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I’m 31 and have ADHD (diagnosed in my teens) and I’m pretty sure NOBODY with ADHD is going to have the wherewithal to read this entire article! Unless it happens to magically coincide with their hyper-focus topic of the moment!

In all seriousness, I skimmed parts of the article and kept scrolling and it just kept going and going and going... like the Energizer bunny. I guess the author found a doctor to prescribe stimulants; they do make it easy to write long rants.

I can identify with some of his analogies, not all. The forgetfulness, standing at desk with power supply / getting “stuck”, lots of that sounds familiar. Some of the stuff he talks about is behavioral though and if it can be called lazy, it probably is at least partially lazy. I could never file TPS reports everyday, but I can do it occasionally. My brain’s capable of it. I just don’t like doing boring things. And yeah, I probably wouldn’t last if I had to do boring things everyday for a job. But the article makes it sound like he’s actually not capable of doing a boring thing.

The more interesting parts of ADHD are the stuff that is lesser-known and often overlooked, like mood swings and anger/irritability issues. Ironically stimulants pretty much cured lifelong mood issues for me. I used to blow up on people all the time; now I’m easygoing.
"Cancel culture" is a set of cultural behaviors whereby poorly or incompletely substantiated allegations result in the tarnishing of reputations via virtue signaling amplification.
procrastination is also the reason I'm here
Yeah, I remember liking the, uh, "it in the ass" page in the early days of Facebook.
To be fair, I think language barriers often make this much more difficult for folks.
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Right, COSPAS-SARSAT beacons are non-subscription products. As you say you can't send "I'm fine, but traffic awful on the way out here so we decided to stay until Tuesday" only trigger emergency rescue. But on the other hand, since COSPAS SARSAT is a global rescue service backed by governments (originally mostly the Russian and American governments, hence the clunky bilingual name) you can be damn sure it's not going bankrupt or whatever.

COSPAS SARSAT does have two way link in its roadmap, but again only for emergencies. The concept is, you activate the beacon and then maybe rescuers can send "Storm too bad for helicopter. We come at first light" rather than you either worrying they came and didn't see you or that they aren't coming at all. And that's at least several years out and a new beacon.
What is demographic data and how is it collected?
when they started, you could get your results anonymously. I recommended several friends to try. Then they changed that policy...at which point I stopped recommending it.

I'm not saying this is the cause, but they had a chance to be good guys and decided against it.
Interesting. My experience at UO was that the only place where you could get paper cups, the dispensers were behind the counter. So there was no need for the open dispensers to accept anything other than a validated chip. And same on the cruise ship; if you didn't have a beverage package, you go to a vendor to get a drink. (And if you did have a package, but just not your cup, they would see it on your ship ID.)
Is the intuition on credit card debt just that unemployment can jeopardize your ability to make payments?
What you're missing is that this is not akin to the teams you have lead at work. Those teams are working towards delivering some product: the team exists for some outside purpose, and has an exterior goal.

That is entirely different from the community that is being built here. It is more a support group, and the goal is to enrich the lives of the member of the group. Support groups tend to be made up of people who have experienced similar hardships. They do have an exterior goal: try to make others experiencing that hardship in the wider community less likely. But that goal is secondary to the primary goal of being a place for people who have had similar experiences to support each other.

As an aside: when someone has said, "I experience this bad thing," it's bad form to continually questions them on the dimensions of their experience of that bad thing. I assume you are doing this in good faith, and haven't thought about it from this perspective. Since mariedm created an entire community around this, perhaps a better way of gaining an understanding is to read that community for a while.
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didn't they give the hippocratic oath? doesn't that count for anything?
E2E encryption and perfect forward secrecy doesn't matter if the protocol is leaking copious amounts of metadata about who you're talking to and when.
It could be an old one. Wikipedia claims [1] they hang around for decades.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGA_cooker
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While we're on the subject of meditation books, I can recommend Mindfulness in Plain English[1] and The Heart of Buddhist Meditation.[2]

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-English-Bhante-Henepola-G...

[2] - http://www.khamkoo.com/uploads/9/0/0/4/9004485/the_heart_of_...
This has always been quite concerning to me as I've had a worsening essential tremor that was slight in my early twenties but is quite observable now that I'm in my thirties. The confounding effect that really hurts me here is that my father has had a benign essential tremor for his whole life - so there's a constant see-saw internally and with medical practitioners about whether my tremor is something to be concerned about or not.
I would say: Automated testing and a functional programming mindset.

Even for legacy projects, starting with adding regression tests for every bug you find is a great way to introduce testing. And when you add new features, you can write tests for that as well.

