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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: 0.22s | 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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hinkley ◴[31 Oct 25 21:45 UTC] No.45777047[source]▶
Skip enough sleep and parts of your brain will try to nap while you’re doing things like meetings.
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timeinput ◴[31 Oct 25 22:46 UTC] No.45777538[source]▶
Depending on the meeting it might be worth a nap even if I'm well rested.
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1. hinkley ◴[31 Oct 25 23:42 UTC] No.45777927[source]▶
But in that cause you are well aware that you have invested no brain at all instead of investing half a brain while thinking you’re engaged.