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So that's why search got broken lately.

I used to be able to search for parts of names. Or a word that is part of a word in a message. Doesn't work anymore. Only exact matches now, or you don't get anything.

Back in the day in 2008, Linux was niché.

It had issues all the time, and finding solutions required searching online, manually. Time consuming, difficult process. Very un-beginner-friendly.

From the throve of all possible distros, one stood out. Ubuntu. Very popular. Askubuntu Forums (with coffee beans denoting ranks) was the place when, 9/10 times, the answer to your problem could be found.

So when your fedora friend cried trying to get his camera and sound working, you either found the solutions already, or asked for them and got them. Usually the former.

That was the biggest advantage of Ubuntu. Big community and wealth of troubleshooting knowledge already available. And it had the opinion of a beginner friendly system. Which made the community grow and created a large market/userbase for help threads/tutorials.

Add to that, that people are creatures of habit and 'voila - you have a lot of people sticking to Ubuntu just because they never got so pissed at them that they would change their distro.

Times are changing! Remember when it was easy to set up WiFi, but difficult to call your doctor and get an appointment?

Now my friends don't have trouble calling doctors, but can't set up port forwarding (not like any games require it anymore).

Maybe the Cursor IDE compromise? It might be what got Binance. And it made a lot devs machines backdoored between Wednesday 28th Oct and whenever people decide to remove the backdoor from their machines.

They'd have to hire pentesters to run around, inserting pendrives into companies' computers. The computers would get hacked and press releases would brag about how many crimes their models committed. All to prove how dangerous the models are, in order to confirm high market valuation of these companies.

So that's why my train slowed to 40kmph when the Norwegian Telecom died for a few hours 3 weeks ago.

If they still move time back in spring, they will gain 1h per person.

If they keep doing it indefinitely, they're looking at some serious profits and boost to GDP.

Can someone explain if it affects personal computers in any way?

I know my computer has UEFI. But how could a non nation state agent use that vulnerability?

Or is it just about VMs, and it's important, because the whole cloud and internet runs on VMs?

At some point it can get up to a few gigs and need pruning. But knowing you can just close a window with 50+ tabs and not loose anything is super cool

When on very bad connection, the only internet that works reasonably well is hacker news

I wouldn't be able to tell. No load bearing or is not x, it's y.

I actually don't mind if it's good enough, informative and not overly long.

Haven't really read anything super well written (in terms of language and form) lately, other than a really fun hn comment summarizing Trump's War.

But I just haven't read that much lately.

You don't get spam if you use aliases everywhere. The few that actually get spam can be turned off.

Like I recently had to turn off alias for made4men.no. srsly, signing me up for spam and not removing me from the spam list even after i unsubscribed. You can tell it's a swedish shop that just happens to own a Norwegian domain.

I actually had to do the opposite. I have a filter that catches all messages marked as spam and unmarks them as spam. VERY rarely there's a spam message caught in there. Much more often sth super important that just would have landed in spam if not for my genius spam filter.

With winter temperatures in Canada, people could actually enjoy it.

Can you post a picture? It sounds super cool. Was it a specialized hardware, or a consumer mobo with 3 PCIe slots?

It's not deep enough not to be read together with initial post:

I went through different kinds of methylphenidate delivery. First with Ritalin MR 20mg (mod release) analog - methylphenidate Teva MR. If I'm not wrong, it's 50% instant, 50% after 3 or 6 hours? I asked for just 10mg, because friend told me they'll start me on 20 or 30 and it's better to go lower. That was a little strong, but let me experience the "calm" effect for once. Tried Concerta 18m, who have their own way to slowly release mph over multiple hours. But in addition to "robot like" feeling, it was still a little too strong, super dependant on eating enough with the pill, and after few weeks started metabolizing way too fast, with a crash after just 5 hours IIRC. I was also having a hell of a time from doing too high for me doses of stimulants for few months.

