spiralx

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by spiralx 6y ago
I kept a daily diary on a site called kuro5hin back in the first half of the 00s and my 20s, and it was an amazing stream of consciousness that writing was perhaps even more helpful to me than the community there that read and commented on
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by spiralx 6y ago
In my 20s several times a week, in my 30s every week or two, nowadays every so often. My 20s were a chaotic mess with a lot of partying, and I'm fairly sure ketamine's effects on depression and anxiety and my ADHD were a part of w
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by spiralx 6y ago
Interesting, thanks!
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> Does anybody else get this feeling of fear and hopelessness watching his documentaries. To an extent, yes. But on the other hand it's interesting to see how particular events have such dramatic long-term effects, because it implie
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"Lower taxes, fewer public services" means more scope for corruption from the private sector though, so I don't see there being any simple relationship between taxation and corruption. World corruption rankings seem to imply
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Another way I look at it is that my brain's filters underperform, meaning all the excess noise from senses and internal thoughts can overwhelm what's supposed to be what you are attending to. I really struggle to sleep if there&#x
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Stephen Baxter's book Coalescent shows how a human hive mind could form via an set of circumstances that could be enforced or simply arise due to the environment. His "eusocial evolution" is a pretty damn creepy idea! https:
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I couldn't understand why my parents didn't like me calling my brother an orgasm after I had read the term in a book and liked the sound of it :)
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What the other person said and try and have adults who can back up that you had the symptoms of ADHD as a young child. My parents were not super-engaged with the process and it made my diagnosis a lot harder, my friend's parents were a
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There are large cross-cultural differences in groups seeking and getting diagnoses, so it could be the case that white middle-class boys are being over-diagnosed while lower-class black girls are almost certainly being hugely under-diagnose
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by spiralx 6y ago
I took amphetamines daily (week-daily at least) on and off for a decade before my diagnosis and the realisation that I was medicating with it was a large part of seeking my diagnosis. For me speed was calming and focussing and a tool to hel
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- Memory formation being based on attention leading to large gaps in your past and an insecure identity because of that.
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by spiralx 6y ago
I'm in the UK and was diagnosed at age 31 - ADHD was barely recognised as a thing for kids when I was at school and if I hadn't met two adults with it during my 20s I'm not sure I'd have ever sought out my diagnosis - an
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by spiralx 6y ago
Yes, but there's another potential compounding effect that I've realised didn't help matters for me: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/06/the-s-...
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> - Emotions swinging from happy to angry in a flash For me this falls under a general "lack of proprioception" in which I'm bad at recognising both bodily and emotional feelings until they hit a certain threshold, at whic
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by spiralx 6y ago
My thought is at the minimum you should be able to say "X RPG, any edition" and "X RPG, these editions only" - my thought is a lot of people would play AD&D 3rd and 5th editions but not 4th, or at least they say that
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by spiralx 6y ago
Gnome's dependency on logind came about because there originally was a dependency on a different library that one person had written, had pretty much stopped working on, and nobody wanted to take on maintaining it or adding it to Gnome
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by spiralx 6y ago
They really don't seem very similar at all in "look" here, and their measurements are all over the place. https://s.tonsky.me/imgs/font_size.png
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by spiralx 6y ago
In printed text you would mostly have seen a single font used on a page, if not for the whole work. There's no inconsistency when there's a single font, especially not when the only variations are the odd piece of italics, a few (
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by spiralx 6y ago
Replacing the built-in Notepad app with Notepad2 with code folding is one of the first things I do when setting up a new Windows box. It's a tiny app that starts instantly and for viewing text/code files and small- to medium-sized
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by spiralx 6y ago
Somewhat related is the classic "How to Avoid Huge Ships": https://www.amazon.co.uk/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/08...
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A ship has a captain and crew, a boat does not.
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Shortly after the "money printer go brrr" meme took off I guess.
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Hah, eschatologists is the perfect term to apply to most crypto evangelists from Satoshi onwards.
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The US has been trying to reduce the usage of the USD as a reserve currency (it's the largest such currency but not the only one - EUR, GBP and JPY are also used) due to it not having any real benefit to the US while exposing its econo
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by spiralx 6y ago
I'm 43 and white and have been stopped and searched once - late at night when it was raining and I had my hood up and was walking fast to get back to my friend's place - apparently I was "acting suspicious". I'm pre
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by spiralx 6y ago
This paper has an overview of the various things that go into a nuclear power plant along with figures: https://www.stormsmith.nl/Resources/m36materials20190927F.pd... It's from the Nuclear Consulting Group who I&
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by spiralx 6y ago
> My layman’s summary of it is that the way genes express themselves is dependent on the surrounding environment so DNA alone doesn’t define how a single cell or larger organism will develop. Epigenetics is the study of how the environme
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> Tesla is literally the largest selling EV maker in China. That's true for the Model 3 for the first half of 2020 only, they were a long way behind in 2019 and were outsold by the Wuling Hongguang Mini EV in the second half of 2020
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by spiralx 6y ago
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