nottheengineer @ nottheengineer @feddit.de

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I think of my ADHD brain like a computer with three little cores (as opposed to one big core), shitloads of cache and barely any RAM.

Using three cores on the same thing is harder than using one core and the same is true for my brain. But if you do have something that works well with it, it works really well.

Lots of cache mean I can quickly pick up topics and do well with them as long as they fit the cache. If there's too much to fit in the cache, normal people can just put that into RAM and pick it back up later without problems.

But my lack of RAM means I can't keep a lot of tasks in my head that I'm not actively working on. And what does a computer do when it's out of RAM? That's right, it writes the RAM to a hard drive so it can pick it up later when it's needed. So I do the same thing. If there's a lot on my mind that isn't useful right now , I write it down and actively tell myself to forget it and trust the list.

If I don't do that, my RAM will get filled up very quickly and I get into this weird state of ADHD paralysis where I don't get anything done and feel stressed out about it.

Recognizing when that happens and using this simple tool has helped me a lot already. And it's important to take the 5 minutes to do this instead of trying to do your work if you see it isn't working.

Another thing that helps me a lot is tight deadlines. On stuff that should be be done yesterday, I usually have no trouble focusing. The same is true for prod being broken. I can drop everything and go full steam ahead for 4 hours straight when it happens. I used to just procrastinate until that happened and when I actually didn't have enough time to do it properly, I'd be able to focus.

Now that I found out about my ADHD, I'm trying to build myself a situation where this plays out to my favor instead of leading to super-stressed all-nighters. That means regularly (almost daily) talking to my boss about my tasks and having her set micro-deadlines. The important takeaway for me is that setting my own deadlines doesn't work. Like not at all. I need someone else to hold me accountable and it becomes easy.

One more thing that works well for me is pair programming. If I can explain what I'm doing to someone else or work on someone else's problem, time just flies. Even if it's just five minutes of walking around and helping people with little things, it gives me a lot of energy.

But I also don't work from home even though I could because having colleagues around me helps me focus, so I'm not sure if that would also help you.

It doesn't get too much better if you just add more parties. What you need is a robust protection against corruption.

We don't know exactly. That's why it's called machine learning.

But we do know that it doesn't do it well, 67% accuracy can be achieved by guessing if you try often enough.

The study claimed to be able to predict cannabis impairment using only the smartphone data with about 67% accuracy

As someone who studied data science and did a good bit of machine learning in that time: That's terrible and it means that the whole story is a big nothing burger. It's barely better than random guesses that match the distribution.

You don't even need sensors, you can tell from the websites/apps people use and especially from their typing behaviour. I can do 50WPM on my phone when sober, but less than half that when I'm not.

This isn't about influencers, it's about basic privacy rights being taken away.

Now there's grayjay as well, which is a universal media streaming client that respects your privacy.

It's such a simple proposal, but I think this might actually be the solution.

What a weird way to say "We don't like french people"

Does it change the screen's contrast depending on what's being displayed? Because my work laptop does that. If there's a white window on screen, contrast is great. But if I minimize that and just have something dark on screen, it slowly reduces the contrast until I can barely read anything.

For linux clients maybe, but definitely not for windows clients. Microsoft practically killed Virtualbox, so we have to use Hyper-V at work now. And unlike virtualbox, it doesn't let me install my keyboard layout in the VM via MSKLC, which is literally made by microsoft. I had to convert my virtualbox VM where it was installed already and guess what, it works perfectly now.

I also have to disable the keyboard manager in powertoys, another microsoft product, whenever I use the VM because capslock gets stuck on inside the VM if I don't. That also happens on VMs without my keyboard layout, so it's a separate issue.

The VM also feels much slower and glitchier than the virtualbox one I used on an older computer.

You literally need a third party application to install an APK. At that point you might as well get an android emulator instead of using this spyware.

There is nothing about windows 11 that's better than on windows 10. Why would anyone switch voluntarily?

Windows 10 at least had better automatic driver installation, touchscreen and multi-monitor support compared to 7, but came with a shitload of ads built right into it. Windows 11 has even more ads, but what does it give you?

I went with elite's default bindings (which use the ABXY keys as layer selectors) and changes a few little things here and there.

Right trackpad is mouse for freelook and menus, back buttons are for vertical and lateral thrusters.

I also have a button menu on the left trackpad that's filled with useful stuff like FA off, SCBs, chaff and similar that are hard to reach with the layer bindings while you're steering your ship.

One little tip: If you hold down one of the ABXY buttons, you will get an overlay that shows you what controls are on that layer. I used it a lot at the start.

This sounds like a perfect use case for AI generation. Give it a few more years and pulp trek might become a thing.

What a shame, I wish they had some spare money to pour into elite. It's a great game that deserves some love.

So the guy's getting a massage and has a meeting at the same time and people who have no idea about the company culture cry about it on the internet and that's worth an article?

Do we really live in a world where nothing important or funny happens?

runs Windows 11 software.

It's a no from me.

Because by crowdfunding, you can ensure that it'll take longer to make than the competitor's next generation.

It's simple:

You like girls. If you are a girl and have another girl, that's 2 girls. 2 girls > 1 girl.