cloudymeatballs

Opportunistic plug since the article mentions Northumberland: anyone wanting to visit the UK as a tourist who doesn't relish spending the whole time in London, you would do well to travel north to York (fantastic medieval city), then onwards to Durham (another ancient cathedral city) and the surrounding area, which is Northumberland. One of the most beautiful parts of England. From there, it is a short journey further north to Edinburgh, which is IMO the best city in the whole of the UK.

I was thinking of the former - basically a bunch of people who would be well within the bounds of "normal" even if unmedicated, but who have easy access to powerful stimulants and thrive off the high-productivity buzz.

Looking at the rates of ADHD diagnosis worldwide, it is clear that someone is getting it wrong - but that brings us to the deeper discussion of how far capitalism should be allowed to dominate; i.e. whether having large numbers of drugged-up but productive citizens is actually an OK situation for a country to be in.

I sometimes wonder how much US tech productivity is built on a foundation of ADHD med over-prescription. Discussion of taking stimulants is pervasive among the tech Twitterati, to a really depressing extent.

At this point though I'm not sure where the right balance is - the US healthcare model (you are a customer) probably drives excessive medication as much as cultural pressures, but at the same time the UK model (you are a patient, but not a paying customer) drives resistance to prescribing medication where it might actually be beneficial.

As a cloud employee I am willing to make the public commitment that should I ever be in the position of buying a yacht, I will etch "booi" into the hull for you.

Yes, GPUs are supported.

DCV is the best remote desktop tool I've found - alas it is closed source and requires a paid license unless you're running on AWS EC2.