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My thoughts upon reading this are:

1. If your ADHD hasn't made your life (at least at moments) a living hell, it's probably not something that needs to be addressed very urgently.

2. If you don't think your ADHD is a problem but a therapist thinks it might be, well... That's an ADHD thing, and it might help to entertain the idea and openly explore it with therapy and loved ones.

ADHD, whatever it really is, has made my life very difficult at times. I won't describe why because I don't think our situations and symptoms would align well enough for it to be relevant. I will say though that I managed to make it to 30 as a reasonably introspective, thoughtful, and open person without really cluing in to the fact that I had some severe problems stemming from ADHD. I know that seems contradictory, but the trouble with ADHD is that it's something of a self defeating condition. Some of your internal senses are finely tuned while others are extremely dull, and they often work against each other to suppress and hide each other. It's dangerously compounding. The people around you may never notice this, too - this only works to exacerbate your blind spots in terms of self awareness. It's often true that only the people closest to us, like a spouse or other immediate family, will ever become attuned to our issues. I can say confidently even now that my closest friends had no idea I had ADHD, and some even insisted my diagnosis was an error. I had a good job, I was disciplined, I was a good parent. I used to believe those things too, haha.

All that is to say that if you do have ADHD and think it's fine, well... It might actually be awful for those around you, and that's worth inspecting. However, if it is benign, just let it be.

Others quickly jumped to saying meds changed their life. They changed my perspective of what my life could be, which was useful. I didn't find them useful beyond that. I disliked the side effects, and I found the soft, fleeting rewiring to feel like a mental flip-flopping that made it difficult to pin down which thoughts and actions where "real" or "generated" by drugs. Just as taking LSD in the pursuit of opening your mind leads to unearned wisdom, I felt as though amphetamines lead to an unearned, poorly understood, unsustainable source of focus and executive function.

At any rate, if you're here asking us, there must be some salience in your mind that's pushing you to explore the possibility. I say yes, explore it. But do it openly with a critical mind. Don't assume this ends in a prescription. Consider it self work which could benefit you and your loved ones. Most importantly, don't assume this is a bad thing. ADHD is another permutation of human genetics and environment. It's not an innate disability or disease. You're the same person with or without the diagnosis, and the ultimate goal is to be the best you can be regardless of which mind or body you inherited.
> I want to be able to write a "generic environment" module for each application and then parameterize it accordingly for each environment.

This specifically looks like you want inheritance, which Cue eschews.

You can set up a generic config with default values for everything, and then have more specific configs that override the defaults.

A concrete example would help figure out if Cue can do what you want.
If you are far better off than the average American household you could definitely consider yourself wealthy.
> What about cases where any one random reviewer (or several) is needed from a larger group of people? Does everyone get paged in?

If you select several reviewers and only one is needed, that'll ping the group of reviewers. That's not something we recommend, we think that one should use a random algorithm to select a specific reviewer if you prefer to select a group of people (https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/organizing-members-...).

> Or cases where a single reviewer is assigned to multiple different reviews? This becomes a DDOS attack on the human attention span and has the potential to create disorientation more than anything.

Instead of having notifications from Github, emails & Slack, we believed that it's easier to manage notifications when they come from only one place. When you're working on something, notifications should be muted. Axolo in Slack works as an "inbox zero", you should focus on your code and come see where your review is needed in a dedicated time.
Damn straight. Every now and then, one of them gets crushed by their own truck. I suspect that the overall health deterioration is awful.
>> As many as 95% of university patents do not get licensed at all.

Probably because 95 percent of them are worthless, as is the case with patents granted to companies. The simple solution is to stop offering incentives for simply getting patents. The obvious thing to do is offer revenue sharing from the patent licensing, but people at the top generally don't want to pay that much to a (even academic) peon for their innovations. But it's valid - make the incentive relate to the quality of the patent and you'll get better quality.
Unfortunately public schools in poor neighborhoods are getting shittier and parents need to pay for private tutors and summer school. Guess who can afford that?

Education doesn't fall out of the sky.
You had me at LibreOffice. It struggles to render a blank page on a mac (something to do with retina resolution which is default since 2012).
I've tried to use it on all supported operating systems, but everywhere it's a slow starting, glitchy mess. Still the best OSS way to interop with Office documents, but not something I would classify as "stellar".
I am tring to make a jQuery like library for rust/WASM and made small prototype
At least until Microsoft wraps-up the Open Business licensing program you can still acquire LTSC thru that program. You'll have to work with a reseller. It's a bit of a pain, but it's not too bad. I've used Dell and CDW in the past.

