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In hunting and shooting sports we have a term, overscoped, that means your rifle scope is either too much for your rifle or you're at greater magnification than
by torstenvl 5y ago
In hunting and shooting sports we have a term, overscoped, that means your rifle scope is either too much for your rifle or you're at greater magnification than you should be.
This is the result of, yes, marketing, but also the kind of naive belief that more magnification → better.
The idea of always just throwing more brain-racking at a problem strikes me as similarly naive. Yes, getting down to work and doing the analysis is important, and sometimes there isn't enough of that. When you don't have enough, go ahead and add more.
But sometimes, the naive brute-force method isn't what’s called for. Sometimes, instead, you need to zoom out.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoA day or two ago, someone pointed to a great article on Melatonin[0]. I'm pretty sure it was a repeat, from a couple of years ago. In any case, the thing that struck me, was the recommended dose, of 300 micrograms (0.3mg). Since the lowest OTC dosage is 3mg, and it goes up to at least 10mg, this was a shock. I have been taking 6-9 mg per night. I immediately lowered the dosage to about 1mg (I have 300 microgram pills on order). Slept like a baby. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28416035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28416035
- lfowles 5y agoSurprised the heck out of me too, I would have intensely weird and disturbing dreams if I took a whole melatonin tablet (around 3-5mg). Slept a lot better once I started dividing them into quarters.
- coding123 5y agoI don't have any great articles on this but it's a super sleep secret. Turn off your lights at night. Seriously people leave the lights on every second until they go to bed, but what you really need is for the lights to be off an hour before your planned bed time. You can still use screens, but at a distance (like a far away TV). If you need to see to get to bed, aim the phone at your feet on a low brightness setting.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoI have heard similar. I think that Apple's Night Mode is based on that.
- daggersandscars 5y agoGeneral note: if your iPhone won't go dark enough at night even with night mode, look under Accessibility - Display & Text Size -> Reduce White Point. Set the sliding value to what's comfortable for you. Then scroll down the Accessibility settings page to Accessibility Shortcut. This sets what happens when you triple-click the power button. If you set this to Reduce White Point (RWP), it will turn on/off RWP while remembering the slider setting you selected. I find this invaluable when I wake up in the middle of the night and want to read for a bit without filling my eyes with light / risking waking anyone. (Edited for spelling)
- dharmab 5y agoWhen I moved house I made the bedroom electronics-free and put up blackout curtains. Also programmed the house to turn off most lights and din the remaining before bedtime. Night and day sleep quality change.
- david422 5y agoEver lost electricity? Or been to a cabin without electric lights? At about 6pm it's like - well, guess I'll turn in for the night.
- mym1990 5y agoCamping too! To me its a mixture of just not having that much to do in the pitch darkness, and the natural sense of sleepytime.
- WalterSear 5y agoI've done everything I could, including this and more drastic measures. Unfortunately, it's just not the 'super sleep secret' people keep promising it to be. After years of terrible sleep, I gave in and started using melatonin daily. Every part of my life has improved.
- jrockway 5y agoI like liquid melatonin; it's 1mg / mL and you can just take .3mL to get a 300ug dose. But yeah, if you go to like CVS or something they only sell 10mg doses. Would not recommend.
- 4ec0755f5522 5y agoI use one or two drops out of a 3mg/1ml dropper. That's all it takes. I don't know why the OTC doses are so high. Maybe it's helpful for other purposes e.g. jet lag. But for sleep it's much too high a dosage. It's not a total cure for delayed circadian rhythm (your hormone levels, body temp etc. are still out of sync) but as far as fitting into more typical "business hours" sleep schedule usually expected of us, it does the job.
- MauranKilom 5y agoCan recommend Flux: https://justgetflux.com/ https://justgetflux.com/.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y agoLiterally tunnel vision. To explain overscoped to a non shooter… You’re lined up on a target at 30x. Fighting your breathing, heart beat, movement from the rest / bipod / barricade. It’s never going to be perfectly steady, and that 30x magnification is showing every bit of sway and deviation of the target and your reticle. On 10x, a guy can come in, line it up, and not see all of that deviation. He sees the target, the aiming point (which is rarely your exact cross hairs, a different topic) and just focus on a good trigger pull. The target is a lot smaller to him, but that’s ok because it’s not a complicated shot, just a small target. There is also getting lined up for your next shot, the recoil on 30x means your field of view has jumped and left the target somewhere out in the ether. If you have multiple shots to make, the guy on 10x will be able to see his next, or at least track where he is now and needs to be next.
- 5faulker 5y agoFrom experience, I've found that spending most time planning and the rest of the time executing tend to work well, so both have their merits.