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> if you had trouble in school for example that's a classic ADHD symptom or if you excelled at some topics which you found interesting but did middlingly or poorly at others... I w…

I went through a similar loop around my own diagnosis as well ("great, that'd be one more thing to deal with,") but stimulants have had a significantly positive impact on my life. …

The number of news articles I start reading that interrupt the flow of the article with 'ads' for other articles I could read is driving me bananas. To say nothing of ads themselve…

I'd love to self-host a mailing list, or that protonmail or fastmail offered listserv like functionality. It feels fairly intimidating to hoist my own mail server and listserv on t…

yeah, not being able to vector departing planes is also a pain. Kinda makes sense I guess, but still annoying

> LLM friendly format Is that not just markdown? is there a specific way of formatting docs that's "friendly" to LLMs now?

There was a tornado warning a few towns over a month ago. My spouse's phone for wireless emergency alerts kept going off every five minutes for the other town: no other warnings fo…

I'm still using a 1080ti in my main PC, though I don't play as many games as I used to. Control is the last title I picked up where I really felt like I was pushing the graphics ca…

i feel that way about most web design principles these days. For a brief window it seemed like every website had automatic handling for dark/light mode based on system preference, …

Drives me nuts whenever I reach the bottom of a scroll window and I can feel the network call happening before stuff starts loading again. It's 8ms from me to the local CDN and I'v…

My partner and I spent ~$70 CAD at popeyes the other day for two adults. I got a sandwich + fries + slaw, they got tenders, we both got fountain drinks. that's about $50 USD.

What's "correct" in this context? From the State's perspective it _is_ harmony, regardless of the restriction on personal freedom. A western-context example of the same phenomenon …

Chad taught me programming when I was a child, and introduced me to a professor I then went on to work for. Sadly I haven't kept up with him, but I second his impact: both big and …

Number one economy yes, but other measures lag: education, health care outcomes, overall happiness, life expectancy... I suspect that when you bring a competitive attitude into eve…

One of my coworkers points out to me every sports reference that pops up in our internal company communications (e.g. "WINNING", "Going to put together a winning team," etc). It se…

Some friends and I read "A People's History of the United States" a while back and were surprised at how true this is. US classroom history textbooks hold civil disobedience up as …

> Boom, problem solved Not if your CI depends on github, or if you have specific actions to review things, or if you use SSO because you're an enterprise, or.... Workarounds exist …

I got a ReMarkable a couple years ago. The writing and screen experience were phenomenal, but the ereader UX and file transfer UX turned me off. I returned it within a couple days.…

Agreed, that seems like exactly the thing that would get you pulled aside at the border, and/or give ICE a reason to not trust your American passport.

> Writing an extemporaneous essay from start to finish in one draft Every English class I had in high school focused so strongly on how important revision was, or at a minimum havi…

Your middle point is great and very relatable; I've had the same frustration/argument with myself before: Am I playing this game because I actually want to, or because it's "easier…

> It finally hit me how much time I wasted on that game. I don't agree that leisure is inherently wasting time, which I think is a pretty common belief across North America in gene…

> I'm going to talk to you whether you like it not. If you don't want to talk to people, then maybe don't put yourself in a social setting? You seem to have a strange definition of…

> Even if you're just reading an e-book the phone contributes to the perceived loneliness of those around you. This is a wild projection of your own experience onto someone else's …

people at my org were gleeful when they learned they could hook LLMs into Slack. Even if we had some reliable, well-used signature system, I think people would just let AI use it t…