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Adhd feels like knowing how to do something and knowing you should do it, but not actually doing it. It’s like your inner drive is very weak unless there is an external consequence involved, like a deadline.

Yes, that would be me. I know what I need to do in so many ways. But doing it? If it isn't a habit or some form of negative emotion forces me to do it, almost impossible. There are, of course, exceptions. But in general, absolutely.

Homework

Yes, same with tasks / Jira stories today.

Amazon box

There is a printer inside a box in my living room that I need to print a work related document. It's now there for like 8 days? My office wrote me, that they need that document and boy don't I care about it, as it is merely a formality. So yes, total check.

Dishes

See, this is why I'm not completely convinced ADHD matches me. I never leave dishes behind. When I'm done cooking, even before I take the first bite, the kitchen is in perfect condition. Vacuuming my room on the other hand...

Todo lists

I need them to be productive, but my personal todo list tends to remain on my whiteboard for weeks or months until I do everything possible in one rush. I guess that is also a match?

Your last paragraph sounds like doing things compulsively, things that aren't important right now. That is also a no match for me. I get hyper focused from time to time, although that has gotten quit rare in recent years. But I've never not went to a meeting or something similar because of it. If I need to do something, if I start to feel negative about it, I'll get it done no matter what. I'd feel quite awkward not getting to meetings, so that doesn't happen. Maybe this is still a match?

Edit:

On the other hand, I should complete a Jira story right now. But now I'm here and listening to a ADD related talk from another comment. But I really should work on that story to finish it. But I kind of have an open deadline. But it gets steadily more embarrassing that I haven't finished it. Uh oh.
"All doers, no talkers"

Some of the absolute worst teams I have been on were like that. Full of self-proclaimed "doers". Always doing things without thinking even the basics through, no coordination whatsoever. Creating complete shitshows and clown-fiestas that others then have to fix somehow and always, always (did I say always already?) with the dumb excuse "well, at least I did something".

These are the "net negatives" on your projects.

P.S. And no, "be smart gets things done" people do not refer to themselves as "doers".
And since February, we all learned a tremedous amount about Covid-19. I'll take advice from experts who change their opinion when data and information changes over any expert who never changes his opinion by virtue of having been right once early on. because the latter part is usually as much "luck" as anything else.
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Thanks, just to clarify: your servers are only used for the handshake here and the video is kept completely local right?

PS: https://show.veda.ai/demo.jpg I hate how accurate this picture reflects parts of my improvised setup. :)
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I kept reading

.. and reading ..

.. and reading ..

.. and still no point made, so I gave up.
I can vouch for that assessment of Clover. It has flavor, but not in a particularly pleasant way. I've had better luck with unrecognizable bargain brand premium butters.
Love this way to "hack" how the human mind tends to optimize itself, much like how you can draw things upside down (the object, not yourself) to bypass the way the mind "knows" how things are supposed to look, instead how they actually look.

Try that - take a picture of a face from a magazine, draw it on a paper. It may come out distorted, since your mind exaggerates things that are more important to you (eyes, mouth more so than the forehead). Then turn the magazine upside down and draw it again. It often comes out much more similar to the original this time.
They are, and it is not that new; the interesting part is how to solve that.

For image classification, this bias for textures may be passable. For image generation, it would produce atrocious results, especially for faces. To the point, that people devised some methods to overcome this, especially with progressive networks (e.g. proGAN). See https://towardsdatascience.com/progan-how-nvidia-generated-i... for the proGAN explanation - it starts from training on 4x4 pixel images, to get the overall shape.
And this whole discussion is about some presumed opinions about masks from February.
Duly noted. As a long-time GNOME user I felt trolled by multiple statements over the 3.X years that can _very_ reasonably be reduced to "we consider the user base not very smart, so we'll cut completely a feature instead of even giving them the chance to put it back through an advanced setting and that's our way or the highway".

As was answered to you, 'twas just sarcasm while looking at the wounds in my figurative heart, and while you are entitled to your interpretation of it as trolling, it sounds fairly incorrect since I'm not even seeking official GNOME communication endpoints and picking on them directly. Trolling is sort of directed towards a target rather than random venting.
What's your opinion on Israel only allowing ethnic jews to immigrate? That would meet your definition of racism.
Cats won't impact bird populations that much, nature balances itself well enough - assuming there's enough green areas where birds can nest, of course.

Plus, it helps control the mouse population as well.
I don't think there is much evidence as to the causality there.

You seem to believe that the ventilators are causing deaths. There's plenty of evidence to show that once Covid-19 takes hold it is particularly viscous because of the number of things that it does to the body.

