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I toast jacobalberty once or twice a year when I login to my Synology / Docker / UniFi Controller app and gaze upon the pretty graphs and throughput visualizer.

Love it. Thank you kind sir for your work!

As others have said, UniFi had some tough years but that early stuff just works and my uptime is in years.

For sure… but digital distribution and deep understanding of the mental processes behind addiction make it even more accessible for new products / games today.

I remember when ‘Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products’ came out by Nir Eyal. It came out the same year as ‘Addiction by Design’ and was rapidly adopted in the SV and HN circles. I heard somewhere he felt bad about the impact of Hooked… but I don’t have a source.

Eyal wrote another book 5 years later trying to help people control their attention & not falling victim to the playbook he outlined in Hooked.

I hear you. You are 100% correct, it is NOT easy... for a LOT of reasons. I hope you didn't feel like I was making light of it or implying that it was easy. it is not. Full stop.

Congrats on making it so far against such odds. That is a massive accomplishment. Day by day... use your amazing progress to help you motivate continued growth.

Hope is critical and I am glad I was able to provide a tiny bit for you. We are all different, so what has worked for some / many may not work for you. Frankly that was the hardest part of our journey, the 'unending' iterations. Hoping each would provide relief... waiting for weeks and months, only to move on to another cocktail.

On the flip side, there are a LOT of different treatments now and some very promising 'new' ones that are helping a lot of people.

It sounds like you have come a long way without much help or relief. I am glad it was helpful to know that relief is possible and that may help carry you forward just a little further.

> You'd swear the process of getting diagnosed + treated for ADHD was deliberately designed to filter out anyone who actually has it. It's maddening.

You aren't kidding... and the US's ridiculous controlled substance policies that mean people with it are forced to reach out to their doctor EACH MONTH for a new prescription. That feels like a sick joke for those who struggle to keep organized and focused... and often leads to lack of consistent treatment.

Glad I could offer some hope / peace. It is truly remarkable the difference when one moves from deep depression to the lack of it.

Wow, thank you, that is very kind.

Something my wife and I decided very on in our journey into the space was to be as open as possible about it; both to help with distigmatjzation as well as just general knowledge sharing. I certainly knew nothing about mental health and illness until severe mental illness arrived on our doorstep and we had to get educated fast.

With 5% of the US population suffering from severe mental illness and another 20% having experienced an acute or less significant issue, it is quite common. The more we know, the more we can be helpful to those around us or ourselves.

I gave a 'co-learning' presentation on mental health to our company... maybe I should consider expanding the scope of my shared experience. Thanks for your encouragement.

Being an engineer, I use the analogy of SNR, signal to noise ratio. Depression and anxiety, often comorbid, raise the noise floor to the point that it is incredibly hard to feel confident that a decision can be made. This in turn results in a decision NOT being made and progress dragging on... which only raises the tension around the situation. It is a horribly vicious downward cycle.

I have seen this first hand in loved ones and also experienced it occasionally myself, though thankfully less frequently. I am extremely adept at compartmentalizing, including work and life... but a deep depression knows no limits easily bleeds over into everything. The mental noise is deafening. I was shocked how strong the effect was during a recent episode of depression, despite my typically strong executive functioning skills.

Equally amazing is the 'blue skies' and 'quiet mind' that can be achieved with proper treatment, for which I am infinitely grateful.

Please seek out help if you are struggling.

> It's immediately obvious to me that the illustrations are AI slop

I don't believe this qualifies as AI Slop. They are all consistent in their style and thus 'on brand' for what they are trying to convey. While visuals are fairly subjective and these may not speak to you, they don't have 'obvious slop characteristics' eg 6 fingers or 3 eyes imho.

It doesn’t need to listen all the time… just grab a few words after you put it down or hit the lock button. Or listen while you are actively using it.

Building a word cloud would be trivial and with minimal battery impact

Definitely possible… but Apple was successfully sued for unintentionally’ listening. They didn’t admit guilt but settled.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/apple-pay-95-million-settle-si...

Apple settled a lawsuit about Siri ‘unintentionally’ listening. [1] So, yes, they also can likely predict what you want based on all they do openly track… but we can no longer claim that they aren’t listening.

Based on the lawsuit and other sources, my guess is the phones build a word cloud that is then used for targeted advertising. Apple at el aren’t recording and selling the actual audio… but they are listening.

(1) https://www.reuters.com/legal/apple-pay-95-million-settle-si...

Numbers looks wonderful, but for deep business needs it has a LONG way to go before it is at all comparable. It is great they are adding functionality, but I am curious what market segment they think they are meeting?

We just broke down and bought a Windows based machine because MS Excel is so limited on a Mac that it was forcing our accountant into time wasting inefficiencies and general hair pulling.

