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  • 9point6@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world[C-Section] Bedtime
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    3 days ago

    A lot of the normal sleep hygiene stuff usually results in worse sleep for me.

    I need to be reading something not especially interesting and keep going until I feel like I’m about to fall asleep, then put my phone on the side table and try to catch that wave.

    TV on whilst I’m trying to fall asleep is even better (I don’t have the step where I need to put my phone down) but it keeps my partner awake so I don’t get to use that option very often.

    If I don’t have anything to occupy my mind, it freewheels at high speed and ultimately ends up keeping me awake.


  • 9point6@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzI'll just take the bus
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    3 days ago

    Most people have manual cars in the UK. Automatics are the weirder, more esoteric ones to us.

    I think it’s more or less a cultural thing at this point

    FWIW I believe competitive drivers prefer manual control (even if the gearbox itself is automatic) because controlling when the gear change happens can make a difference in a race





  • Flashbacks to one of my early freelance PHP gigs I did about 2 decades ago where I opened up the existing backend source code to find a load of unsanitised user input directly from the query string getting interpolated into the various SQL queries the application made. Part of me also feels like the “bobby tables” xkcd already existed by this point, so I’ve got no idea how that website managed to not get nuked before I refactored it.

    To top it all off, of course the application authenticated with the database using the root user…

    Thankfully I think that was the worst I ever discovered in the wild