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> Say I want to set the alarm for 9:30, just in time to be ten minutes late for tennis. Haha. What a ridiculous time to get up - from my perspective at least h
by baxtr 6y ago
> Say I want to set the alarm for 9:30, just in time to be ten minutes late for tennis.
Haha. What a ridiculous time to get up - from my perspective at least having young children that are up at 6:30 the latest. That’s the reason why I won’t need your clock. I wholeheartedly agree though that it’s “sexy”. Niiice!
- StavrosK 6y agoOh man, 9:30 is my "this is inhumanely early" time. I usually get up around noon. Having kids will either be terrible or super easy, as I can keep the kid until 6 am, while my wife sleeps, and then we can switch shifts.
- seanalltogether 6y agoOnce past the newborn phase, babies like to be asleep when its dark and awake when its light.
- StavrosK 6y agoSo you're suggesting some sort of servo-controlled horse blinders, interesting.
- tailspin2019 6y agoNot many HN comments are worthy of a literal “laugh out loud”. But this one is.
- mfkp 6y agoI first read it as "house blinds", then I saw it was "horse blinds" (aka horse blinders). lol
- StavrosK 6y agoBlinders! Thank you!
- TeMPOraL 6y agoJust not too loud, or you'll wake the kid. As a relatively fresh parent, this thread is a mix of humor, hope and sweet, sweet naivete :).
- StavrosK 6y agoCongratulations, and my condolences!
- baxtr 6y agoYou’d earn gazillions of sleep deprived parents opening their deep pockets out of sheer desperation if you’d invented something like that. Maybe your next project?
- glitchc 6y agoAh, to be young again!
- el_benhameen 6y agoBlackout curtains, sound machine, sleep training and a bit (ton) of luck. We've somehow gotten ours to stick to reasonable hours.
- andreareina 6y agoThe most reliable and least annoying alarm clock I ever had was the dog. 5am and it's time for walkies.
- StavrosK 6y agoSounds like it's 6 hours off to me.
- andreareina 6y agoI mean. I'm pretty sure I've got delayed phase sleep and I don't particularly enjoy waking up that early, but out of everything that'll do the job this one involves the least grumbling and the walk helps me get my brain in gear.
- noisy_boy 6y agoI chuckled at the idea of having children solely for the purpose of waking up early :)
- rlonn 6y agoYoung kids are very effective alarm clocks. The problem is you can't set the wakeup time. And as they grow older they stop working, though you can always have another kid I guess.
- eb0la 6y agoNot so effective :D They also have time syncronization issues and they are very slow to syncronize to their NTP source (the sun). It takes them _months_ to sync from boot unless you are very lucky and the "hardware" is only a few hours out of sync at boot time.
- StavrosK 6y agoWhy is this the best explanation of how babies work