I understand that it's not always possible for everyone, but this is exactly why I have zero electronics in my bedroom (aside from my phone charging on my bedside table, but that doesn't have an always on LED).

That plus blackout curtains have really improved my sleep!

This is why the Dreamcast failed—orange light.

For the few of us that lack a separate office for our equipment, some of us need to live in one room, I use my computers to render video, and to render 3-D projects while I sleep, it’s crazy that I have to black out all the LEDs just to keep them quiet.

Hikaru

It's frustrating that the headlights from heall are more blue tinted, so no only ate they brighter, but the person using them can't see as well, so they make them even brighter.

However there's an issue with emergency signage. Red is the color of danger, stop, while green is safe, go. Exit signs in areas of low literacy are green and green are becoming more common in the US to be more inclusive of people who can't read.

Idk he was the “ best” Who decided that? I don’t like his stuff

"It's not who you love or how you love, Just that you love"

The poem and song were a translation of a Belgian song Le Moribund.

I remember a physics professor in highschool being very excited about the blue led telling us it would allow for white light LEDs.

Ah thank you, that make sense.

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Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes - Rod McKuen

The lens and cornea of the human eye absorbs shorter wavelengths (blue) better than longer wavelengths (red) so less blue lights reach the retina.

The cones the retina uses to see longer wavelengths are active over a wider array of wavelengths vs the blue cone.

So it is easier for your eye to sense longer wavelengths of light than the blue light.

First bright blue LED I ever saw was on the PS2. I got a week to play with it pre-release due to work. Before and after gaming sessions at night, that piercing blue light felt like the goddamned future.

You might be a more extreme case, but human eyes can't focus on blue light as well, period. I know this first hand (and second, and third) from calibrating three tube RGB projectors back before LCD/DLP.

I also read about it being used in image compression. If you split an image into R, G, and B channels, you can save the B at half resolution and the difference is nearly imperceptible to human eyes, whereas it is easily seen if you do that with R or G.

Connect that stuff to a power strip with an on/off switch and turn the whole lot off when you go to bed. Apart from your phone charger it's not like you'll be using those other electronics when you're sleeping.

Wonder what the science behind this is

nope they are forgotten all the same

No. But the poetry wasn't the dealbreaker. I don't think the poem was good, though.

I was at UCSB when Nakamura won. He was apparently pretty stoked he didn’t have to teach anymore.

In 98 or 99, blue LED's we're still so expensive that I bought 1 to replace the green LED on my PC's power light. I was going to put them all over the PC case, but instead went with some cold cathode tubes.. the tubes and power supply was still cheaper than buying 1 LED. If I remember right, the LED's were like 25$ each..

That too because lord knows what happens when the tape falls off my optical to rca adapter. Why this thing has a Batman spotlight built into it, I'll never know.

Red LEDs do require less power. The forward voltage on a red LED is about 1.8V at 20mA. The forward voltage on a blue LED is about 3.6V. That's 36mW of power for red vs 72mW of power for blue.

Blue light has more energy than red light (higher frequency/shorter wavelength).

I think they generally favor red over blue for emergency systems, though, because red light has less effect on low-light vision. So if the power goes out, your red-lit emergency signs don't blind you in the dark.

Nail polish is good too. You can use it to make them dimmer but still visible.