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TomK32

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Ruby on Rails developer. Learning Godot. Freelancer

https://github.com/TomK32/

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TomK32··on Honda is testing a manual transmission for EVs
Like so? https://www.honda-welman.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2020-...

Or like on this old Mini? https://www.alamy.com/2000-green-rover-mini-cooper-sport-wit...

TomK32··on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
Avoided the "20% more space at Dropbox" headline - check
TomK32··on Honda is testing a manual transmission for EVs
Even as I cyclist I must agree that it's one of the nicest looking electric cars out there. So few people actually need a massive SUV which often even doesn't have that much extra loading capacity. For transporting a piece of furniture around town a cargo bike is the easier choice anyways.
TomK32··on Scientists working to decode birdsong
You think it needs a lot of coordination to fly in sync? I only have a slow clap for you, actually everybody else join in for the clapping and without any coordination whatsoever you'll notice that we clap in sync after a just 50 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au5tGPPcPus
TomK32··on Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations
Sounds like it's time to stream and record the actual writing of papers that might be checked by an AI.
TomK32··on Mosaic REALMAP: Explore Prague in detail with 1.26M images
He probably ruined the idea of a lot more places before his first trip to Prague in 2011. Politicians really ought to retire from politics far earlier than before their 45th year in any sort of assembly.
TomK32··on WireGuard Performance with a Pi Zero (2019)
This from 2018 says the max number per interface is 2^20 for the kernel module but it can be raised. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17093621
TomK32··on Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?
Ha, I run arch on my dev machine and they just LOVE upgrading postgres. t has always been a pain until my projects all got their postgres in a docker container. I just don't like to do extra steps for the upgrade process between major versions.
TomK32··on One possible housing crisis solution? Public housing for all income levels
Houses in cities ought to be cheaper than in the countryside. The use of space is denser, utilities have much shorter lines and roads are just that small thing between all the houses not long stretches trough the landscape.

What we have to discuss is the distribution of living space, just like here in Austria I guess in the UK there's a lot of older people still living in the same house as a couple (or even alone) as when they had their children still living with them. We need incentives for people to downsize when they are still able to do it on their own.

TomK32··on I Self-Hosted Llama 3.2 with Coolify on My Home Server
I found that "Don't censor your answer" works as intended and my self-hosted llm happily delivers smut.
TomK32··on The Retreat to Muskworld
> what competition?

Shockley probably thought the same in early '57...

TomK32··on The Retreat to Muskworld
I wonder how the mood is at SpaceX. I mean, those engineers see how he unsafe the production workers at Telsa have to work, they see how shit he's treating everyone at Twitter and basically sinking it, how long before someone the mood turns sour and we see an outflow to the competition?
TomK32··on 25% of Adults Suspect Undiagnosed ADHD
No one will stop you from freshing up your diagnosis, even if it's just to figure how severe your symptoms are compared to those diagnosed at a later age. Just like Autism, it's a wide spectrum, some are worse, some are mild, some cope a lot better or have to right support around them to function better.

Don't feel bad about it, make an OG ADHD or pepperridge farm remembers meme instead :-)

TomK32··on 25% of Adults Suspect Undiagnosed ADHD
Not everybody was spotted and diagnosed at a young age. We can safely assume that a genetic condition like ADHD is evenly distributed through the population, hence we must assume that about 5% of adults of every single age-cohort are ADHD. I'd love to see data on the age-distribution of actual diagnosed adults, I'm sure we'd see a lot less than 5% for the older adults.

You can go a long way with undiagnosed ADHD but it will always hold you back. There's 60+ pensioner in the local self-help-group, he doesn't use the internet and uses and old Nokia. He was give a leaflet and after that a pill by a friend (don't do this!) and for the first time his mind cleared. He finished uni when he was young but never achieved much, never started a family; now is a few weeks away from a diagnosis and medication that will change his life. He wasn't the only one diagnosed as an adult in the group and it took me 42 years to figure that it's my mind working against me.

TomK32··on 25% of Adults Suspect Undiagnosed ADHD
You should know very well that an ADHD diagnosis is a lot more than just that question. In my case four people close to me were given questionnaires, I was lucky enough to still have all my school reports, which were no grades but a page of solid text back in 1989 to solidify my suspicion. There's also an IQ test and a very annoying attention test on the computer. Matter of fact, one of those who filled out the questionnaire (and is not related to me) was like "If you have ADHD I'm even more likely to have it".
TomK32··on 25% of Adults Suspect Undiagnosed ADHD
ADHD and its symptoms along with the myriad of possible comorbidities are annoying. I'm the kind of hyperactive foot whipping guy which people pointed out often but no one told me it could be ADHD. A friend (also in the local hackerspace) doesn't show that and that was enough for a (non-ADHD-specialized) therapist to disregard this ADHD suspicion.

