spiralx

Half of all the gold in the world has been mined since 1965 if you'd like another factoid :)

Yeah we've helped hundreds of start-ups do their R&D claims, and you have to have specific projects that fall within the definition of "novel" and even then you need to explicitly specify exactly which people worked on it and for how long. It's not a blank cheque at all, and they've tightened the requirements this year on top of that.

I saw a Greek food stall in town a couple of years back with the statement "Food delivered with mathematical accuracy" which just bugged the hell out of me lol.

I thought AI was an existential threat to humanity according to Elon?

This is exactly what I suspect is the problem with a lot of sound engineers, where over-loud top-end frequencies damage their ability to hear those sounds, leading to an escalating increase in the volume of those frequencies. I've been to venues where the top-end is literally painful to the point of having to leave, and I'm always baffled that nobody running the place seems to notice or care.

Saying that some venues do cheap out by over-loading the top-end to seem "loud" instead of spending more money on more expensive low- and mid-range speakers.

For a particle travelling faster than light (a tachyon) it takes more and more energy to decelerate the closer to light speed you are, and at zero energy velocity would be infinite. At least via a naïve look at what SR says.

Adults, females and minorities are all under-diagnosed compared to the estimated 2-4% of the population with ADHD. And I'd guess that diagnosis rates are higher across the board in the USA than elsewhere - I read the other day only 1 in 1,000 adults in Scotland have been diagnosed with ADHD, at least an order of magnitude fewer than those who would benefit from it.

https://www.additudemag.com/statistics-of-adhd/

I got into programming using GFA Basic on the Atari ST, which had:

• no line numbers

• indentation-based code blocks for conditionals, loops etc.

• string/byte/word/float/boolean variables

• pointers

• arrays, hashes and record types

• editor with auto-indenting, code folding and immediate error highlighting

• a super-fast interpreter and the ability to compile programs

• 600+ function library covering hardware/OS calls, matrices, collections etc

Really, it was an amazing language and I was very lucky to start on it, as it made the jump to Turbo Pascal a few years later relatively painless.

GFA Basic v3 Manual - http://www.atarimania.com/st/files/GFA_BASIC_Version_3_Inter... GFA Basic for Windows - https://gfabasic32.blogspot.com/p/about.html

That's really interesting, thanks. And sure, a significant amount of remembered imagery is undoubtedly reconstruction and interpolation, but when I try and imagine a bicycle all I get is those partial memories of bicycles that flicker in an out of my mind's eye intermittently, there isn't really any reconstruction or interpolation that produces stable imagery. My visual memory is fine (although the inattention and working memory deficits of ADHD in itself may affect how much detail is committed) - I recognise what things are and things I've seen before - it's my mind's eye and the ability to envision that's lacking. And without being able to envision you can't really imagine visually.

I assume that would undermine the argument, as ADHD and other disorders are underdiagnosed in girls and women compared to men. And in fact anxiety and depression are most likely underdiagnosed in boys and men, which also helps their argument even more. Both of these make me sceptical of this "epidemic", plus Haidt isn't someone I trust to be impartial or accurate nowadays.

I probably wouldn't be a programmer without ordering floppy disks full of random source code by post from software-by-post catalogues - one letter to ask for a catalogue, get the catalogue in the post, send them a letter with your order and a cheque and receive a bunch of disks a week later...

Me neither, but I have aphantasia and thus an under-developed mind's eye - if I can't visualise detailed imagery within my head normally, it makes sense that that machinery isn't available for LSD to build realistic hallucinations out of.

https://time.com/6155443/aphantasia-mind-blind/

It's not as good as the RES user tagger but it does work:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-friends/ffgfcbf...

There's hn-friends which is pretty basic but allows you to add plain text tags.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-friends/ffgfcbf...

There are some great historical nuggets in that archive, I liked this appeal to people to stop hoarding pennies and get them back into circulation.

> Creating a shortage where it does not exist can adversely affect every public spirited citizen, taxpayer and conservator of the earth’s resources. It is inflationary should merchants start to round off sales to the next nickel due to lack of pennies to make change.

> Again, I’d like to emphasize. There are plenty of pennies. But they are in the wrong places.

> It is estimated that over 30 billion pennies are in circulation—doing the job for which they were intended. Somewhere in this vast country of ours, however, in excess of 30 billion pennies are in hiding. These are the pennies I’m looking for. They are in dresser drawers, shoe boxes, pickle jars; most anyplace you can think of that will get them out of pocket and out of sight. They are unwanted, unused and unappreciated.

https://www.usmint.gov/learn/history/historical-documents/mi...

Thanks for posting this, could possibly have affected our honeymoon had we not not been aware!

Well as of this release enums are now also union types by default :)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescr...

I just posted this in our FE channel at work

> Note that the ECMAScript decorator spec now supported in TS 5 doesn't support decorating method arguments, unlike the experimental decorators TS has had an that Angular uses e.g. @Inject, @Self, @Optional etc. I'm guessing that this is part of the motivation behind the inject() function, where you can pass flags to it as a second argument to support cases like self or optional - it gives them a path to moving to the new-style decorators in the long-term.

AFAIK argument decorators are only used for constructors, and that usage can be replaced by using inject() with flags, so a migration would be possible even today - although I'm sure there would be plenty of as-yet uncovered subtle implementation quirks!

The obvious headache TS 5 will introduce is that failing to follow a decorator name with () will now attempt to treat e.g. Inject as a new-style decorator and cause a type error of some kind, which is likely to be confusing. I'm guessing the Angular compiler will have to do something to manage this, even if it's just ensuring there's a useful error message.

