Fwiw I was avoidant of arch for a long time and took the deep dive a few years back. I’ve really not had to do any more debugging work than I have to with Debian (which I’m also a fan of and use).

EndeavourOS helps a lot with smoothing over the possible gotchas and my machines with it tend to run steam games (proton or native) out of the box the majority of the time.

IRN BRU

I switched from Adderall to Ritalin recently and its been interesting. Also in the possible AuDHD camp, but ive never had vyvanse.

Generally speaking, Ritalin has been better at clearing out the “background noise” but not as good at the motivating to do a task. Tbh, I’m OK with that because I often found myself hyperfixating on the wrong things on Adderall. Worth noting that I’m also on am SNRI (venlafaxine) for anxiety/depression and migraines, so that likely has some bearing on how each works for me. It wasn’t as drastic a change as I thought it’d be tbh. Just different. I hesitated trying it out for a while but I was ovrrthinking it. At least for now I think Ritalin is better for me, but I don’t think Adderall is out of the question in the future.

While I never found coffee and adderall throughout the day to be that weird, i did need to watch it or I’d be jittery. I don’t think I’ve ever felt like I overdid it with coffee and Ritalin. I’m a coffee fiend so that’s been a positive for me.

I also have felt like adderall may have been masking how depressed I was for a while. I often felt like it’d just nuke the things that were bothering me until it wore off. Ritalin doesn’t seem to do that. Don’t get me wrong, that’s a good thing since its forced me to actually internalize and start processing it while Adderall may have been kicking the can down the road more than I thought, and it is known more for the emotional changes than Ritalin is. I suspect this also has something to do with the alexythymia component of ASD, which adds some points to the notion Ritalin may be better for AuDHD.

For what its worth, many package managers support some method of exporting a list of installed packages to a file (or in a way that can be easily piped to a file), and its not difficult to pipe a file of packages into a shell loop to get the behavior as described.

Native support in the package manager would be nice, sure, but the Unix philosophy of providing tools that can easily augment each other to solve problems means this is generally a trivial thing to implement by anyone in a way that works best for their use case.

Also Zen exists, which is a Firefox fork that implements the concept of Arc

The figures that fortune 500 companies give for how much of their new code is AI generated are also wildly exaggerated, likely for similar reasons. It makes investors fork over cash for the near term. They’ll all lean on plausible deniability when it all becomes obviously untrue.

Arizona has several long-standing laws on the books requiring both public government properties and businesses to provide drinking water without cost or other barrier to access. Businesses can’t even charge for the cup.

Common courtesy unfortunately doesn’t go far enough, especially when it matters most, so law is required.

Based on the steam page it doesn’t look like an epic games account is required at all.

This isn’t exactly the type of work tons of astronomers are doing, nor does it cut into their jobs. Astronomers have already been using ML/algorithms/machine vision/similar stuff like this for this kind of work for years.

Besides, whenever a system identifies objects like this, they still need to be confirmed. This kind of thing just means telescope time is more efficient and it leaves more time for the kinds of projects that normally don’t get much telescope time.

Also, space is big. 150k possible objects is NOTHING.

I’m not entirely against LLMs as a tool, but I especially despise the image-based LLMs. They are certainly neat for some fun things. I’ve used them a little bit here and there for a dumb profile picture or a “I’m kinda thinking about this…” Brainstorm, but even in those cases I noticed the capabilities of the LLM and its tendencies quite literally pidgeon hole my artistic vision and push me in other directions that felt less and less creative. (Sidenote: I feel the same way about coding LLM tools. The longer I use them at any given time, the less creative I feel and it has a noticeable impact on my interest in the code I’m writing. So I don’t really use them much. Also I consistently manage to point out coding LLM code in PR reviews because it’s always kinda funky)

I’ve avoided using AI art tools for a while now. I’ll consider some limited use if the cost, billionaire ownership, blatant theft of real IP without compensation, and environmental impact problems are solved. (No, an “open source” model doesn’t solve all of these problems, especially since nearly all open source models are not truly open source and are almost always benefiting from upstream theft)

You know what I do like about AI art? I like the older Google machine learning art experiments from the mid-2010s. They invoked a strange existential curiosity. But those weren’t done with LLM’s.

