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Re:How I Run a Company with ADHD on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @10:41AM (#19909949)
Maybe, but only being able to focus on things that happen to grab your attention/interest is one of the major pain points of having ADHD.

It's not a matter of preferring to work on more interesting things. It's more along the lines of not realizing uninteresting things need to be dealt with (or even exist at all, sometimes) until they bite you in the ass.

Keeping up the theme of starting a blog... you'll have a rational understanding that a blog needs content. But you'll get wrapped up in solving the more interesting design/engineering problems. Once those parts of the project have been sorted out well enough that you are no longer actively solving a problem (note, I didn't say they were completed), something unrelated, but more interesting, will cross your mind and steal your attention away.

Re:An Interview with the Founder of QGIS on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @03:00PM (#18026785)
Its presence is growing in the commercial and govt spaces. Oddly enough, I actually see it used more in those than in academia. Definitely a growing presence in all three though.
TBF, Optimus and power stuff aren't too much easier on a distro like Ubuntu (granted, they have come a long way). I usually end up having to look it up in the Arch wiki anyhow. Thank god for that site.
Re:Ask HN: Recommendations of good cybercrime novels? on Monday August 13, 2018 @11:50AM (#17750980)
The sequel, Homeland, is also pretty great.
Re:The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan on Thursday July 26, 2018 @11:57AM (#17618458)
While I can get behind many of the use cases for FOAM's proposed product, avoiding interference isn't one of them.

LoRa is particularly susceptible to jamming. Given the frequencies used, accidental jamming by legally operating transmitters is a very real possibility.

It also turns out that LoRaWAN is vulnerable to selective jamming, but I'm not sure whether or not FOAM is looking to make use of the LoRaWAN layer.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.02141

Re:The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan on Thursday July 26, 2018 @11:28AM (#17618198)
They use a combination of GPS, terrain recognition, and IMUs.
Cockpits have maximum height limits. It varies by plane model.
Re:Only some people get blackout drunk on Friday June 15, 2018 @11:57AM (#17320721)
I get what you're saying, and I think I have a decent (enough) analogy to illustrate the difference.

The memory gaps you are talking about are sort of like lossy compression. The gist of what happened is there, even if you can't remember every detail. Blacking out is more like having a significant chunk deleted from the middle of the file.

or

xrandr --output $touchpadscreen --below $builtinscreen

Somehow, the article managed to miss what should have be a big part of the announcement. They found evidence of kerogens. That has a bit more impact.
Re:We don’t need nearly as much protein as we consume on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @06:35PM (#17139049)
Probably has to do with bioavailability, similar to vitamins from food vs vitamin supplements.
It does not come installed with Ubuntu 18.04. You can install it from the repo though.
Likewise, I doubt that too many people are etching flight controller PCBs and building brushless motors from scratch in their garages.
Re:YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @12:33PM (#16968607)
First, there is nothing in that wiki page that suggests that ZMA is a sleep aid. Second, the fitness community is prone to quackery.
You can also just press enter and type your password like normal.
Re:Many Bitcoin Miners Are at Risk of Turning Unprofitable on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @09:39AM (#16867271)
You can make things with gold.
Re:The Myth of Authenticity Is Killing Tex-Mex on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:18PM (#16649991)
El Paso would like a word with you.

Agree with you on the food situation in Dallas in a general sense. But you can find loads of great tex-mex in East Dallas and Oak Cliff.

Re:ProtonMail blocked by Vodafone Turkey on Friday March 16, 2018 @02:37PM (#16602921)
Y'all rendered assistance to Swiss law enforcement prior to actually receiving the order?
Re:Ham radio operators are saving Puerto Rico (2017) on Friday March 09, 2018 @02:19PM (#16554145)
Yup, that's the signalstick that I bought. Great little piece of kit.
Re:Ham radio operators are saving Puerto Rico (2017) on Friday March 09, 2018 @11:11AM (#16552713)
Check out some of their newer hardware. The UV-5X3 doesn't have the spurious emissions problem common in previous models.

Granted, the included antenna is garbage. I ended up building a j-pole and picking up a signalstick for mine. It works quite well with both.

Re:Ham radio operators are saving Puerto Rico (2017) on Friday March 09, 2018 @11:00AM (#16552611)
Exactly. I picked up a slightly more expensive baofeng (UV-5X3) for my fist radio. Sured it's far from the greatest radio in the world (although it's leaps and bounds ahead of the UV-5R), but it gave me an inexpensive path forward. My only real complaint is that the included antenna is garbage for transmitting. So I built a cheap roll-up j-pole out of some old twinlead. The radio works quite well with that. I have since bought a signalstick antenna (j-poles aren't exactly portable), but that early experience building an antenna made me comfortable with doing more DIY radio projects.
Re:Ham radio operators are saving Puerto Rico (2017) on Friday March 09, 2018 @10:48AM (#16552513)
Seconded. I spent about two weeks studying with the mobile version of this site in my free time and managed to pass the technician, general, and amateur extra exams in one sitting.