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This doesn't remove that effect, since the video signal is still going through the CRT and will become naturally blurred/distorted by it. The problem is that the video signal was already blurry/smudgy coming out of the SNES, in a sense, doubling up the effect.

You might be right, it might be that the pharmacy won't accept the prescription until the last one has run out, rather than when the doctor will prescribe a new one. Regardless, it's a really common complaint in ADHD support groups I'm a member of with members based in the US - every month is a hectic hoop-jumping exercise that, if you didn't know better, almost seems designed to be difficult for people with ADHD.

ADHD and other neurodevelopmental disorders are all typically assessed based on self report (via standardised questionnaires).

If the gameplay amounts to what's in the video, it seems to be based on a poor or at least vastly simplified understanding of what ADHD is, seems to be training some a simple kind of multimodal attention and context switching between simultaneous things, but pretty much any complex video game will do that. Being designed around that premise seems to be taking the name "attention deficit" a bit too literally given the wide array of symptoms that have little to do with that kind of skill. Anecdotally, as someone with ADHD, I seem to be naturally better at that kind of "doing 2 things at once" skill than my peers anyway. Perhaps we're just seeing a tiny slice of the game and there's a lot more to it, but my experience of healthcare software and startup culture makes me think no, that's probably the entirety of the game, dressed up in some technobabble and references to medical journals/papers without much actual evidence-based efficacy.

Yeah, I would be surprised if it were to do with "not liking them" and not "consistently getting them is highly difficult for a person with ADHD" due to their controlled status in most countries. In the US, from what I've heard, it's particularly draconian, where you're only allowed to get a new prescription on the day the last one runs out, and then have to take a paper prescription to a pharmacy where they often don't have stock, so you have to try many pharmacies, all the while being treated as a possible drug seeker by staff.

Maybe this is based off of outlier reports, but it doesn't sound easy for someone with ADHD to keep up a regular supply of medication in the US, and the slightest lapse in medication supply to an individual can worsen that difficulty with their symptoms reappearing almost immediately.

Here in the UK it's a bit more relaxed, but still more difficult and under way more scrutiny and dumb rules than, say, an SSRI medication, which are plentiful and under no scrutiny at all, despite the fact that I had a much worse time on those with worrying side effects and extreme withdrawal symptoms.

At least the airports I frequently fly from, that's rare - you're walking from the gate down a bunch of stairs and then across the tarmac directly to the door.

Well it's not a problem for Ryanair if it means they can charge extra to give you a better chance of getting storage.

Ryanair isn't a good experience, but it isn't terrible either. I fly with them most of the time from the UK to other European countries, and I don't pay for any extras - usually I just pack light and only take cabin luggage that can fit under the seat. Mentally I, guess I treat it like it's a bus ride - it's not going to be fancy, comfortable, or fast, there's going to be a lot of waiting around. It gets me from A to B safely and cheaply, as long as I don't fall for any of their dark patterns.

Yeah, there are a lot of problems with Godot 4 web exports generally - due to the fact that it's a lot more multi-threaded in general than Godot 3, which presents problems for web exports and requires certain features to be enabled server-side via headers. Godot 4.3 "fixes" this by allowing you to export a single-threaded build - which obviously isn't the ideal fix, more of a workaround that may result in worse performance.

Godot 3.x supports web exports for C#, due to the mono runtime being long available as a WASM target. But .NET Core still doesn't quite work there, there are experimental builds while using Blazor specifically, but for hosted runtime stuff (such as Godot) the support isn't there yet, despite MS promising it since .NET 6 it hasn't arrived yet.

The only thing not available in C# in godot 4 is web exports - they'll come whenever upstream support arrives.

Using C# actually nets you more features, not less.

> Godot 4 web exports were pretty busted for a while, which irritated me enough to make me use something else. I think there's been some progress here though!

Still no web export support for C# yet, it's reliant on upstream support in .NET Core which isn't quite there yet.

Did you mistake the hacker news comment box for a private email?

