Same. I don't drink caffeine after noon and I have a much easier time maintaining a functional sleep schedule.
I had a older relative who often complained about poor sleep. I asked if they drank caffeine in the afternoon and they scoffed at the idea it could be the issue. But I have noticed they are not drinking caffeine late in the day now, and the complaining about poor sleep has ceased.
He provides all the science behind the current obesity epidemic, backed up with studies done on humans.
Obesity is a hormonal problem... Insulin makes us fat.
Current fads suggest eating ALL THE TIME.
This puts people in a state of high insulin all day, everyday. This is bad.
Intermittent fasting based around a common sense diet (limit sugars and starchy food to special occasions) will lower insulin levels, and cause the body to burn fat instead of insulin.
The keys is not what to eat, but when to eat and how often... and drink Apple Cider Vinegar. :P
You are probably downvoted because there isn't enough convincing evidence for insulin hypothesis. I like Jason Fung and I love the idea of fasting for health and weight-loss. I think though that advocates of both fasting and low-carb make a mistake getting too attached to insulin. They may die on this hill while being right all along but for different reasons.
My understanding is that we don't know if it's insulin or something else that makes many people wanting to eat less once they are accustomed to regular fasting or low-carb diet. It would be better to focus on a proven fact that it does work for many people and trying to understand the mechanism instead of picking just one possible one (insulin) and staking everything on that being full explanation.
Relying on Twitch streaming for income is a hard life. Anyone who doesn't realize this is delusional.
You're talking 10-12 hours _every day_ entertaining people. Successful streamers work 6-7 day weeks at those hours and if they're lucky take 2 weeks off a year -- one of those spent at TwitchCon. Most of them are playing the same game for long stretches of time (months to years). That's really hard!
And if you regularly have ~3k viewers, you'll probably earn $2k-4k a month between ad money and donations. Except for outliers, obviously. The overwhelming majority of streamers are not successful, by the way, or are only successful for a year or two.
It's absolutely a labor of love. You do it because you can't stand doing the alternative.
The catch is that if a story like this is interesting enough to be printed, it's usually also too unusual to actually be representative. No one's going to read "guy quits his job to go to law school".
I think the concept of (optional) subscriptions funding Twitch streamers is an excellent replacement for ads however if you are considering making a living off Twitch you should be aware of the politics. There is a culture of banning streamers (sometimes indefinitely, but rarely upon first ban) for violations in their extremely vauge TOS. Usually no reason is given and there are major inconsistencies between some streamers' moderation and others.
So how did they make magazines back then? Answer: Paper mockups made with IBM composers (typewriters that automatically justified), pasted-in paper photos, color separation negatives, and aluminum printing plate positives (one per color per page (or group of pages)). And an offset press. And folding machines, signature gatherers, binders and trimmers. No computers necessary.
Heh. It's gotten better but, as I can tell you from finishing up laying out a book in Word, it's still a frustrating layout tool.
Unfortunately the market has bifurcated into word processors that aren't really very good layout tools for something as complicated as a book and programs like InDesign that are complex and expensive. (Haven't looked at Scribus recently but I assume the complex point stands.)
> It's gotten better but, as I can tell you from finishing up laying out a book in Word, it's still a frustrating layout tool.
That's... dedication.
InDesign is probably the best I've used, but it is expensive.
Inkscape is actually flexible enough to do it well, and incredibly simple on the surface, though a few quirks.
Scribus can talk to Krita, and some Photoshop stuff, which can lift the burden with some image-heavy things. Complexity wise, it looks a lot like InDesign, but can't do quite a few things it can.
But, for most people, any of the above will fit the bill.
I've never heard of using Inkscape for layout. I think of it just as a vector drawing tool.
InDesign is certainly the standard.
Things got complicated because I needed to output an interim version of the book and wanted a format collaborators could work in. Plus I thought I'd save having to re-layout the book after editing. Which of course didn't happen that way.
Lesson for next time is either live within Google Docs limitations or do layout in a proper tool only when content editing is 99.9% complete.
Around 2003 I used KWord for laying out a school magazine. I didn't have any experience, but it was easy to do for 12-16 pages. It wasn't until I entered the corporate world a couple years later that I found out the dominant word processor (MS Word) sucked badly at layout.
