Wanting to do things and having ideas is painful
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Phone assistants responding to you in the same volume of voice you used to address them.
Justice Alito claimed that he and the court foresaw the legal and actual consequences of their decision and what impact it would have on state laws, existing and otherwise. He chose this. He chose to kill somebody by taking away their rights, and now he has.
No, not as simply as that. That's the basic idea of recommendation systems that were common in the 1990s. The algorithm requires a tremendous amount of dimensionality reduction to work at scale. In that simple description it would need a trillion weights to compare the preferences of a million users to a million other users. If you reduce it to some standard 100-1000ish dimensions of preference it becomes feasible, but at the low end only contains about as much information as your own choices about subscribed to or blocked communities (obviously it has a much lower barrier of entry).
There's another important aspect of learning that the simple description leaves out, which is exploration. It will quickly start showing you things you reliably like, but won't experiment with things it doesn't know you'd like or not to find out.
Diagnosis and medication for ADHD (and anxiety) was a huge benefit to me. Before I would want to do the dishes but not be able to. I'd go to the kitchen and the dishwasher would be full, so before I could do the dishes, I needed to empty the dishwasher, and before I could empty the dishwasher I needed to wash my hands and I'd get overwhelmed, not do dishes, and feel bad about it. I could empty the dishwasher if it's what I planned on doing ahead of time, and if I started doing dishes I'd keep going stacking up dishes to wash even with the dishwasher full.
The very first day I had medication for ADHD (I'd had anxiety meds for a few weeks) I plowed through washing my hands, putting dishes away, doing dishes, went shopping for various things (I hate shopping), got winter bike pants so I could keep biking in the winter (it was already late November), and then eating dinner I got close to the end of my meal and just stopped because I didn't want to eat anymore instead of finishing what I was eating because it's what I was already doing.
Now when I don't do dishes it's because I don't want to, not that I'm overwhelmed by it.
I still have anxiety and indecisiveness and avoidance of projects that are important to me, that somehow have my identity/ego tied up in them, or things like that. But I can do small things for myself now instead of only being able to do things for other people. Like @xmunk said it's not solved for me, but things are much better.
Between getting treatment for ADHD and another medical condition I've lost about 10kg without even trying, I'm sure both treatments have contributed to it.
Besides getting medication, diagnosis is helpful because it's easier to understand what's happening. Even though I could tell myself "I know this isn't normal" when I was overwhelmed or stressed out over seemingly nothing, part of me would be questioning if I wasn't really just that lazy/inadequate. Now I know what's going on and I still feel frustrated, and bad, but I'm more kind to myself about it.
I never even would have been able to make an appointment to get treatment if I hadn't seen tons of ADHD memes on lemmy and realized, oh, maybe that's not normal. Seeing people describe being on ADHD meds as easy mode and describing the things I struggled with as being hard. I saw something on facebook that said
If being hard on yourself worked, it would have worked by now.
And that really stuck with me. I also got the idea in my head that
I deserve to be able to do things for myself, not just for other people.
I also resolved before going to the appointment for ADHD that no matter what, whether that's what I had, or I got medication, or if the medication worked, I was going to try to be kind to myself.
But I never would have even been able to make an appointment if another medical condition hadn't escalated to literally feeling pins and needles and I made a bunch of appointments for other things when I made one for that. I didn't make it specifically for ADHD, just some general complaint that I had some executive disorder and a description of what was happening.
Based on what they've done in the past, they're going to write it off on their taxes when though the titles aren't even games that they own.
There's two problems. The first is that those other things you might like will be rated lower than things you appear to certainly like. That's the "easy" problem and has solutions where a learning agent is forced to prefer exploring new options over sticking to preferences to some degree, but becomes difficult when you no longer know what is explored or unexplored due to some abstraction like dimension reduction or some practical limitation like a human can't explore all of Lemmy like a robot in a maze.