I find that a FP mindset is helpful mostly because it tends to reduce the amount of global or spread-around state. This in turn makes testing and quickly iterating in a REPL a lot easier. Also when later the time comes to debug, it's much simpler if you don't have a huge amount of state to set up first.

And even if a lot of state is required, having it be an explicit input to a procedure is helpful because it makes it much clearer what you need to set up when doing manual testing.
My thermostat from 1990 still works fine. It will have to continue to work fine for a while longer until I can trust more modern ones. If you connect to the internet you have no business controlling my house's heat. I'm not paying $$$ to someone to get my heat back on.
23&me most like will not help you there as they are only looking for relatively well known mutations and not de-novos. They are basically scanning a few (or less) million variants but there are billions of possible new ones
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“ Electronic communications and text messages sent as part of official government business are part of the public record, and should be accessible via a Freedom of Information Act request.”

Unless it’s classified and it would be very easy to make the case that all of the communication being sent on Army-issued cell phones would be Confidential at a minimum. The important stuff all gets copied into OPORDS and will be available for declassification someday.
I think Boston Dynamics is the closest to making robots that could actually be useful in real life situations. I would love to develop code for one of these.
Alright, I got what you meant. Do you know if anyone performed bytecode-level analysis on WhatsApp clients already? Just curious, it's nothing I really need.
> Many personal finance products are free, but make money by selling data or trying to upsell you on something else that you don't need (like, say, a credit card you don't need or a tax product that is overpriced [2]). This is what happened with Mint. It became a "top-of-the-funnel" lead generation tool for other products.

Question about MonarchMoney. Is it going to be a cloud service or a standalone old-fashion desktop software? Most of serious personal finance people would prefer desktop software in order to protect their own data. However, most consumers prefer a free and hosted solution. Which market is MonarchMoney going after?
The article does not mention whether or not Firefox will also be affected. Does anyone know if Office365 ProPlus already does this or are they just ignoring Firefox?
More and denser and with new public transport to go with the new denser neighborhoods. It's really not a hard problem if you take the city-politics out of it.
I wonder what the story about the chicken in the image in the middle of the PDF description is :)
It is web. They might call it an app or something, but it is web. I tried voting yesterday using their website on my laptop, everything was fine.
Ritalin based drugs are all that works for me. It's not even a choice, it's that I don't function how I need to without it.
The additive/subtractive colors thing is has a really neat sort of symmetry to it. That's how I knew it was the correct explanation. There was no such beautiful internal logic to the Red Blue Yellow system and I couldn't figure out how people came up with it.

I never believed my teachers. As early as 4th grade they were treating me like a troublemaker for not following rules like their three-paragraph essay format.

I don't like the idea of having authorities on knowledge. I much prefer Montessori or Socratic teaching methods, or explorations. They're harder to do, but they produce a better understanding of the material and they allow the student to teach the teacher as well.
Obviously the criminals get their firearms from somewhere else since they can't be purchased legally inside the city, but you'll never eliminate every possible source. Even if you put up a massive wall and have 100% success in eliminating smuggling (which is obviously impossible) these things just aren't that hard to manufacture locally using commonly available and benign tools and materials. Criminals will still have them, and regular citizens will have an even harder time defending themselves.
Now I understand why the saying goes like:

Emacs is a good OS... ;-)
Let's assume that Signal is fully encrypted and there's no feasible way to read the messages.

The problem is that the phone is likely used for other things too, and you don't want [insert important app here] to leak information that could've been protected with a VPN. Also things like dns logs and the IP connection will still be revealed without a VPN so an attacker will be able to know that you're using Signal, when you're using it, potentially with DPI they might get to know when you send/receive a message. Collect this information across a wide enough network and compare the times, you may be able to tell who is messaging who and when.

With a VPN there's no risk of other apps leaking data, it hides your dns queries, and the end connection. This means it will be difficult you're using Signal specifically at all, and should make DPI at least more difficult.

> But they probably don't fully trust their vpn

The VPN isn't necessarily be in charge of keeping the messages themselves secure, but for preventing other data leaks. The messaging application is responsible for that part, and they had to use something like Signal, because (theoretically) signal cannot read their messages. Slack/MS Teams/Facebook messanger/etc still have access to your messages regardless of any VPN.
Wish I could stop myself skipping all those lines
There is no more than that. The only "extra" thing is that they ask you to draw a signature at the end.

I really do hope this goes nowhere, because this is just silly.
Well, like I said, could just be that my perspective was tainted a bit by not doing as well as I'd have liked.

But I think sometimes these things just happen too. I think I interviewed in 2018, so that'd be 7 years after you did. I'm sure a lot changes in that much time.
That's what OPSEC is for. A bit hard in enemey territory but def less noisy than using w/e else they were currently using.
You're going to have to prove there's a pattern here. Unless the pattern is companies that haven't maintained their status in their respective industries.
Why not link the original twitter post[0] instead? That page add nothing but ads.