There's a certain organisation on the internet where certain things are archived.

As a Brit the first thing I imagined was one of those large, thin plastic boards, usually green, with a grid of various measurements and angles printed on them, used for cutting fabric for sewing patterns.

Same in the UK. For example, it's not uncommon to have food items that are certified as vegan, with a warning that they may contain traces of milk due to cross contamination - for most vegans, this is acceptable.

I believe your point was "it's ok for OP to have fun with this project even if it's unsafe", but no one's saying that OP shouldn't have done this, since it's not what they've done that's unsafe. But if that wasn't your point, then OK, yeah.

Again, it's not that anything the OP did is unsafe or could go wrong.

A key thing here is that you can train the ability to visualise. You probably don't spend very long per day trying to picture your friend's face with the glasses and mustache, but if you did, you'd find that over time, your ability would increase.

It's not what OP did that isn't safe, it's the mechanism that he used in HarfBuzz.

> I have never come across a Buddhist source saying that some people are inherently more advantaged than others.

That's essentially the entirety of the Buddha's teachings on karma. I haven't the time to look for sources right now, but I'm pretty sure the close disciples of the Buddha - who all had distinct and extraordinary abilities, either feats of memory or meditation - were explained to have those abilities due to intense work in past lives. Indeed, the Buddha himself didn't chance upon his enlightenment - he made a vow to do it thousands or millions of lifetimes prior, and worked towards it life by life until he was able to achieve it.

> Sanskrit appeared later and is often used in Mahayana traditions.

While Sanskrit was used in later Buddhist traditions, the term "dhyana" in Sanskrit predates the Buddha, as it was used in the Vedas, and a lot of Pali does seem to derive from Sanskrit (or at least, other local languages that were influenced by Sanskrit).

Now, "modern" Sanskrit and "vedic" Sanskrit can be considered two things (like English and Old English), but many of the terms used are the same, hence its influence on Pali that compare to modern Sanskrit terms.

As mentioned, they're the same. Although "dhyana" can be translated as "meditation", it should be pointed out that at least in the yoga tradition, it refers to a specific, deeply focused state of one pointedness, like jhana, rather than being the act of performing a meditation technique itself - which is referred to as "dharana", I believe. So practicing "dharana" leads to "dhyana", in much the same way as particular techniques of concentration lead to "jhana".

Although I agree that a lot of people may be overblowing their experience, either by mistake, through ignorance, or else for clout/internet points, think about it this way: when the Buddha was alive, the jhanas were standard practice, and had been for as long as yogis could remember. The Buddhist teaching almost assumes a familiarity with the jhanas and doesn't really explicitly teach how to access them. The entire teaching is based on the Buddha learning the jhanas from various teachers of the time, mastering them, and eventually finding them unsatisfactory. Yogis who came to the Buddha seemed to already have an understanding and background with jhanas, which the Buddha then taught them to use to realise what he himself had realised. What this tells us is that jhanas aren't some kind of lofty, difficult to achieve thing that only a select few ever achieve; instead, it seems to suggest that it's something that's available to anyone with enough dedication and is something that transcends traditions or religions, and has been known about for millenia.

> The author sheds no light in their state of learning or lifestyle. If I had to venture a guess, I would think that they play significant role..

I think that's an excellent point, though the author sets up the article in a scientific way, describing the practice as mechanical - a lot of the ability to access these states comes from coming into it with a wholesome and cleaned up mind, which comes about through doing wholesome actions, saying wholesome things (and not lying), and generally the practice of "sense restraint" - not allowing unwholesome influences into your life. Otherwise, you sit down and your mind is a well of negative thoughts and feelings that completely cloud your ability to access jhana.

Of course, if you're the sort of person that behaves, speaks and thinks that way in general, you may not realise that that's one of the main things that allow you to access the jhanas.

