To be honest I get your point. We use it at work for summaries of 70-page lists of software commits, and with adequate prompting to “understand” what’s what in our codebase it works remarkably well.
Granted it doesn’t work near as well as a person who spends a month working on such a summary, but it does it in seconds. Then a person can work for a day on reviewing this and tidying up rather than wasting time trying to summarise 100k lines of code by hand.
It seems OpenAI should learn to use it correctly first.
What are detached tabs? Sandboxed? Dragged out into their own window? Genuine question
Oh wow that’s terrible. I did think the poem was AI generated. The author (of the blog post) is right, this does an excellent job… at degrading the art.
What’s the problem with hexbear, is it the same? Genuine question - I think the only community in hexbear I follow is “Gaming” and it’s reasonably civil there.
Judging from the upvotes that was a room well read.
The fact that it lasted only for a week, or the fact that not even during that week could Israel keep their rockets in their pants?
HAHAHAHA King Boo and Kirby. In that order. Annoyingly it works well.
It’s hip to like Kagi because it’s not Google.
I think I stopped paying for Kagi at the third or fourth controversy I heard about, I can’t remember which one. I wasn’t exactly happy about the implication that paying for Kagi means giving money to the bigot founder of Brave.
Like the fediverse? Like SearxNG? Like Wikipedia?
I know you’ve said “almost”, but there’s a free search engine in there where you’re not the product…
Coffee is a stimulant, which is known to help people with ADHD. In fact, ADHD drugs are also stimulants.
The productivity effect you describe is what many ADHD folks get with coffee. The brain finds it easier to focus under stimulants so you get more productive, and even relax a bit because of quieting your inner “running commentary” that keeps you jumping from one task to another.
However, that doesn’t mean that ADHD makes you immune to caffeine or that stimulants can’t have a stimulating effect on you. After 10 coffees, you’d feel jittery like the rest of mortals, and experience a caffeine crash afterwards, or find it harder to sleep at night - all of those are normal effects that caffeine has in the human body.
The other part to what you’re describing is just normal caffeine tolerance. All drugs have this to some extent, but I find that it’s rather easy to build tolerance to caffeine, and its effect feels smaller and smaller gradually over time. For me, the best way to avoid this is to limit my intake on weekends and/or not have 7 double espressos on workdays (which I’ve done way too many times and is not a good idea). If you don’t have coffee for a month, the first one after that period will really have a strong effect.
I appreciate everyone’s brain chemistry is slightly different, but for me, coffee doesn’t make me very nervous or “buzz”, but the biggest effect is that I focus better. If I start working in the morning and don’t have a coffee, even if I feel awake, my brain will keep jumping from one task to another and struggle to maintain concentration and do anything useful. The first coffee makes that go away, it’s like my brain “latches” onto tasks more easily. I can actually work on something for half an hour without going on a wild goose chase of “what is the best calendar app that also syncs notes to my phone” or whichever is the distraction of the day.
As a bit of an experiment, I would suggest for a few weeks you pay attention to these things to understand well the effect it has on you, and treat it (i.e. dose it) as a delicious medication. 😄
Same, more or less. I work with self driving cars, in software integration (for people not familiar, that is putting together the software components other teams make, and solving the interactions between them).
It’s supremely fun. Constantly changing, chaotic, requires me to see the whole picture and never keep detailed focus on a specific part for very long. I love it.
For those two examples, I’d either keep looking or lower the requirements if I believe it’s absolutely impossible - it all depends on the time constraints.
If I have 8 months more to look for a job, I won’t care / lower my expectations. If I need a job now, I’ll find whatever and look for a better job in the meantime.
On the vacation example, I would keep trying to find a place where I want to stay until I’m actually pressed for time - then I’d look for a place further away or lower the requirements.
Sometimes trying harder works, but the times it doesn’t, it’s more valuable to find something not-so-nice and settle than to keep stressing and trying to find something impossibly good, without achieving anything.
