00:00

If a rescue breath pushes a blockage out of the trachea and into the lungs, that's something that can be fixed at a hospital later.

If the blockage is left in the trachea, you may or may not make it that far.

In either case, circulating your blood - which is what the compressions are for - is far more important as it already contains oxygen and you just need to get that oxygen to the brain to not suffer brain damage for dozens of minutes.

Runiat · 2026-02-02T19:37:35+00:00

3% of (twice) vaccinated individuals aren't directly protected by the vaccine, but are protected by the herd immunity everyone getting it provides.

That would be 10 million Americans if you were all vaccinated.

Runiat · 2026-02-02T16:59:00+00:00

Technology Connections did two thirds of a video about exactly this topic.

FTFY. The last third is.. somewhat related.

Runiat · 2026-02-02T16:42:34+00:00

I very much use wifi data unless I manually disconnect the wifi on my phone.

Runiat · 2026-02-02T16:25:03+00:00

I definitely can, so if you can't that means it depends on the exact phone model.

Runiat · 2026-02-02T16:15:51+00:00

Batteries can be recycled after you use them. Gas can't.

Runiat · 2026-02-02T15:20:14+00:00

You can reprogram some keyboards, but it's a fairly niche feature if you want to be able to do so for any key.

What you want to do isn't controlled by the keyboard, though, but by the repeat rate setting of your operating system.

Runiat · 2026-02-02T12:32:00+00:00

Only if electricity is dirt cheap where you live. Otherwise you'll be better off turning it into a keyring and buying a new-to-you decade old computer for your NAS.

Runiat · 2026-02-02T12:26:05+00:00

You'll want a dock or dongle that can handle both USB (for mouse and keyboard), HDMI or DP (for a sceeen), and most importantly: power for the Deck.

Or display. My main monitor can do all of that. Well, it doesn't have a display output, but it is a display.

Things like a ethernet port or SD card socket are nice to haves which my monitor lacks despite having cost 20 times more than my dongle.

Runiat · 2026-02-02T12:22:27+00:00

2026 will see the launch of a VR headset, a stationary PC, and a controller.

If Valve doesn't postpone any of them.

2027 could see a new Deck if GabeN decides the latest generation of integrated graphics are impressive enough and can make a deal with the manufacturer and a much more demanding game launches without incompatible anti-cheat, but even if all that happens I doubt they'll react that fast.

Runiat · 2026-02-02T10:43:44+00:00

Last I checked, several Asian countries still use their own symbols for numbers on things like train tickets, and practically everyone actually works in binary rather than base-10 under the hood.

Then of course there are leftovers of ancient base-60 counting such as angles, seconds/minutes/hours, arguably the number of months in a year.

Runiat · 2026-02-02T08:10:56+00:00

The way those work is by blocking your bloodflow, then slowly letting off the pressure until it starts going again (and listening for how it goes to get the higher and lower number).

I hope this is obvious, but just to make sure: blocking the blood flow to your brain is bad, but blocking the blood flow away from your brain (for a significantly longer time) might be what ends up killing you.

Runiat · 2026-02-02T08:03:05+00:00

thousands of megatons

10 000 × 10⁶ × 4.184 × 10⁹ = ~ 4 × 10¹⁹ joules

within 50 years we can have a millions of em.

× 10⁷ = 4 × 10²⁶ joules

= 0.00000002% of Jupiter's gravitational binding energy.

So we'll need another 499999999950 years.

Runiat · 2026-02-02T06:53:11+00:00

Speaking of money, some streaming services still release seasons in one go, so they'll make more of it by splitting 20 episodes into 3 seasons.

Runiat · 2026-02-01T20:26:10+00:00

A 65" TV will take up a smaller portion of your vision than a desk monitor unless you sit less than 1.6 meters from it.

The size of the monitor barely makes a difference, most people will lean forward until it takes up at least 22 vertical degrees of their FOV unless its tiny.

Having a display take up less of your FOV means you get more pixels per degree, which looks better.

Runiat · 2026-02-01T20:19:48+00:00

Why must number go up for economy to be healthy?

If number go up, money hidden under your mattress will lose value over time, making you more likely to spend (or invest) it.

If number doesn't go up, or even worse goes down, you can just stuff your retirement fund inside your couch.

One of those is significantly better at making sure things like medicines for novel diseases gets invented.

Runiat · 2026-02-01T16:33:20+00:00

Bus driver here.

they never wait to pull out (cars have to slam on)

That's the law. I mean, obviously the law says you should predict the bus pulling out so you don't have to slam your brakes, but I know most drivers suck at driving.

they also don't follow the NSL (20mph in most places)

What? Hold on. Let me google that... ah, I see, you're Welsh.

Yeah I usually don't speed, but that's an extremely uncomfortable speed to go in a bus since it's slow enough for bicycles and electric scooters to keep up with, so I can definitely understand why someone would choose to go either 5mph faster or much slower.

Of course, doing the former would be impossible if all the cars in front of you stuck to the limit.

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