• Cid ViciousEnglish
    3•2 hours ago

    Been trying to do more reading before bed. I think avoiding backlit screens helps me transition to sleep more easily. I really recommend an eInk based ereader to anyone who likes reading but hasn’t tried one.

  • @PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
    13•10 hours ago

    I couldn’t sleep yesterday so I started reading about LVADs (heart pumps) and saw some animal testing pictures and then I couldn’t sleep.

    • @ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      18•14 hours ago

      I have to tell you, that Action Park shit is still sitting with me… 😂

      Seriously though, thanks for managing that community, it’s a good 'un. I’ve woken up many a morning to a wiki page you led me to lol

      E: also, it’s 3:45am now, am feeling a little called out by op (though I had actually gone to sleep at 10pm too, it’s just that I’ve woken up since 😭)

      • Plum
        11•13 hours ago

        It’s an affliction of mine that I’m happy to share with others. ♡

    • macniel
      6•8 hours ago

      The DIN A Paper format is magical though. (See CGP Gray video)

      • @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
        3•7 hours ago

        There are actually B, C and D formats with the same properties, just scaled up or down slightly if you need something in between, for example B4 is basically A3.5, C4 is A3.75 and D4 is A4.25 if you plug it into the power-of-2 formula. (Later, C and D were removed because very few people used the quarter-steps.)

      • @RidderSport@feddit.org
        3•8 hours ago

        There are a lot of important standards. The hight of a door lever, a light switch or an average stair for example.

        • @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
          4•7 hours ago

          Yes, and many are very old. Like 1920-ish old. So they slightly update them and invalidate those that become public domain. They are systematically milking standards for money and making it harder to enter industries legitimately. Maybe more money-burning start-ups and their investors would care about standards if the red tape wasn’t behind a paywall. Now they just wing it and hope to IPO before their violations cause loss of life a public image problem.