Outside of LLMs, I like that there are some newer tools for editing that can do a better “lasso” select, that can mix and match into brushes as an alternative to something more algorithmic, the audio plugin that uses a RNN to simplify or expand upon an audio technique. Things that are tools that can be chosen or avoided and have nothing to do with LLMs.

I honestly cannot wait for this bubble to burst and for these tools to return to a cost that they’d need to be for these companies to turn a profit. A higher cost would eliminate all this casual use that is making people worse at research, critical thinking, and creativity, as well as make the art tools less competitive to just paying artists, even for scumbags wanting to cut the artists out. And it’d incentivize non-LLM, non-insanely costly ML techniques again instead of the current “LLMs for everything” nonsense right now.

If the split is going to be a longer term thing, I like to run 1 group at a time and have the players who are not in the split group run temporary characters or NPCs. Usually those are something like MCDM Followers/Companions or just simplified PC characters so that there isn’t much of a learning curve, but it just depends on the people at the table.

If the party already has bunch of followers or NPC friends, it’s really easy and people seem to enjoy taking the reins of their favorite NPC’s for a few sessions. It’s also a nice chance for players who like trying our different builds to have a small timeline to try something out with an NPC, and it adds the bonus of shared worldbuilding.

Once the first group is finished, we swap roles and pick up the second group.

Its best to keep this limited in scope, make sure its not more than a few sessions per group, and to only employ it occassionally.

However, if it’s only for a part of a session, I go for the A/B storyline in a TV show strategy and tend to verbalize the “camera” a bit more, especially if it makes sense to give some subtle progress hints to the other group so they don’t feel the need to worry too much about metagaming. If one group in in combat while the other isn’t, I’ll switch back to the non-combat group after every round or two. Gives everyone a little more time to get their bearings in a reduced party size and makes the combat action feel a little more intense with some good ol’ tension and release.

“OK, as Jimothy unlocks the door and peers inside, it’s dark and will take a moment for their eyes to adjust. Swords McGee, watching Jimothy’s back, nothing seems out of the ordinary from the perception check, but he does see a flash of orange on the northern wall of the compound where your friends should be at, followed by the distant, unmistakable crack of your allies fireball spell.”

“back to the rest of the group, Bobby Fireballs finished up last round by blowing up the guard station, top of initiative, the guard captain…”

It doesn’t always go that smoothly, but you’d be surprised how easy it can be once you get in the rhythm of when to change cameras. Its also very important to briefly summarize a hook when changing cameras to transition everyone elsewhere.

If it makes more sense to stay with one party for the entire combat, I’ll usually hand over a few monsters to the non-participant players so they have an opportunity to be doing something, if it makes sense.

National debt doesn’t work like consumer debt bud. Learn some economics. Nor is the trump admin actually using it to pay down the debt.

Anyway, defunding the NOAA to pay off the national debt is like skipping a coffee, once, to pay down a mortgage on a house.

There are some detailed instructions on the docs site, tho I agree it’d be nice to have in the readme, too.

Sounds like the dev was not expecting this much interest for the project out of nowhere so there will def be gaps.

I think this is pretty easy to BS through though.

For sure. So far I’ve only used it for one batch of interviews so I’m not 100% set on it, but we used it as our last round to narrow down between a few finalists and we were already confident they were not people who would BS the excercise.

Yup, this is what I’ve always done for interviews.

Technical questions are purely to see what background someone has and how they explain or reason their way to some sort of answer. Its also nice to see if someone will say they don’t know something but offer their best guess, which is always a good indicator. I’ll usually provide the answer right away after they’ve answered, both to boost confidence for correct answers and because a quick explanation has a tendency to ease tension, especially if they then relate it to some other knowledge they have or suddenly recall the info with a little help.

