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frr149on ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]

ADHD and Autism here. The only thing that has worked for me, and I'm strictly speaking of the ADHD part, has been medication. Everything else has been a waste of time. As for trauma, I strongly believe the correct causal relation is ADHD exposes you to increased chances of trauma. Not the other way around.

frr149on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests

Bring back usenet! It was free and distributed

frr149on OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

The same thing is true in software engineering: an AI model is equivalent to an average programer (average with a huge standard deviation). Averigua is better than half, but still way behind the top performers

frr149on GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

How are you using it? A subscription from z.ai?

frr149on Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards

Credit cards in Europe are a form of very short term credit: you spend and pay the entire balance on the next month. The is very different from the model in the US, which is designed to keep you in debt forever.

frr149on DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode

We have all overused a single solution to "finding stuff on the web": the search engine. Now it's dying, killed by AI and by Google's greed.

There's no alternative left, no webrings, no web directories. If all your content is now only on your server, you're invisible.

frr149on Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

I do, with different tools and most of the time at a higher level of abstraction. The same way we understood the machine code 2 years ago, even though we didn't write it directly. Just another layer, nothing more.

frr149on Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

I used to be obsessed about language design and now, since I almost never write code directly (it's always Claude), I completely lost interest.

It feels like a total waste of time and I wonder if other feel the same.

One of the consequences of the LLM tsunami might be the freezing of research and development in programming languages.

Maybe we'll be stuck with J's and python forever...

frr149on Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess

It's still the best thing that happened to Python in a long time

frr149on Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

One of the first things I removed from my Mac was the 45 gb (sic) worth of wallpaper videos.

frr149on Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

I see a lot of people trying to run away from Anthropic "window of doom" affair lately, me myself included. What has stopped me so far is the lack of real alternative to Opus. Not even gpt5.4 comes close

frr149on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too

I've been using fedora desktop on laptop for years, alongside a Mac, without any issues

frr149on You’re a little company, now act like one (2009)

I'm experience, that doesn't work if you main clients are big corporations. The average corporate drone mistrusts and disregards small companies. Not out of arrogance, I believe, but out of fear: a generalized version of the old "no one was fired for buying IBM" trope. Small companies are seen as higher risk.

frr149on AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k

Maybe the scammer was the ex husband.

frr149on How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)

What's the problem with Scylla? Honest question, BTW

frr149on Wave activity on Titan strong enough to erode the coastlines of lakes and seas

And doesn't need to wear warm jumpers.

frr149on Enshittification: How Platforms Die

Sounds just like reddit the last few years

frr149on A Case of the MUMPS (2007)

I'll check it out, thanks!

frr149on A Case of the MUMPS (2007)

MUMPS: A lousy language with a brilliant data structure