[0] https://twitter.com/IamShaneMorris/status/122036793494775808...
Thousands of words and no mention of diet. I was diagnosed ADHD in 5th grade, tried just about every medication out there, and never landed on a workable long-term solution until I modified my diet. Medication always had mixed results. Many allowed me to focus and better control impulses, but the emotional crash at the end of the day was too much. Others caused insomnia or palpitations. Cutting sugar and limiting carbs, however has been transformational. I won't say it's right for everyone, but everyone with ADHD should at least try cleaning up their diet. It's a no lose option.
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It does matter. Soldiers talk about sensitive stuff all the time. You don’t want schedules, personnel, whatever, leaking through inane conversations to people we’re at war with.
> In any case, their app is now open source, so why is this an issue anyway?

My issue is that countless VPN companies are re-inventing the wheel, when they could just be contributing to open-source in the first place. It's obviously in their best interests from a security & trust standpoint to start from an already open & well-audited platform. Everyone wins when bugs are squashed and new features are added; and the licensing lets them keep their branding/ui for the app they deploy.
payments, and ability to even get a job if your score takes a hit... a lot of companies do credit checks before hiring :/
That's unusual as the profession is known for having a lot of neurodiverse members.
Yep, I can fully confirm. Best results are by far with smaller models (such as openai-gpt).
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So easy. Scary indeed.
+1 for Personal Capital, I used to use Mint but hated how buggy it was, Personal Capital has worked like a charm and I think their UI is great
Of course, the only reason the mafia is involved in the first place is because sex work is illegal in most jurisdictions. So the analogy is worse than a mere leaky abstraction. You're advocating a cure that's worse than the disease, in both cases.
I've had a Mint account almost since launch. I've tried multiple times over the years to pick up YNAB. Last week I started taking another stab at it. The two aren't quite equivalent.

YNAB seems to pretty actively want you to "Fresh Start." One of the giant values for me with Mint is historical information. I often will dump a CSV or troll through old transactions since I can't remember which account was used. After not touching Mint for a year I could go through and touch up categories and answer if "eating out" was something I'm doing more of in Nov/Dec than January. Or I could skim through and mark deductions when filing taxes or looking for medical expenses.

My needs have changed a lot since I was clawing out of debt. I don't really see myself setting a budget, but more tracking categories to find outliers. I guess kind of like changing my diet instead of trying to make my next meal "healthy."

That said, I'd love to ditch Mint. There are so many ads garbaging up the interface. I never found their charts all that useful. Their offers seem to be whoever bought ad space this month instead of what would improve my financial situation. YNAB is way better at things like bi-montly bills that use income split up each month.
You trivialize that which is not: The good variety of simple does not come easy. Not in programming, not in visual design.

Making something look simple but not boring, mundane or like a copy of something you saw 10 times today, is hard because it is highly depending on context and context is depending on understanding.

Facebook can get away with an f (and more so, it works for them) because it makes identification easy when it is ubiquitous – but that is not automaticaly the case when you have no brand recognition. The simple f might just be forgettable or, worse, remind people of something else.

There is a ton of additional caveats. That is what is hard about visual design: It is infuriatingly different even when you think it shouldn't be, every single time, and understanding both how and why it doesn't work – and I guarantee you, it will not work before it eventually does – is a recurring challenge for every designer, regardless of how simple the design or how experienced the designer.
If you really thing Trump dislikes Bezos because of "profiting from the US taxpayer" instead of "owning The Washington Post", I don't even know what to say.
The military uses various MMHS implementations for all messaging that needs to fulfill military messaging requirements, which is very different from Signal's protocol.
I think that the bigger issue is that corporations have figured out that people don't know how to multiply and are willing to pay far more money as periodic payments than they are as a one time expense.

On this water filter thing, the fridge costs about $1500. Suppose it lasts 10 years, and you replace the $55 water filter every six months. That's $1100 worth of water filters! The water filters almost double the cost of the fridge!

Profit-wise, on a $1500 fridge, it's a competitive market. You're looking at multiple brands, so GE probably has a profit of $100 at most on the fridge. On the water filters though, we know that the generic one sells for $19 and the branded one is $55. That suggests that GE probably makes a profit of at least $20 on the filter. Over the life of the fridge, that's $400 in profit -- 80% of the profit of the fridge is in the filters! If third parties are threatening that profit by making knockoffs, of course GE is going to take countermeasures to protect 80% of their profit.
Well signal is not supported on non-phone androids (there was some option on the desktop dev build but it's not supported anymore, so it's not even usable on desktop). I've heard that this limitation increases security but I have a hard time understanding why. So I can't really vouch for Signal, but I wish I would. I guess requiring a physical android phone makes it hard to create bogus accounts?

