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> My point is mostly that artist occupy a strange spot in our culture. They are the only “trade” that I know of that can fabricate items that have a value beyond their utility. Tha…

MDD is the "bread and butter" of psychiatric practice. I'm not really sure how much that's changed over decades. Of course, depression treatment options have evolved greatly since …

> The students who get in have been minmaxing and exploiting every advantage they can for their entire life. Not a school I'd be tempted to apply to. Scholastic competition is one …

Treating many ADHD adult students some did take advantage of accommodations available to them. Problems with test-taking varied, but common issues were getting distracted by extran…

Your family certainly has an impressive record of success in the art world. My father was a talented painter but didn't attempt to sell his work. He was an even more talented piani…

Very few artists earn a living in art let alone become wealthy. The art world is highly competitive, though real talent and innovation are rare. But making it big in art is more ab…

Interesting comment. FWIW the idea of God as Being accords with Spinoza's philosophy, which in turn accords with Greek philosophy and ultimately accords with biblical philosophy. T…

Of course, it's always entirely up to you. But wise to stay alert to documented ADHD effects, e.g., on social functioning, general health, increased risk of accidental injury, depr…

> Not diagnosed, on online “tests” I score just shy of the ADHD threshold, and I find myself in this. Don't know the tests you refer to, but it's recognized that many adults have A…

Yes, hyperfocus is indeed a frequent problem for people with ADHD. One version is getting overly involved in irrelevant details, due to interest or having difficulty pulling away. …

> ... multi-tasking is not a strength, it's a sign of distraction Interesting point of view from one who's been there. Intuitively the comment makes a lot of sense. In a way human …

The contest you described (people with ADHD vs. autism) would have an enormously negative effect. But there are reasons to think it's unlikely. FWIW at least 25% of ADHD adults man…

You're probably right about comparative costs. But the problem of getting to an autonomous bus will remain a significant barrier to public transportation use. My neighborhood is cl…

> It seems that elderly nowadays are super vary of any hacking or scams. YMMV. I'm sure you meant "wary". How amazing, education really does work. There is such a thing as overabun…

> Have you guys never done IT tech support for your elderly parents' computers? This kind of comment is frequently made on HN and elsewhere. However, more than a few "elderly paren…

Programming in Prolog back in the 1980s was a pleasant experience. I wrote some useful programs with Prolog but as I remember that era, the language made a brief splash and soon re…

If you doubt that it's true, do a bit of research and find out if it's so. Here's one source[0], there are others. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown

The value of exploring tombs for the purpose of illuminating ancient cultures is inestimable. It seems humans have always been happy desecrating burial sites if not for treasure th…

I find it interesting that a number of PLs were initially developed as educational or research tools but later expanded for general use. Some examples are Pascal, Scheme, Prolog. A…

How right you are! I use PowerShell when I have to. Seems like PS was designed under the motto, "The choice: why make it simple when we can make it complicated?"

Scheme language is very well-suited for producing websites, I've been doing that for several months with decent results. But unless I missed information, I think you're right that …

I'm a physician, an old one. We're lucky to live as long as we do, but life will end. The article emphasizes the value of dying peacefully. Sure, that's how we want it to be, but w…

IIRC SQLite originated as a Tcl extension. In Tcl at the user level "everything is a string" or a number. So it's logical SQLite would accept values as a string or number. Interest…

Thanks for the hint! Didn't know about zellij, but indeed looks very interesting. Downloaded and will try it out.

I was having similar thoughts about building UIs back in the late 90s and a few years thereafter. There were a number of tools, I remember using Tcl/Tk to create a GUI scheduling p…