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nyanmatt

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nyanmatt··on ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]
Your comment reads like a case study from "Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving" by Pete Walker. Many of his studies focus on childhood experiences that are overall "happy" but fall short of "emotionally fulfilling".
nyanmatt··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
The standalone functionality is the selling point for me
nyanmatt··on We must pace the frontier
The way he talks about OAI-HF, even the abbreviation, is lol. They will do anything to sell this "incident" as a "danger". The ego on these people is the real existential threat to civilization.
nyanmatt··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
Chex Quest was really good, wasn't it!? I was so impressed. Today I learned, it is known for having been the first video game ever to be included as a cereal box prize.
nyanmatt··on Everything I own, owned
I miss the sound and visuals from a good degaussing
nyanmatt··on Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma
On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer, based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
nyanmatt··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
This doesn't appear to be accurate. Every study I'm reading does not come to this conclusion.
nyanmatt··on As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
> "Search can no longer pretend to be a neutral gateway to a stable body of knowledge."

Search hasn't been neutral or stable in a very long time, although I agree it has been pretending to be those things.

nyanmatt··on IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center
AWS hosts all DoD cloud infrastructure. Isn't that analogous?
nyanmatt··on John C. Dvorak has died
Thank you for your courage.
nyanmatt··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
So what, then? Disallow code that isn't deemed credible or professional by what metric? This whole thing is getting too political. I just want to write open-source software and let the users decide its worth.
nyanmatt··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Maybe lead with the question instead of the feigned insult?
nyanmatt··on The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
Ethical treatment of hens doesn't exist in the egg industry.
nyanmatt··on What's wrong with EU age verification? (Nothing)
Let's point out the absurdity that saying "all information must be accessible" is synonymous with "all information must be disclosed". These are not congruent statements.
nyanmatt··on The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online
If it has nothing to do with children, then why is it named the KIDS Act? Are we being bamboozled? And you are IN SUPPORT OF that? Am I taking crazy pills?
nyanmatt··on 1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background
You could make any flag out of non-vegan materials, sure. But that this flag was designed with the basis of cruelty (silk) makes it also conceptually non-vegan.

What a great way to unite the world in a practice of cruelty to its inhabitants

- 1worldforhumansonlyflag - 1worldindifferenttosufferingflag

The whole idea falls flat on its face because of this for me.

nyanmatt··on The real cost of owning a home
Again, you are truly blessed. I've lived in multiple places (California) where the rent increases by the maximum allowed amount every year ($100-$200). None of your friends refer to their houses as "units", do they? You can't compare your situation with theirs lol
nyanmatt··on Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
Walking into a hotel lobby to get a map printed seems like a much greater surveillance risk than looking up directions on my phone. The cameras, the printer, the hotel staff, the other hotel guests; they’re all third party to your private information. Is that really any better than Apple or Google telemetry?
nyanmatt··on Mahjong: A Visual Guide
One important note I didn’t see here:

- For league play, the scoring hands change every year!

nyanmatt··on Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline
I don’t see how. Have you ever tried calling one of these lines in a suicide emergency? Things I’ve learned in California:

- an ambulance will not be dispatched unless you physically witness someone trying to kill themselves

- otherwise, they send the police

- the police arrive without training and severely escalate the situation

- the person having an emergency will be taken into custody and stripped of rights until being medically evaluated (not arrested)

This is the program of an allegedly progressive state. After 2 experiences like this, adding trauma to already traumatic situations, I would never recommend these hotlines.

nyanmatt··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
Mame Sama - A free Android/iOS app for finding vegan resources (primarily within, but not limited to, Japan). Essentially it's Instagram with a location requirement. While not-yet-open-source, that is the plan. I wanted to build something without any intention to monetize it, while relying on the community to contribute to its success and maintenance.

Backend is zig, frontend is in Flutter. First foray into zig and I'm really enjoying it.

- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mame-sama-%E3%81%BE%E3%82%81%E...

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mamesama&h...

nyanmatt··on A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
Not only drug costs. I’m being charged 1300$ for an STD test because my insurance company and my doctor can’t agree on a “code”.

It’s totally fucked.

nyanmatt··on What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on
The claim is anecdotal and thus insufficient for statistical analysis, as expressed by the previous response. What did they miss exactly?
nyanmatt··on Tampa FL hits 100 degrees for first time in recorded weather history
I really appreciated this little topography lesson; ty friend
nyanmatt··on For polyglots, there's something special about their native tongue
I've noticed something else particular to my native tongue. It lacks emotion. I just don't really know how to express myself in English. I can speak very technically and logically, but I'm stumped when it comes to matters of the heart.

My Japanese, on the other hand, isn't fluent, but I'm able to tap into way more emotion. It feels as if I'm singing when I nail a great sentence in nihongo. It really lands with the listener and I feel emotionally connected in that moment.

Could this be related to the increased brain activity required for foreign language?

nyanmatt··on Maybe Functions
I use maybe functions a lot for things like "maybeShowReminderDialog". The conditions for displaying the reminder are wrapped in this maybe function.

Surely that's simpler than specifying those conditions before every call to show this dialog, resulting in plenty of duplicated code. And if those conditions change, there is only one place I need to update it.

Of course I can make a single operation to check those conditions like "shouldShowReminder", but that too is doubling the surface area of this code.

I see the merit of the argument here but disagree with the absolutist stance against "maybe" functions.

nyanmatt··on Ask HN: What do you use to replace incandescent lights?
Can you list some of those shops? I'm hard pressed to find one that isn't selling items that were drop-shipped to them from Aliexpress/baba and then marked up. It may not be direct from the manufacturer, but going from N-middlemen to 1-middleman is about the best you can do right now.
nyanmatt··on American birds and dozens more will be renamed, to remove human monikers
Anna wasn’t a birder though. She was royalty given tribute by Rene Lesson. Anne d'Essling‘s only connection to ornithology is through marriage. So why does she get a bird?

This is the only example referenced of which I know its origins. However it illustrates an issue with names that have no connection to the science of birds. The naming as tribute was surely transactional in some way (to curry favor perhaps) and really should be replaced.

nyanmatt··on People with autism less likely to succumb to bystander effect, research finds
> And yet, the clinical standard has been to use the "with" terminology for a long time now. For exactly the general reason that you present, just with your grammatical paradigm inverted.

If that's the clinical standard, why didn't the cited paper use it that way? From the research paper:

> autistic individuals

> autistic employees

> autistic participants

The peer reviewed research paper uses this standard. Only using "with" in reference to diagnoses.

It is "Science Daily", a news site, who skirts the standard by changing the paper's wording.

nyanmatt··on People with autism less likely to succumb to bystander effect, research finds
Your community may not be the problem. There are other communities (such as Autism Speaks) which do view it as a disease. And the popularity of this viewpoint is evident by the number of jigsaw puzzle piece bumper stickers around.
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