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ADHD is largely misunderstood, and what you're describing could definitely be a symptom. I've struggled with 'out of sight out of mind' my entire life, so your post hit close to home. For me, a post by Mark Suster[1] resonated so deeply that I finally saw a professional, and I was diagnosed with ADHD at 29.

Since then, I've learned a ton about how my brain's executive function works and have developed many strategies to overcome my own challenges. It'll be a work in progress for the rest of my life, but knowing what it is I'm working on as made a huge difference.

As far as medication: it's completely personal (dosage isn't even tied to weight), so try to set aside any prior experiences you've had outside of working with a medical doctor. Academic and professional performance also aren't part of the diagnostic criteria (I graduated near 4.0, too).

Even if you don't have ADHD, meeting with a doctor will help you rule it out. My $.02, hope this helps.

[1] https://bothsidesofthetable.com/how-to-know-if-you-have-add-... (Special thanks to Mark for being so open about ADHD!)
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Actually being one of those influencers, I can tell you that most people in this world don't care what someone on Instagram says. Those that do pay attention are there for the fantasy, and not actually jumping on a plane to a remote location because one of us posted a pretty picture. The rest of the planet is going to see the Taj Mahal, and Fontana de Trivi, because that's what you're "supposed" to do when visiting a foreign land. It doesn't take much effort to find a quiet home outside of a major city, and see what's really going on. There are nearly infinite places on this Earth to go, only a handful are being 'promoted' because they are already popular.

btw, the Taj Mahal is indeed beautiful, but it's a very small oasis in the literally the most vile city(Agra) I've been to in all my travels. Absolute filth. The best thing to do is drive there, see it for an hour, and then drive back to the place you came from.
Props to the founder, but what is this article supposed to achieve? Nothing stood out about the process this app/company took. The website seems filled with ads and similar articles.
well, his is the second comment in a week that i’ve seen (unrelated to betterslack) that mentioned this point. he’s certainly not the only one!
You're not the only one. I love programming but I very much dislike being a software developer. The bait and switch is real.
Hey everyone,

I'm sure some of you have been down the Bitcoin or blockchain internet rabbit hole once or twice. I normally come out with questions or confusions.

I wrote, proofread, and coded the interactive examples for this short book in 7 days. This handbook is meant for anyone, and I hope helps some of you wrap your head around some of the things I struggled to understand.

Just looking for some feedback :-)
Not really... I absolutely wouldn't mind a Chinese looking individual, bringing and showing his culture, and learning mine, speaking my language, becoming my friend, colleague and neighbour. But I sure as hell get annoyed if a Chinese tourist runs over my feet with his luggage and speaking Chinese back at me when I complain and seeing him leave the country the next day, leaving money in the pockets of a few landlords who prefer him over me, as my street slowly transforms into a corridor of gift shops and regular jobs leave the city.

These are superficial examples but you catch my drift.

In any case, both migration and temporary visitors (tourists) only works in balance. I think virtually everyone recognises that basic truth. But what constitutes balance is a matter of opinion, and some of these opinions are definitely driven by racism.
Yea, honestly it's probably not synesthesia. Information processing, the memory of a thing overlaid on top of something similar enough. Reasoning by analogy... imprecise.
Propublica [1][2] has done some investigation into the amount of waste, beginning with a 2012 report by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. The unnecessary costs amount to roughly 5% of US GDP. For comparison: the defense budget is about 4.5% of GDP, and Social Security Disability Insurance outlays are about 5% of GDP. NASA's budget is about 0.1% of GDP.

A number of other commenters have castigated politicians on suspicion of being in the pocket of insurance companies or health care companies. Sure such things may happen occasionally. More certainly, politicians and bureaucrates are regularly attentive to the budget and financing of the government.

If medical care was cost efficient, it would 1) reduce GDP and the appearance of economic growth, and 2) wreck the back office math concerning whether the federal government can afford the deficit and the interest on the national debt. Elimination of mass incarceration and criminalization would cause a similar dilema. US economic growth has been 2-3 percent in recent years. If that were negated by substantial reduction of waste-masquerading-as-productivity, then the federal budget could not be financed without massive cuts or dramatic manipulation of interest and inflation rates.