Improvisers unite ✊
I have accepted I can plan about 20% and the rest will have to be solved on the fly. The world is confusing. There are too many things happening at once for anyone (definitely at least for myself!) to keep track of everything. My goal when planning is not to set out exactly what I’m going to do, but rather to reduce uncertainty and gather information to improvise effectively if needed.
I’ve tried many things, one thing that worked for me being calisthenics - following the programs on r/bodyweightfitness on Spez’s Lemmy.
The reason it worked for me is because working from home, there were zero logistics, I could finish working (from my bedroom), and take my t-shirt and jeans off and start working out in literally 30 seconds. The programs also had enough variety in terms of different exercises to keep me entertained.
Now I work out with my partner (who is also on the spectrum, to make things more complicated). What has been working for us is doing some activities we like; on Mondays he has flamenco class so I go swimming, which I love - him going to his class is a good enough cue to kick my brain into “let’s do things” mode. Then we added Yoga on Wednesdays (the hard, “sweaty” type with lots of bodyweight type exercises to keep myself motivated). We both like it, and we take turns choosing a video to follow, so there’s incentive and novelty to do things. Once that’s fully embedded in a routine, we’ll add something else, let’s say gym on Thursdays. My strategy is to go for the maximum variety we can so I don’t get bored, and add things gradually so it becomes a de facto part of my routine and my brain doesn’t get to question the fact that Mondays are swimming pool day.
It’s been working well for a couple of months, and I suspect it will work well until there’s a major life change that derails all of this, but then I’m hoping I can re-plan the strategy.
Also to add about the specifics of swimming for ADHD: it might sound boring but no matter your level, if you push yourself hard you can leave yourself absolutely knackered in 40 minutes. I can get in a really good workout by the time boredom kicks in. Plus I count the laps I’m doing, I try to keep a mental count of what the percentage of my goal for the day that is… And that keeps my mind busy enough that I can’t think about other things that maybe would sound more exciting.
I’ve recently heard the term “global creatives”, which to me is maybe a bit too rosy but it explains reasonably well how we work - we can create at the global scale, but not at the local scale, if that makes sense. I.e. devise the whole system architecture or the project strategy, but not necessarily execute the details.
It’s not necessarily even compensating for something else, just a different skillset. I work in software/robotics and my ADHD brain is really happy thinking about the whole system and all the interactions between components, and keeping track of many development threads at once. My neurotypical coworkers excel at being experts in one system and knowing it to the minute detail, and performing sequential tasks. They consider what I do extremely hard and/or annoying because of all the moving pieces… But the opposite is true, I’d die if I had to become an expert in a single, narrow area.
This doesn’t necessarily apply to multiplayer games though: the free-to-play part of the playerbase is there to pad the numbers and ensure queues are short (if it’s a match based game), cities are lively (if it’s a MMORPG), etc.
If the developer can’t appeal to those too, then you’re left with a ghost town of a game that can’t appeal to the whales either.
Unfortunately in the 2020s you don’t even own the games you have the physical media for.
Edit: as a more serious answer, Linux might be a better bet than Windows for playing windows games (ironically), either through Proton or Wine.
My take is that best case scenario you’d arrive roughly at the same time you left.
If you have breakfast in London at 8am, then make it to the airport by 8:30, you’re at the gate at 9:30 after one hour of security and controls, and you’ve made it exactly at the time when boarding starts, which usually is 45 minutes before takeoff on most airlines. You take off at 10:15, arrive at 11:45 (which is 6:45 local time), then still have to go through half an hour of border control and getting out of the airport, and then another half an hour to get to the city centre and have a coffee.
You’d still arrive at about 8:30, but I don’t see the whole ordeal taking any less than 5 hours.
I routinely take a 1.5 h flight to visit my family and while I’m a fair bit away from the airport, I don’t think I’ve ever managed to get door-to-door in less than 8 hours. 6 if we are measuring departures lounge to arrivals.