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Legitimately useful. As someone working remotely I'm always wary of waking US colleagues up with my unimportant notifications. I'd definitely use a '% of team members online' Slackbot
Slack lets you mute notifications.
Some notifications are important.
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Why even use time that's linked to the rotation of our home-planet? That's as geo-centric as it gets. Just count the number of seconds since the GPS epoch in a galaxy-centered inertial frame. This post was made at 1,373,034,914.
A second is one 86400th of a rotation of our home-planet
I don't see anything referencing any planets?
This site takes into account that Americans get there 8 hours of sleep though some quick googling revealed that the average American only gets 7 hours and 13 minutes of sleep. Just want to preach to those not getting there 8 hours, getting enough sleep really gives an enormous boost to mood, creativity, productivity and health. Give it a try :-)
My best routine was when I went to sleep when it was dark and woke up when it was dark. I went to sleep at the same time every night. What was amazing was that I would wake up at the time every morning, within like 10 minutes. Then at the time to sleep, I would be too tired to keep my eyes open. I wish I would have documented this better, but I believe it was close to 8 hours (a little more or a little less. My think…
Why does this mention Threads of all things.... a week in we're worried about when to post on Threads? Site is DOA without any network effects from hashtags or whatever....
[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-twitter-rival-threa...
We should have 1 timezone for the entire planet. Having the same time be different times at different spots on earth just makes things more confusing and causes problems. When I coordinate between timezones I don't even use time, I use delta time (for example "The call is happening 22 hours from now").
Why does this mention Threads of all things.... a week in we're worried about when to post on Threads? Site is DOA without any network effects from hashtags or whatever....
I find it kind of strange to call Threads DOA, especially from lack of hashtags which haven't been relevant on Twitter for years.
Threads has no discoverability. And endless crap/unrelated accounts being forced on you with no clear way to say you're not interested in them? (why would Mute be the solution to that?) It's DOA.
Fastest growing means little when the accounts were already there.
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And there's also the decision to use hour-aligned timezones. Why not half hours? Why not two hours? It's very much a conscious decision.
Previous to the rise of the railroad, each place's time was based on solar noon. That is, when the sun was at the highest point. Which worked fine. It only became untenable when you needed to manually maintain and publish a railroad schedule. So time zones became a thing. Initially they were on a per-railroad basis, but eventually they got unified. But now we have computers to do all the bookkeeping. So if we wanted,…
Uh oh. I'm starting to think this is a good idea...
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I don't get how the problem would be harder with a universal timezone. Currently, I have to look up which timezone India is in and find a good time that works for both of us. In a universal timezone, I would have to look up what time noon is in India and find a time that works for both of us.
so the high level problem here is "how can I infer a locale's working hours without asking every individual?" the current solution is to set an explicit expectation that people work 9-5ish in their local offset. is your proposal to do the same thing, but the expectation is that people work noon-4 to noon+4, or something like that? I don't see any major advantages to that, but I do see one major disadvantage: solar no…
Yes. Rather than using solar noon at one day, we can look up an average solar noon time. It should give a better idea how people would plan their day. I understand that schedules will be different at different locations, but then 9 to 5 also has that much variation from location to location.
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Doctors say a lot of stupid stuff like "cartilage can't be repaired, it doesn't matter how much sugar you eat for tooth health, lifting weights is bad", etc. The number is 7-9 hours. The funny thing is that if you get 5 regularly, you won't feel tired, you will just be slow, sick a lot, and unable to put on muscle mass.
Speak for yourself - when I get less than 6 hours for more than a few days in a row I am very tired by about 3PM.