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XOPJ··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
Not many and if you lurk more than comment (like I do) then you don't have enough credibility on this site to down vote or flag things. Which is in my humble opinion counter productive since a bot would comment far more often to influence the comments than a human which like me often doesn't comment because my comment doesn't hold enough value to further the insightful discussion so I look more like a new account even with many years of membership.
XOPJ··on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
I bought an F-150 last year and compared the lightening to their new Hybrid-Powerboost models. The hybrid was better in every single way. I have the same 30amp generator hookup in the bed of the truck, but instead of finding a charger to refuel the truck I can simply put another 25gallons in the tank and head to another job/project.

If they hadn't made the hybrid truck so effective the lightning would have had a chance. I get around 20+mpg on average with a ~600lb load always in the bed.

XOPJ··on Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after strikers sacked
This joke went over so many heads, it's brilliant.
XOPJ··on The Greatest Teaching Techniques Don't Compute over Zoom
I'm diagnosed with ADHD (ADD). The live person speaking and often gesturing while talking is much easier to focus on and fill in the frequent gaps where focus drifts. Something about the talking with minor stops and pauses gives more frequent opportunity to regain focus control and begin contiguous focus briefly before repeating. I was able to successfully get through schooling and college isolating classes with teachers that talked through concepts but failed frequently at classes focused on books and static mediums.

With online, it's brutal trying to retain focus at a monitor and reading while retaining. The focus drifts in and out unconsciously so you can read an entire page of text before realizing you retained literally none.

For text based learning I often need to dedicate a large amount of time "re-reading" material in advance to improve retention during the live discussion part if it lacks enough depth. Calculus was the critical crux of my educational path.

XOPJ··on Launch HN: Yotta Savings (YC S20) – Behavioral psychology to help people save
Does the monthly interest also count towards the $600 for the 1099, or do you also issue a 1099-INT for the monthly interest?
XOPJ··on The Unmarked Federal Agents Occupying Washington, D.C
Given this is happening within the US I think it's valid to apply 'made up US law' against itself?
XOPJ··on Effects of Exercise on Cognitive Performance with ADHD
As someone recently diagnosed with ADHD(Inattentive) I've worked through years of misdiagnosis directed towards depression. I adopted the sport of Ultra-running years ago and with that extreme amount of exercise I've seen benefits and unlocked potential others have without difficulty.

There's obvious connections to exercise levels and my overall health, but with the depression it never resolved it. Only recently we found the ADHD diagnosis through reduced running, then tracking all symptoms and doing a deeper analysis on how I interact and think. When you live your entire life struggling to focus you build patterns and tricks to fit in. Turns out these are super bizarre when you speak them out-loud for someone to hear for the first time. I recently explained this break through as similar to how we all do some specific behavior such as sanitary cleaning after a bowel movement, but no one actually talks about their process in detail to know how different we all are. Thinking and focus are sort of like that for me.

I'm seeing a lot of comments here that didn't maybe read the article and see how small an impact exercise has, especially compared to medication. After now taking medication for the I've been on a strong emotional ride realizing this correct diagnosis and prescription years ago would have greatly changed my life. With exercise back up to normal levels again I'm seeing 90% improvement by medication is in no way replaceable with running 120 miles a week for a 10-20% improvement.

As I'm now working on finding a plan to reduce and then quit the medication these studies are fascinating for me to potentially know the upper limits each coping mechanism provides. This might make me consider quitting my sport and only contributing enough effort to maximize the return so I can then pick up other habits for a greater duration.

To anyone else suffering through inattentive ADHD I wish you the best.

XOPJ··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)
Nike | Senior Software Engineer (Front End) | Portland

We are the world's largest sock manufacturer. We also make shoes.

By embedding privacy within every product and experience and by investing in high quality data, platforms, and models to create unbreakable relationships, we ensure that as we innovate, we do so with the consumer at the center. We create the future of sport together.

http://p.rfer.us/NIKz9pAak

XOPJ··on Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months
I felt like this article was implying that other firms are claiming this is bigger and deeper with impact to their clients. It looks like maybe Citrix being exposed to their internal networks also impacted their customers but wasn't originally disclosed. Maybe they didn't do enough analysis after the breach to discover this themselves?
XOPJ··on Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mandarin Pronunciation
Just tried is now for the first time, 8 hours since you commented and it instantly asked for my microphone and I instinctively blocked it.
XOPJ··on How to buy clothes that are built to last
There's a valid reason the lower of the shoes wear out quickly. They are absorbing the impact and vibration that in a firmer more durable shoe is absorbed in the legs.

As an ultra runner I used to buy more durable shoes focused on the idea of I wanted to get more miles per dollar out of them. As I'm aging, I now realize the value in the shoes taking more beating than my legs is worth the extra value in rotating my shoes more frequently.

Growing up in poverty doesn't make this an easy life change for me to adopt, but I consider spending more for something that provides better long term fitness/health a valid reason for increased costs.

XOPJ··on My 17-year manhunt for an art criminal
I read your comment and still thought I'd RTFA to verify. You were correct to save everyone time here is the final line of the article:

The $50m Art Swindle is on BBC Two on 23 September 2019 at 9pm.

XOPJ··on Let's Enhance – free online image upscale and enhancement with neural networks
I get "Invalid email address" for my email so they are applying some sort of aggressive filtering on their email acceptance anyways which IMO is a really bad sign they are building an email list they want to profit from.
XOPJ··on How an A.I. ‘Cat-And-Mouse Game’ Generates Believable Fake Photos
Yes, first link is to a 4 day old post on HN, which links out to another SFW writeup. The title of the article (AI-assisted fake porn are being used by people on Reddit for self-completion) is worth keeping off the monitor if you don't want someone to quickly scan the word 'porn' on your monitor, but there are no NSFW photos or content.
XOPJ··on Ask HN: What are you learning right now?
Stick with it, it's worth finding it. I wish you well!