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Scattered Minds by Gabor Mate. Really helped me understand my ADHD (diagnosed in my 30s) and why I do certain things or act a certain way around other people. I feel I’m much bette…

It also seems to be missing part of Ermine Street from London up to Royston and then to Peterborough

I was referred by my GP over a year ago for an adult ADHD diagnosis. I used the NHS Right To Choose so that I could use a private clinic, however even with them the wait has been a…

I also grew up there. I never thought I’d see it mentioned on HN, let alone see someone else post here who also grew up there!

My favourite sport is cricket. When I was younger, it was always shown on terrestrial TV (mainly BBC or Channel 4), but after the huge success of the 2005 Ashes, Sky bought the rig…

I've never seen a website chug so badly on my machine, I barely got 5fps on any of that page

It's just what we call a drink that isn't a diet version

I agree, this doesn't seem like much of a solution. Due to the incredible amount of noise my 2019 16" MBP makes when I have it open and a 4K monitor attached, I have to always use …

Firefox for iOS has a dark mode built in, it's how I always read HN on my phone these days. The only downside is it can make some websites look very strange as it will invert a lot…

This is great, and something that I would get completely lost in for hours. I've become much more interested in ancient history after recently getting the book "Secret Britain: Une…

I've been using Espanso for about a month and it's made some tasks in my daily life so much easier. I regularly have to use template text, and instead of having to copy-paste it ev…

Works perfectly now!

Not sure if it's just me, but playing the 'See Brick in action' video in Firefox results in some strange behaviour: https://imgur.com/y0zJ0gB

There's a bit about the variability here: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/master/docs/...

Yes, at least where I live in the south of the UK. Other phrases you might hear are "What a shambles", "That is an absolute shambles" or "Omnishambles"

It is, that’s the Touch Bar that has replaced the function keys on MacBook Pros. Not a fan at all as I use the fn keys a lot on a MacBook but I can’t see them getting rid of it for…