Jrockwar @ Jrockwar @feddit.uk

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That's quite frequent. My Not-a-doctor, simplified understanding is:

Caffeine doesn't target processes related to dopamine but it's a stimulant. Outside of hyperfocus mode, ADHD brains are constantly understimulated because the lack of dopamine makes things not feel engaging and interesting. This is why our thoughts race, our brain is struggling to find ALL THE THINGS (thoughts, hobbies, worries, plans, memories) that might give it the stimulation it needs.

Since coffee is a stimulant, the brain gets what it's looking for and doesn't need to race through all the possible thoughts, it's happy. The two main problems are:

• Coffee doesn't have a controlled release or amount of caffeine, so the effects can be at points unpredictable (peaks, crashes, jitteriness, sudden releases).
• Since it doesn't affect dopamine production/intake/etc, it doesn't help with the "uuuughhhh I can't be bothered to do this" that happens when the brain can't see/understand there is a reward.

So the topics discussed are sci-fi, and politics. Not technology then.

Who's "Glenn" and why does he belong in "Technology"? Is he a robot?

What does this post about people ramblings have to do with Technology?

Well the UK said they have no plans but now they have to actually debate it in Parliament. So it's better than nothing - at least the proposal gets a chance to be heard.

I don't think it's only men either, but it's worth considering the implications and potential causes for what is being said here.

We have had not decades but centuries of macho culture, where mental health is a taboo for men because "I strong, me no cry" and we know that mental health struggles go underreported on men. This is just adding more evidence to a symptom that we already know, of a society that hasn't been able to course correct because it's too set in tradition to allow those who need help to seek it without feeling like garbage.

While I'm not saying this is a problem exclusive to men, I think the causes and effects on women and men are rather different. We've now known for a while that women with mental health issues or disorders tend to go undiagnosed (even more so than unreported). The case of autism is particularly blatant, as women only started to get diagnosed in a meaningful proportion in the 80s (despite autism not being sex- or gender-driven). https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/identity/autistic-women-and-girls

Similarly, that underdiagnosing came from the stereotyping of gender roles and the fact that being quiet and pretty equated being "feminine", which is "good", so can't be autistic, because autistic is bad.

I once had the great idea of drinking a litre of beetroot juice, which I had read is amazing for sports recovery because of something something helping blood carrying more oxygen or something like that.

Instant diarrhea, and on top of it, beetroot tinted it looked just like blood, so up until I realised what was going on and the fact that it actually wasn't blood, that was a scary experience.

I don't know whether beetroot is known to cause diarrhea or it was just my body noping the juice out of it, but I have steered clear of beetroot juice ever since!

I think this means we can make a torrent client with a built in function that uses 0.1% of 1 CPU core to train an ML model on anything you download. You can download anything legally with it then. 👌

Still, being able to argue they're not for profit is what typically has protected emulators from being sued to oblivion (and with Nintendo, even that's risky)...

I would say it's mostly because of ADHD that I prefer digital. I don't lose it, it doesn't turn into clutter, I can take it with me without having to remember (e.g. on the steam deck or switch)...

There's the downside of publishers sometimes removing access to the content, but that's more of a downside of bad actors rather than digital explicitly - people who bought The Crew as a physical copy still lost access because ubisoft sucks, not because it was digital.

In different ways. For example, it's very rare for a car to explode in a collision, other than in movies.

One of the reasons that make hydrogen difficult to work with in this sense is that hydrogen (H₂) molecules are so small that they can permeate most materials, such as steel. Then it can get somewhat easily to wherever there is a spark, and chaos ensues. Annoyingly you don't even need 100% Hydrogen for that to happen, as it can ignite with a concentration of just 4%.

After we stopped using Hydrogen mostly as a consequence of Hindenburg's accident, it's taken years to perfect hydrogen fuel cells to a safety standard that can be used in cars. As far as I know, its use has been limited to rockets/space propulsion otherwise (where you can just throw millions at the problem to make it safer).

I mean it's your money, but if you already have a portable handheld with better screen, better battery, and that can run the whole of the steam catalogue... why spend $450 (or whatever) on the Mario Machine, is it just for the exclusives?

What are you smoking?

Only 6M €? For an event of that size that feels a lot cheaper than I would have thought.

A console in 2025 "runs at a stable 30" fps and that's good news? Of course this is slightly faster than a mobile chip from 10 years ago, but that's an incredibly low bar to set.

Carl Pei and Pete Lau. They both co-founded OnePlus, Carl Pei later founded Nothing.

What you're saying absolutely makes sense. However as someone with ADHD I couldn't relate any less, I wish I could get addicted to something like that and not lose interest after ten minutes!

Even assuming we're okay with using AI for language learning - then why would anyone pay for Duolingo instead of the many LLMs that people already use and pay for?

They've alienated their customer base hard. And this marketing video pretending they are siding with the users and against "their corporate overlords" is horribly tone deaf.

I've had success with just dish soap - it makes blockages "slide" more easily.

In the last flatshare I lived, I had a particularly annoying combination of a slow toilet and a flatmate incapable of solving any blockages. Whenever I'd see that, I'd go "fuck this", squirt a silly amount of Fairy in the bowl (I'm talking like 100 ml at least) and usually the blockage would resolve itself overnight.

In my view it's a Linux subsystem for Windows.

Why the name is the other way around, I'll never understand.

I was in the denialist camp. Not understanding what it was, I thought it was "a social media epidemic" and not a real thing.

My nephew (roughly my age, for context) told me he thought he had it, which I dismissed, also that it's genetic (knowing my mom and sister it did make a bit more sense...) then almost immediately came across a comment in Reddit of someone who had ADHD and wrote an experience that resonated SO MUCH with me. At that point I was mega suspicious.

I met my partner a couple of months after that, and another couple of months later, he moved into a house with a landlady... with ADHD. She's actually an ADHD coach now. Whenever her and I got together we essentially were mirrors of each other, forgetting things, misplacing things, dissociating, hyperfocusing, fidgeting...

I got diagnosed a year after that.