The second is that you might have preferences that other people who like the same things you've already indicated a taste for tend to dislike. For example there may be other people who like both Boba and Cofee but people who like one or the other tend to dislike the other. If you happen to encounter Boba first then Cofee will be predicted to be disliked based on the overall preferences of people who agree with your Boba preference.
Guild Wars (not GW2) didn't have that problem. All of the skills are just available somewhere if you go get them. The only meaningful build choices are which skills you use, a small number of attributes, and how much of the stats from your gear you are willing to sacrifice to obtain other effects.
You get to level 20 (the cap) fairly quickly in each campaign and still have all the rest of the game to play with expanding options instead of increasing numbers.
You can't just pick a single build and do everything with it, you need to adapt what you're doing to the missions you encounter, so you're more than encouraged to play with the other skills.
That's because you're the victim of a crime: extortion
Air cooling is just vacuum cooling with extra steps.
Dogs love pumpkin. Dogs love cinnamon.
A COVID vaccine (offer not good inside the US)
That's heartachingly alienating, I'm so sorry. I hope you find safe places to make friends both online and irl, where everything that you are now, have experienced, and want to be are valid and prominently welcome.
I really didn't believe that a bunch of memes on lemmy meant that I had ADHD so instead of making an appointment for it specifically I described the executive difficulties I had when making an appointment, and the doctor brought up anxiety and ADHD and depression all as things that could cause that, and that frequently go together, which they gave screening questionaires for and wanted to treat anxiety first. Then after a few weeks I had a follow-up appointment for ADHD, which was just questions about symptoms and when they first appeared.
Yeah that amounts to the same thing-report the symptoms, get diagnosis, but it felt more honest to me. I guess I really wanted to hear somebody else say it.
A complete Greenland slide-off would be an average sea level rise of about 7m, and is possible in our lifetimes as an extreme event (something like a fraction of a percent chance before 2100). If it happened it would be multiple events really, spread out across years or decades. Antarctic ice moving so its weight is no longer supported by the continent was too unlikely to include in models a few years ago, but the West Antarctic has been so active that I'd expect it to start showing up in estimates.
Carbon Catch and Release
"quickly". The report listing that it was being removed came out 15 months ago.
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No, terrible record keeping is exactly what caused this, according to the anonymous whistleblower: warranty work on the door was performed without any records being created for it due to boeing keeping two record keeping systems, one that was the system of record and one that was used as visibility for management.
New?! This is the original area in which China excelled at producing electric vehicles. London's early electric buses were European licensed production of BYD buses (or more likely BYD licensed powertrains)
Is China even allowing electric buses to be exported yet? The last time I looked it was still going to take over a decade to replace all the buses in China, but a chunk of a decade has passed since then.
There's an old report from New York City putting the value of an electric bus at about $1.2 million, mostly the health benefits from no emissions not fuel savings. At the time there was no way for New York City to buy them because there's no way to fund transit out of healthcare when the state pays for one but not the other, there were no non-Chinese manufacturers, and then shortly after they couldn't compete with London that valued an electric bus at £1.7 million if I remember correctly, and the UK could justify funding buses based on healthcare. I think those first buses were about €600k. At the same time kneeling electric transit buses in China were about $90k, and small electric buses were $30-$40k.
The USPS board of governors has 11 seats.
- 2 are held by the postmaster general and deputy elected by the board (Louis DeJoy and Douglas Tulino)
- 2 are remaining Trump appointees
- 5 are Biden appointees
- 2 are vacant
Biden appointees already control the board and Biden could appoint 2 more
In terms of abilities, there's problems other people can solve that I never will even with years of study and training, and there are problems I can solve that my immediate peers never would, even with years of study and training.
In terms off knowledge, everybody you meet knows something you don't. (They might not have the ability to help you find what it is though)
In terms of skills, behaviors it seems like nobody ever considers trying and finding out for themselves, which is endemic across all levels of academia, government, business, and profession, and in that matter they are all as dumb as a bunch of rocks.
