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by romwell 5y ago
I found myself relating to these particular three articles a lot . Then, last year, I have learned about ADHD - and, to my surprise, realized I'm a textbook example. There are a lot of resources available for us, and ways to do things
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by romwell 5y ago
> He sometimes likes coming over specifically to work. He says my focus on work during the day helps him focus and stop procrastinating, too. In the end, we compromise FYI: That's an ADHD trait, and what you are describing is a comm
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by romwell 5y ago
>I do tasks on three timescales: they either get done immediately, after a shamefully massive delay, or not at all. There’s little in-between. To anyone relating: that's an ADHD symptom. It falls under the umbrella of Executive Dysf
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by romwell 5y ago
It's a trade-off between spending some time thinking about what should be written, and then typing a little - or spending all the time typing, typing, typing, and rewriting. I don't think I've ever been in a job where I was
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by romwell 5y ago
>Solid reading comprehension should allow you to make a reasonable guess at the intended value of the missing noun I didn't say I didn't understand your point; just that clarity wasn't there (due to the sentence being ungr
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by romwell 5y ago
>Your focus on your own 'experience' appears to be blinding you to the topic at hand, which does not involve spell checkers. Perhaps does not cover the area of literacy and how it is assessed? You joined the thread well after i
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by romwell 5y ago
I've been waiting for BeOS on the desktop for so long. Glad to see the Haiku OS taking off!
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by romwell 5y ago
Question: would always sticking to verbose variable names address the first problem? As in, ditching names like loc/iloc and adopting getValueByKey/getValueByIndex (hello, Pandas API!). The bugs of that sort bite even the most
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by romwell 5y ago
Yes, I'd argue that "literacy" that doesn't allow one to use a spell-checker is a bullshit stat that should not be relevant to college admissions. Because by that metric, the commenter I was responding to would be de
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by romwell 5y ago
And why would that statistic be important? Also, imagine running 5K being a requirement for admission to college.
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by romwell 5y ago
The teaching failure lies making what you struggle with a required component of education, and measuring you on it in the same way as others, while providing you with no alternative route to success that doesn't require you jumpi
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by romwell 5y ago
The parent is right though. All a "learning disability" is is a requirement for a different approach from the instructor than the one-size-fits-all nonsense that we push down poor kids' throats as "education". The l
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by romwell 5y ago
You mean, it turned a backwater decaying agrarian empire into a world superpower, twice (Russia and China)? Side note: when the USSR held a referendum on whether it should be dissolved, most people voted to keep it (77% yes, 23% no) [1]. Th
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by romwell 5y ago
>Food and shelter are essentially "required" for everyone. Should those be provided by the state, to avoid it being "an income-generating scheme for private parties"? The answer is: yes, absolutely, and we essentially
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by romwell 5y ago
Hot take: if it's something that's universally a good thing that should be required of every driver, it should be provided by the state and paid for with taxes / annual registration fees. Otherwise, it's just an income
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by romwell 5y ago
Side story about how satisfied people can be with the mandated insurance. I was on coast-to-coast road trip when I got into an accident in TX. Someone was trying to pass me on the left in a turning lane, veered into the incoming lane, and t
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by romwell 5y ago
I've been ordering from Jet Pens for about a decade now. Best selection of Japanese fountain pens, fantastic notebooks, always a great experience. Solid article, and glad to see them on the front page of HN.
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by romwell 5y ago
>Getting to CO2 net zero involves moving those applications entirely to non-fossil electricity. The necessary and sufficient condition for that is the cost of electric heating to consumer being lower than the cost of gas heating in both
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by romwell 5y ago
IMO a blanket ban like that is stupid. The amount of gas used for cooking is miniscule, accounting for under 3% of consumption[1]. Cooking with fire is different than cooking on an electric or induction stovetop. Banning the use of gas for
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by romwell 5y ago
Also, the ability to download & email the one file that is everything it is invaluable. Never have to worry about the editing environment when porting from one machine to another. Never have to worry about version compatibility and st
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by romwell 5y ago
And why does it matter? The author seems to be fascinated by the concept of single-HTML website which uses anchor links for internal navigation to reveal or hide content instantly without page reload. That's exactly what TiddlyWiki doe
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by romwell 5y ago
Oopsieban instead of permaban , I'm loving it.
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by romwell 5y ago
Well, TiddlyWiki[1] has been going it for 17(!) years. It's a very mature, polished, and extensible engine for wikis, blogs, and personal knwledge bases. The entire thing (including the editor!) is a single .html file. By default, even
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by romwell 5y ago
I mean, is it really a conspiracy if open and unashamed corruption was the modus operandi at the time. When there's funding for highways but not rails, the results are unsurprising. The benefits of public transit are a positive externa
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by romwell 5y ago
Are you kidding me? What buses? There's no public transport in the US, aside from a few exceptional places like NYC, Seattle, Boston (maybe), and, like, DC. Uber is so popular because it actually allows you to get from A to B, for so
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by romwell 5y ago
Thank you for the response! Point taken re: communication. Re: pointing fingers - I hope you won't take it as such. To rephrase - I hear you, and I'm toning my style down. If you have resources, I hope you could pay more attention
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by romwell 5y ago
Imagine, now, that self-driving combined with Uber pool, so that people who need to get from and to the same destinations at the same time (as is typical for commutes) would be able to share the ride. Imagine then making those vehicles lar
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by romwell 5y ago
Just saw this. My bad - I could have just linked to the rules in grandparent comment instead of writing any of this.
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by romwell 5y ago
dang, in the future I'll do my best to not respond to personal attacks like [x1], and downvote, flag, and move on instead. And thank you for the (hopefully not absolutely) thankless job of maintaining the level of discourse here. I&#
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by romwell 5y ago
>How many people here are "engineers" (Licenced P.E.s with EE degreee)? Most people here string npm modules together and aren't qualified to assess LiON battery risks -- myself included. The point of the remark you are quo

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