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Re:Ask HN: Discuss ADHD and your use of medication on Monday May 27, 2024 @07:40AM (#40489866)
You ran out of capacity for coping mechanisms. Psychiatrist Dr Stephen Humphries explains how late diagnosed ADHDers cope through life by being bright. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSjHYiTEA4M

I got on by having modular work (university, software engineer with Jira tickets overseen by a PM) which is small enough to still be done last-minute, constant manufactured anxiety to get me to get things done, being excused for being young and foreign (for being rude). Shit Life Syndrome and maturity (expectation to be responsible) meant exacerbated ADHD symptoms and a diagnosis.

Look into the neurodiverse community, they have this figured out. A personal assistant and coaches are keywords which sound like what you are looking for. And accountability buddies and body doubling
Re:Hindi Conversational Text-to-Speech on Sunday April 07, 2024 @05:09PM (#39963945)
My friend was a contractor for Hindi TTS at Google https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech
Re:Ask HN: Managing Myopia as a Developer on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @01:20PM (#39207347)
Me too (tomorrow), but it's addressing the symptom, not the cause. I'm at risk for open-angle glaucoma due to my long eyeballs.

Ask HN: Managing Myopia as a Developer

How do you manage myopia with 8+ hours of screen time a day?Especially in a confined space (small homes in Europe, or offices) with no views to infinity.Any special lenses to simulate distance like rendering the computer as a TV screen across a living room? Or a distance box (containing a photograph and stimulated at 20m distance) like at the optometrists' eye test.Has anyone tried Endmyopia?

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Re:Joining a Gym? Here's Why You Should Open a New Bank Account on Thursday January 25, 2024 @04:37AM (#39127771)
David Lloyd in the UK is like Hotel California: "You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!"

the 3-month contract is actually 4 months the 12-month contract is actually 15 months

Impossible to get out of the contract unless a you have doctor's letter for injury or you move further than 20 miles from a branch. There's no point signing up on a contract either as they raise prices mid-contract.

How do you climbers stop forward head posture from climbing emphasising the pre-existing muscle imbalances of nerd neck? The prevalence of this in my climbing gym (70% of the climbers) put me off the sport.
I recently started playing padel. Much easier to start and more satisfying than tennis. It's a very sociable HIIT workout. Matches are organised on an app Playtomic and the court is only confirmed once all 4 players pay. I find it hard to play tennis as there is no Tinder-like match system for it. I've seen my skills improve from hand-eye coordination, reading trajectory and rebound.

I also tap dance. It's a very technical and movement-dense dance where different combinations of steps are put together and can be in different styles by varying the rhythm and body movements.

Sailing is my new passion. Dinghy mainly and also some yachting. Dinghy racing combines adventure, a thrilling workout (pulling the trailer and the core workout of hiking) and STEM split-second decisions in a race like computing a self-driving car. Also great for mental health and like a support group as through yachting I've met career changers who are running away from depression.

Mew is right. Jaw position actually fixes sleep apnea. The cause of sleep apnea is the airway collapsing when supine. Fix the cause not the symptom. Either surgery or expanders to allow the lower jaw to be forward.
Re:You Do Not Have a Shoe Size on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @04:55AM (#35354405)
The shoe should fit the foot, not the other way around. Wearing shoe-shaped shoes deforms the feet and atrophies the natural shock-absorbing function. https://www.vivobarefoot.com/uk/blog/follow-feet-not-fashion
Re:Why Does My Sleep Become Worse as I Age? on Thursday January 05, 2023 @07:50AM (#34258960)
Sleep apnea and snoring?
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