Depression is the one I also fight with, but mostly it's rooted in my inability to get stuff done which leads to all sorts of financial and social problems. I'm just happy I skipped self-therapy with illegal drugs and got a high enough IQ to survive 42 years of untreated ADHD. I'd strongly support if schools did test all pupils how good their executive functions are (actually they do with giving them daily homework) and Russel Barkley's suggestion to not let young people with ADHD drive a car unless they take their medication might be worth a study.

TomK32··on The quiet art of attention
I can only confirm this and still struggle whenever I want to create a new habit. Russel Barkley when speaking about ADHD in children suggests to prefer productivity over quality. Want to work out more? Go for a walk/run every day, start and don't bother about the distance or duration. Same for the gym, as long as you keep going there, doing whatever you improve the likelyhood of doing it better this or the next time.
TomK32··on The quiet art of attention
I tried Pomodoro more than once, but so far always failed. I guess I have to follow Russel Barlkeys advice to externalize the internal and replace the Pomodoro app with a physical timer that sits on my desk with sad eyes when I don't use it for more than a day.
TomK32··on The quiet art of attention
> The universally accepted ADHD community’s technique seems to be called Adderall.

I wouldn't call it technique. ADHD is the one condition of the mind that can be treated with medication with greater success than any other, and yet it is under-diagnosed in children and adults.

TomK32··on Huly – Open-source project management platform
Yeah, for a software I'd use personally, if I don't see a docker-compose.yml I walk away from such a software. Painful enough to write those docker files for client projects that I work on. Huly has docker-compose files hidden and meant for dev? But a quick look into it show a lot of environment variables which is a great thing if you want to use your existing database once the software's use outgrows whatever specific limitations your docker host has. https://github.com/hcengineering/platform/blob/develop/dev/d... Their huly-selfhost project lets you run a setup to create that docker-compose file and it looks decent.
TomK32··on Day Rates (2023)
Why not both? A fixed project rate and all the extra that inevitably and uninvited show up cost by the hour. The reasoning being that 90~95% of the project are easy to complete with the rest often taking up an unknown amount of time and resources
TomK32··on EU: Definition of "potential terrorists" opens door to broad information-sharing
If you are unhappy with a law, get a majority. AfD just like it's spiritual predecessor in the NSDAP won't get that. The best Hitler got before his Machtergreifung was only 43% right after the Reichstagbrand. There was a path that we - thanks to the magic that is hindsight - can clearly see now and we should use that knowlegde to prevent history from repeating, but one thing is certain: The political extremes won't play by the rules, let alone play fair, to reach power. We've seen this with Hitler, we saw it with the Republican party in Florida 2020 to get Bush into power and we've seen it with January 6th and again with the preparations republican across the country do to prevent voters from voting or not validate results.
TomK32··on EU: Definition of "potential terrorists" opens door to broad information-sharing
The AfD has a serious right-wing problem and doesn't want to clean up their act. Banning the party might lead to failure as with the NPD (which since renamed itself) but it's worth a try and in parallel axing their funding like just happened earlier this year with the NPD should be attempted.

I disagree with your "totalitarian measure" comment, it is the AfD who are not compatible with the German constitution and the majority of Germany's society who prefer a fair democracy should not bulge the shouting of demands by populists, Reichsbürger, Querdenker. The connections to the AfD do exist, AfD politician Malsack-Winkemann (then already not a member of the Bundestag anymore, a security issue in my eyes) toured through the Reichstag with people from the Reichtsbürger group around Heinrich XIII. Prinz Reuß. Local AfD politician Andreas Geitz was even part of the Reichstagsturm in 2020.

TomK32··on Tell HN: Check for ADHD
Children have the advantage of having their day planned by parents and school. Once they grow up and go to uni or work this rigid life structure is dropping away. Don't ignore their ADHD, don't hide the diagnosis from them.
TomK32··on The Calculator that spawned the Microprocessor (2009)
Putting it like that, and I like putting it like that, sounds like LLMs are to Wikipedia what shoes are to people who want to go from A to B.
TomK32··on Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature
Took the mathematicians only 43 years to discover Soft Cell...
TomK32··on A lonely man in his 30s found welcome and community at spin class
I see, you get downvotes for remote psychoanalysis... Gender-disphoria is quite rare (I read it's about 0.5% of the population) compared to other likely syndroms like ADHD (about 5%) and more importantly it shows in early childhood for three fourths of the cases, unlike e.g. ADHD which can go undiagnosed for those without the hyperactive side.
TomK32··on A lonely man in his 30s found welcome and community at spin class
If you already love cycling, why no do like I did and add running to your sport routine? I know, it's painful if you aren't used to it, but I found the local Parkrun community to be a bunch to connect with much easier even for someone neurodiverse like myself, grant you we are a very small one with only 30 runners on a rainy day.
TomK32··on Linux 6.11 Released
Is that just AMD? On my thinkpad X270 playing videos in Firefox is just a mess. All sorts of problems while Chromium is just fine. It's also fine on a copy of my system that I run on a thinkcentre tiny.
TomK32··on Learn Git Branching
tig is a really nice tool for a very similar view https://jonas.github.io/tig/
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