There are others who potentially benefit from denial of treatment or claims beside the insurance company. Beside the doctors, medical institutions, and insurance companies are another set of actors: the benefits management and payment processing companies, who often profit per transaction. Some of the calculus in this camp can be seen in [3]. This part of the system (and others) can benefit when a patient is denied or discouraged from or uninformed of curative treatment and manipulated into some ongoing palliatve therapy - despite the possibility of greater overall long-term cost. The cash-flow gets distributed differently than curative treatment, and there are more smaller on-going transactions enabling a higher percentage of skim.

[1] Sep 2012 - https://www.propublica.org/article/a-costly-equation-medical...

[2] Nov. 2017 - https://www.propublica.org/article/a-hospital-charged-to-pie...?

[3] Nov. 2017 - https://www.bnymellon.com/us/en/what-we-do/business-insights...
figuring out which colors to display based off a reference color.
HN's comments section is filled with arcane information, strange links and great insights (and sometimes really weird stuff.) Often the comments are more interesting than the links they're in response to.

I knocked this little page up tonight to try and add a bit of randomness to my HN experience, to see comments I might not normally see. I thought I'd share in case anyone else feels the same way!

Built using the HN Firebase API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
For one thing, the extension author is not an active participant and cannot be considered to be trespassing. A user, maybe. But I don't think we'll see Slack banning users anytime soon.
This is not about forging a birth certificate. This is about denying birth certificates issued be the US government are actually valid.
The question I have is this: Can people from instance X issue reports on instance Y about a person on instance Y?

That would seem like a pretty bad loophole.
Why does everything have to run inside a web browser these days? I like my text editors/word processors to be lean, lightweight and focused on one thing: editing text. Everything Madoko offers here (aside from WYSIWYG—which is overrated when you're trying to produce content) can be accomplished with pandoc+your text editor of choice (I've been using classic nvi lately, seems to work well for a distraction free environment and as a bonus is in the base install of OpenBSD).
I would pay extra for this feature. We used to use Mumble for voice chat before hangouts was a thing, push-to-talk is the best.
I would push through if I were you, because I was in the exact same situation only a few months ago.

I had wayyyy less experience than you, and took over most of the work for a react/typescript/node project that was MASSIVE compared to anything I had worked on before (static websites and small Django projects).

I felt like I could cry and started having issues with heartburn for the first month, and even told my boss about 2 weeks in that was not qualified for the job. Thankfully, they told me that they knew that it would take a while, and encouraged me to stick with it.

Even now, 7 months in, there are still so many things I'm learning, but I would really recommend pressing in to the job, (especially if your manager has the wisdom to see that it will take you a while to get up to speed), as after I had been there about 6 weeks things started to make a little more sense.

Also, if it makes you feel any better, the stack overflow survey from 2018 shows that 44% of devs expect a new coworker with 4 years of experience to take one to three months to be productive (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#work-how-lon...), so I think you have less to worry about than you think. I'd keep with it until and unless they make you leave!
Sure, you can find meaning in other things. But play the odds. Almost nobody finds much meaning in their jobs. There is meaning to be found in being a spouse, but being a parent often outlasts being a spouse. And almost every parent you speak to will tell you that their kids are the most important undertaking of their life.
+1000. I have too many interests and cannot focus on one thing. Lack of a strong hobby (except computers) in my childhood could be a reason for it.
Lack of discipline and motivation. Just having an obligation to do something causes huge amounts of stress (sometimes to the point of physical pain), so I get easily distracted by anything that is not the task at hand. Ending up burning midnight oil to catch up.
Maybe don't be hostile, especially when you're the newcomer here with a 5-day old account?
Damn, that is messed up. Born in America, served in the U.S. Army, and is just as much a citizen as anyway else... but suddenly doomed because his name is "Juan" and is Hispanic. That's gotta be depressing as hell to give so much to a country to get turned away on a whim like that.
Did you try fasting? I can imagine sharing your story will lead to many people trying to offer you their ultimate solution, but from my personal experience with never ending hunger, fasting for more than 24 hours (only water) helped me "reset" my hunger. I then continued with method of eating only 1 meal a day (intermittent fasting), while focusing on lowering carbohydrates, since they always make me the hungriest.

I respect your achievement in losing the weight and keeping it as well as still working on yourself, but I don't think life should be hard as you describe it.

Good luck.
> Actually make money?

Depending on how you do the accounting, I imagine HN is very profitable. How many people apply to the incubator because of HN? How many of their startups get a big word of mouth boost from the free publicity and association?

