TomK32

I often wonder what value a survey has if those surveyed have not enough information and facts at hand.

(1962) is shockingy relevant. I have to read more dystopian sci fi from that era just to keep up with current event

Truth be told, I did expect Trump to suck up to Putin first...

Entertaining. But then, I'm European far away from this orange man.

Trump still has to do the inauguration. Even a reptile should understand the basic procedures of office. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ina...

TikTok is still blocked in China.

Just a quick reminder: Tik Tok (a service by a Chinese company) is still blocked in China.

The road design is what causes bad or good driving. The road you describe should narrow before the blind curve so the drivers would (often enough unconsciously) slow down before it. For the pedestrian crossing, small islands that separate the lanes and give pedestrians a safe space will help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bglWCuCMSWc

Nonsense, the money spent on safer roads is an investment on human lives. Infrastructure needs to be rebuilt every few decades and with good planning roads that are being resurfaced anyways can be altered at little extra cost. Finally, let's not ignore that suburban sprawl is economically not viable for cities as the cost per household is higher in sprawl compared to a denser populated area. Changing the last point is obviously the toughest.

https://cayimby.org/blog/sprawl-costs-the-u-s-1-trillion-eve... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmQomKCfYZY

It's just a bigger hammer, the only tool you will ever need in your life.

Now it makes sense why Alice was sending me that kitten in a mixer video.

But seriously, in a case before a court or jury, wouldn't there be much more evidence? Down to your own lawyer sending a complete dump of your phone with all those Sandy-Hooks-conspiracies and hate messages to the opposing side?

Trains in general a great, why do people insist on sitting without any company in an expensive car which they even have to drive themselves?

Oh gosh... "insidious castration of all men" and "blurred gender roles". Really? They have been blurry for all of homo sapiens existence, just think of the matriarchal societies that still exist today[0]. Gender dysphoria has been documented from individuals[1] for a long time, societies accepted a third gender since ancient time and even in the USA, the Cercle Hermaphroditos[2] was quite early to the party, being founded in 1895 (yes 130 years ago).

I'm confident that plastic will go the way trees did: Unbothered for a long time until bacteria figured dead wood is just another food and put a stop to trees being fossilized as coal.

Stop plastics, it's a good idea to do so for many reasons, but there's no need to drag gender roles and those stupid good old times into it. I much prefer spending time with my kid instead of slaving away 9-5 six days a week.

[0] https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/g2856528... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalonymus_ben_Kalonymus [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercle_Hermaphroditos

I find it interesting that the article you linked didn't mention the heritability of ADHD. In around 3/4ths[0] of cases ADHD is caused by genetics, which leaves plenty of space for other causes.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0070-0

My computer's clock say "twenty five past ten" and I don't even take offense about the missing "-" in twenty five. It's close enough for me.

It can't be that bad if there's a new active generation of developers. Not every project (FOSS or commercial) survives this step.

"In the U.S., gun death rates in this age group have increased by 106 percent since 2013 and have been the leading cause of death among this group since 2020."

"There were 2,526 gun deaths in 2022 among 1- to 17-year-olds, averaging to nearly 7 per day."

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-remain-leading-cause-...

One of the best year for the defiant and the least successful list since the last days of the H.W. Bush administration.

There's a map to prove you wrong. I counted 26 from the UK to Turkey and from that bit of Spain to Ukraine (a different gauge doesn't mean you can have nighttrains). The solid lines have sleeper wagons. Which are useless anyways if you are taller than 190cm. https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/

Actually Spain seems to have more to offer according to this map http://www.night-trains.com/europe/

edit: Nope, Spain is pretty almost void of night trains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenhotel

> Because human minds are fallible black boxes, we have developed a wide variety of tools that exist outside our minds, like spoken language, written language, law, standard operating procedures, math, scientific knowledge, etc.

Standard operating procedures are great but simplify it to checklists. Don't ever forget checklists which have proven vital for pilots and surgeons alike. And looking at the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist you might think "that's basic stuff" but apparently it is necessary and works https://www.who.int/teams/integrated-health-services/patient...