And mph hates coffee. I have a funny story - was once on a friend's child's birthday. It was Saturday, and happened to be the day I tested Concerta 27mg, to test if upping the dose will sort the issue of meds crashing right after work and leaving me crashed until late evening, when it's time to go to bed and too late to study (evening school). So, on the party, we were toasting with alcohol free champagne. After the second glass (it was yummy) I read on the bottle that it was based on white tee. 30 min later it started feeling uncomfy. After 45 I said sorry and left, walked briskly for some time and got the initial urge to panic and run away down. And took a train home. 2/10, don't recommend. Coffe and MPH have a similar effect, but different mechanism and they just multiply each other. So you end up with panic level amount of neurotransmitters in your brain. But physical activity lowers them down. It's also super person specific, close friend takes very high doses of Concerta + upping with small ritalin in afternoon, and drinks lot of energy drinks together with that. Says he sees no difference. He was diagnosed around 19? and it's been many years, he says he just feels normal on meds.

So, after Concerta I had a break, and then tried lisdexamphetamine (Vyvanse). Doc wanted to put me on 30mg, I asked for less. She gave me 20, and advised trying half first, because they have more of an adjustment curve than MPH, or even, smiling, said 5mg maybe. I made the mistake of treating both meds the same. Expected calming effect with the 10mg, went shopping. Was mildly anxious, listened to piano music to keep anxiety down. Decided it was my regular anxiety because meds din't work, so I tried 20mg on the next day. Was just high on amphetamine, albeit not super high. Wasn't that bad initially, but later came crash. And very unproductive, got stuck at things, was jittery and such.

Now I'm using 10mg (using water bottle with markings to get rid of half). And use it in two doses, one in the morning, the other 5h later and it kind of works. Still a little to intense in the beginning and I'm currently experimenting with doing 2.5mg 4 times instead, over 6 hours. I'd love to get my hands on medical grade scales and be able to just get it into small capsules to avoid the hassle with water and be able to prepare them once for a whole week. But scales that can reliably measure 3 or 5mg with 0.5 tolerance are crazy expensive, so that's a later project.

Still, I can get much more done. I get less stuck on stupid stuff. I'm not fighting with my wife because it was too boring to do laundry or other stuff. And I'm still the lively person that greets and chats up everyone I know at work. And I'm also more resistant to anxious stuff. If MPH wouldn't make me so robotic and had an easier way to use lower doses, it could be preferable some days. With MPH I'm more organized and are better at task prioritization. With lisdex, it's still an issue sometimes. Getting stuck in sth fun, while supposed to do other things, but to a lesser degree.

It's been only a year so far. I'd like to get proper scales, find the EXACT perfect dose (whether it's 8 or 12mg). And also get a good schedule on when to introduce brakes each week. Most likely I just have to choose two weekdays, so the weekend can stay productive for school.

>I think public transport should be free.

>Absolutely not.

I think that having it very cheap compared to quality and service delivered is the best of both worlds.

ADHD meds unlocked a new dimension of -social, normal people- fun previously inaccessible. Hanging out with people without annoying them, not being late to events, remembering to call friends.

But the -crazy- fun is still accessible. I'm more risk aware, but still get the unconventional ideas. And I can always drop meds for a day and have a "high" day with less productivity and more "crazy" ideas. And I don't mean crazy as a negative, more like an adjective that describes it well.

However, it's important to love yourself (and this can be practiced and trained) and all your aspects. Even your ADHD self without meds, even your depression and dark thoughts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s9PbBfwDfo

Also, I went through a lot of meds, and one I ended up with was because the first one made me a little too much "robot" like for my own liking. I'm too used to being "me" and didn't like how much the first one changed me. But I'd rather people try for themselves than have an opinion based on mine.

Edit: moved a coma, added yt link.

Research on kids show that as long as you do 5d/week 10m/y, the effects on height are not noticable. If kids are on drugs all the time, they will be on average about 1.5 cm (IIRC) shorter.

