reitanqild

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by reitanqild 2y ago
They are also constantly defended. Good, calibrated IQ tests measure something, and that something has a positive correlation with work efficiency in at least certain types of work. That said, there are many types of IQ tests and some of th
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by reitanqild 3y ago
Perhaps you shouldn't use something that happened 75 years ago against someone to justify something someone else did a month ago?
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by reitanqild 3y ago
So intuitive. Different shortcuts from app to app. Back when I used Mac last time it frustrated me to no end that the simple system that works everywhere on Windows and Linux: - home / end for start / end of line - arrow left &#x2
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by reitanqild 3y ago
Thanks! Will try something along the lines. When I am in flow state however something more drastic might be needed : )
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by reitanqild 3y ago
Hi again, and thanks for your website about plurality. I am not affected but I am aware of at least one person who seemed to be affected and it was really really interesting to read.
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by reitanqild 3y ago
> You can try to reformat it or place it in some other context where it becomes doable, but these are specific coping mechanisms that shouldn't always be necessary, like they are for someone with severe enough ADHD OK, I see, I thin
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by reitanqild 3y ago
Edit: based on interaction elsewhere in this thread, it seems I and LoganDark agree very much. I don't have time to rewrite this now, the compile finished a few minutes ago already, so just keep in mind that I and LoganDark seems to ag
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by reitanqild 3y ago
I realize my comment above can be read as "time dyslexia is the whole problem with ADHD" and that was not my intention. Thanks for your perspective! I also totally agree that ADHD-ers know what time is. That said, ADHD is a thing
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Men's Shed(en.wikipedia.org)
94 points by reitanqild 3y ago|46 comments
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by reitanqild 3y ago
ADHD is sometimes wittily described as time dyslexia, and while I haven't met anyone who has described symptoms as bad as this and also know friends with ADHD who play music seemingly effortlessly, this article was still very interesti
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by reitanqild 3y ago
> Worked for satellites, Nice example! > ... worked for 1984. Another nice example, but ouch, that hurt.
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by reitanqild 3y ago
At the consulting company I work for Linux has been an option for 6+ years together with Mac and Windows. Hey, even at the customer I work with now (a rather influential directorate), people have the option to choose Mac or Linux. And: pro-
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by reitanqild 3y ago
And I don't have to wade through Stack Overflow and see all the times mods and others have tried to or succeeded in closing down very useful questions.
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by reitanqild 3y ago
My problem is if I start eating I feel I have to go on until I am satisfied. So small breakfasts doesn't work, it often merely triggers my hunger even if it is just egg and bacon. So my solution is just to skip it all together. If food
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by reitanqild 3y ago
I have had two problems that I have solved or tried to solve by changing my food consumption habits: 1. drowsiness around and after lunch time which sounds related to your problems even if mine where just from lunch and onwards and every da
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by reitanqild 3y ago
In Norway people have been paying "environmental taxes" since the eighties at least. The only problem is that these are not pooled up towards fixing environmental issues but used as part of the general budget by whoever holds the
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by reitanqild 3y ago
I use LibreWolf. Free, up to date and does not send neither money nor data to Mozilla. But personally I don't care so much about privacy extremism: The day another more liberal organization forks it again, adds Google search for some e
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by reitanqild 3y ago
The implementation of the old API was a problem: extension authors could do almost whatever they wanted. Today however Mozilla stalls at giving us back basic primitives like for example a programmatic way to hide the top tab bar when an e
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by reitanqild 3y ago
I also think it is great that browsers seek out alternative sources of funding. My problems with Mozilla are: - Misuse of money: the browser team have brought in lots of money over the years (we talk billions) and the foundation is milking
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by reitanqild 3y ago
Try to search for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. That tends to upset some engines including Bing I think.
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by reitanqild 3y ago
> That being said, there would have been no extended conflict for Ukraine without the West's assistance, they simply wouldn't exist without the international assistance Don't underestimate Russia but don't overestimat
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by reitanqild 3y ago
So, in reality, it had nothing to do with the CEO and all to do with the fact that you don't care?
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by reitanqild 3y ago
I use LibreWolf (a rebranded Firefox clone with less tracking) with TST and just recently I exported a few hundred tabs I didn't care for anymore so now I am down to 2-300 tabs. I don't think it is as lean as some versions of old
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by reitanqild 3y ago
> Mozilla won't earn me as a user until their CEO is removed So use LibreWolf like me: Up to date, based on Firefox, but without Mozilla getting a cent.
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by reitanqild 3y ago
For me who started using Google around two decades ago it is even more infuriating: Google, both search and everything else, used to be top notch.
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by reitanqild 3y ago
> have Adblock and personal blocklist to filter out garbage sites, and I maintain a record of 300+ sites that are worthless as far as search results are concerned. If you want to pay to save yourself some effort, I have found Kagi - to p
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by reitanqild 3y ago
> I bet there's something like that already out there. There was. It was called Google Desktop Search, it was awesome, and it was axed. That said, today I wouldn't use it anyway as both I and Google have changed a lot.
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by reitanqild 3y ago
I guess it has mostly to do with the fact that once legal gets involved, even at Google scale it makes sense to just take a look and see that, yes, of course, it was just another case of someone sabotaging someone else and the system bein
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by reitanqild 3y ago
> I'd appreciate it if you could elaborate on where your trust for Kagi comes from? As written above: "Sound business plan, incentives align." > reselling Bing search results at a premium, Should I also refuse to deal w
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by reitanqild 3y ago
I'm lucky because at the moment I work at a public project that is meant to be public and there is no issue at all with checking an LLM. That said, lately I have favored Kagi FastGPT for two (three) reasons: - I trust Kagi a magnitude

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