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For no reason I can discern, my phone didn't charge last night. It ran down its battery and shut itself off instead. So no alarm this morning.
Then, to add injury, once I had ensured that it was charging and powered it up... it informed me that I had missed an alarm.
Oh, thank you _very_ much.
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You use a phone for your alarm clock?
K.
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I think about 90% of phone owners use a phone as their alarm clock.
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I used to use my phone for my alarm. Now I use Cortana [substitute your voice assistant device here]. It's easy just to tell her what time I want to wake up (as opposed to thumbing through the alarm settings on the phone). And I haven't hit snooze once since I've stopped using my phone alarm. 
I suppose if the power goes out I will be hosed (but if I had a traditional alarm clock this would also be true).
I wonder if they listen to me sleep 
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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littleGreenDude wrote: I wonder if they listen to me sleep
NSA guy 1 - "Oh no, he's asleep"
NSA guy 2 - "Oh, what does he say ?"
NSA guy 1 *switch on loudpseaker* - *ELEPHANTASTIC SNORING NOISES*
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littleGreenDude wrote: if I had a traditional alarm clock this would also be true
Not if you remember to wind it before you go to bed... Proper alarm clock.[^]
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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littleGreenDude wrote: I wonder if they listen to me sleep
Yes they do.
Apparently, a lot of the voice assistant recordings are "accidental" recordings (yeah, right).
littleGreenDude wrote: And I haven't hit snooze once
I'm so wrecked in the morning I can't hit nor talk to it 
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Sander Rossel wrote: I'm so wrecked in the morning I can't hit nor talk to it
Oh you. I slept 3 hours last night. And I don't use an alarm.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I slept nine and a half hours last night, got out of bed at 12:00 (but was awake a bit earlier) 
That's what happens when I don't set an alarm.
When I do set an alarm I often sleep through it, especially after I wake up and snooze.
Snoozing is very risky when you sleep as tight as me
And after so much of sleep I wish I could say I feel well rested 
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I remember fondly days when I used to be able to sleep 6.
At this rate, by 45 I'll be sleeping 2 hours a night.
Conclusion: I'm turning into margaret thatcher with age.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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That can't be healthy, but at least you have plenty of time to do other things.
Like writing parsers... Wait, could there be a connection? 
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There's nothing to be done about it. It's a product of my madness. The meds help but folx with my condition either get too much sleep or too little. The part that regulates that goes haywire.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: It's a product of my madness.
The parser thing or the sleeping thing?
And did the madness cause parsers or did the parsers cause madness?
Must be tough, though 
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The sleep thing.
And honestly, i think the madness causes the parsers. I could never figure this parsing stuff out before - i've been at it on and off for years. Then one day, boom, I manage to implement LL(1) parsing and LALR(1) the same week. (This was what, a month, two months ago?)
A few years ago I went crazy - not related to parsing, but while it has a lot of downsides, and I don't want to downplay those, it helped me think differently and in many ways I'm smarter now because of it.
Now I don't have to think about code so much anymore. It just flows from me. Like some of my fellow crazies that speak in tongues I guess. That really helped with making these parsers. I can channel things in my head I never used to before. I can't easily explain it but the upshot is I can code things before I understand them. Once I code it, I can read the code to understand what I did.
And that comes naturally now. So bully for me.
On the other hand, it kind of screwed up my employability.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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But of course. Why would one not?
The truly great thing about it is that I can set the snooze duration. I chose fifteen minutes.
And I can use it when I'm sleeping elsewhere. The office, say.
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Quote: I blame you for the moonlit sky
And the dream that died
With the eagles' flights
I blame you for the moonlit nights
When I wonder why
Are the seas still dry
Don't blame this sleeping satellite
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Is it an android phone ? The latest update of Google play services drains the battery. Mine went from three days battery life to 2 hours after the update
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I don't see that, but the phone is a couple of years old and I'm looking to replace it. The battery life has greatly diminished.
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Mine does that as well, from time to time: the battery life just plummets, then come back a few days later. Doesn't seem to be related to anything in particular, just random "bugger you" mode...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Mine too! Although even on good days it isn't what it used to be anymore 
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After a certain age, a filled bladder acts as an alarm clock.
modified 17-Aug-19 1:29am.
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With things like this[^]
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Yeah I'm liking that!
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
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That is the reason these[^] exist!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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so, if coffee drinkers are so smart why would they pay so much for cat sh*t[^]?
actually I like coffee, not sure about 6 cups before 2PM, hmm, well perhaps sometimes yes.
6 cups in a day easy, and even 10 minutes before going to bed won't it keep me up.
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