Based on that, and my experience with taking meds everyday (diagnosed at 35, weekend school), where they tend to "accumulate" tension and I eventually have to take few days off, I'd extrapolate that side effects of 5/7 10/12 dosing are minimal.

But there's a whole other dimension to thinking about side effects. Based on research (I believe on thousands of Scandinavians) on pregnant women with ADHD, giving them stimulants during pregnancy is better for their children than not. (Based on lectures by Jarosław Jóźwiak, Polish MD, psychiatrist, specializing in ADHD, which themselves are based on current research). There's so many side effects of having unmedicated untreated ADHD other than deaths and accidents, that, quoting Joe Rogan's common sense comment, "giving amphetamine to kids (end of quote)" is a no brainer. Obesity, drug abuse, poor diet, depression, anxiety, emotional disregulation in general, ppl at school hating and mobbing you for being overly emotional and "crazy", poor school and life results, avg. age of first sex at 13 vs 18 for women, not having sex at all for young guys, and the general feeling that something is wrong with you compared to others.

In light of all these and other ADHD symptoms and effects, treating it with a well adjusted dose of stimulants sounds like the much better alternative. Just talk to your doctor early, when you suspect sth wrong with meds. They change how they work through lifetime, sometimes requiring dose adjustments. You might have to consciously eat more food (due to less appetite and burning more calories), than feels needed.

When I hear the "giving amphetamine to kids" crowd, i.e. the people who oppose medicating children with hard drugs, I instantly think of an article from 1930's, where a bunch of farmers burned down a radio station, because it "interfered" with their crops.

Just knowing that drugs are bad, without understanding the underlying mechanism with mutated dopamine pathway system and how it benefits from miniscule (for that individual) doses of stimulants is such a bad Dunning Kruger example. And it will hurt people (unmedicated ADHD sufferers) until the general population level of awareness rises. Or until people stop distrusting science and doctors, but I think that ship has sailed.

With this line of reasoning I can sell any car as a plane without wings. It flies, but only off a cliff, and doesn't land, but I only said it flies, not that it lands.

Most people expect other things from something marketed as flying, but specialists know that this is exactly how most things fly. And lawyers know to read the fine print.

/s and argumentum ad absurdum, sorry for eristic tricks.

>99% successful web development where the 1% missing is security that and the company leaks its entire repository of user data every few months is not good.

It feels like it's happening every Thursday and nobody cares. They just give people credit watch coupons or what's it called, and move on with their business. Worst case, a few pennies in fines.

>If everyone did this economy would collapse immediately.

So true. Kafka and Dostoyevsky are also quite a dopamine detox, because they're flat out boring and the pleasure is really fed with a syringe and worked hard for.

But the bit about society collapsing reminds me of Rick and Morty Covid* season finale after the credits. Where they made a small outro about their merch, asking people to buy their merch, buy anything, keep consuming, to keep the economy going and the world running. Read by Rick's drunk hiccup filled voice.

* everyone one was scared of a real recession, but ppl did keep buying stuff.

OP meant the risk of liquid metal acting amorphic and slowly leaking/shifting, moreso because with the console being vertical, the gravity force is pulling on the metal very strongly.

No I didn't, thanks for pointing it out. I'm only now beginning to notice how patronizing the slop machine is getting as it's getting more background on myself.

Just today I used it to get a summary of osteopat's credentials (Frank in Trondheim, guy's a treasure), because my brother asked who I'm talking about, when writing about feeling great after treatment on family chat.

It took 2 more prompts to get that summary, because the bot wouldn't stop ranting about how some osteopatic techniques are not yet medically sanctioned.

Thanks again for pointing that out. I feel childish for not seeing that issue. When I get more time I'll set it up in a VM to get more separation from my system.

>Let's not forget non-compliant USB chargers. I remember reading about a Chinese mini-PC manufacturer that sold a computer with a charger which provided 19V or so from the start without any negotiation. Hopefully no one tried to use it with another device.