Some of the things that go wrong in some cases include: lung damage (obviously), kidney damage, liver damage, strokes, encephalitis, seizures, heart damage, meningitis, bloody diarrhea etc[1].

I agree the death date of people on ventilators are horrifying. But I don't think there is much evidence that ventilators are causing that rather than being administered to people who already have serious symptoms.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus...
My cat catches plenty of mice (and leaves them to me to tidy up, ugh), but no birds so far. We've got a bird feeder in the back yard as well.

Back in my parents' house we also had a cat, he'd catch a bird on occasion but it'd be our neighbour's pigeons that had just come back from a flight from France.
>I dont think he would have been called sexist for that.

CNN on January 30: "Coronavirus task force another example of Trump administration's lack of diversity" https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/politics/donald-trump-coronav...
> St. John's Wort, which is superior to synthetic antidepressants in many cases,

Oh boy, yet another claim without references.
Your counter-argument to a scientific study is an anecdote? Not a very strong argument.
The government should be helicoptering money into the system, it can print endless amounts of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic#Hyperinflation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Venezuela
That makes sense. Given that one can write good compute shaders with Vulkan, the next obvious question worth answering to me is whether one should do that.

If I had to write a new foundational library, e.g., something like CUTLASS or cuFFT for device code, I won't start with code that fully uses a device, but I'd like to be able to do that if I want to.

If I need to reach for CUDA to do that, then Vulkan, WebGPU, etc. will need to have great FFI with CUDA C++. Nobody wants to have to "drop up" to a higher-level CUDA C++ API like CUTLASS, but being forced to do so by "dropping down" that API to a C FFI wrapper.

It would be like having Rust, but without any unsafe code support except for C FFI, C actually not existing, and having to drop "down" to C++ for everything, and then numbing down the C++ to C FFI for interoperability. You might as well just stick with C++ and spare you the pain.

I hope Vulkan and WebGPU get enough extensions so that foundational libraries can be written in those languages.
Does this mean that in order to initialize the database, the entire version history must be synced and reduced, to get the current values?

(Is there a design doc for OrbitDB anywhere?)
Pro tip: read more than just the headline.
Citation needed.

The Rust thing goes at about 1 Gbps. It doesn't say how fast this one is. "In active development" can mean "not mature yet".
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> Since my diagnosis I've slowly developed a crippling anxiety centered around a feeling that I need to figure out the rest of my life before it's too late.

I can't imagine how you must be feeling, so take what I'm about to say with a grain of salt.

Losing your sight is undoubtedly going to be one of the top five most important events in your life that will split everything into "before" and "after". Maybe it will be the most important. But it's still one of the top five. And right behind those five there will be another five that aren't quite as important, but still pretty close. Life has a way about it like that. (Some of us get dealt a better hand than others of course, but there are precious few for whom all top ten life events have smooth continuity and are all ecstatically positive).

I'm by no means telling you to take this lightly or not to prepare. It sounds like you're throwing yourself into this thing and doing the best you can to set yourself up for future success. That's great. But do take a long view on these things. You have fifty years ahead of you, and crazy shit will happen that will knock you off your horse maybe every decade or so.

It's not exactly that your anxiety is unwarranted, just that it's not telling you the whole story. This is (hopefully) going to be a long, long road. Aiming to have everything buttoned down at 24 (or 34, or 54) is not a reasonable expectation, blind or not.

Anyway, best of luck to you. If you want, I can put you in touch with a friend who's a developer with no sight. (Also happy to just talk to you for emotional support) My e-mail is in the profile.
I know that the plural of anecdote is not data, but modafinil can have some not-so-mild side effects.

I have been pretty healthy my whole life, exercise regularly and eat a healthy diet, never had any allergy nor anything alike... until I took (ar)modafinil. After 2-3 weeks of occasional consumption (1 pill every 2/3 days) I started with a mouth full of ulcers (aphthae), which progressed to a full-body rash. Apparently I had Erythema multiforme major, one of the potential side-effects of Modafinil, and honestly it was worrying.
RIP Better Place (2007-2013). They were ahead of their time and if hydrogen refueling stations take off it will be following in their footsteps.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company)
- CSS3D, a fun and easy way to make 3D scenes / games in the browser without WebGL. To my knowledge, we are about 5 people to use it (https://xem.github.io/articles/css3dgames.html)

- JS code-golfing... I'm not alone but we're a small community, who enjoy making JS programs / art / games with the smallest possible amount of code (js1k.com, js13kgames.com, dwitter.net, ...)