The other thing I do is ask questions about disagreements with previous coworkers or managers. If someone starts explaining themselves into being superior to others, it’s a red flag. Its nice to get an idea for how someone resolves conflict or what kinds of complications they’ve run into, but I mostly just want to see how they view themselves compared to others.

I know my approach is sometimes strange to others doing hiring with me, but it’s all pulled from my time as an education major (I switched out after 3 years to another degree) and real world teaching experience. Good teachers ask questions to understand how a student learns and what they know broadly, not to get an exact percentage of points. (State/district testing requirements aside)

A new thing I’ve been trying instead of live coding is having people map out a loose architecture for some sort of API data process or frontend data process, then walking us through it. Its more or less a pseudo coding excercise, but it takes the stress of actual language knowledge away. I’m not sure if it’ll stick long run, but it’s been an interesting experience.

1 step at a time. The uphill battle is exhausting, but each small step makes the next a little easier. Plus, no one said you have to climb all the way up the hill in one go. Pause and build up energy every once in a while.

If i had advice for my previous self, itd be that going to a psychiatrist has been really helpful. they focus on 1 thing: meds. I wish I’d done that sooner tbh. Im seeing one who has their own part time practice since they’ve recently become certified, so its been nice having communication that isnt filtered through an office or comprehensive services offering (that isn’t to say there aren’t downsides in availability and responsiveness). i found them through word of mouth, which helped me get past the doom scrolling of the insurance lists.

I used some more ADHD specific/exclusive services for the few years prior and while it was a good start, it was only a partial solution and it was deeply impersonal.

PCP’s do very basic screenings for these things and the screenings are not very well tailored to neurodivergence. On some level, I think as neurodivergent people we will answer the questions a bit too honestly and sometimes we’re overly self-aware in how we communicate difficulties which can seem like a bigger issue. PCP’s are generalists and they often aren’t offered enough resources due to insurance or office rules to do something more tailored to any individuals unique situation.

That said, it’s still good for them to do the screenings and bring it up since it’s always worth looking into if the signs are there.

I don’t know what your situation is or if you are getting ADHD treatment otherwise, but you might find that (if you are suffering from depression) it’ll be more obvious to you and you’ll find treatment for it and/or anxiety more helpful after getting ADHD-specific treatment started.

I also bounced off of depression and anxiety treatment before I’d started stimulants a few years ago. I started an SNRI a few months ago for depression symptoms (and as a symptom reducer for migraines, interestingly enough) and it became very clear to me that I WAS depressed, once the meds started working. I realized how much stress I was building up and holding onto, as well as how often I fell into mental rabbit-holes of negativity. The SNRI basically helps me hit the pause button on those kinds of triggers well before things build up.

If you haven’t considered it yet, try looking for a pyschiatrist. I’ve been working with a PNP (without having a current PCP, mind you, but my insurance doesn’t require one), and it’s been a breath of fresh air to focus on mental health needs without the doctors office baggage.

Personally, I’m not sure a diagnosis of Depression or Anxiety fits me per say, and but my next step on the treatment journey is to find a therapist to narrow down and/or identify the root cause, and build better skills outside of meds.

Chances are they are doing something similar to URL shortening where a reference to the destination and the tracking info is either hashed into the URL directly or stored elsewhere behind whatever ID is in the URL.

Unshortening tools can fetch the actual URL (with any tracking params) in a private context.

I have no idea if anything exists on iOS, but on Android there are tools like URL Check which replace your default browser and let you un-short or otherwise manipulate URLs before opening in a browser or sharing.

1. License settings are available on the website settings

2. Probably the app. I’ve actually switched to a third party App (Pixilex on android) because I was experiencing a lot of buggy behavior with the official one. It’s definitely not ready yet and seems to be buggier on android.

I have no interest in engaging further with your pedantic hypotheticals. Go move the goalposts with someone else.

I wasn’t even trying to argue with you. It was just info that didn’t require a response since not everyone lives in a corporate computing environment. You are the one who wanted to tilt at imaginary goal posts for no reason. Not every comment in a thread is an argument.

Touch grass and relax a bit. The corporate environment can be properly maintained another day.