@Dr Bunsen 563916 wrote:
What brought on your need to start taking them Alex?
I’ve always found it difficult to sleep (whether or not I take stimulants, and there are times where these (even if just caffeine) are essential to keep me motivated).
in recent years my work responsibilities have increased – systems I work on have changed from just being part of admin support to being core systems that peoples safety is dependent on, added to which utilities are becoming less resilient in the UK, the skill sets of younger people declining (through no fault of their own) and problems with electromagnetic interference greatly increasing – those cause the worst kind of intermittent faults with networks, especially when they are powered by 1970s era mains wirinng.
The last lot of defect reports ended up with me having to inspect the wiring in the boiler room and laundry (not the nicest places to be in high summer), then searching out a strong voltage cable on the roof as well as researching technical papers in EN, NL and DE (final conclusions: the “tinfoil hat” stuff that the North European environmentalists often complain about with regard to EMC has some truth in it, and the UK adopting a half-arsed version of European wiring practices especially with regard to earthing just before privatisaton makes everything worse (our mains wiring become a big loop antenna for every sort of rubbish and radiates it into every bit of equipment).