The minimum volume license buy is 5 licenses. Any good reseller will sell you 1 copy of LTSC and 4 of the cheapest SKU in the catalog (usually $5-10 / ea) to get your volume license contract started. After that you used to be able to purchase piecemeal for 2 years before you need to fulfill the minimum purchase again. The licenses themselves are perpetual. With the program being killed I'd treat it as a one-time purchase and assume you have no further rights after October (I think) of this year.

I don't like it, but it's not too hard to do either. The trick is finding a reseller who will leave you alone after the purchase (no sales calls, etc).
Once again, proof that no good deed goes unpunished. It's a credit to
Europe's social values that they find themselves prey to the profit-first
institutions of Silicon Valley. And lest we forget, the world-changing
beneficence of the internet and Linux originated from a Swiss lab and a Finn.
Side note about the Alt-1/2/3/4 shortcuts in calculator - does anyone else find that they only work sporadically? I just tried it a bunch of times now and got maybe 50-60% success rate on it actually triggering the mode switch.
Thanks, I didn’t see that. Not sure, how useful this is for a student.
You have to explicitly turn on SSH access, and each device has its own unique SSH password which is only accessible from the device itself. It's not a set of generic admin/admin creds.
Get them to yearn for the sea and they’ll Google around trying to figure out why Nokogiri won’t compile on their own
The caveat there is definitely whether the person then has the entrepreneurial drive to get the trade qualifications and start their own business with it. You're not going to be wealthy by any means of the definition by either becoming a plumber or an electrician working for another company. No way in hell, I know many of these people, as well as many carpenters both working their own business, or working for another company. I know one neighbor carpenter who owns his own carpentry/cabinetry business doing just well enough for himself, while another neighbor frames really nice houses and doesn't make nearly as much but does much harder work.

Then, I have a couple good examples of some guys with absolutely no education whatsoever who decided to start their own cleaning services by powerwashing restaurant kitchens, doing deep cleaning. These guys doing this cleaning gig the past few years are raking in $1k cash per night, 6-7 nights a week and making more cash hand over fist than a doctor makes. It's obvious to see what is the real underlying factor in all cases. Drive, motivation, and a go-getter attitude is what it takes. Plenty of people with degrees work at coffee shops and retail positions because after schooling, they expected a job to just drop in their laps but they have no go get it attitude from the start.
This! Companies from smaller countries even can't grow, just because local market is big as it is and if you want to grow, you need to sell goods/services in other countries, which means you need lawyers to get into all tax and other legal nuances. Just by fixing this issues for small companies would boom growth of tech and other companies.
I'm glad I'm allowed to run LTSC. I've never seen a desktop OS that stable. I run it for months without reboots with a heavy usage and I never got any problems with it since I started using it in 2015.
They why would you comment on what it's like to go downhill on a tandem?

I've got a Koga TwintySix, a trekking tandem, fully loaded it gets up to 180-200 Kg (two adults+camping gear, the 200 Kg is the maximum allowed load), the brakes are super good and yet, by the time you reach 70 kph downhill they are no longer capable of stopping the bike, safely or even at all.

A drag brake is a must in a situation like that or your brakes will start fading within minutes during speed reduction (short bursts of braking to reduce your speed to something safe and allow for ample cooling), and long before you really need them.
I've always dreamed of packing up and moving to the mountains (the Whites, or the Rockies, or the Sierras) but I've always been held back by 3 major factors. First, most rural communities don't have very good educational infrastructure. Second, moving somewhere with no social scene as an adult means you'll be spending a long time with no or few friends. Third, the cost and time sink of traveling back home to visit family for holidays, baptisms, etc.
For what it's worth, my psychiatrist friend who has ADHD and specializes in ADHD practice swears by non-stimulant medications for long-term treatment.

His personal preference is Intuniv (Guanfacine). He says the only reason it's not more popular is that the start-up side effects can be unpleasant for a while and proper dose titration takes more work on the provider's side to get it right.

Stimulants don't necessarily lead to dependence, but I have seen enough adults become dependent on stimulant medication or even fall into the trap of doubling up doses or seeking extra sources that it's wise to approach it with caution. Most patients seem to use as directed, but the people who go down the path of addiction and dose escalation aren't necessarily the ones you'd expect.
"Chrome has the biggest market share (outside of iOS) because it has the more features (that is web APIs) and less bugs, making it the most reliable browser"

ROFL. Chrome has the biggest market share because it rose while IE was a pile of dogshit and Firefox was going through a massive rewrite. It became the Microsoft of browsers, and turned lazy and fat as a result.

"It is very common to encounter websites or applications which do not work properly in Safari, and web companies and developers are encouraging users to use Chrome because of that."

Extremely uncommon, and generally a good sign that something is trash because it has a development team following the "IE" model.

