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davidr

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Heinlein is problematic for a lot of reasons, but I've always been inspired by this:

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

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kusuriya, to ADHD

I wish everyone would normalize 5 minute notifications on their meeting invites. 15 minutes is far too long, it busts me out of what I was working on, and leaves me with too much time to refocus and not enough time to do pre-work if that was your aim. so I basically lose 10 minutes every meeting that uses a 15 minute alert.
Outlook seems to have no great way to let me forcibly rewrite the alert windows. Its a real struggle to get any work done honestly because of it, and the fact I have 100,000 meetings a day being the only hard AppSec person on the team.

Suggestions welcome if someone happens to know how to make outlook or web outlook do it.

davidr,
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@kusuriya One of my meeting organizers puts the reminder at 8 hours. No clue why he thinks that's useful.

davidr, to random
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Flying "business class" (i.e. American first class) on and this is my first time in a lounge.

wtf, over.

Why can rich people have all-you-can-eat buffet and custom catering for FREE and poor kids can't have school lunches?

Axonite, to webcomics

A terrible simulation of reality, or...? http://www.stationv3.com/d3/20230629.html

davidr,
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@Axonite

hypolite, (edited ) to ADHD

Yesterday my partner told me I should use the day to rest, and I realized I’m physically unable to rest unless I actually lie down and sleep, which I ended up doing twice during the day. Otherwise my mind is racing and I have stuff to do or an obsession to chase. I assume it may be related to my suspected .

davidr,
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@hypolite Yep, this was a big clue to me as well. And not just always having to be doing something. Also a continuous feeling of u r g e n c y that also manifested as speeding and passing cars even when I was going to be early anyway.

On meds, that feeling went away. I literally drive slower. And I can just sit in a chair and look out the window if I want.

davidr, to random
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If Putin and divorce, who gets custody of the kids (Trump, Carlson, Jones, Vance, etc)?

inherentlee, to random

I CAN HEAR TINY PEEPS COMING FROM THE BIRDHOUSE

davidr,
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@inherentlee A couple years ago we looked out the window and saw baby raccoons. Living in a hollow tree. 20 feet off the ground.

This stuff only happens in Disney movies.

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davidr,
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@Kellyshenanigans @actuallyautistic These things can be expensive, so I went to Consumer Reports.

All the top-rated ones are $250-$500 except one that was $60(!!). ("Soundcore Anker Life Q20")

I've only used them a few hours, but I love them so far.

futurebird, to random
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Enter a bank.
Put a golf shirt in the money tray.
Walk out of the bank with the money tray!

Free money! No crime! Amazing!

davidr,
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@futurebird And then the bank asked you for the money back for 1.5 years but you just didn't get around to it.

petealexharris, to random
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Everything I hear about that tourist submarine convinces me more of two things:

  1. The sea is always ready to kill you and definitely will if you get careless.

  2. Having a lot of money is not a reliable indicator of intelligence.

davidr,
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@petealexharris 3. Every techno-libertarian who says that we should thin the gene pool by removing safety regulations should be allowed to do so but only for themselves.

nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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Question: Do you think search engines such as @duckduckgo, @google, @Bing, @brave and others should filter out spam generated by LLM that pollutes search results? Please boost for reach. TIA.

davidr,
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@nixCraft @duckduckgo @google @Bing @brave Search engines should only return results where the source material has a citation attached (and the citation exists).

Change my mind.

davidr, to ADHD
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Pre-covid, I had a very structured life. Every day had a pattern. I knew at the time that I was storing critical data in those patterns, but I didn't know how much.

I have lost my earbuds more in the last 3 months than in all of pre-2020 combined.

I have no clue this time. Case is empty. No idea when I saw them last, but it must be over a week. Searched the whole house and car, plus all my pants and shirts pocke...no wait! Last week's pockets!

To the laundry!

davidr,
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(Yes, they went through both washer and dryer. Incredibly, they are fine.)

Interesting that meds have not seemed to help with memory. I am more much more calm about potentially or actually forgetting about things, though.

davidr,
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@brohrer mpow bh413a.

They've been great in every way, but for some reason mpow was kicked off Amazon. I don't know what this tells me about either company.

davidr,
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@hl @brohrer Yeah, Mrs R was reminding me of the same. We did buy one set directly from them and that went fine, but there were some sketchy red flags so we've moved to other places now.

danderson, to random
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Google just emailed me to let me know that "Album Archive" is going away and my data will be deleted in a month.

Album Archive is apparently the dumping ground for images that were in other products Google has already killed, such as Google+ and Hangouts.

