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Unfortunately, it will get really grim and bad that even if literal extinction is improbably (humanity seems to have already bounced from less than 10k people) it seems to be bad enough to warrant this hyperbole.

Like, if most of the tropics reach wet-bulb temperature and more than a billion people live there - that will be grim.

To me, the core of my ADHD experience is, that for better or worse, I need the journey to the result be somehow compelling. Meds somewhat help, but steps that are not compelling or absolutely necessary are really hard to pull myself through.

One of the things that helps - having somebody on the journey with you. That makes it worth it and you get somebody to help you keep focus.

Idk, I bought my kid e-ink smartphone. Black and white screen. 10 fps if you don't mind ghosting. No play-store. She manages. If she wants to play games we have switch and pc and if she wants to watch whatever, we have google-tv stick.

So far it works out.

Find smaller communities where this is less of a problem? Possibly filled with neurodivergent people you click with?

Like, there is a reason Discord I am most active in is full of people that have ADHD. And big chunk on spectrum. And big chunk queer.

Other thing I presonally often use is ... many times I got bad reaction online, it was because I posted my opinion on particular thing, and too many people took it as if I am stating an universally true fact. So I am adding little extra things that make it clearer that I am not making universal statements.

I.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38899647 I spent 5 lines advocating how diversity is the best - but I still end on "But I do understand the pull of insular culture and small villages, where diversity is less of a virtue."

Yeah, that is why currently, we are mostly a minecraft house. It seems the meme-mods are not as common.

I think Roblox can be bad in a "badly moderated online space" and "potentially abusive monetization/exploitative sharing structure" - the game itself feels good?

Well, for me it isn't? I don't do project work, I am a maintainer at heart. If I am doing my job well, anybody who I think of as my customer will be happy if they need to interact with me as little as possible, because my well documented processes and tools are on-point :D

Agile is a very wide umbrella and most often what people are complaining about is when they join a team that is using SCRUM in a rigid way without actually thinking about the process and how better tailor it to the team.

If you look at all of the processes, tools and ceremonies available to ou from various agile methodologies - you can tailor things to your liking.

I was in teams where scrum actually worked, up to and including the story-pointing and backlog-requiment giving us accurate estimates of how long features will take to develop.

And then we had more ad-hoc/timely work for some quarters and we dropped most of the plan/sprint/refine structure in favor of more simple kanban board.

This is how most hacker spaces and fab-labs and even community gardens I know operate.

Rule 0: "Behave in a way that lets us not need to make additional rules" and things like that.

And I can doubly see it, if you have something ~new, and I could very well see that this is the thing that works if and only if you play along.

This sounds like standard reaction to ADHD medication for someone that has ADHD, and usually point where you fiddle with the dose and release-mechanism with your psych, untill you get best results with fewest drawbacks, modulo pareto efficiency and all that.

But if you managed to accomodate yourself to just be able to actually rest to a usable state ... more power to you, and I would like to hear more!

I do have a feeling that if I exercised daily, and slept well for 8 hours every night ... I might not need that boost from those meds. But the meds do keep me more organized so that I am actually managing at least the sleep thing? Unless I take them too late? Trade-offs everywhere :D

Haha, this, but ADHD diagnosis and then my doctor got me Concerta - not as big of a boost, but no longer crashing in the afternoon :)

Roughly, based on my and other friends with ADHD medication compared to friends that I can't confirm or deny might have sampled from our prescriptions.

Ritalin with ADHD: You get tired a.f. to the point of doubting if you got correct medication, because it was supposed to be stimulant but then you realise, that despite the feeling, you can actually just do stuff. You feel calm. You might experience the previously unfathomable "I hate doing this, but it needs to be done, so I might as well", without needing the stars to align, you just do it. After few hours this stops and you actually need to go lay down. Then you spent several months with your doctor getting the dose right, because needing to lie down after 4 hours is annoying

Ritalin without ADHD: Feels like super-coffee: more energy, more optimism. But not more focus. Actually, maybe less focus? Might help you zoom around your house doing chores, but not really tackling any sort of deep thinking work.

