I live in the antipodes (near the ozone hole), am fair skinned, burn easily, and have had low vitamin d levels when I've had them checked.
I cover up or am very careful with sunscreen when the UV is high, then try to do the opposite (no sunscreen, lots of exposure) when UV is at lower levels. The idea is to generate vitamin d at safer times while avoiding skin cancer.
I've been living in Australia and New Zealand, and have been terrified of sun exposure - during peak times (summer mid-day) it's scary how quickly you can burn.
However I also have low vitamin D.
My current strategy is to check the UV levels (I've got a widget on my personal dashboard) and whenever the UV levels are moderate or below, I try to get as much sun exposure as possible - shorts and t-shirt, or topless.
I then cover up when the UV levels are demonstrably high.
My theory is that low levels of exposure are very good - you get your vitamin D, whatever else you need, and your body starts to build an appropriate amount of melanin.
The worst thing to do is to avoid sun all the time, then suddenly get massive UV doses.
I've noticed that my hands very rarely get burned compared to other areas - my theory is due to constant exposure that part of my body is more resistant compared to the pasty areas.
My key point is that you can view the UV rating and protect yourself appropriately - e.g. high caution summer-midday, zero caution winter mid-day.
I'm in Australia and used to cycle here a lot. The back of my hands got a ton of exposure. They rarely burned, but now the skin on the back of my hands is visibly older than everywhere else. Looser, wrinklier, less elastic.
I'm glad I was forced to wear a helmet because otherwise my head would look weird ;)
>due to constant exposure that part of my body is more resistant compared to the pasty areas.
This is of course true, and it took me half a lifetime to realize I could get deep tans and stay out in the sun without any sunscreen, all it took was to "DCA" my way into sun exposure at the beginning of the summer. Concerted efforts to get 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 minutes of unprotected sun exposure that slowly increase but not to the point of burning.
I also realized that sunscreen does not need to be so liberally or frequently applied- particularly mineral sunscreen, the thinnest possible film is all that is needed for hours of protection if you aren't swimming or sweating excessively.
It goes against mainstream advice that no sun exposure is good exposure, and that getting a tan is not healthy. However I never "tan" my hands and they don't look any darker, but I've never burned them, even though they're the place that will get the most sunscreen rubbed off. Ditto for feet.
Not extremely unlikely if they were identical drives from the same manufacturing batch. It's good practise to use diverse manufacturers or at least batches when adding disks to a raid array for just this reason.
I am definitely not blind. But i listen at high speed to audio books and podcast all day at work, I average at around 2.5x/2.8x speed (lower for certain narrators and can get up to 3x + speeds if i am not doing something that requires much of the language processing part of my brain or anything mentally taxing) i could drive or play a non-text/plot heavy video game but not talk or problem solve.
While I agree both the blind and others, including myself, listen to screen readers and audio at a higher rate, that’s not actually research that’s reviewable and shareable. Speaking for myself, 100% sure the noise-to-signal ratio increases when I do, but if needed, I just go back X-seconds in time to relisten to prior audio. I for sure never literally test my comprehension systematically when doing so relative to when I am not. The speakers, vocabulary, topic familiarity, etc — also make a huge difference; aka prior familiarity in general with the input.
On the flip side, I provided research on transmission rates, which to me seems reasonable, but another user shared research on reception rates, which to me is unreasonable:
Not blind, but I often watch youtube videos from 2x - 4x speed, only going below 2x to review complicated information (pausing a tutorial to read the text/code/image on the screen) or if the timing of information is part of the information (music, comedic timing, etc...)
I made a command line music playing frontend. It has a list of all my music as a flat text file, then if I run "music" it shuffles randomly, or I can add a regex as an argument to pick the files from the list. It works surprisingly well - given my folder structure I can just type in "music <artist>" or "music <genre>" or "music <specific song>" and it just does it. It also has a flag for turning shuffle mode on or off.
Very simple, but very comfortable for me.
I also created my own TODO / dashboard app, where all tasks are on a schedule (do this every x days) and I can enter a value each time I complete a task. These then show up as graphs on my dashboard - helpful for tracking weight etc. I also graph a bunch of random things automatically in the same system (how many unread emails I have).
It also tracks how many tasks are overdue so I can measure my general ability to get stuff done, and if it gets overwhelming I can tweak the settings so it just shows me a few things (or more realistically I tweak the task to either not need doing/tracking, or I slow down it's cadence).
How do you see things playing out now that we're near 0 interest rates and in some cases negative? Will governments continue to be loose via negative interest rates, through some other mechanism, or will they be forced to tighten policy?
In theory as you approach zero smaller changes produce bigger results in an aysmptotic fashion, but in reality lenders have margin to think about.
Maybe the zero rates will take into account lenders margin, and once that is taken into effect the rates will reflect the asymptotic curve.
If you're in a high UV area and you want to try something like this, use a UV tracker so you can be informed about the risks.
I have a widget on my phone that displays the current level and estimated burn time, and can pull up a graph of estimated & forecast (turns out cloudy days DO generally block a lot of UV).
It's great to be able to get as much skin exposed as possible during the low UV periods for gentle UV exposure, then know when to cover up & sunscreen during the harsh periods.
To help support this, keep an eye on a UV tracker. I used to be terrified of the Australian sun, but with a UV tracker I know when it's safe to be outside for hours with no sunscreen, and when the danger levels are extreme.
I used "Regularly" and it worked great. I've now upgraded to my own system which plugs into my dashboard and can generate graphs. Each time I complete a task I can give it a score, which is then graphed. I just use it for my weight, but you could use it for anything.
I live in the antipodes (near the ozone hole), am fair skinned, burn easily, and have had low vitamin d levels when I've had them checked.
I cover up or am very careful with sunscreen when the UV is high, then try to do the opposite (no sunscreen, lots of exposure) when UV is at lower levels. The idea is to generate vitamin d at safer times while avoiding skin cancer.
I also supplement with vitamin d pills.