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TomK32

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Ruby on Rails developer. Learning Godot. Freelancer

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TomK32··on Steam Machine launches today
Who knows, maybe once the AI bubble has burst they will surprise us with a replacement mainboard for this second gen. If they want to keep it in sale as long as the Steamdeck it would make sense to offer gamers a simple way to upgrade their existing machine when Steam's ecosystem is already open to all sides. Maybe they'll even outsource that mainboard upgrade to ASUS, MSI or others. Once we see a teardown we can make a better prediction.
TomK32··on Steam Machine launches today
I'm pretty sure they would have loved to put a better GPU chip in but that would have cost too much extra in these mad days.
TomK32··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
StarLink is the only thing about SpaceX that makes a profit. But that's only possible because no one else has a network up there hence it can ask for any price it want. Let's not forget that before StarLink there was Iridium and it got ousted because there was a better offer and I wouldn't be surprised if some other company will eventually go up with a better offer.
TomK32··on Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages
There's more than one way but this lists packages not installed by pacman itself:

    pacman -Qm
Only 237 on my 12 year old system but I rarely update AUR packages and usually try to remove unused ones before updating.
TomK32··on I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers
Sure, but they are running web-apps they've vibe-coded (hence the .vibe tld) and for that use-case of many web apps that I run in docker containers I use nginx-proxy [0]. All the container needs is a VIRTUAL_HOST environment variable with the domain and what my router needs is an address entry for the wildcard subdomains. I even have nginx-proxy on a internet-accessible staging server.

[0] https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy

TomK32··on Brainjo Raised €2M for ADHD VR Therapy
What a ridiculous AI generated photo. The guy with the glasses wears different shoes!

Anyways... interesting idea, it is taking noise-cancellation headphones a few steps further and those do work for many.

TomK32··on Ask HN: What can I read to learn about ADHD?
The truth of the matter in a field that still needs more thorough studies and a better understanding in the experts in the field who write the diagnosis? Barkley has a few videos on those with counterpoints, the pattern here is to look if ADHD and autism are actually their focus and in the case of studies, if they take the fundamentals into account. Fundamentals like ADHD most often being hereditary. E.g. I read a study about ADHD self-diagnosis and social media and it completely lacking numbers on how likely a self-diagnosis is correct, whether the subjects had a previous diagnosi like depression (a common mis-diagnosis) or how competent the doctors were in the field of ADHD. That study gets attention, ironically, with its claim that social media causes more self-diagnois, but it's those details you want to watch out for when reading counterpoints.

There's no contradiction between the inability to focus (at will) and hyper focus. As an analogy, a car you build for a land speed record is fantastic at the salt flats but usually really bad when it comes to corners or transporting your groceries.

TomK32··on Half of people arrested in London may have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds
My brother was diagnosed in his first year at school, didn't help prevent his criminal career later on. Diagnosis, even a self-diagnosis like I did at 42, is just the first step but for kids the right actions and help could indeed prevent so much suffering. Self-medication, drug abuse to calm down the mind, can be prevented quite easily with proper ADHD medication that shows a great rate of success.

Studies from Norway and the US show results fitting this one https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12888-021-03223-0 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2581455/

TomK32··on Show HN: DailyMe–I built an RPG task tracker for ADHD son build self-disclpline
I'll give it a try and let me know if you need a German translation.

I recently started using beaverhabits https://github.com/daya0576/beaverhabits/ for its simplicity but obviously I love gamification.

A few things I noticed though: * I'd love to add a task to a future date. * A flag on (future) tasks to notify when I ought to start them * Please pre-fill the minutes with 00 * The icons selection for the profiles is a bit boring. Why not just a search across whatever icon font (unicode?) you use? * Is there a dedicated view for just the profile without the noise around it? * There's a little animation that moves a task up when I hover it on desktop, is that by design?

TomK32··on ADHD diagnoses are growing. What's going on?
Before posting your comments, please can you read the article first and do a little more research including what people with ADHD experienced in their life before they got their diagnosis and help?

Many get (mis-)diagnosed with depression where the meds are much less easy and effective compared to ADHD. Un-diagnosed ADHD often leads to self-medication with alcohol or drugs, two things with very adverse side-effects even though one of them is legal. Studies show that treating ADHD with medication does lower the risk of substance abuse: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4147667/

Btw, there are no indications that ADHD medication has a positive long-term effect in non-medical use. If you can already focus your mind at the things before you without ADHD medication then you'd only waste your money if you took meds.

