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Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain

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589 points gmays | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 13:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.329s | source
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earless1 ◴[31 Oct 25 14:40 UTC] No.45772465[source]▶
So biological garbage collection pauses then? skip sleep, and the brain tries to run gc cycles during runtime. Causing attention and performance latency spikes. Evolution wrote the original JVM.
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layer8 ◴[31 Oct 25 14:47 UTC] No.45772560[source]▶
Luckily it doesn’t clear all unreferenced memory, though.
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1. jyounker ◴[31 Oct 25 15:00 UTC] No.45772718[source]▶
Are you sure about that?