#ADHD and #kinetic brains - do you have any good tricks for getting yourself to do mental or intellectual work when your brain is hyperfocused on something else?
Last few days, my brain is completely interested and trying to pull me towards certain entertainment content, but I have a lot of work I need to do for my dayjob that requires my brain to be able to focus and flow, at least a bit. And I am STRUGGLING to get my brain to stop interrupting my work focus every five seconds to tell me to play a game or read a comic.
My usual coping skills ain't working (e.g. basic mindfulness, using music to change the emotional context of work, trying to grab onto the tasks that interest me, etc.), and I'd love new ideas!
How about panicking that you'll be discovered as an imposter who has been slacking off and they will chop your body into tiny bits and then fire the bits?
For me, the main impediment is not a different hyper focus (bc my work is mostly fun and interesting to me, how lucky). The main impediment is overwhelm at the hugeness of effort or a Big Boring First Step.
Finding some route around that initial hurdle often breaks the dam.
Reverse angle shows that the lightpole has to be the camera. Those exist nowadays, but except for a paintjob this light has been here since at least 2007.
There are vidcaps there that aren't from videos posted. Also videos in some early reporting that aren't on the page
Anyway, the next task was figuring out how tall the bomber is. The obvs place to start is the trashcan, but nope. Too many trashcans look exactly like that except for scale #baby#osint
First stab was via the scooter in the DNC video that the #j6#bomber walks right next to. In 2021, there were only a few companies providing scooters and this one looks a lot like one of them that has a known height. I got 5'9"
Second stab was from a video the #fbi didn't post but #WaPo did in early reporting. Bomber walks close to a car of known height. I got 5'9" again
It's worth noting that as much as I don't like her, popular suspect #MTG is easily in the clear. She is 5'3".
Such a pity that the Processing Foundation has in all these years abandoned Python... but... now we have #py5 and #Python + #numpy + #Processing has a future!
I'll see if I can remove the matplotlib dependecy and use py5 for boids in the next weeks. I have both a bio-simulation educational demo and a "hey, I'm learning numpy in the context of creative coding" presentation in the coming weeks.
Read a post last night asking about making a python class use different code for different things. It was in the context of a game, so extending the ability of the class with different objects.
It interested me so I thought I'd play with the idea this lunchtime.
Here we have a player object (apologies to Steve Jackson / Ian Livingston for appropriating their combat system) with name, skill, stamina and the weapon and armor they have.
The weapons and armor are defined in different classes as functions representing the damage they do, or absorb.
They are passed into the player object by assigning them.
Then battle commences...
Fun little lunchtime code illustrating the power of object oriented code.
I want naive datetime objects. I want them to be unknowable because I want them to be unalterable.
I don't want some silent function in the middle of something somewhere to "help" me by changing my datetime objects to the timezone I "obviously" mean.
I want to be in charge of my own data representations.
@tshirtman I deal with space data. It is always and forever utc, period.
If there's no tz attached, "helpful" libraries cannot try to move that time to "local". If there is a tz attached, I 10000% guarantee they will. And my code will break.