Regardless of how it's entered on the tax forms, I imagine the HN costs are considered well worth it by the investors.
Dont short sell Chile/South America/ Yourself. I understand you are free to look for options and I think it can be a great experience personally , career-wise and financially , but dont get frustrated if it does not happen overnight. Your brain power, imagination, work-ethic , ambitions will be the same in Oakland than in Penalolen (Ceteris Paribus).

Creo que lo que te quiero decir es que estando en Chile tambien puedes hacer muchas cosas interesantes, incluso tan buenas que no necesites emigrar. Estamos en un mundo globalizado. Mucha suerte.

PS. This is for jobs, if you want to study by all means prepare yourself, apply to top schools and hit it out of the park.
Isn't this still the default configuration?
> If one's account is suspended they cannot - by definition - access Trump's tweets.

Since that is clearly not true, one practical effect is that it's setting a very low bar the difficulty one should overcome before claiming they are excluded from official communication by the government.

If the necessity of logging out then logging back in (or merely opening an Incognito window with a single click) is a rights violation, then surely not having any kind of access to online communication by the government is a much worse violation. So the government should either cease to use the internet or should make it available to all citizens as a basic citizen right.
Starting a Slack group for students is a good idea, but decidedly not a startup idea.
These issues with bonds have nothing to do with crime prevention. And whether or not you are pissed off has no bearing on how an innocent person should be treated.

Oh, and in the US, every person is innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. So by definition, every bond is issued to an innocent person.
There is a pet peeve I have with firefox on the regard of extension security. While chrome disables all extensions in private browsing in firefox they are all enabled. So most people use private browsing for critical sites like banking if there is a rogue extensions you are completely exposed from firefox. Even if you disable the extensions in private there are active again the next time you start it. I filled a bug months ago not a single response.
I can empathize with this. Add in the fact that the older I get, the more impressive my project needs to be in order to impress myself. It's a form of self-sabotage, but by realizing that I don't have to build something great in 1 day, it helps.

What are your strategies to cope with this?
From a customer's perspective why wouldn't someone opt into this model? You're telling me I don't have to remember an extra password to log in... AND, if a service gets hacked, it's only them that got hacked; I don't have to go across all sites where I reused that password and change it. The burden of security is not on the customer any more.

And I get your point about MFA. But, that's it, MFA just adds another step for me to get where I was going. But my proposal removes a step.

But you're right about SMS being easy to hack. More thinking is required on that end.
No person can assert their citizenship as fact, it's the state issuing the birth certificate that asserts it as fact. And it is the U.S. State Department questioning the veracity of the issuing state. Upon being born a person isn't even sentient, they learn of their citizenship over decades through indoctrination and then accept it as an established fact. And then, the state department issued a passport at one time means they at one time accepted the veracity of the birth certificate as issued by the state government.

I'm not a lawyer but I'd ask a court to rule the burden of proof is on the state department. Not the individual.

And shame on any issuing state that doesn't come to the defense of someone they claim is one of their citizens.
housing, utilities, food, health insurance, monthly donations to a couple of activist groups (environmental & political)
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Great work. I will give you a different piece of advice. Make sure to work out 360 out of 365 days in a year, without weights.
I prefer dial in bridges to other options
Thanks for replying, Giles!

I see just dabbling in whatever interests and experimenting with them takes one forward.

What you wrote is profoundly impactful.
Nah.

It's about everything written now is becoming an op-ed and inducing outrage.
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greasemonkey doesn't target specific website. It's a generic approach.
I still think summer vacation is one of society's worst inventions. It creates so many problems in different fields, like the summer education loss. Overtourism is just one of them.
Yes, but a part is not the whole -- and even less so a very small part.

So the parents doing it is not the same as the community doing it.
Yes.

Reports are local by default, but may be anonymously (kind of) forwarded.

My understanding is that reports are being made both against wilw directly, but also to his abusers based on activity in his threads. Whether the reference is to one or both classes isn't clear.

The mastodon.cloud instance admin has not (yet?) responded.

Disclaimer: mastodon.cloud is my primary instance.
but you're not giving it a reference color. you're starting with a word like "envy."
Have you tried putting yourself out there for work? As patio11 recently said, try to fail out of 20 interviews. It's un-possible -- the hiring process is so broken, you'll get an offer.

Then it's up to you to catch up to their expectations. If you fail in that, so what! You'll have your first gig on your resume, and I bet you'll have learned a lot about working as a dev in that time. You'll be miles ahead of grinding it on your own.

