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It would make sense if there was a monocausal explanation of why ancient ancestors started sleeping, but then other body functions started making use of the sle
by yreg 1y ago
It would make sense if there was a monocausal explanation of why ancient ancestors started sleeping, but then other body functions started making use of the sleeping system since it was at hand.
- hhjinks 1y agoHey, that's Hyrum's Law!
- Waterluvian 1y agoThis is why I implemented private static readonly final sleep()
- baq 1y agoWhat if you dream about reflections?
- Filligree 1y agoSleep is still detectable via CPU load, so I added a thread that checks for load and runs some critical cleanup processes when it drops below a preset threshold. Hope you don’t mind.
- tux3 1y agoThe obligatory related XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/
- tomrod 1y agoHyrum would be so proud!
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- vendiddy 1y agosounds like legacy code
- ddalex 1y ago> why ancient ancestors started sleeping I tend to believe that our ancestors didn't start sleeping, they started waking up ! the default pattern is sleep and conservation of energy, but you need to wake up to expend more energy for a short period in order to feed yourself efficiently
- jjk166 1y agoThere definitely was never a life form which exclusively slept - all the critical parts of life require being awake. Life that didn't sleep, however, is possible.
- otoburb 1y agoMaybe not 'exclusively' slept, but koalas[1] sleep for a majority of the day (16-20 hours) in order to digest highly toxic eucalyptus leaves which constitute the main portion of their diet. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala
- lr4444lr 1y agoFascinating. I wonder whether they'd sleep less if fed a less toxic, more easily digestible diet.
- SAI_Peregrinus 1y agoUnfortunately they can't recognize anything but Eucalyptus leaves, on the branch, as food. A pile of the leaves isn't food to them, they won't eat it.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoWeird niche to corner! Exclusively eat the poison nobody else wants to the exclusion of anything else.
- 4b11b4 1y ago
- bravesoul2 1y agoSounds like my microservices