By 1979, you would often have been using computer typesetting equipment. (Source: I did even at school newspapers) But writers/editors would still have been using typewriters. The edited story was then manually typed into the computer typesetter.
As you say, the output of this along with photos and so forth had to then be assembled by hand.
No, as a pro, my reasoning is they are great for photo/video work, and even affordable compared to competitive solutions (I mean at the time, they don't make them anymore, but the 5K iMac screens are excellent).
Also, colorsync works much better on Apple monitors. I have two monitors on my desk, a Dell P2815Q and a Apple Thunderbolt Display. The Apple had a default colorsync profile that looks perfect, the Dell, I got close, but I can't get quite right. Colors change slightly when I drag a window from one monitor to the other.
Most users don't realize how good Apple monitors are, and how much better they make your work day.
I just don't understand scrimping on something you will spend all day staring at. Getting something "almost as good" for half the price is a terrible deal.
Er, are they good? I have a gorgeous Dell IPS 4k monitor at work and (I know, it's very silly) I actually get a tiny thrill whenever I pop my IDE open in it. It's just so darn pretty.
Sitting in front of a Dell 4k monitor and having used a good 4k monitor I am would not call Dell's offering good.
I have never used an Apple monitor, but I have used several other 4k monitors and they are great. My Dell monitor is just fraught with compatibility issues and needs special software to work with win 7. I use Ubuntu and it barely works there, my coworkers have to treat theirs like special snowflakes.
I think I communicated that poorly. I only need to use win 7 every 3 months when I change my domain password. I don't need a 4k monitor for that, so I go without.
On Ubuntu the monitor needed much finagling to get working right, unlike my AOC or Asus 4k monitors which both worked when hotplugged using HDMI.
My coworkers, who aren't all devs, have more work to do in windows and they needed the special software.
How odd, maybe I'm just quite lucky then. To be fair I'm not doing any sort of dual-monitor setup. I just forgo my laptop screen entirely (close the lid) because I've found the one 4k to be plenty. Maybe if I started getting more complicated than that, things would get weird.
Most of my workmates have them. They look like glossy mirrors, and several complain about it. When you can see your reflection in them, plus all the room lighting, that's a terrible quality for a general purpose display. Meanwhile I have a much cheaper matt Dell monitor which is much more fit for purpose, and I don't suffer from the glare and reflections.
Treason? You come to Hacker News to imply that the President of the United States has committed Treason. What proof do you have? This is pure slander.
Sorry your preferred candidate lost the election. Next time don't let violent, intolerant, elitist, smug liberals and celebrities take over your political party. Democrats used to be about Unions and the working family. Appears that era is over.
As noted in previous comments... There is a reason the Rust Belt voted for Trump, and it has nothing to do with Russia.
I implied no such thing, read what I wrote 50 times if you must until you see that I merely said treason is a serious crime, not a distraction. I didn't not imply he was guilty, we don't know that one way or the other; hence the investigation.
You really need to learn to have a discussion with someone, without blaming them for all of the perceived faults of the democrats. You don't know my political party, nor my preferred candidate, you're just assuming everything as if everyone who doesn't like Trump is the same.
> There is a reason the Rust Belt voted for Trump, and it has nothing to do with Russia.
No one thinks it does; the Rust Belt is just gullible and fell for a con man promising them things that cannot occur, those jobs cannot come back, they no longer exist. They heard what they wanted to hear because they're unable to hear the truth.
Because here are many non-USA citizens on HN who travel to USA for work, conferences, business meetings etc. and are concerned that one day it might happen to them too?
- Admission is refused to holders of passports or travel documents containing a visa/stamp for Israel Israel or any data that passenger has been to Israel or indication of any connection with the State of Israel.
- All US passport holders are only allowed into Iran if part of a tour group (or with a guide). It apparently still stands that Americans must also be escorted from the airport to the hotel, and cannot make their own arrangements (it all has to be pre-organised – a simple addition via a tour company).
I fail to see how the parent story is relevant to tech at all.
A person with a federal warrant was arrested entering the USA. Why is this hacker news?
If you want to discuss "what might happen" when entering a country, and the entry laws of those countries, I'm game. But again, I don't see how it is tech related.
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