Just have several strategies for coping with failure or disappointing yourself, otherwise it can be extra rough.
When I open smartmontools it says Number of Reported Uncorrectable Errors is 1,402. Is that an issue? (the short test didn't show any problems)
In many of those companies where X are celebrated the most they aren't an issue. That's the irony of it all.

You don't need to focus on gay rights in Google, FB, etc they are non issues there and thus it becomes a political statement were open doors are kicked in because it's popular NOT because it's important in those companies to focus on "gay rights".

So it's not really a solution to anything but rather just a way to do virtue signalling in companies.
The difference is liquifying "to the boiling point of the element with the 2nd lowest boiling temperature" (likely Neon @ 27K) and "liquifying down to Nitrogen" (77K).
Fireflies: https://hackaday.com/2009/06/25/64-synchronizing-fireflies/
He's one of us :)
I have already explained why I have a problem with it. Gay s don't have rights because they are gays they have rights because they are humans. So yes it's not that complicated.
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Was it a reply? I can see the one that says "funding secured" without signing in.

Even for a reply, can't you still read it without signing in starting from the tweet it's a reply to?
Great tip, minor point, did you mean 'returns setof fruits'? Otherwise your function will only return one row. Opinions vary but i think its another good argument for singular named tables as well: 'returns fruit' and 'returns setof fruit' reads better to my eyes.
How expensive were LEDs in comparison? Could you have added e.g 6 of them to the board as sensors?
Most historians agree that the Holodomor was not a genocide, just a famine.
I tried searching for "picular.co", and to my disappointment it did not melt down the website.
This is interesting. While I'm going preface most of these tools with having not used them to their full extent, to me, they still seem to solve very real world problems:

Kubernetes: I've actually not used kubernetes yet; I do hope to, sometime in the future. I do see the value in managing distributing the images/code required for a job to the machine that will eventually execute it, and distributing jobs automatically, as opposed to by hand. I've worked with a system similar to Kubernetes, and having used it, I understand the appeal and miss it greatly. Docker images (which I understand Kubernetes to use) also greatly simplify my life as a developer; generally, the actual VM my stuff is deployed to is significantly out of date (e.g., it's CentOS or Ubuntu) and this allows me to, e.g., get a very recent version of Python 3. It greatly pushes one toward (IMO) not having snowflake (unique, hand-crafted, but can't lose them) machines.

Node: I don't use Node server side; I mostly use npm for managing fetching client-side dependencies. Otherwise, this would be either committing them directly (I dislike mixing third-party and first-party code; it encourages ad-hoc fixes/changes, and doesn't get updated regularly) or a bash script to fetch them (more painful to maintain in the long run than npm, IMO). It also fetches indirect dependencies, so I don't need to figure out that this project requires that dependency, etc. Also, Babel is a godsend of a tool for dealing with browsers that haven't implemented the latest ECMAScript features. In particular, JavaScript modules are wonderful compared to life without.

React: I've not used full react; I've actually not used it at all for lack of time. I would like to use it, as building up UI elements via the DOM APIs is downright painful. Having not used JSX at all, I can completely understand why someone would invent JSX.

Terraform: We didn't use this for a while. AWS resources where managed by hand; nobody would know why something was in a particular configuration, and configurations between production and non-production environments would be different, with no clear rationale as the why. TF at least allows comments and a history of changes (when version controlled), and the language helps keeps things consistent where they should be.
In Germany, transliterations are widespread and officially accepted. Ö=OE, Ä=AE, Ü=UE, ß=SS makes it fine to write Hübner as Huebner even in the passport and other official documents. I wonder why other countries do not allow transliterations as a legal way to deal with anglo-centric character sets?
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> Release material information without alerting the exchange to stop trading

This whole incident sort of blows my mind. It seems like this should be Operating a Public Company 101 level knowledge, and the fact that he failed so spectacularly leads me to believe either someone at Tesla or the exchanges screwed up royally with the timing of some preliminary work and Musk didn't make sure it was done ahead of time, or he was drugged out of his mind on Sudafed or something (either because he thought it was okay or thought he could get away with it). I'm honestly not sure what's more likely given how stupidly obvious the error is.
You could try expanding this project beyond elementary CAs.

One option is a 'totalistic' CA which looks at the average value of a given neighborhood, and can have more than two states.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TotalisticCellularAutomaton.htm...

Or you could generate CAs with different starting conditions. Some beautiful elementary CAs don't 'show up' with just one initial point.