- Unicode, its quirks, its updates (not only emoji), its encodings and its predecessors charsets

- Regexes (everyone hates them but I enjoy using them)

- Browsers hacks and polyfills (remember IE6? Firefox 3? Chrome 1? With enough effort, you could make them do almost everything that modern browsers can do today. My job has been to do exactly that for many years, and it was actually pretty fun)
There are many people in Germany who work 4/5 or 3/5 jobs. I was previously 3/5 and moved to 4/5, but it's nice to have the extra time.

For the employers here, the only downside is if they are being measured by head-count (but even then, I count as 4/5 of a headcount...)
I used to live in France and am now in the Bay Area. Here are a few products I like:

- Milk: Straus non-homogenized organic whole milk

- Butter: Kerrygold salted

- Bread: Costco walnut raisin

Have you tried these already? They're fairly easy to find and won't cost an arm and a leg. If they're not good enough, there's fancier stuff available, such as Rodolphe Le Meunier butter, or Backhaus bakery in San Mateo which makes great pains au chocolat.

Cheese is still way behind for sure. There's too much variety and catching up will take decades. Local creameries seem mostly interested in making triple crème variations and establishing their brand. I'm sure some of them will be very successful this way, but from a consumer's perspective I don't think it will work out as well quality- and cost-wise as the French model of buying unbranded cheese from a specialized shop that hand-picks their regional suppliers.
Legally blind, I'm a full stack engineer (and a solution/security architect) with extensive experience in building both backend and frontend (web) systems. I work on Windows with Jaws screen reader. I use autohotkey extensively to super charge my productivity. I had worked as employee with Microsoft (and others) in the past and have been running my consultancy cum product company since 2016. Email in profile

- You can do frontend coding but certainly some assistance is needed for verifying the UI design. In any decent sized project, Personally I prefer my sighted colleague to handle look and feel (mainly the CSS part - though I know CSS) as I feel it's not a productive use of my time. It's always better to have a UI specialist anyway. FE devs have lot of other things to do especially when it is SPA based.

- Visual studio is good for development and debugging (for .net related languages at least). If you're on windows use autohotkey and setup shortcut keys and hotstrings to automate repetitive actions and text. For instance I prefer bash for using Git and have setup commands like 'gtcom' which expands to 'git add . (newline) git commit -am ''. I just have to type the comment then.
Since you'd be working exclusively via keyboard it's important you do more with less hits to reduce strain on your wrists.

- Another important thing is to be able to find alternatives to UI tools your colleague are using but which could be highly inaccessible. Your programming skills and knowledge of system internals will help you with that. Do not settle with any tool which decreases your productivity considerably just because the team is using it, as you'll be judged based on your deliverable and not what tools you used.

I second what @kolanos has written. Programming is mostly a mental job (no pun intended) and everybody has to load a representation of the program in head before one can start fleshing out good code. PG has also written about it
Edit: skip this. I've read your links and it's clear you wouldn't fall into this trap. Sorry.

I had a boss who relentlessly focused on getting things done, neglecting anything but the immediate cost. If the cost could be pushed into the future (well, that wasn't the calculation - it was more like 'can I ignore this right now') then it was. He built up a whole lot of technical debt that was expensive to deal with, and some never was dealt with, so continued costing permanently. Any thoughts?
This was a great write-up, and a solid reference. I've been meaning to build an SFF max-powered PC for a while, just as a fun pet project.

> That said, if you spend all day encoding videos, or compiling big projects in source code, the more cores but less overall speed tradeoff might be the correct one. And AMD is a lot closer on IPC now than they were 2 years ago, as well.

These days the IPC gap has been basically closed [1], which is what the write-up says, but really worth calling out. This hasn't happened since the Athlon 64 days. On mobile, AMD's IPC absolutely savages Intel with the 4000-series.

[1] https://hothardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-9-3900x-vs-core-i9...
This is not to mention that the guy who won the nobel prize for hiv research says the virus is man made.
Money is a representation of wealth, if you print more of it, the money loses it's value to match the wealth. We call this inflation. You cannot give away wealth that you do not have.

If we truly had a free market, we'd have none of these issues, since wealth aggregation wouldn't be prevented through regulations.

For example, you can already get free education of mostly everything from the Internet, but without getting a piece of paper at the end with the stamp of some university. It's a form of regulation, since without that piece of paper you'll have a hard time selling your services. Similarly, you can get all the information you need to lead a healthy life style, making it less likely for you to even need health care. But still lots of people just eat till obesity ruining their own bodies. In Japan there's a system where your company does yearly health checks and if you gain weight, you have to pay more in taxes or some such scheme. Curiously nearly nobody in Japan is obese.
Camino was awesome, one feature that I missed when I had to switch away from it was that its download list actually noticed when the files weren't there anymore (it's the small things that add up).