I LOVED the Honda Cog video and the story [1] about how they made it along with the purported 100+ takes is craziness. I can't imagine resetting it so many times... especially since the offending item that kept killing it was so late in the chain.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_%28advertisement%29

While I also detest commercials as a whole, I think it is worth stepping back and viewing this as art. The concept, the visuals, the original song (not the one you find on most videos due to licensing)... it is beautiful and should evoke childhood joy and wonder. Yes it was wasteful, but if we only do things because they are efficient, I think our humanity suffers.

They made at least one more commercial [1] during the same time period and it was also inspired by awe and wonder. While it did waste paint and likely pollute the local groundwater temporarily, it was conducted in a building that was scheduled for demolition.

Paint

(1) https://youtu.be/GURvHJNmGrc?si=syS1ImP0Z2oM1btO

Beyond personal images and documents of important, this was the second reason for establishing a home NAS with 3,2,1 backup [1]. Physical media fails, so you better have a plan for dealing with that if you care to maintain access.

[1](https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/)

Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll give it a shot

Just starting the third book, really fun series. Highly recommend for anyone interested in computing and science fiction.

Ray Porter, the narrator, is quite the talent. He does a brilliant job with ‘Project: Hail Mary’ as well which is the second book from the author of ‘The Martian.’ It has quite a bit more science and humor than The Martian and is one of my favorites.

One thing that I haven't seen discussed in the comments is the inherent vulnerability of S3 pricing. Like all things AWS, if something goes sideways, you are suddenly on the wrong side of a very large bill. For instance, someone can easily blow your egress charges through the roof by making a massive amount of requests for your assets hosted there.

While Cloudflare may reach out and say 'you should be on enterprise' when that happens on R2, the fact they also handle DDoS and similar attacks as part of their offering means the likelihood of success is much lower (as is the final bill).

I am so sorry. I see you. My wife is bipolar, HSP, ADHD… it’s called severe mental illness for a reason.

I was eating blue pills for 20 years. I finally took the red pill and realized it wasn’t going to change, we weren’t going to find a magic cocktail, she isn’t going to find stability. Now I am stuck between a rock and a hard place with no option c. It is miserable.

The airlines have it right, ‘Put on your mask first.’ If you are hypoxic , you can’t help anyone. Care giving is all about self care.

Our community had one of those horrible situations you hope never happens, kid drowning in the pool during end of year celebration. The woman that pulled him out and successfully revived him with CPR was a doctor, but credited the save to her childhood lifeguard CPR training.

Please learn CPR if you can.

I guess my naive frustration comes from crazy fps games tracking things so precisely and yet somehow Chess.com can’t handle a turn based game?! Honestly.

I do recognize that fps games utilize predictive algorithms and planning to estimate future player positions but still, turn based networking with 100ms accuracy should be a solved problem

I wish this discussed the timing arbitration of each move. Based on the packet information (if that is correct & complete) then the timing is done entirely on the clients. However, they show the time in seconds which can't be right so I am curious how accurate this packet schema is (or if those are float values).

Regardless, one thing I find maddening about chess.com is the time architecture of the game. I haven't seen the underlying code, but it feels like the SERVER is tracking the time. This completely neglects transport time & latency meaning that 1s to move isn't really a second. Playing on the mobile client is an exercise in frustration if you are playing timed games and down to the wire. Even when you aren't, your clock will jump on normal moves and it is most obvious during the opening.

This could also be due to general poor network code as well. The number of errors I get during puzzles is also frustrating. Do they really not retry a send automatically?? <breath>

Chess.com has the brand and the names... but dang, the tech feels SO rough to me.

> What not everyone knows is that those sites are mirrored over to the WordPress.com infrastructure, including WooCommerce customer data and purchase histories — and that infrastructure is as far as I understand the GDPR — not compatible with European privacy regulations

Yikes. Not surprising in this age of data hoovering, but definitely sketchy and likely illegal in the EU. I guess it follows the other point about Automattic ignoring laws outside of the US

You are seen and heard. Please do reach out to 988 or similar for help. No one should go through this alone or doubting that they are loved and worthy. You are both.

Yea, I Just read that last week… of course I can’t find it now on my phone.

I have been using it all week. It concentrates the mind but on random things.. which helps with boredom and sleep. It also avoids spiraling down on a single topic which typically makes sleep harder.

They suggested not only thinking the word but also visualizing it. I have found it fairly effective this week

Makes sense, thanks for the reply

How are you testing air quality on the plane?

I am also curious how you connect CO2 levels to pathogen levels. Would a carbon filtration system adjust the CO2 levels at the same rate as pathogens?

The release explicitly states that while they saw 85% retraction in the first subject, “Promisingly, we have observed no thread retraction in our second participant,"

Obviously it is quite early but they also talk about mitigation strategies that were taken to directly address the problem.

Edit: typo