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by ojkelly 4y ago
I feel like a law of game theory is you can’t eliminate game theory. But, I think it needs to be minimised to such an extent that we don’t need to bring it up. And that, even if your vote doesn’t elect someone this election, it sends a powe
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by ojkelly 4y ago
Ah sorry, I had a feeling that phrase was going to be problematic. I tried to surround it with the context around the game theory required in first past the post. To clarify what I meant, with FPTP you have to be quite tactical because of h
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by ojkelly 4y ago
My understanding is that calculating ranked choice isn’t the easiest thing to do. In Australia we have a national electoral commission (AEC) who runs the process, have perfected this over decades. So much so that they also run the elections
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by ojkelly 4y ago
I’d definitely agree with the parent comment that Safari is one of the iPads killer apps. Safari on a 12.9” iPad is like having an ergonomic MacBook browser. It’s powerful enough to render almost everything the web has (save for chrome spec
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by ojkelly 4y ago
They exist, and there’s usually a mourning period when you have to truly grapple with understanding things really are harder for us. “a failure to cultivate habits of discipline” is an _outcome of ADHD_. Executive dysfunction is preventing
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by ojkelly 4y ago
Working in a crisis (crunch, etc) mode 100% of the time is not healthy or sustainable. People can stretch to meet a deadline, or avert a crisis—but they need time to recover afterwards. The extra effort and productivity comes at a cost that
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by ojkelly 4y ago
One of the biggest developments, imho, happened in this generation of editors, the Language Server Protocol [0]. Originally from VSCode. What used to be the realm of the big chunky IDEs, intellisense/autocomplete, is now available to a
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by ojkelly 4y ago
Yep and this ends up hurting everyone who legitimately suffers from it. Both from people who do this, then decide the meds just get them high, so they must get everyone high—they don’t. And from those who see this and use it as fuel attempt
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by ojkelly 4y ago
How would we measure if it’s being overprescribed? It’s more likely still under-diagnosed. The pandemic threw such a big spanner in the works that so many of us started to struggle enough to notice it wasn’t normal. This put the mental heal
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by ojkelly 4y ago
Exercise helps with releasing neurotransmitters like meds do. It’s a known effect, and was recommended to me when I started meds. It works unreasonably well. However, different people need both different meds, and different dosages, so it’s
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by ojkelly 4y ago
While glutamate seems to play a significant role, it’s not enough evidence to discount dopamines role. This whole space is in need of more research, we’re not at stage where definitive statements can be made one way or the other.
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by ojkelly 4y ago
It’s the genuine exasperation and haste that sells it. He hasn’t forgotten what he originally started. But he’s earnestly doing his best while seemingly everything fails needing urgent attention. And he missed the obvious (with hindsight) o
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by ojkelly 4y ago
> my feeling is that ADHD seems over represented in tech We are overrepresented in tech, relative to the general population. In the most recent StackOverflow developer survey, respondents self-reported at a rate about double the global a
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by ojkelly 4y ago
I’m exactly the same. I knew 40m in, right when it started to take effect. It was night and day. Like I’d just walked from a raging thunderstorm into a quiet sunny meadow, but I’d thought that I was in a quiet meadow my whole life. It was p
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by ojkelly 4y ago
Yep this is common. Imagine doing the dishes. Unmedicated, thats 2 or 3 tasks. Each with a high failure rate, and high cognitive cost. 1. Stop what you’re currently doing. 2. Decide you next task will be to wash the dishes. 3. Wash dishes.
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by ojkelly 4y ago
> It’s amphetamine. The energy is from the amphetamine. Energy still comes from food, and if you forget to eat on stimulants your body will eventually catch up with you. Like coffee, stimulants let you better tap into that energy. > T
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by ojkelly 4y ago
> I've tried my GF's meds once to see what it was (and using medication is one of the diagnosis tools they use); Medication is a useful diagnosis tool, because the effects when it helps can be utterly profound. For me it was li
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by ojkelly 4y ago
> comparing a drug to a wheel chair is just ridiculous. Not every disability is visible. By definition they have a significant impact on someones life, as such there isn’t use for competition. A wheelchair is a great comparison. Both ena
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by ojkelly 4y ago
Reading through this and those links this seems like a significantly harmful vulnerability that’s being actively exploited. I can’t imagine many people who _wouldn’t_ give up their phones passcode at gunpoint. What options do we have to pro
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by ojkelly 4y ago
React is still a safe bet, there’s an enormous quantity of engineers who know how to use it. The performance you can achieve is respectable, especially as your application grows. > It is on a bad path in terms of integrating with the web
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by ojkelly 4y ago
> Now in my mid-30s after some years of therapy my therapist and I are uncovering that I very likely have ADHD. That’s about the time I found out too. > I don't want to be medicated, I know some terrible stories from close friend
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by ojkelly 4y ago
> Really? I don't think ADHD is a thing in Europe; ADHD is a thing in humans, not countries or cultures. It’s honestly still very early days in terms of research and understanding, as for the longest time they thought people grew ou
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by ojkelly 4y ago
> Call it ADHD if you will, but then pretty much everyone who spends time online has it. While everyone may experience times that are similar to what is described as ADHD, it only affects about 5% of the general population (and about 8-1
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by ojkelly 4y ago
Coffee is a very mild stimulant in comparison to amphetamines and similar. Depending on your current health, other medications, and if you drink alcohol, stimulants can be relatively harmless to deadly. Mixing an upper and downer has a hist
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by ojkelly 4y ago
There’s a variety of different medications available, it seems common that one or more will give you persistently bad side effects. But usually you can find at least one that’s good. Stimulants seem to have initial side effects that pass af
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by ojkelly 4y ago
I’m the same, in fact in all my years reading hn I seem to comment when ADHD comes up more than anything else. Meds (stimulants) changed my life in such a profoundly positive way, that I can’t accept anyone’s stigma for this condition. I kn
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by ojkelly 4y ago
From memory there's an option in the settings to enable pointer cursor. I'd wager they're doing it becuase a pointer cursor feels more like a web browser, and would impede the feeling of the app being native.
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by ojkelly 4y ago
The 8 hour day [0] did not happen because employers were nice, it was a hard, often bloody, fight in countries all over the world. Spain put it into law in the 16th century, most of the world didn’t get it until the early 20th century. Incr
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by ojkelly 4y ago
In countries where labor laws are strong working more than 40 hours a week in a salaried role is not common. And when there is overtime, it’s often taken in lieu and expected that you get those hours back out of your regular day. If you hav
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by ojkelly 4y ago
In 2015 one of the founders wrote a really interesting post about how they did it [0]. > Pulling this off was really hard; we’ve basically ended up building a browser inside a browser. [0] https://madebyevan.com/figma&#x2

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