I even had a short look on how hard it would be to use the shell for a more modern engine, but it seems deeply entrenched in the Mozilla codebase, which is basically a dungeon full of undead, dragons and rust monsters.
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"Lazy" is just another way of saying that you're not doing something somebody else thinks you should be doing. Nobody is lazy at playing video games or eating a favorite food. If you like doing it, you do it. You can't be lazy. You can only be lazy in some kind of context where you or others judge you and find you wanting.

So two pieces of advice. First, stop judging so much. Do what you love doing and don't feel the least bit guilty about it. Second, find things you love doing that generally make you a better person over time and do those things. This might require trying out new things every weekend for a while. Once again, don't judge yourself; instead find things you truly love that you feel are also good for you. There are plenty of these things for everybody, and each person has his own mix. Never feel like you have to have somebody else's.

A lot of commenters here are using the mountain metaphor. I'd like to say the same thing a different way. Stop being so goal focused and instead become habit focused. You don't want to accomplish some big goal, all you want to do is do fun stuff that makes you a better person. As a result of that, you'll probably accomplish some cool goals. But you'd never do that if you started from zero and tried to guilt yourself into striving towards some goal you couldn't care less about.

Habits are easy to change. The trick is to try new things and start with really, really small changes. Most of life is Zen anyway. You either enjoy doing things and die or you suffer and die. It's your choice.
That song theached me this way of overcoming issues and always comes back to my mind when splitting problems <3
I would strongly recommend switching to Windows - the screen readers are just so much better than anything on Linux. I agree with the other person who said that GUI programs are easier to use with a screen reader. At least on windows, this is definitely the case.
I'll just chime in with a fundamental truth and I don't really care who is offended or what HN rules I'll be supposedly breaking: The right has no new ideas, no desire to build anything but their own wealth, and no respect for science, nature, their fellow humans or even basic facts. They are, and always have been, fundamentally evil, full stop. Writing an essay about progress and change, but not recognizing that half the country are backwards, ignorant, selfish, fearmongering, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic cowards who care nothing but themselves is avoiding the core issue. If everyone on the right disappeared tomorrow, the country would be a vastly better place.
”Given the ongoing revelations of Neanderthal art and technology, it is difficult to see how we can regard Neanderthals as anything other than the cognitive equals of modern humans," the study said.

I don’t keep a finger on the pulse, but seeming advances in the study of Neanderthals have been noticeable from browsing HN alone this past decade.

Are there any books or resources that look to bring a layman up to speed on the changes to and current state of the field, similar to what Mann’s 1491 did for pre-Columbian studies back in the day?

I’ve turned up Pääbo’s Neanderthal Man before, but it was focused on genetics, and could be quite technical.
I think that was just a free dunk on drug users. Sorry for being uncharitable here.
Bitcoin Halving Price Patterns Looks Way Different from Previous Halvings
I just read the title, imho it is probably this:

No god > No afterlife > These X years are it > Best invest in becoming happy > Happiness is not joy or money > Most Human happiness is in rich social interactions and feeling safe > Rich social interactions and a big family means dying with a lot of grand children, this would make most people happy > Feeling safe is about not leaving your relatives in debt or having to cook meth to pay for cancer treatment > Socialism (which I would argue is the American word for what most "socialist" countries call "common sense" -society).
The fundamental problem with these essays is that their authors don't get paid for the words they didn't write.
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I agree with your points, except of phrasing of one thing.

>populace that's becoming increasingly demanding of bailouts

Its corporations that setup that system and those are sole beneficiary of the system. Now days you cannot default on student debt even if you are working in completely different area.

Corpos eat up all profits in times of prosperity, and in times of crisis all they do is cry for bailout money. Which they will promptly get, award the ceo for their cunning skills and move on.

That is the problem, the business model of too big to fail.
That is straight out rent seeking.

And that is the problem. Bloated 'too big to fails' copros are holding nations as hostages. Allowing them to act like they are 'too big to fails'.

> Its not clear this spending will actually stimulate economy in the same way building interstate highways, airports, nuclear power, etc. in the 50s did.

This is another clear example of current insanity. Building infrastructure was the solution, it worked. It gave money to the bottom guy, who spend it locally allowing small business to stay afloat further propping up confidence in spending.

But now only solution is to shower fire with money in hopes that eventually it will die down.
Harry and Meghan tell UK tabloids they will no longer deal with them
TLDR:

White males are to blame for all evils in the Universe.
Have used Sublime Merge and GitKrarken for chunking-review-committing for git.
It's still pretty surprising, and probably has more to do with cultural practices of eating all kinds of wild animals, than with population density.

How many diseases originated in India?