I wanted to try jami to do some p2p voip on windows. It crashes when I create an account.

It really sounds like secure alternatives are "disappearing" or just not usable or mature enough, in favor of mainstream apps that are known to be monitored. Not to mention the call quality of skype/discord can suffer because it's using servers.
Yeah that sounds like a configuration maintenance nightmare for the relatively minuscule population of pi-hole owners.
The money doesn't evaporate, but it very likely would result in less total money spent. And people spending less money is the textbook cause of recessions.
This is question of salesmanship and negotiation rather than "technique", no?
An anarchist who works to get all the major messaging platforms end-to-end encrypted, so that normal people who don't think to explicitly opt-in to encryption get the benefits by default? Makes perfect sense to me.

WhatsApp was (maybe still is?) the most popular messaging application in the world. Getting it E2E encrypted is a huge coup.
You're essentially saying that violating your users' privacy is OK because not everyone has the skill or money to do it the right way?

In this case would you also say it's OK to be stealing in stores because it's cheaper than getting things the correct way by paying for them, and that stores concerned about theft should just do a better job at preventing you from stealing by using the real-life-equivalent of a hosts file to prevent you from entering the store?
Why would someone need to do any "hacking", if the only thing needed to vote is name and date of birth. Someone could easily aggregate all that data and write a short python script to do all the voting on everyone else's behalf.

Not advocating for anyone to do so, as this is extremely illegal, but imo whoever signed off on this kind of online voting system is an even bigger criminal in my eyes.

EDIT: upon reading further comments, I discovered that voter registration records in WA are officially public, and they include names and DOB (among other things). I am speechless.
Responding to this post, since it looks like you edited it (to clarify) and I responded to my misunderstanding based on what your post previously said:

That comes down to making sure you like what you actually intend to like: you probably don't intend to like the literal bytes of the URL, you probably intend to like the content at the URL. UIs can aid in this[1] but ultimately I don't think people think that specifically, and there's not a perfect technical solution to that problem.

[1] WARNING: You're about to "Like" a URL. The content at the URL may change. Do you wish to continue? Y/N
> "we can fsck you up on a whim and there is nothing anybody can do about it."

There are 71 men in Guantanamo that are "too innocent to charge, too dangerous to release."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Ahmad_Ghulam_Rabbani

What's sad is that in 2008, the US supreme court issued it's ruling in Boumediene v. Bush:

"The Nation’s basic charter cannot be contracted away like this. The Constitution grants Congress and the President the power to acquire, dispose of, and govern territory, not the power to decide when and where its terms apply. To hold that the political branches may switch the Constitution on or off at will would lead to a regime in which they, not this Court, say 'what the law is'."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boumediene_v._Bush
My newest appliance, a microwave, has a dial to set the time, a row of buttons to select the power level and a door handle. It's the best microwave I've ever owned. It was also the most expensive, but since it is intended for commercial kitchens, I expect it to last at least ten years.
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You had me at automated testing.
Wells-Fargo sure doesn't, nor does BMO, nor does American Express... so I'm not sure what you mean here?
I agree, but the leaked document contains more than just information he confessed. It might not be accurate, and/or maybe all of the other al-Qaeda leaders who named him as an associate were also coerced into confessing that, but it's a much more complicated story than what's written in this article.
Crypto is a tiny community and doing it right is very hard. It is not surprising to me that access to talent is worth more than raw dollars.
Probably a good thing. Since they started cooperating with law enforcement, it's basically a giant exercise is entrapment with a little psudo science to help sell it...
it's funny that the recent SJW stuff has made it palatable to argue for white-only groups, when before all that stuff hit no one in their right mind would have argued for it due to the implications of racism.

Those implications haven't disappeared, it's just that if we really think it's important for groups to be able to wall themselves off based upon race, it should be the right of whites to do it as well.

Goes to show just how damaging that movement has been.
I suspect that my mom developing a tremor is what turned her DRD, which was in retrospect similar to what myself and my grandma have, into Parkinson's. As far as I can tell, for my family anyway, developing the a tremor will rapidly deplete what little Dopamine we can produce and lead to normal'ish looking Parkinson's.

The genetic defects associated with this are I believe a spectrum though, and we happen to be close to one side of it. If you have any symptoms related to DRD, I would see a movement disorder specialist and ask for a trial of carbo/levo. It'll be immediately obvious if it helps, and if you don't have any problems with Dopamine production it won't do anything (except for some mild side effects).