PS: Don't call me Shirley

TomK32··on ADHD diagnoses are growing. What's going on?
Fact? Far from and if only in a small minority. I know Gabor Maté likes to push trauma as a cause (as far as his ridiculous remote diagnosis of Prince Harry), if not main cause for ADHD but the vast majority of ADHD is due to genetics, 70-80% as the article states. Don't forget siblings and parents when looking at an ADHD person. When the parent has ADHD there's a higher risk for the child to have adverse experiences as this study describes: https://www.academicpedsjnl.net/article/S1876-2859(16)30416-...
TomK32··on John Hopkins: taking Tylenol during pregnancy associated with Autism ADHD (2019)
The study is from 2019, unis weren't under any pressure back then.
TomK32··on John Hopkins: taking Tylenol during pregnancy associated with Autism ADHD (2019)
In the study's Limitations sections it says what Russell Barkley always points out[1] as the missing key component in ADHD and autism studies: "Fourth, because of our observational study design, we were unable to exclude the potential residual confounders because of unmeasured genetic and environmental factors."

Both ADHD and autism have genetic causes in 80% of cases and run in families, not measuring genetic factors makes this whole study a waste of time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGn4j6QTiw

TomK32··on In Utero Acetaminophen Exposure: Risk of ADHD and Autism? (John Hopkins)
In the limitations it says what Russell Barkley always points out[1] as the missing key component in ADHD and autism studies: "Fourth, because of our observational study design, we were unable to exclude the potential residual confounders because of unmeasured genetic and environmental factors."

Both ADHD and autism have genetic causes in 80% of cases and run in families, not measuring genetic factors makes this whole study a waste of time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGn4j6QTiw

TomK32··on Trump admin links autism and Tylenol ingredient use during pregnancy
Not sure why you got downvotes for sarcasm.

Russ Barkley did a video three weeks ago on I guess that study (or meta study) and it's not just the likely increased pain in mothers with ADHS but as soon as you take in a control group like siblings the correlation just vanishes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGn4j6QTiw

TomK32··on Trump links autism to Tylenol and vaccines, claims not backed by science
Russ Barkley explains what is missing in studies that try to show correlation between the mother's medication and ADHD in offspring. As soon as a study takes on a control mechanism like siblings the correlation disappears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGn4j6QTiw
TomK32··on Finding thousands of exposed Ollama instances using Shodan
Early MongoDB adapter here who still likes it. If your internal services are accessible from outside you are doing it wrong. Neither MongoDB nor ES or ollama are services that my applications would access through a public IP and whenever a dev asks me for access to the DB from the comfort of their home office I tell them what VPN to log into.

Even if those services had some access protection, I simply must assume that the service has some security leak that allows unauthorized access and the first line of defense against that is not having it on the public internet.

TomK32··on 200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green
Indeed, here in Linz the few intelligent traffic lights we have are mostly for cyclists and the detection works great. On the three bridges there are counters that differentiate between trucks, cars, cyclists and pedestrians and they also work great.
TomK32··on Gabon longs to cash in on sacred hallucinogenic remedy
I'd doubt it. Gabon still has plenty of oil but that money goes into a few pockets only, the economy not diverse at all. If they want to get into drugs, why not all in and produce Captagon like Assad's regime in Syria? What the country needs is the Bongo family to withdraw, with empty pockets and for corruption to end. The 2023 coup was one family member against another and the last election the winner (from the dynasty of course) won 95% of the votes... Kim Jong Un is feeling envious!
TomK32··on Does Earth have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? (2014)
And then there's the Solent which for Springs has a double high tide as the western end of the Solent is quite narrow and the tide racing around the Isle of White and in from the wider eastern side. https://www.nci.org.uk/solent-tides/
TomK32··on Does Earth have two high-tide bulges on opposite sides? (2014)
The Battle of Clontarf on April 23rd 1014 springs to mind. While the high tide was of favour for the invading Vikings (who had already founded and still ruled Dublin) at 5:30 in the morn, the battle lasted all day and the next high tide at 17:55 cut off their way to a nearby wood and many killed or drowned as their were pushed against the tide. The times were calculated in 1860 by Samuel Haughton.

There is of course an In Our Time episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0029qh3

TomK32··on Dr Russell Barkley's 30 essential ideas everybody needs to know about ADHD. (Y [video]
Into 27 videos... But as the videos are from before the introduction of chapters, single videos make sense to allow direct links to a certain topic.
TomK32··on Different day, different diagnosis? Study finds spike in ADHD cases on Halloween
I have to laugh because by pure coincidence I did get the final paperwork of mine on the 31st of October, but there were a few months of realization, reading and of course sittings with the diagnostician.