Sure there is competition. Buy an Android device. But you know what's super weird? Android users leverage their browsers far less than iOS users. They're underrepresented online. Shouldn't they be enjoying that remarkable panacea afforded by such competition? You know, the competition where Chrome on Android is terrible, doesn't support extensions, etc?
It is clear that the electricity network of Texas cannot cope with current demands in winter nor summer. It is actually killing some of its citizens.

In most European there would be a national outcry and intervention from the central government. Why does this not happen in the US?
If I ever decide to uninstall, re-pack, and return a dishwasher after I find it for $40 cheaper, I will let you know.
I’m not sure what you define as “getting very basic things working” but there’s no acceptable threshold for me. Are line boxes very basic? Is overflow compositing very basic? It’s irrelevant whether or not one is bootstrapping.

It is unacceptable to me to use the software I’m testing to test itself if I can’t establish a baseline for the rest of the tests.

Otherwise, all of the tests could be invalid one day based on a regression and I wouldn’t know. But this is explicitly done with reftests.

And I don’t know what you’re talking about with the DOM API tests, there are several layout and compositor tests that require JavaScript and it’s unclear why other than the test author decided to use JavaScript to verify DOM metrics. That’s fine, I just don’t want that in my layout tests.

I’m OK with a subset of the tests just not being automated based on font rasterization and line height calculations. The standards make those expectations clear, but everything else feels like fair game to me.

I can either test for it, or I can’t. If I can’t, it’s not automated. And if it’s automated, I need information about what is failing, and much of the reftests don’t explicitly point out what they’re testing. The assert data is useful when it’s available, but even then sometimes test authors neglect to point out explicitly what they’re testing for.

Plenty of the layout tests in particular are just box model renders that should match with no explanation as to what section or text is being tested against. That’s just not acceptable. It’s not even about interactions between specs, the specs isolated are not well tested.

If you’re testing, let’s say, the width calculation of a box based on children boxes’ widths in normal flow, it needs to say that. And I think I’ve only ever see some of WebKit’s test’s help links reference actual sections.

Otherwise the WPT provide little to no value to me.

My team has been better off writing our own tests because we directly refer to the recommended or living standards texts by section, quote it and link to it, and as a result there’s no ambiguity about what property, calculation, or raster output we’re testing for.
The trend of software engineers starting and not finishing their creative projects has always been interesting to me, as I tend to err in the opposite direction -- for most of my projects, I get this compulsion to carry them to the finish line via as many caffeine-fueled nights as necessary... maybe it's driven in part by sunk-cost fallacy or something (admittedly, in retrospect some of those projects probably weren't worth the extra effort/stress). Still, I find it intriguing how often this other archetype appears.
It's absurd how much better LTSC is than publicly available versions of Win 10. If you have enterprise licensing or MSDN subscriptions or Partner connections, the only reason not to run it is if you really, really need WSL. Even then, I think you can get it enabled if you really need to.
> Europe is currently coasting along on the spoils of centuries of loot and plunder. A lavish, comfortable lifestyle was handed to the citizens of western europe

Well, apart from the whole WW2 business.

This is the trouble with generalisations across the continent, the closer you look the less well they fit. And if you look across a continent and back in time, the situation varies even further. Germany used to be "the sick man of Europe": https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.28.1.167

The overhang of colonial benefit is present in Britain; I'm not really sure about France (the disasters of trying to hold on to Vietnam and Algeria?). It's not present in Germany or Italy which had it taken off them. It may well be an issue to Portugal and Spain, which were dictatorships well after the war.
“Cookie policy modals” is bad naming: they‘re specifically there to get consent to track, regardless of the method you use to track in the first place.
I believe that perfect play is approximately that which maximizes aggregate happiness for all of humanity. Opinions will vary of course, because true optimality is unknowable to mere mortals, and how to get there, optimally or not, is probably even more difficult to discern.

That said, it is not a binary - I think it's well within our theoretical ability to realize that some things (war, extreme inequality, etc) are sub-optimal, and work to minimize such things over time. I say theoretical because one thing I have noticed is that when one suggests optimistic, common sense ideas of how to improve the world, most people usually disagree/downvote. To me, this unrealized innate default behavior is one of the many things that holds humanity back from achieving greater things.

See what I mean? :)
If they cater to businesses, what is the point of those UI modifications?
> We should expect Bill Gates to be much more intelligent, conscientious, and to have much better impulse control than typical people living in a trailer park.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Even if there are genes for success, being successful is not proof of having those genes, and being unsuccessful is not proof of not having them.

Furthermore, if we assume that someone swapped Bill Gates' baby with a baby born in a trailer park, do you truly think that Bill Gates' genetic child will have a much better chance at success than the child Gates raised as his own?
This is worth reading all the way through for anyone with an interest in science and innovative projects.
Agreed, but i18n of your software isn't really what I'm talking about.