They're killing the place where images from killed products went. It's just beyond parody, incredible.

davidr,
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@danderson I got this same email and I'm like...I have something in Albums? If so, it was done against my will.

niconiconi, to random

ADSL works over wet string? Now, what about "ADSL over a UNPLUGGED phone line"? During a building-wide copper to fiber upgrade, the phone company stupidly unplugged my phone line from the distribution box. the phone was completely dead, no voltage. But my ADSL modem could complete the handshake. Speed degraded to ~128 Kbps, but I could still read basic webpages or chat on IRC... Apparently the parasitic capacitance on the line was enough for the AC signal to jump across the gap. My best guess was that only the ground wire was lost, and the parasitic capacitance of the modem's isolation transformer could complete the circuit via the mains powerline.

davidr,
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@niconiconi "The internet treats air gaps as damage and routes around it."

loops, to ADHD

I found myself looking through apps again, thinking maybe there's something to one of the plethora of apps designed "for" folks with ADHD? They look like they were made by the same people that told me I "just" need a diary.

I've used. So many apps. It doesn't matter the interface, or the cutesy idiom - eventually, I stop checking. I put all my tasks in, neatly organise and categorise them, then I go off to do something else - great intentions and all that 😅

Any friends out there who know of anything that helps to solve real ADHD challenges? Some of mine that come to mind specifically when trying to plan tasks / do things:

  • I forget to check the app / todo list
  • I forget I'm supposed to check
  • More tasks go in than get ticked off, which is demotivating
  • Reminders at inoppertune times (focused on something else, not feeling the thing) get summarily dismissed never to be seen again

@actuallyadhd

davidr,
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@loops @actuallyadhd The only thing that works for me is to keep it fresh.

The nervous system loves novelty. Any system will eventually fade. When that begins, start a new system.

There is no system that will work. The system that works is to keep changing systems.

davidr,
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@loops @actuallyadhd The unfinished tasks in System N are what keeped me chained to N for too long. But when I finally switch to System N+1 one of the best parts is letting go of those tasks. They are just emotional baggage at that point.

chris_spackman, to random
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Saw some posts saying vi and have poor user interfaces and are newbie hostile. That's probably true.

They also (basically) claim that users are imagining any improved productivity that they think they get from using vi / emacs. I'm not sure that is always true.

If you do a lot with text files, and you put the time into learning emacs, then I'm not sure that something like Kate or Kile is necessarily going to make you significantly more productive.

And, all the other things you can do

davidr,
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@chris_spackman I like to point out that a curve has two portions. The ramp and the plateau.

For a that needs to onboard casual users, you want an easy ramp (and therefore almost certainly a low plateau).

For a you are going to spend a lifetime using, the ramp is irrelevant but the height of the plateau is paramount.

futurebird, to random
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More Mod is a remarkable YouTube ant channel -- to my eternal frustration YouTube has automatic closed captions and automatic translation blocked.

The narrator seems very knowledgeable just by the sequence of videos he shows and each ant is identified both by latin name and local common name.

What is the point of auto-translate if not to make the 100k+ viewed Thai ant channel watchable in more places??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4j-ySDY7I0

davidr,
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@futurebird There are subtitling forums/communities out there. I wonder if they take requests.

jerry, to random

Lots of consternation today about newsmax joining newsie.social, with calls for news orgs to create their own fedi-instance rather that joining one like newsie (or journa). That might make sense for some news organizations, but I can imagine it would be challenging for some. The main issue I see is that journalists likely want to maintain a social media presence that doesn’t go away if they move to a new org, so I have to imagine instances like journa and newsie are attractive to individuals.
Not defending newsie having newsmax, but I think it’s unreasonable to say that sites like newsie that cater to journalists shouldn’t exist.

davidr,
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@jerry If they are going to cater to journalists then why did they allow in newsmax?

inherentlee, to random

roundup time: <last bird you saw>! at/on the <place you saw it>

go!

davidr,
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@inherentlee House finch perched on top of of storm window, buttfeathers towards me and screaming into the yard.

davidr, to random
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17 just expressed interest. They say "a beginner one".

We have a skate park across the street.

What am I looking for in a beginner skateboard?

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davidr,
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@chai @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics Desert Golf is perfect for this. Or a coloring app.

davidr, to random
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I love the old in our . So when I needed a door stop, I made a scale of the door itself.

an old-style new wooden door stop (unpainted)
side view of both door and stop

davidr,
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@dottorblaster @HeadPlug Oooo, I should make a tiny one for the doorstop!

And obviously a really giant one.

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