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Post by animal531 »

primitivesuave wrote: post #223
thecrazyone wrote: post #188

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This has a serious security flaw. Reproducing the security flaw: 1. Create a plausible enough distraction 2. Place pill on said keyboard 3. Pharmaceutical intervention Complete! Perhaps, this is a general flaw in the choosing of a visible, non-access restircted (presuming) place to keep the pill (also no verification if it's the correct pill). How would you solve this problem? 1. Trivially, restrict access to this pl…

QR code on a pill sounds interesting, then you can scan the pill with your smartphone to find out if you've taken it yet.

Future improvement: We can embed the scanner inside the tongue, so it can directly tell you if you're on or off schedule (perhaps by emitting a bitter vs sweet taste).

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Post by loco5niner »

jnordwick wrote: post #73
saulrh wrote: post #60

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Same. I have a "keys-wallet-phone-pad" routine in which I make sure my pockets contain all of: my keys, my wallet, my cell phone, and the 7-inch tablet that I carry everywhere. I've gotten into the habit of doing it every time I get up if I'm not at home or at my desk at work.

I do the almost the exact same thing, minus the pad. I repeat "keys, wallet, phone" (in that order) as I touch each one when I'm leaving. Bonus, when you get into a good enough habit of doing this, you even do it automatically when you're drunk.

That is exactly what I do, "keys, wallet, phone" in that order.

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Post by DarkTree »

braythwayt wrote: post #162

If you don’t point to the knot on your harness when calling out that you are tied in, and we don’t audibly call out “On belay... belay on” to each other, we aren’t climbing together. These exact same rituals have been developed for climbing because everyone, experienced, and inexperienced, can make mistakes. The greatest climber of her generation (of any gender!), Lynn Hill, opens her autobiography with the story of…

Agreed. This is why, when I'm tying into the anchors at the top of a climb so that I can clean the route, I say every action I'm doing out loud as a way to talk myself through it and confirm that I'm doing all of the actions. It becomes much clearer if I do something out of order or incorrect just by hearing myself say it.

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Post by WettowelReactor »

yorwba wrote: post #283
mjevans wrote: post #260

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By landing correctly; mostly not on your head, and not at a bad angle for the spine. Soft ground beneath also helps.

What is a bad angle for the spine? I don't usually fall large distances, but something like this seems useful to know, just in case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute_landing_fall

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Post by tedajax »

sogen wrote: post #179
tedajax wrote: post #125

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To add to your argument because I agree with you quite a bit: A post-it stuck on the side of one's monitor seems vastly superior to any sort of app based reminder. It helps that creating the post-it and sticking it somewhere is itself a physical action that is remembered much more than a few taps of a thumb.

Yes, destroy the note immediately after or when doing the task.

Also you can keep a "queue" of tasks along the bottom/side of the monitor or maybe it ends up representing some sort of pipeline and before you know it you have your own personal kanban setup.

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Post by davesag »

ianamartin wrote: post #284
ianamartin wrote: post #93

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Ah, yes. The old upside-down-tomato-sauce-can-next-to-the-door-to-remember-my-umbrella trick. That's always been a classic. The first couple of times I tried it, it didn't work very well. I was trying to leave in the morning, and I tripped over the can, and I was all, "Who the fuck put a can of tomatoes in front of the door?" And I kicked it out of the way and left without my umbrella. Then I realized I wasn't going…

Wow. This is by far my most highly rated post on hacker news. I want to clarify that this is utter bullshit, and that I don't actually do this. Well, most of this. I have easier ways of working from home. Like, I put an event on my boss's calendar that says I'm working from home. And I hate umbrellas. I fucking hate them. If you live in New York City and you use an umbrella, I want you to go home and die right now. Y…

I am so with you regarding umbrellas. I also fucking hate them. Nasty, useless, eye-stabby, bastard things.

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Post by winteriscoming »

ianamartin wrote: post #284
ianamartin wrote: post #93

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Ah, yes. The old upside-down-tomato-sauce-can-next-to-the-door-to-remember-my-umbrella trick. That's always been a classic. The first couple of times I tried it, it didn't work very well. I was trying to leave in the morning, and I tripped over the can, and I was all, "Who the fuck put a can of tomatoes in front of the door?" And I kicked it out of the way and left without my umbrella. Then I realized I wasn't going…

Wow. This is by far my most highly rated post on hacker news. I want to clarify that this is utter bullshit, and that I don't actually do this. Well, most of this. I have easier ways of working from home. Like, I put an event on my boss's calendar that says I'm working from home. And I hate umbrellas. I fucking hate them. If you live in New York City and you use an umbrella, I want you to go home and die right now. Y…

Reminds me of a Shark Tank episode I saw about "Nubrella"[1]

[1] www.nubrella.com

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Post by martytheartiste » 

      If your memory is going bye bye......and you want it to come back! 1st. Go on YouTube and watch these videos there about 30 or more. Each video covers a specific topic. In one episode the demonstrated how eating berries improves your short term memory. Look for.....BBC The Truth About Food....
2nd. Eat healthy and exercise. 3. Step away from the TV/Computer/ Cell Phone about 2 - 3 hours before bed. The light from these electronic devices will keep you awake! 4. Try to get 7-8 hours sleep daily. 7-8 hours?.....Imagine your brain to be like your workshop. When you wake up in the morning(after a great nights sleep) its nice and clean. Everything is accessible and easy to find. By the end of the day the place is a mess. Now if you leave the place a mess....your brain stays cluttered up. Then when you go to sleep.....and wake up the next day.....you have a hard time getting right to work because you have to search for everything! When you get a great nights sleep.....7-8 hours.....your brain gets flushed by chemicals that clear out all the clutter. Think defragging a hard drive. When a hard drive is not defragged it slows the computer down. When you get poor sleep your brain starts getting overloaded with clutter...and in time that clutter compresses and starts affecting your memory. 5. There is a great book called The 150 Healthiest foods on earth. You should go look it up and see what it says about blueberries. Blueberries are the only food known (as far as I know-from this book) to grow new neurons in our brains. 6.I've worked crazy hours for almost 10 years traveling. Each day was different. I had no set hours and slept when I wasn't working. I put on quite a bit of weight and ate to sleep and ate to stay awake. I averaged 4-5 hours of inferior sleep that affected my memory. I also ate crappy food because I was traveling all of the time. Now that I am home and eat healthy I find that eating oatmeal and honey 2-3 hours before sleep helps me fall asleep easily and I average about 7 hours of quality sleep per night. I also eat a lot less, exercise and eat blackberries and blueberries every morning.
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