coldblues

I almost got burned by this.

I strongly suggest that you completely ignore methodologies. Write wherever it first seems fit, and keep making backlinks as a way to breadcrumb your way back to your notes. That's how I do it and it has served me extremely well.

Most of the artists I follow draw styles and subjects that can't easily be replicated using AI. Anyone with a refined enough taste should not feel threatened or relieved. The continued technological progress serves those who adapt. What you should fear is surveillance tech.

I think the issue is that there are too many low-quality programming resources, and the author should have asked for help. You won't have a personal mentor for free, but there are dozens of people in support channels to help you learn, all you have to do is ask. So many people have helped me understand hard to grasp things, and I've been very fortunate to have people around with expertise that can teach me as well.

Doing programming these days is brutal. Layers and layers of abstractions and you have no idea what's going on behind the scenes. My ADHD brain requires me to know why I need to do something, and how it happens. The more programming feels like math, where you just have to blindly follow steps, the worse I feel doing it. Thankfully, I've looked into many resources understanding how the hardware works, how memory works, how the CPU works, how the OS works. It's been a necessary foundation to make sense of anything. The bottom up approach was the only thing that kept me sane. People like Casey Muratori teach you how to program the right way.

This video has a lot of useful information. The straightforward answer is to externalize your memory and take notes.

>Self diagnoses (and diagnoses over the internet) are pretty harmful

Self-diagnoses can be legitimate or not - depends on the person doing them. They are often a necessity, in an environment where a professional diagnosis takes thousands of dollars or years in waiting (and is often done badly, by ill-informed professionals, like the many-decades prevailing myth that women/girls "can't be autistic", or that "ADD and autism can't coincide").

As (in this case) they are also based not on bloodwork or some physical indicators, but on a subjective assessment of a person's way of thinking, the person having the actual experience is often more qualified than the professional. Same to how you don't really need a doctor to tell you you're gay.

>One might even argue that the labeling aspect of a certain disorder (particularly a mental one) by a "professional" to not be particularly helpful too in addressing ones problems

One might argue that the false dichotomy between professionals and laymen, where the former is supposed to hold all the keys to knowledge and the latter to passively consult and follow the advice of the former, is a problem in itself.

And a little outdated in modern societies where the "laymen" are not some mud dwelling peasants who never went to school and only know farm work, but univercity-educated (even over-educated) in their own right, and libraries are not confined to the rich or the scholars, but every book ever written is a click away.

In any case, a self-diagnosis doesn't give you the required paperwork to get drugs, or to get benefits, or specific accomondations, or anything like that. So it's not like it hurts society by taking resources from "legitimate" diagnoses.

Last, but not least, pointing that X symptoms is "quite common to ADD/ADHD" is not self-diagnosis, it's not even diagnosing. It's a suggestion hinting to a possible condition. It could very well be used for seeking a professional diagnosis.

Or do you think people with ADD/ADHD just go to the doctor to get diagnosed out of the blue, and not because of some similar suspicion, spotting some unexplained symptoms or themselves, or identification with some symptoms they've read about?

Fun fact: Portal (video game series) actually has radio that transmits a SSTV image as an Easter Egg.

I absolutely can't stand this financial tracking. Nobody should. Cash sure is inconvenient, but at least try paying with gift cards or crypto like Monero, so many services support them.

If you're anti-tax more power to you, corrupt governments who launder EU funds don't deserve any more money.

I've heard several horror stories here about people getting deported and couldn't pay for education because their banks blocked them.

The credit card score system is absolutely dystopian and a foreign concept at least in my part of the EU. You increase your chances of getting doxxed by just having a credit card because all the credit score reporting is done publicly and exposes an enormous amount of data.

Never in my life have I ever walked into a store that doesn't accept cash.

Keep hearing talk about restricting cash payments. Never in my life will I or anyone I know comply with such a dystopian control of money.

Rest assured, they are all honeypots.