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School was an escape from my home life, but it could never fix my home life. As a child who had no ability to determine what constituted "normal" in order to escape my situation, t…

I regained my focus after many years and it had nothing to do with distractions for me, distractions were only a way of fighting stress that constantly appeared. The stress was the…

> GOES-17 had the loop heat pipe anomaly(Supposedly from someone stepping on it in the cleanroom...) Was this reported anywhere in the news? Sounds like one of those "not even once…

I would be careful going straight in this direction without considering alternatives. I thought for my entire life that my issues were explained by ADHD, but it turned out all the …

I have too much emotional attachment to progress. A lot of people made the mistake of putting too much energy into e.g. career instead of what you really want outside of a paycheck…

I prefer 3-button navigation, but it seems most of the web has decided that gesture-based navigation has won, and it's an awful experience sometimes. They assume you will always sw…

Realistically, what should we have done instead? Not invent LLMs? What happens when a couple thousand people invent the next disruptive technology and even more of the population l…

The author says he has two kids, which would likely constrain what he is able to accomplish in his free time. Children are financially dependent on the parents to provide for them.…

It's like the Lisp Curse but for everything now.

I can prod at a model as much as I want to produce something I find more original than average, but there are plenty of people out there that will say it doesn't count because of t…

We will rue the day that image generation evolves beyond diffusion and AI is able to use digital brushes and blending directly on a canvas.

One has to be in a secure enough position in life to be able to manifest such curiosity to begin with. On the contrary many people feel threatened.

Reminds me of all the Waymo vehicles stalled during that San Francisco blackout a while ago. I have always believed that when people cite statistics on Waymos beating human drivers…

> In 2000, the famous American toy company Fisher-Price released a simple drawing-oriented handheld gaming console for kids called Pixter. It featured no brain-rotting social media…

That's the thing, it's unclear if it's a problem that can be solved. It has to do with fundamental benefits of staying with biological family, and avoiding the extremely negative c…

At the point a parent is beating up their own kid I wonder what options are available. If they're removed from the family then placing them in foster care almost always leads to wo…

That "something else entirely" for me was trauma. which has no search hits in this comment thread so far. I was given an ADHD diagnosis as a child before it was in vogue. From my (…

I wish I could upvote this more. What's never discussed is what would motivate a kid to doomscroll the unsupervised internet, often it's unaddressed stress or trauma. From experien…

Having lived through intractable family conflict before, I believe it is a good analogy as to why the continual reinvention of social media will be a fruitless endeavour. Your opti…

I don't know what to say then, except I'm going to keep working with clinicians who say otherwise. All of this is integral to me working with my current therapist, so I don't see w…

That approach doesn't work for everyone. Everything you say could be correct, but if the person thinks their feelings are not being listened to, there is a chance they still won't …

Sadly the human need for being heard and understood is innate, and it has been my experience that books can't substitute for that need. On the other hand, there are swathes of inco…

It really is. Exercise and eating well was an activity I became capable of participating in as a result of the correct therapy and dramatically boosted its effects, not something I…