There's other things like GDPR, local taxation, many cross border laws, and by culture I mean a variety of things: you'll see university graduates flogging themselves to death in Silicon Valley, but a start up in London will be slightly more relaxed by comparison. In the US, "free VC money" means there's an incentive to get to market asap, monetize, and move on. That doesn't really exist in Europe.
> opt out for websites

This wording annoys me. The websites have nothing to do with it. Google choosing to turn it's browser into spyware that leaks information about what you used to do with it isn't the websites fault, the webserver doesn't do anything and doesn't have anything done to it, there is nothing for it to opt out of.

Google chose to give websites a way to request that the users browser doesn't include the fact that they visited this website in it's cohort calculation. That's fine, but the messaging around it is a transparent attempt at shifting the blame. It's not the website opting out or in, it's the website acting as an uninvolved third party bystander asking google to stop. Asking why a website didn't opt out is equivalent to a thief asking "well why didn't you stop me?" to the person looking on from the sidewalk.

We shouldn't accept this messaging. We should be very clear that Chrome is the entity spying on you, not the website, and that the website has no power to decide whether or not chrome spies on you, only the ability to make a polite request that it doesn't (or more accurately, does so less).
It really depends on the bug? If it is a bug that causes your program to crash or return obviously invalid output then it's probably OK to fix it. But if the 'bug' does something useful that just happens to be undocumented or contradicts the documentation, then you need to be a lot more careful about 'fixing' it. Especially if it's clear that lots of people are relying on that bug as a feature.
I want to just add that most of the current "leading research in ML" at Google et al would not be possible without the years of foundational research conducted primarily at universities before the recent (3rd?) ML hype. Also pretty much all the Google researchers were hired away from universities I believe. That is the thing, industry hardly ever does high risk research that might only pay dividends in a decade or more.
IDK, I set up an LLC to bill for a single project, and it cost me something like 100 euros and a few hours of my time reading up on how to do it. Yes, that brings the need to file taxes every year - but on the other hand ordinary people in USA have to that for their personal income (unlike most people in EU), and that doesn't seem like something impossible to them.

Like, it definitely is a barrier for trivial hobby projects, if you whip something up in a single day and don't want to spend any more time on it, then this becomes a problem, but it's not a meaningful barrier for any actual project on which you're working every week that brings you some revenue.
> I'm trying to think of how one could do this in a way that wasn't even more intrusive?

Not to do it.
> John D. Rockefeller infamously used the strategy of seizing the middle to control the oil industry throughout the nineteenth century.

Rockefeller put a premium producing a quality product. At the time, other refiners were sloppy, and sometimes sold kerosene that still had gasoline in it. Because of this, people sometimes accidentally blew their hands off, or worse. Rockefeller promised a safe, standardized product. Yes he was unscrupulous businessman, but he saved a lot of consumers from getting blown up, too.

In this regard, it's not so much about seizing the middle as it is about a talented player carefully mopping up the board once they have a slight advantage.
3 time zones is a pain, and 4+ is a nightmare. I can definitely see a lot of people telecommuting from "nearby" (Vermont to NYC for example) but Hanoi to San Francisco is just too much.
And it is not even like that, in smaller countries google don't offer some of services (android auto) and hardware (pixel).
> the code that's running actually from the source code I'm looking at

Super common when working with Clojure(script)! Bites me in the ass all the time.
I've had a look at their results (Brave beta), early days of course but it looks like the overwhelming majority of their results are just Google slightly re-ordered.
> I've never met anyone who thinks wealth reflects "wealth of the soul."

I've never met one either, but I've definitely met plenty of people who think the opposite: if you had any advantages of any kind over anybody else, your accomplishments don't "count". The only people who can actually be proud of what they've achieved and deserve what they have are people who were thrown away in a dumpster at birth, grew up in a run-down, inner-city, rat-infested orphanage being beaten every day but still managed to graduate with a perfect GPA even though they had to walk five miles each way to school in the snow with no shoes.
I know that this is obvious, but worth noting.

This anxiety is not just China as a destination, but it just as relevant if it phones home to any company in any _country_.
Installing Guix as a Complete GNU/Linux System [video]
Telling the microscopic truth.

Especially in my marriage.

When difficult feelings arise, giving a stream of consciousness dump of my thought process. All feelings. Weird feelings. Feelings that won’t paint me in the best light. All gets revealed to my spouse.

It’s from the book Conscious Loving.
DHS poised to remake federal hiring in September to confront cybersecurity gap
I hate my handwriting, but the physical act of longhand absolutely helps me with retention, so I have a reMarkable. It's a pretty great device.
In a sane country, yes.In corporate ruled America no. But the important thing is that Google put some rainbows from time to time.