Gunfire Reborn does that for me, even though I have to play with a controller. Roboquest looks like it's kind-of between Gunfire Reborn and Borderlands, but I haven't tried it yet.
Everything. Or just this.
I need to get my car fixed so I can leave.
I need to empty out my car so I can get it fixed.
I need my car fixed so I can empty it out.
I need to go shopping so I have food.
I need to bike to go shopping.
I need to eat to bike.
I need food to eat.
I need to get paniers and a rack for a bike so I'm not so reliant on my car.
I need to get my car fixed so I'm not so reliant on a bike.
I need to find a therapist to feel safe.
I need to set up a computer to email every provider in a whole state to try to find one.
I need to set up a computer so I can work.
I need to feel safe to set up a computer.
Everything seems like the most important thing to do right now. I know the actual only important thing to do today is get food for at least 3 days so I can have at least 1 day when that's not a problem. I need someone to tell that to even though I'd already thought of that and thought that I have nobody to tell it to, so thank you for asking.
Whether or not you use downvotes doesn't really matter.
If what you like is well represented by the Boba drinkers and the Boba drinkers disproportionally don't like Cofee then Cofee will be disproportionally excluded from the top of your results. Unless you explore deeper the Cofee results will be pushed to the bottom of your results. And any that happen to come to the top will have arrived there from broad appeal and will have very little contribution to thinking you like Cofee.
If you don't let the math effectively push things away that are disliked by the people who like similar things as you then everything will saturate at maximum appeal and the whole system does nothing.
No, the NTSB said that Boeing hadn't provided them with the records, not that orders for the reinstallation hadn't been made. Boeing is now trying to blame the lack of records to follow-up on on employees, even though none of the work should have been possible without the records existing in the first place.
Boeing absolutely shouldn't be trying to get out ahead of the NTSB investigation with their own deflecting interpretation of what the NTSB has uncovered and shared with Boeing, which is probably along the lines of the anonymous whistleblower from a few months ago who detailed failings in the record keeping process before the senate hearings revealed that Boeing hadn't provided the NTSB with the records (which according to the anonymous whistleblower didn't exist because they were never created)
Before you drive up to Minneapolis, there's nothing to do there either. Walk/bike along/over the river is probably the best thing, and you can do that in Rochester too.
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I started doing that last year with Joplin on my computer and it's a big help.
I also keep big notes to just dump everything I'm working on into - websites, pdfs, screenshots, screen video captures with no commitment to organization except I can add things in chronological order. A lot of it is initiated by showing it to someone else and then realizing I should have a note for myself too.
I really should start doing the same with personal stuff and random observations. If something is important enough to tell (or what to tell) other people about it should be important enough to tell my future self about.
It's crazy how much not experiencing rewards yourself/the inability to do things for yourself influences things I wouldn't even imagine before understating what ADHD is/does and consciously examining them.
Thanks. I'd never thought of an office surplus store.
Edit: The office surplus store here had 2 identical unremarkable shoddy used chairs for new shoddy chair price.
$5k?! A doctor's visit is $250 for me (insurance doesn't cover anything until I never reach the deductible). Also there were only like 2 tests totalling 20-ish questions. The hardest part was making an appointment, which I never would have done if I wasn't also making appointments for other pressing health issues.
10s of thousands of nothing. Hundreds of thousands isn't even enough that "economic growth" at the expense of increased costs and greater inequity would be a net benefit.
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I have the bottom half of an unpleasantly upholstered office chair that I pulled out of a dumpster a quarter century ago. I would not recommend it, but it's better than the loose crap I find every time I go chair shopping.
This is the Biden administration. On immigration the US is now more xenophobic than the Republican primary between Reagan and Bush in 1980.
about:config is a weird thing to lock behind ditching Firefox and downloading a different browser
Universal basic income and universal healthcare so I (and everybody else) don't have to worry about a job, being able to work, retirement, disability, and employers will have to offer meaning, increased quality of life, and actual respect to attract employees.