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New comment by spazbob in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration"

spazbob — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:01:24 +0000

This feels like one of those points that go back to our recent history vs the last 100,000 years of evolution.

Before artifical light, alarm clocks, jobs, screens with blue light etc - we presumably woke and slept fairly consistently, no doubt tied partly to sunlight and temperature. Some people probably slept more than others, as they always have, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a lot more consistency.

Disclaimer: I know nothing, just interested

New comment by spazbob in "Wiring my home with fiber"

spazbob — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:13:13 +0000

This is not an accurate statement. I'm paying GBP25/mo for 1Gbit symmetrical in London suburbs. Same provider offers up to 3Gbit symmetrical for non-business. And I'm not in some fancy new build- the fibre is run from the existing street telegraph pole to the front of the house.

Yes it's not necessarily nationwide but "unheard of" is way off, before you even consider Virgin cover a sizeable chunk of the country and their DOCSIS upgrade means they can push gigabit now.

New comment by spazbob in "Ask HN: What home security camera setup do you use?"

spazbob — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:19:58 +0000

If you want plug-and-play and you're not averse to internet-enabled cameras, I use the Hive Indoor/Outdoor cameras and find them reliable, high quality and well-integrated in the app with push/email notifications and IFTTT. The fact they can tie into the home alarm system, smart lamps/plugs etc is a big win for me. Night vision works well over short distances.

I would say that it's worth trying to see some test video on whatever you go for before purchasing. I tried out a Ring Indoor Cam which is supposedly 1080p but only 15fps - it suffered from quite bad motion blur if you walked through a room at a good pace, as well as being visibly much lower bitrate than the Hive 1080p so I returned it.

New comment by spazbob in "Ask HN: Is Spring still a good framework for Java based web projects?"

spazbob — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 10:12:04 +0000

Check out thymeleaf.org - adds HTML templating to Spring MVC. I much prefer the syntax over JSP personally. In addition, the docs are great and there are plenty of resources online (baeldung in particular).

New comment by spazbob in "Ask HN: Which are some good resources for software design/planning?"

spazbob — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 19:27:12 +0000

I'd highly recommend Design It!: From Programmer to Software Architect by Michael Keeling. Plenty of practical examples (including a scenario enterprise application thay unfolds during the book), up to date in terms of technologies and approaches such as microservices architectures, cloud etc and just generally very readable. A good grounding to enterprise-class design. It also by nature educates you on leading teams through the design process.