This matches experience of some acquaintance that went to a party, and might have sampled certain crystals, got quiet and tired while and while others were happy and energetic.

For both - dosage is tricky, and it is easy to get you to spiral into anxiety. Also, it is not good for your heart.

How is the Android experience stacking up?

I might actually be in a market for something like this, as I recently cracked my old Boox ... but as I did use few e-ink devices, there was often problem with running Google Play.

I do understand the need for customizing the shell, even with fast fremerate, it still is a Black/White device, but that often means sacrifices had to be made in the accessibility to the rest of the ecosystem and I am not really in the mood to side-load apps :D

I usually need a project.

Currently, probably trying to run a LLM locally is easiest to do in CLI, so just try that.

Alternatively, buy yourself a server, like 5$/month single core, ther eare budget friendly options, Linode is one. Once you have that, try to run something there. I.d.k. a miniecraft server. Open TTD server. Whatever you want. Not something too critical because you are learning and some automated bot could i.d.k. guess your password (don't use passwords) and turn your box into bitcoin miner ... but you will learn stuff.

Why would I care about my manager not being in the office? We probably don't share a continent anyway.

On the other hand, sometimes it is culture. I had manager that had 100+ direct reports. He never had 1x1 and barely managed to get all of the payrol/timesheet/pto aprovals on time.

I am vaguely quoting open-source advocates.

It is in the actual license of those assets - you gain access to their sources and you are allowed to share them under Creative Commons license. You could think of it as a next step beyond DRM-free.

Specifics can vary - CC licenses can range from indistinguishable from public domain, through you-can-modify-only-if-you-share to fairly restrictive share-don't-modify.

Some want you to credit the author, some don't. But - most importantly - there is nothing about preventing author to sell their work with that kind of license.

So the license makes it free as in free-speech - you can share it as much as you like, not as in free-beer - that you are entitled to receive the thing.

i.d.k. 11$/month sounds ... reasonable? And nothing prevents you to buy a hard-drive, download it all, and sit on that stash, unsubcribe and learn from that.

If subscription ever becomes necessary to run Blender, I am picking up my pich-fork, until then, money well earned.

If you look at the assets ... it seems all of it still is CC-BY licenced, even if you need a subscription to download them.

So free as in speech, not as in beer, I guess?

I always thought you can't have dog-fox hybrids as they have different number of chromosomes?

Yeah, I get that. But it does sometimes genuinely help.

Sometimes it is mostly a trick to get me started (ok, I need to do this only for $n minutes, I could do that) and then I ignore the pause, because the clock is not the boss of me and I am in the flow

While you might not be depressed, or might not have ADHD, looking for tips of people that have low executive function can help. Ok, I am not actually sure about the definition, but by low executive function I mean that state of being, where you have things you want to do,but just can't make yourself for some reason. Feels like trying to press a greyed-out option in the ui.

As I am somebody that currently medicates with stimulants for their ADHD induced inattention, I still have a big bag of tricks to make me do stuff.

And there are many hacks - you limit the scope (Tiny Habbits by BJ Fogg is a masterclass on this, and Unfck your habitat by Rachel Hoffman falls here too)

I used to live by my work-playlist. I.e. Tron Legacy OST could give me more than an hour of uninterupted focus!

Having another person can be helpful as well - doesn't matter if oyu work from home with partner or friend, go back to the office, to the library or stream your workflow - I sometimes make one where I am the only person in the meeting, but just the possibility that somebody joins while I am sharing my screen keeps me productive.

I assume that pair-programming can similarily help.

Having good break rituals as well - "Going to get coffee/soda" is well defined and I can return back.

Having nice actual work environment where I don't need to remember too much and the feedback loop is tight. I am doing much of my prototiping in shell or in notebook environment, where answer to "so what will this actually do" is usually single key-stroke away.

In the end you will need to figure this out. Some people live by library-rules and quiet. Other work better with people and abient conversation. Sometimes you will have a specific project that works in a way that just clicks and you won't need so many productivity hacks.

