Coffee is a stimulant, which is known to help people with ADHD. In fact, ADHD drugs are also stimulants.
The productivity effect you describe is what many ADHD folks get with coffee. The brain finds it easier to focus under stimulants so you get more productive, and even relax a bit because of quieting your inner "running commentary" that keeps you jumping from one task to another.
However, that doesn't mean that ADHD makes you immune to caffeine or that stimulants can't have a stimulating effect on you. After 10 coffees, you'd feel jittery like the rest of mortals, and experience a caffeine crash afterwards, or find it harder to sleep at night - all of those are normal effects that caffeine has in the human body.
The other part to what you're describing is just normal caffeine tolerance. All drugs have this to some extent, but I find that it's rather easy to build tolerance to caffeine, and its effect feels smaller and smaller gradually over time. For me, the best way to avoid this is to limit my intake on weekends and/or not have 7 double espressos on workdays (which I've done way too many times and is not a good idea). If you don't have coffee for a month, the first one after that period will really have a strong effect.
I appreciate everyone's brain chemistry is slightly different, but for me, coffee doesn't make me very nervous or "buzz", but the biggest effect is that I focus better. If I start working in the morning and don't have a coffee, even if I feel awake, my brain will keep jumping from one task to another and struggle to maintain concentration and do anything useful. The first coffee makes that go away, it's like my brain "latches" onto tasks more easily. I can actually work on something for half an hour without going on a wild goose chase of "what is the best calendar app that also syncs notes to my phone" or whichever is the distraction of the day.
As a bit of an experiment, I would suggest for a few weeks you pay attention to these things to understand well the effect it has on you, and treat it (i.e. dose it) as a delicious medication. 😄
So to make development faster and make sure they didn't waste time, they spent their time reinventing slack/teams/SharePoint/etc.
It sounds like if Nintendo were a person, they'd have ADHD. This also explains how for every generation, their flagship console looks like a completely new thing. They're just getting understimulated and bored.
My partner and I got invited to a wedding with a funky, everything-goes sort of dress code. For £50 we bought enough clothes for two blade-runner-esque outfits (we added some bits of our own so the ensemble wouldn't look too cheap) and a big goose plushie (bigger than an individual pillow). The goose was £14 and not cheaply made at all! That one was genuinely a nice suprise.
The reason is better is because a number on its own doesn't provide any representation whatsoever of the passing of time. It represents the current observed time, but it does nothing to represent graphically how much of the day is left.
The arguably best representation of the passing of time is a 24h analogue watch/clock, even if that has its own set of issues which make it a terrible way of displaying the current time.
Absolutely not comparable to floppy disks. The hands are a representation, not a technology. Technology-wise, most modern "analog" wristwatches are quartz, and therefore digital, not actually analog. Yet we choose to make them with hands because that provides a better representation of the passing of time.
Re: security: I imagine many women being more comfortable getting a waymo than an Uber/Taxi. It's anecdotal and from a different country, but most of my female family/friends have had an uncomfortable interaction in a taxi, like unrequested sexual advances or things like that.
The way I see it, it needs to be made a thing. It's okay to be trans, it's okay to dress in drag, it's not okay to do it while you're a homo/transphobe. That's very much like the LGBTQ+ equivalent of cultural appropriation.
Plus I'm tired of the hypocrisy. If they're okay with us having to endure being called slurs, he deserves to go through the same. We will stop if and once they say "please stop, it's okay to be gay".
Same, more or less. I work with self driving cars, in software integration (for people not familiar, that is putting together the software components other teams make, and solving the interactions between them).
It's supremely fun. Constantly changing, chaotic, requires me to see the whole picture and never keep detailed focus on a specific part for very long. I love it.
For those two examples, I'd either keep looking or lower the requirements if I believe it's absolutely impossible - it all depends on the time constraints.
If I have 8 months more to look for a job, I won't care / lower my expectations. If I need a job now, I'll find whatever and look for a better job in the meantime.
On the vacation example, I would keep trying to find a place where I want to stay until I'm actually pressed for time - then I'd look for a place further away or lower the requirements.
Sometimes trying harder works, but the times it doesn't, it's more valuable to find something not-so-nice and settle than to keep stressing and trying to find something impossibly good, without achieving anything.
I have accepted I can plan about 20% and the rest will have to be solved on the fly. The world is confusing. There are too many things happening at once for anyone (definitely at least for myself!) to keep track of everything. My goal when planning is not to set out exactly what I'm going to do, but rather to reduce uncertainty and gather information to improvise effectively if needed.
It wasn't until my Xiaomi Mi 8 that I could use my phone without babysitting wakelocks. My nexus 6P still had them, and the consequences were quite annoying thanks to the SD810...
The problem I have is that this covers a very niche use case for me. I want it to be a tablet - lightweight etc, but not be constrained by mobile apps. I don't want iOS' version of lightroom, I want to have Darktable and Rawtherapee and a full fledged Visual Studio code, and well, you get the picture.
I don't need a laptop because I also have a MacBook Pro - I went this way because Apple's processors are too far ahead to ignore. So I can take AMD but my opinion is that intel's offerings are just not competitive and I'm not buying any of them.
This leaves me with very few options - I'd be keen on buying an AMD-powered Ubuntu tablet but they don't seem to exist.
And also my surface works perfectly fine, so spending a non-trivial amount of money and ewaste just to change OS seems rather silly. I'm sticking to that one for now.
That's a nice project, but the last update was from 2 years ago and it needs way too much work to be close to usable. Windows 11 might be getting ads but at least audio works...
To be Done:
Support for Audio Subsystem #21
Support for LTE/Modem #22
Support for Webcams #23
Support for External Display Ports #27
Support for Suspend #29
Support for TrEE Services #37
Support for Sensors #38
Support for GNSS/GPS #39
UEFI ResetSystem() crashes #41
Various other issues can be expected, see the issue tracker for details.
If only I could install it on the Surface Pro X...
Damn, they worked so hard to gain goodwill in the last few years and it seems they've set out to destroy it in record time.
WSL and WSL2, Android Apps, working with Qualcomm to get their ARM computers to a credible state, the new Powershell and the push to open source so many things...
And in the past 12-18 months they've been crashing and burning, either backtracking on those things or by starting new initiatives to become scummier and scummier. TPM, Copilot, the ad situation, abusing their position of power with office/teams, the giant safety holes in the Recall feature... But it seems every day there's something new in the news. It's never ending.
Take a train instead of a flight. Cycle to work or take public transport instead of driving. Install a heat pump or solar in your house. There are a million things people can do to cut down their emissions that can be as effective as becoming herbivores, depending on each one's personal situation.
Plus, I don't have the numbers in my head but I'm pretty sure a locally grown fillet of chicken is more environmentally friendly than an avocado that has travelled across the Atlantic, so "buy local" would be probably better advice.
Maybe we need to rethink economics in a way they don't require an endless growth of the population like we're a cancer to the earth. Maybe Bezos could pay a bit more than 1.1% in taxes, an extra 1% would free a cool couple of billion for retirement. And so could Musk, and same with the companies, a bit from Amazon, a bit from Microsoft, and the rest of S&P500...
I'm all for a bit of population decline. The system needs to crash to get rebalanced.
It might be a different game, but I thought there would be flights too! Especially when they fight against the robot uprising of the year 2000.