The study only looks at the 10 +- weekdays around the last of the month, not the whole year. I'm certain there are other spikes. I'd like to argue that the day being something of a semi-holiday it might simply be easier to get an doctor's appointment that fits both the child and the parent schedule. It is also far enough into the school year for problems in the child's behaviour to show up and be referred to a doctor. Lastly, it's the last day of the month and with all admin being weird, it might even be that the data from the doctors is sloppy and earlier appointments get finished on the 31st for no other reason than finishing the month.

TomK32··on Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney
What a contrast to the early days: 22 years ago I was simply appointed admin on the German language Wikipedia when there was simply a lack of hands doing deletions and stuff. No voting, just a show of hand a lots of trust put into people only know by what they write and discuss on this new website.

A few years of work (10k edits) and a few years of dwindling participation on my side someone noticed that quite a few of those early admins never faced a vote at all. The process had re-elections when 25 wikipedians asked for a vote, took them almost three weeks, I got that treatment as well in 2009. Indeed someone had enough time to dig through and find a discussion where I wasn't the nicest person (at the same time writing and discussing on Wikipedia help me a lot to develop a healthy social skill). Well, I didn't use the admin rights anymore so I rather resigned before someone dug even deeper ;)

For security reasons those admin rights should be time limited anyways.

TomK32··on Trump's Tariffs Are Starting to Kill Jobs
Profits are ideal for the shareholders.
TomK32··on Normal Boyhood Is ADHD
It'd be nice if DHH put some more effort and focus into his posts. Or at least link to sources like for this very first sentence: "Nearly a quarter of seventeen-year-old boys in America have an ADHD diagnosis."

It's quite specific (17-yr-old boys) but I couldn't find a source for the ~25%. The CDC[1] writes it's 15% for boys (3-17 yrs old). Across all ADHD kids, 30% didn't receive medication or behaviour treatment anyways (a percentage that's risen since 2016): Where's the over-medication?

When I got started with my own diagnosis, a good friend of mine was very skeptical, like "everyone's getting their label and mental illness". Intelligent guy, philosopher with no pressure to do any work at all. It took him some time, research and self-reflection to face the diagnosis (he went to the same specialist and the tests are very thorough) and well... I guess it's true: As someone with ADHD I do have a lot of friends with the same condition, almost shocking but also understandable once you think about the effects on social interactions that ADHD bring.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/adhd/data/index.html

TomK32··on Normal Boyhood Is ADHD
Spot on. I like to say that I never learned how to learn. I did and still can dig into a topic that I'm interested in, but might loose interest in it after a few months. I can see with my daughter's first years at school that the system has only slowly changed but at least it's so much easier for ADHD kids to get spotted and receive the treatment that I didn't get. My daughter (I'm a bit on the edge about whether or not she did inherit it) is allowed to put on noise cancelling head phones in class, it must be a bliss for her.

There's so much more that the individual can do, but they need a group around them for support and, to be blunt, monitoring. The system needs to improve (I refuse to use "change") and with how this whole manosphere shit is influencing our boys and teens, it needs some fixing fast. Am I the only one missing stoicism and clemency as I currently watch Adolescence?

TomK32··on Normal Boyhood Is ADHD
Self-diagnosis is only a first step, the more important one that has to follow it is a professional diagnosis. While those are not bullet proof or by means of biological markers, the tests we have are thorough and conclusive for a overwhelming proportion of patients. Medication is quite hard to get approved, at least here in Europe, but it shows far better and faster results than say anti-depressants do (mis-diagnosis is a huge problem, a "depression" label will do nothing for someone with ADHD).

Decades of research by Russell Barkley and others have given us a fairly deep insight into ADHD and the tests and questionnaires that have been developed over those decades is what an adult should undertake. Procrastinating, forgetting names, dates and not being able to focus (a lot of the time, not just sometimes) are the milder symptoms that will more often than not push someone with ADHD into a downward spiral of depressions and alcohol abuse.

TomK32··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
> But then something flipped. > Instead of being seen as a safe haven, U.S. debt itself started to look shaky. Maybe it was the deficit outlook, maybe the global response to tariffs — but whatever it was, yields started climbing. Fast.

So, it's not this unstable president, his insult-spewing vice-president and his buddy the hyperactive billionaire manipulating a social network for Russia and China that makes the rest world want to avoid the USA for the next few years?

TomK32··on House Republicans move to block vote on Trump's tariffs
While it sounds shockingly stupid that one party in Congress tries to censor the whole Congress it is quite restricted what it censors. The latest tariffs claim to call on IEEPA which doesn't even mention the word tariff. But it's a downhill slope from here, and the Republicans don't realize that no matter how painful (to watch from Europe) the next years will be, just like every autocrat before Trump and his cronies will fail and it will end the Republican party as well.
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