What I did last time I had my kid over at work:

I need to work so I open my laptop to work.

I have a spare, that I connect to a monitor in an empty space besides-me and fire up https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/makecode

Let my kid choose some exercise. If she is stuck she asks me, or I ask her if I should help. We talk shop. She makes animated holiday-card.

I can still have reasonable ammount of focus at work, while at the same time it feels we are making a thing together.

I would avoid anything heavier - i.e. it is said that you don't really have mental capacity to fully understand coding until you are ~11? From other things - scratch exists, I had some success with laying around with Hedy with her, 3d modeling - I would go for tinker-cad that is very simple and geared to make 3d-printable stuff, or blender because it is free and I still remember how to use it from my uni-courses - as 3d modeling gives you immediate feedback-loop.

I have thinkpad, and fortunately they still make esc big enough, so that I was not compelled to rebind.

It is more like ... when I am writing I like to stay in insert mode as long as possible - and this is where I would put the 80% of the time in vim.

Once I put on my edit/refactor hat, that is where normal-mode shines :)

And of course, special shout out to visual-selection mode.

T.b.h. I mostly use vim with keyboard movement in insert mode enabled, so ... 80% time I don't really use modes.

The article calls out event-sourcing and materialized views as a solution.

I reread the article twice now, and I don't see a conflicting definition, that would contradict i.e. append-only-log being immutable.

Unless your argument is that the author is in-denial about benefits of immutability, because it can't be achieved in this weirdly strict form you seem to propose?

But maybe I need to reread second paragraph of the article one more time?

Append-only log-based data-stores are close enough in my book.

And conceptually, you can then push all of those "what if I am missing events, or tey are in wrong order" into the fold over the data.

Because real world is mutable data, but history of the world at any particular point isn't. It can be incomplete, it can be a personal view, I like that there are things made explicit that otherwise wouldn't. Nice abstraction.

Like, if you are splitting hairs, is even array-append in Haskell immutable? It does create new data somewhere in the memory. But I don't think that makes Okasaki's thesis and book any less valuable :)

T.b.h. when looking at things, global mutable state might not be bad, if it is principled?

I.e. I did like how Clojure had it's atomically updating refs.

And you realisticaly won't get more principled than with traditional RDBS, with it's ability to transactions, rollbacks, e.t.c.

Only alternative that I have seen proposed to using DBAS while not relaxing the guaranties, is to double down on event-sourcing and not having mutable-state anymore. Everything could be just a fold over all of the incomming events, right? But I don't think I have seen non-toy example of that anywhere I worked at.

No.

But I took an approach with my kid's smartphone that might interest you.

Bought her one of those e-ink hisense phones. Getting apps only through fdroid and apk-mirror is annoying, but bit seems to struck a balance between keeping her connected with friends and family, while not addicted to YouTube/tiktok/e.t.c - she doesn't even argue to have these installed, because of the black-white display with 4fps refresh rate.

We have other entertainment (has a switch, can borrow my deck, we have google-tv connected to projector screen) but this seems to be helping.

Yeah. Partner just hit one of those blocks, recruiter sent her offer for well paying position, but with EU institution that mandates a degree, so she didn't even get to interview in the end.

And she had extremely valid reasons for not finishing that degree, but it still is brick wall from time to time.

To me the answer is obvious if you are someone who stands in the middle.

Maybe you are queer. Maybe you are mixed ethnicities. Migrant. Expat. 3rd-culture kid.

If you live in a shapist world, you need to either be lucky enough that there is a shape for you, or that you are able to shape-shift in ways that don't hurt you.

If I were reading into things, Nicky, the author, has a small personal game about comming out as gay - and there is pressure from the mom to conform and pressure from boyfriend to come out. And the alternative reality where everybody is accepting would be nicer, right?

So I see this as plea for acceptance. And I understand that plea, as I have many ways I don't entirely fit.

But I do understand the pull of insular culture and small villages, where diversity is less of a virtue.