There is usually a marked difference between "insight" practice (that give realisation about the fundamental nature of experiences) and "concentration" practice (i.e. jhanas). Just practicing jhanas is not all that conducive to mental upset - you purify your behaviour, focus the mind, suppress the hindrances, and experience intense states of wholesome qualities that take over your consciousness for a while. There's nothing negative or dark about that. But Buddhist practice goes beyond jhana practice by using the power of that focused mind and suppressed hindrances to analyse experience through the lens of the Buddhist teachings i.e. right view. The issue comes about if the analysis comes from an incomplete or wrong view, leading to nihilism. It's best to stick to "pure" jhana practice and not meddle with insight practice if possible, if one doesn't have access to reliable teacher than can correct misconceptions in view that lead to negative outcomes.

The other thing is that "pure" jhana practice, when done correctly, kind of sets up the mind with a kind of wholesome "blank slate" from which to do the analysis that leads to insight. Some traditions, especially those that have been imported as "secular mindfulness" to the west, tend to emphasise just doing that analysis of experience without too much jhana practice involved. If you don't already have a very wholesome mental state (i.e. the kind of mental state that comes about from living in a monastery and limiting the actions and speech being undertaken) then there can be a whole lot of mess to sort through and opportunities for unwholesome states of mind to latch on and become the basis for your worldview. It's not a coincidence that a lot of the narrative and commentary about mindfulness and the "dark night of the soul" (i.e. dukkha nanas) comes from those traditions, but isn't mentioned in other traditions that emphasise practice differently.

Actions speak louder than words.

The description in brackets for each jhana, if that's what you're referring to, seem to be sourced from "dhammawiki.org".

> But the sort of description of so called "jhana" in the article misses it - it points to the feelings generated in the body.

I mean, they are referred to (the first 4 jhanas) as the "rupa jhanas" - that is, form or bodily jhanas. That's because they're coarse and involve sensations of the body and materiality.

> We don't focus on the feelings, rather keep driving the boat (focusing on our meditation object). Then ... boom... we suddenly hit a river bank and have no idea what happened. It's unmistakable.

I think the article may gloss over it a bit, but the author does seem to say this too - in that the meditation practice aspect of it is just a way of organising attention such that the jhana state is invoked (they describe it as like a "sneeze", in that there is an intentional, physical build up followed by an involuntary and hard-hitting release, and that they hit "hard and fast") - and then the practical technique aspect of the sitting is not really useful because the jhana takes over. That sounds pretty accurate to me, as a practitioner of Theravada for 10 years or so.

Neither the press release nor the claimant's website clarify that the "price parity" agreement is specifically about redistributing Steam Keys. If you generate a bunch of keys for your game, you're not supposed to undercut Steam by selling them elsewhere - which imo is defensible since you're selling permanent access to Steam's services.

If you're selling the game on other platforms without the use of Steam keys, there's no such agreement or restriction. I think that this changes the case considerably.

It's all agricultural: farms require animals, and most people use animal food sources as the bulk of their dietary intake.

Where I live, there is a suburb called Crookes - one of the oldest settlements in the area, called Krkor by the Vikings - which has a high street named Crookes. Not Crookes High Street, or Crookes Road - just Crookes. Confuses the hell out of delivery drivers and people new to the area (and of course the locals become belligerent if you dare refer to it as "Crookes High Street"). The road itself is over 1000 years old, according to local records.

If you go deeply enough into a sport or craft, it will also change your worldview profoundly, you will look at things in different ways, due to both the activity itself, your relationship to the activity in both mind and body, and also the people you meet and places you go due to the activity. Same goes for travel - you can travel far, and never expand your worldview - the average person in my country (UK) frequently holiday in Spain, but stick to British-centred resort packages where they never stray from the hotel complex and eat British food and drink British lager. I wouldn't say that's worldview-expanding travel. But that's like engaging with a craft at a hobby level, you're (probably) not gonna get your mind blown occasionally doodling a stick man with a pencil either.

But ultimately the point I wanted to make is that if you've never done the thing you're making assumptions on, that people who have done the thing say has a certain effect, you denying that effect is exactly what you said: your imagination.