You're talking about buying bonds as "lending to the government" which is a pretty odd way to describe it, but it still isn't the bank lending to clients, which creates new deposits and a matching loan asset.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

See them refusing military assistance to Armenia - a defensive treaty ally - which has been invaded by Azerbaijan in the last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NOMj7n6QAM

He's correct in that you'd get a loan or mortgage from a bank still, but incorrect that banks lend out deposits though - a bank loan directly creates new money, so if everyone was using a CBDC and had their money kept in their digital wallet you would no longer need a bank account for storing money, but the only thing that would change about getting a mortgage is that repayments would come from your wallet, not your bank account.

Banks don't lend out deposits though.

I dislike that alot.

Try searching for "reinsurance" as in insurance for insurance, Swiss Re and Lloyds of London are the two big names I can think of, I don't know much other than that.

A novella? A short story? Both of these are common enough that I find this particular example rather strange.

ETA: And now I see it's in the context of non-fiction, ignore this. But I remember seeing novella-sized non-fiction books around about a decade ago, they were just not that common.

Yes, the net energy of the Universe is zero.

"Defund Planned Parenthood" has been a Republican rallying cry for abolishing PP for almost two decades and is but one of many "Defund" bills they've introduced going back years:

• Defund EcoHealth Alliance Act (2023)

• Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2023

• Defund Cities that Defund the Police Act of 2021

• Defund Federal Vaccine Mandates Act (2021)

• Defund National Endowment for the Humanities Act of 2021

• Defund Davos Act (2022)

• Defund Putin Act (2022)

• Defund the Ministry of Truth Act of 2022

• Defund Planned Parenthood Act (2021)

• Defund de Blasio’s Injection Sites Act of 2021

• Defunding Abortion Transportation Act (2022)

• Defund the People’s Liberation Army Act

• Defund the Wuhan Institute of Virology Act

• Defund Cities that Defund the Police Act of 2020

• Defund National Endowment for the Humanities Act of 2019

• Defund Executive Orders that Suppress Free Speech Act

• Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2019

• Defunding United Nations Act of 2017

• Defund National Endowment for the Humanities Act of 2018

• Defunding the Corrupt and Incompetent United Nations Act (2017)

• Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2017

• Defund the Syrian Refugee Resettlement Program Act of 2015

• Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015

• Defund Amnesty Act of 2015

• Defund Obamacare Act of 2013

• Defund United States Assistance to Pakistan Act of 2011

• Defund Libya Act (2011)

• Defund the Individual Mandate Act (2011)

• Defund the Crooks Act (2010)

• Defund ACORN Act (2010)

All of these introduced by Republicans.

> That only comes from understanding that my case of ADHD is a disability. I didn't do that before when I thought I was just lazy. Ugh.

Yeah, I had to recontextualise a lot of my life after getting my diagnosis, there's a real trick in not over- or under-blaming things on the condition, although I'm not sure if that would be as big a job if you already had lived with one condition - going by what you've said matching a close friend of mine who's also autistic and got an ADHD diagnosis a lot later in life.

Anyway, I can't say if methylphenidate would work better for you but it should help with the things you listed, in my very subjective opinion. Good luck with things :)

If you're aphantasic as part of your ADHD - i.e. you don't have a well-developed mind's eye - which is likely, then LSD is I suspect a much "safer" experience than it is for normies, in that your brain can't generate the sort of complex visual hallucinations required to give enough verisimilitude to fool the mind into believing it. And the other "bad trip" trap of getting stuck in a mental loop is also ineffective against the ADHD brain's inability to filter out distractions, it's hard for your mind go into a negative spiral when your brain is constantly poking it to pay attention to some random shiny shit in the edge of your vision. I love LSD, it can be hard work but it's given me some of the most amazing experiences ranging from the profound to just sheer joy. And then you can try combining it with ketamine for even more consciousness alteration :)

> Haven't been able to get my new prescription yet (ran out yesterday) but other than that, I take 30mg/day dexedrine XR.

Heh, snap. I ran out of my medication yesterday and haven't got my new prescription either. What got me this month was that I only got 28 days worth of pills which is so petty - I don't get 31 days worth on the majority of months that have more than 30 days! But anyway, that aside I'm glad to be in the UK where I get my 108mg/day methylphenidate and 10mg/day Ramipril for a tenner a month.

> I've consistently been recommended ritalin/methylphenidate as something to try, I do plan on trying it at some point but dexedrine helps me so much I don't think I need to go to anything else. I still want to try methylphenidate though to see how it is.

Be aware that you might be underwhelmed when compared to dexedrine, the effects are way less obvious immediatetly - methylphenidate is closer to cocaine chemically than amphetamine in fact. There's an old (2006) book called "Speed, Ecstasy, Ritalin: The Science of Amphetamines" that's pretty interesting if you want more detail.

> Probably~ I was somewhat high for 4-5 days at first but it was actually incredibly distracting because I would do crazy stuff like fall over in the shower because it felt too good for me to focus. That shower was just repaired, I nearly broke it again.

Lol, I've managed to destroy a freezer and my own PC through amphetamine-induced over-zealous housecleaning sessions.

> Always nice hearing someone else's viewpoint~

Likewise! If you've never watched this lecture from a renowned ADHD expert to parents of ADHD children about how it affects them then I found it very illuminating about a lot of the effects of ADHD that aren't so obvious but can have a profound influence upon your life i.e. having aphantasia explains why being told to "imagine this" was always something that frustrated me because I couldn't do it in the way the other person would be able to do - but I didn't know that I couldn't, and neither did they.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCAGc-rkIfo