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>(my flavor of autism includes aggressive pattern matching) This gave me a smile. I've never heard of pattern matching being described as aggressive.

As teachers at my school say, AI is a good aid and a terrible worker.

Guess it's time to contact support for the few necessary apps that still don't work on GrapheneOS.

All this is happening in a country where it's legal and OK to make unsubscribing from a paid service nearly impossible. I mean it's OK for the crowd here, because amongst us are pe…

On multiple occasions I had trouble getting people to accept a self signed cert to show them something on a local webpage. It seems that elderly nowadays are super vary of any hack…

Look at the positive! If they force people to smile to log in, the whole population will be statistically happier*. Maybe even happier enough to offset being violated like that. *:…

From the title I've learned that git uses an em-dash instead of double dash as options delimiter. Thanks for pointing out that the title was wrong -- I've never had a need to use -…

To be specific, Vyvanse/Elvanse is lisdextroamphetamine. But IMO it's not really that incorrect to say there are two main types of stimulants. You rarely (at least never where I'm …

OTOH, reading some wise comments on hn can help you get out of your biases. It was initially some hn comment that convinced me that ADHD is not lazy people's excuse, but an actual …

IANAD, Clinically, the measurement for diagnosis is if symptoms disturb your day to day life. In some countries they need to disturb multiple (1 Then you'd have people with symptom…

What caused the end of the world then? I guess I might try again with the game, but asking here I could get moderate spoilers without a complete spoiler.

I reported 3 errors/feature requests in Oura Ring app. After going through the reporting process I felt much less irritated at the bugs and smiled to myself thinking that must have…

It's off topic, and it was also possible for decades, but: you can connect two sets of mouse, keyboard and monitor to one PC and have two people using it, each running their own X …

My wife is working in preschool and wanted to have some examples to discuss with her. I know plenty of those for overrepresentation of AuDHD spectrum in IT (especially males), but …

Can you write more thoughts or describe some situations?

It's more about people with "everybody steals so I should steal too" also known as "tylko frajer by nie ukradł" -- "only a loser wouldn't steal that" -- mentality. And while its so…

Don't forget that before, the Talibs were seen as crazy fundamentalists and outsiders, probably called Khariji IIRC. US bombings convinced the people to them and made them into sta…

>It takes a situation like Ukraine to 'prove' to everyone that 'cheap things can work well'. It's likely not even that. According to Jacek Bartosiak, Polish geopolitics popularisat…

It's kind of funded by the demand for dollars due to whole world needing dollars to trade with them. So that it's not the USA and Americans paying all that interest in inflation du…

Found it! It's on the southern exit from the Mjelva village. Viewpoint is not marked. It felt like a quite a private place, so I don't really want to post more details. Someone ded…

I was once on a trip in Åndalsness, one of the most scenic places in Norway. Fjords, mountains, you know it. On the walk to our cabin, a little outside of town, I was checking some…

China is also supplying Ukraine and the countries that supply Ukraine. Maybe you meant North Korea?

>In emacs, c-x 8 RET prompts you for unicode character names (or hex)[...] Which is super useful for hard space - non line-breaking space - so that one letter words don't appear at…

Em-dashes and "it's not X. It's Y" seem to be in most LLMs writing style purposefully so they can have detection tools. Just so academia can claim some level of detectability