I actually (or somebody close, friend or family, can't recall) did exactly that. It was a few years ago and I don't remember what got fried. Some small electronics. It was a barrel charger and it fit. Too bad that fitting didn't mean the power levels were ok too.

> I don't like the product because of its charging mechanism, not reporting battery level etc, I don't buy it.

Why shouldn't my wife get headphones because a company is a dick and makes them not work with her husband's phone properly? Looks like a dismissive argument trying to excuse malicious business practices. (I'm not in or from US, maybe that's normal and OK there, so sorry for ranting about it, as it might be fine or even good for you if you're invested in Apple). Anyway, why not buy them, headphones work very well for my wife. Other than price not being adjusted to product performance and quality, AirPods Pro 3 are a very good product. HR reporting is a cool feature. And I don't have bud-type earphones, so I borrow hers for exercising.

Back to "don't buy it if you don't like it" argument: it doesn't argument against apple being dicks for making the product purposefully not work with an Android phone. And if it does, please explain it more clearly, I believe I'm not the only one holding the point of view that it just doesn't exonerate them.

As I see it, it's malicious compliance, as there's no laws YET forbidding what they're doing. (Somebody recently RE'd AirPods BT protocol/calls IIRC and found them reporting battery on non standard ?variable name?. He then got Android phone to show battery level after a small modification.

For comparison, I would bet a beer (I see betting more as gambling) that if Samsung created headphones with HR monitor, I would still be able to see battery level and HR in my Oura app on my OnePlus. And vice versa for 1+ headphones on Samsung. Do you see my point?

And for the record, apple has recently released many phones, both low and high end, that weren't overpriced. And I vehemently oppose anyone whom I'll have to tech support later, getting any phone different than apple - for a non technical user these phones are perfect. Good default's. Non customizable - perfect from point of view of tech support. Just works. Just to show that I'm anti anti consumer conduct, not anti apple.

Don't believe the chargers are a good example. There definitely must be some good ones. But Apple is being anti non-apple consumers (and often anti apple consumers, vide ridiculously expensive monitor stand) for a long time, doing everything to make sure nothing non apple can work well with apple products and vice versa.

I can (actually can't, but for the sake of argument let's pretend) imagine why my wife's Air Pods Pro 3 can't supply heart rate data to my phone for exercising. But why can't they report battery level? ffs

Even if Lightning is better in some aspects (USB-C tongues break sometimes), forcing people to have special cables just for apple devices, when every single thing runs on USB-C, feels like done out of spite. And then? Apple devices don't support any fast charging standard. Spite again.

It's hard to see it differently, but there might be better reasons and arguments that I can't or choose not to see. Probably because I don't love the company that forced poor parents to buy their kids expensive phones just so the kids wouldn't get ostracized for not having green or blue bubble in text messages.

I once let Astra a free reign of my system to troubleshoot and reverse a hanged game (to save that savegame). Totally aware that it might be the backup testing day. It analyzed memory dump, game engine code, used stacktrace, and got me fix to unhang the game.

I also let a guy that had one beer drive me 5 min on a rural road.

Both were pretty stupid and in the reconsideration, I wouldn't do it again.

But having it run company servers is just next level.

It's like believing that cola zero is healthy, because it's sugar free. No, it isn't, should probably be illegal to sell and people only buy it because of millions spent on marketing.

Your question pointed me to look and here - Bartosz (read Bartosh like Shalom) has a Patreon page. You can even see what he's working on. patreon.com/ciechanowski

Wish he would do some physics lectures. I always wanted to understand how antennas work.

In Silo people would run tap water to avoid being listened to.

Wonder if that helps.

It's two different things to be honest.

Local model can be a local assistant, take care of your todos, calendar, private stuff in general. Things you shouldn't share with OpenAI or other Big Tech. Big Tech models for anything else.

And also illegal. It's illegal not to have one button. Companies didn't do it because they suddenly stopped being scum.