It's apparently common enough that there's folklore around it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_hag

I've only had the sleep paralysis a couple times thankfully, and anecdotally the last time I had woken up in the middle of the night beforehand, remembered something I needed to do on my computer, took care of it in a dark room real quick, then went back to sleep. I suspect the sudden bright light and a bit of stress probably contributed to it happening.

I wrote about my setup here: https://www.commithash.com/posts/a-better-way-to-share-email...

The product I've been using is this: https://carifree.com/product/maintenance-rinse/

Also it's alkaline in ph, unlike many mouthwashes on the market. Caries need an acidic environment to do their thing, so you want your mouth to be inhospitable to them. Acidic mouthwashes may kill off the bacteria, but they make it a nice environment for any that remain to attach your teeth.

But if cars that take no physical effort of the driver to get moving again aren't expected to come to a full stop, it seems unfair to expect that of bikes. Of course if you blow through an intersection full speed without looking all bets are off and you probably get what you deserve, but I chafe at the bar being set at a "full stop or it was your fault" way of thinking, especially when the cyclist has so much more to lose.

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https://www.tromphoneapp.com/

Disclosure: this is my own pet project. Discussed here previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33898421

A true trombone doesn't have the same issue because the entire range of playable notes isn't regulated by the slide, you change your lips to change the pitch. I'll think on this though. At very least it would be fun to have that mode to do a sad trombone womp womp sound.

I started out spending a couple days trying to get something cross-platform going in Flutter, but it soon became clear that wasn't the best fit, seeing as I'd need native hooks for most of what the app needed to do, and it wasn't yet clear it'd be possible at all. So I switched to making it an iOS app in Swift. The accelerometer data turned out to be not nearly accurate enough to do the job, so I switched to using the camera/AR using ARKit... and it worked instantly. Like the very first time I hooked up a slider UI element to the distance function. It felt a bit like magic. And also just ridiculous.

Here's a video I recorded to send to some friends at the time: https://youtu.be/6BIogfGH3IQ

Here's a video of it in action in it's current state: https://youtube.com/shorts/8kS2TRzV4I4?feature=share

Apologies for the non-responsive website (using nextjs on cloudflare). It doesn't look great on mobile, which is kind of inexcusable, I'm working on it: https://www.tromphoneapp.com

Anyway, I'm not sure where I'll take it from here. I have some ideas for more AR content like hats, heart eyes, etc. Possibly a song editor so users can add songs that might have issues with copyright if I included them in the app? Any ideas you guys have would be fun to hear.

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I started out spending a couple days trying to get something cross-platform going in Flutter, but it soon became clear that wasn't the best fit, seeing as I'd need native hooks for most of what the app needed to do, and it wasn't yet clear it'd be possible at all. So I switched to making it an iOS app in Swift. The accelerometer data turned out to be not nearly accurate enough to do the job, so I switched to using the camera/AR using ARKit... and it worked instantly. Like the very first time I hooked up a slider UI element to the distance function. It felt a bit like magic. And also just ridiculous.

Here's a video I recorded to send to some friends at the time: https://youtu.be/6BIogfGH3IQ

Here's a video of it in action in it's current state: https://youtube.com/shorts/8kS2TRzV4I4?feature=share

Apologies for the non-responsive website (using nextjs on cloudflare). It doesn't look great on mobile, which is kind of inexcusable, I'm working on it: https://www.tromphoneapp.com

Anyway, I'm not sure where I'll take it from here. I have some ideas for more AR content like hats, heart eyes, etc. Possibly a song editor so users can add songs that might have issues with copyright if I included them in the app? Any ideas you guys have would be fun to hear.

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Also, my kid is really enjoying the Dragon Masters series right now, seems good for the younger readers just getting interested in chapter books.

https://youtu.be/i4p_x0S5bmQ

https://youtu.be/TXk-Oc35oN4

https://youtu.be/bVbPmFpspXc

https://youtu.be/q_JqmwwbtpA

https://youtu.be/yC5kHTsmXqQ

https://youtu.be/zWr63p3gsM0

https://youtu.be/LFvOzXUMXwM

https://youtu.be/jb29X2SrgDM

https://youtu.be/CePZ6vwYOYQ

https://youtu.be/a7LUNyMvGqU