Even more niche with headphones that have storage. Why would anyone not handpick music for those headphone with other than a 170bpm?

Of course, a service map comes handy, just another simple way of getting it done. What I meant with the proxy was using e.g. jellyfin.example.com and portainer.example.com instead of the ports. Not to mention that two apps might have the same default port.

For those with a multi-machine setup, like running the easy stuff on a 1L machine and having backupservice at multiple locations or the LLMs on a big setup that might even use WakeOnLan the proxy will keep you from having to remember the IPs as well.

nginx-proxy becomes almost a must have if you have multiple services and prefer remembering domain names instead of port numbers https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy

Buying new tracks like when I was still using iTunes would be nice. Bandcamp comes close but I don't mind the extra step of downloading the zip file and running my script to have it in my music server. Where I also have plenty of digitalized CDs that I own.

Spec-wise, start cheap and upgrade the CPU/RAM when you hit limits. It's not like you'll use all those services at the same time. My home containers all run on a recently purchased HP Mini G2 that I upgraded from a 6100 to a 8-core 6700 and the RAM is an odd 24GB. It even has a rarely used minecraft server. Docker containers are bundled into proxmox instances per user or whatever makes the most sense.

Am I the only one who expected the evil twin to be 3 ?

Over-diagnosis would mean we'd see a lot of kids and adults being diagnosed with ADHD despite being normal/typical. Granted ADHD shows in a spectrum of symptoms but I can't find any study that systematically re-tested patients to find over-diagnosis.

There might be clinicians who diagnose ADHD much more freely than others and whose verdict might not withstand the critique of a more experienced clinicians, but that can happen with any other disease, especially when it's still being studied and not every doctor has learned about it during his medical education. Just look at the speciality of psychiatrists near you, you might for 10 times more for depression than for ADHD. Despite both having the same prevalence and depression often being a comorbidity of ADHD.

Over-prescribed medication, well it is a problem because of the myth that Ritalin would help studying but at least here in Austria it there's enough hurdles to get a prescription. And the meds alone won't fix ADHD.

What we know from studies are under-diagnosis in women and the severe effects an undiagnosed ADHD can mean for a person. What we also know from studies is the under-diagnosis of girls, only in adulthood the gender-ratio of late diagnosis is almost even. Please don't talk ADHD down, it's too severe and we have a hard enough life already without being told by others that suddenly everyone has ADHD...

The improved treatment, and acceptance, of ADHD is certainly one key element here. I hope we continue to support kids if they show symptoms of any psychological disorder.

Here's a 2018 study following kids into adulthood and questioning them on their substance abuse: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5985671/

My brother is one of those really bad cases, while I got my diagnosis just recently; never had more than a slight drinking problem which has almost disappeared since the I started taking medication.

Doggerland had a lot more hills and dry land, Doggerbank being the high spot. Combined with the warmer climate it had a far more stable and longer occupation than the Bering Land Bridge

Wikipedia has what might have been a map of Doggerbank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland#Discovery_and_inves...

And there's individuals who have found hundreds of artifacts https://www.science.org/content/article/relics-washed-beache...

Recently I listened to a 25 year old episode of Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time on the BBC (fantastic series btw, still going). Medical Ethics and back then, amongst other topics, the option of assisted death did already crop up. Unless medical treatment not only prolongs a life but also maintains, or towards the end of a long life realistically it has to improve, the quality of life, the idea of an early death will enter the mind of a lot of people.

Christiaan Barnard gets quoted with "The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped."

The relevant part starts at 24:40 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005465c

The program also mentions doctors limits in regards to genetic conditions which not only affect their patient but might also affect the patients relatives. I don't see that discussion ever, even though it turns out to be relevant for my ADHD.

Health care can do a lot these days and extend a persons life by a lot, but with this the question about the quality of life arises. Assisted dying is one answer to this. Personally, half-way through life, I plan to avoid it by keeping myself fit with exercises, cycling and running.