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cja··on The link between August birthdays and ADHD (2018)
Any sources?

ADHD is a diagnosis based on symptoms. It has a number of causes. Your mental health professionals would prefer different diagnostic criteria. Those other criteria would result in a different set of people being diagnosed with ADHD. The current diagnostic criteria are symptoms that cause problems for the sufferer. Thus successful treatment of ADHD as currently diagnosed improves lives. Why is the diagnostic criteria you describe better?

cja··on Evolution of the Casio G-Shock Origin (2021)
I use the Casio F-201WA: https://www.casio.com/us/watches/casio/product.F-201WA-1A/

It has a big, readable digital display and easy to press buttons. It costs £20.

I could spend five times that and get a bulky G-Shock with a less readable display and harder to press buttons, and then it would be less likely to break. But I don't want those compromises and I'd rather enjoy the benefits of this one even if I have to replace it more often.

cja··on What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
I work with NetSuite. The UI is good and the customisation and integration experience is not too bad. Not all ERP software is horrible
cja··on Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral
Operation London Bridge

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens...

cja··on Excel is pretty dang cool
I really don't get this. It does nothing when I press Ctrl+Shift+V. If they can't even implement that, what's cool about it? The resulting formatting mess certainly isn't
cja··on How I regained concentration and focus
Untreated ADHD is a common cause of anxiety
cja··on Is your phone ruining your memory? A report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’
Research ADHD. Those are both symptoms. If you have it then medication is likely to help
cja··on Ask HN: First-time dad-to-be. What do you wish you'd known back then?
Your life will be destroyed and you will become a slave to a helpless human. There is a significant chance that your relationship with the mother will be end within a few years.

You can build a new life with your partner and the helpless human but it will be very hard work, especially if your child arrives with health issues.

Existing parents don't talk about all of this to those who are not yet parents. It's a big, secret, suffering club.

Hopefully it'll all be worth it for you because you already bought membership of the club!

P.S. Read Brain Rules For Baby. I bought it based on a recommendation on HN a few years ago. It explains the early years using science. I recommend it to everyone.

cja··on Ask HN: First-time dad-to-be. What do you wish you'd known back then?
Read Brain Rules For Baby
cja··on Riding London’s unexpectedly fantastic Elizabeth line
Thank you. I don't know much about London geography and this really confused me. I could believe neither that the underground line went outwards from Paddington nor that Paddington was outside the city at that time.
cja··on Republic UK
A partisan elected president? No thanks. Boris should be in the Tower for misleading the Queen on the prorogation of parliament. First rule of government: don't put the monarch in an awkward situation. Our fault for electing a nasty narcissistic clown. There is plenty to fix in our system of government before getting to the monarch/president question.
cja··on Neon – Serverless Postgres
Thank you for explaining. There must be a better term than serverless though. "Auto-scaled cloud database" would be more accurate, for example
cja··on Neon – Serverless Postgres
In what way is this serverless? Surely it's running on a server?
cja··on Snapcast – Synchronous multi-room audio player
Is this better than Chromecast Audio?
cja··on Symbian Source Code
Repo seems to contain personal data of employees. I won't post a link to it.
cja··on Mental illness, attention deficit disorder, and suffering
Link please because I've looked and can't find
cja··on GnuCash
UI text is painfully small and while keyboard-friendly it has too many annoyances
cja··on A story about planning for Desert Storm
It's a mini series, and yes, it's brilliant
cja··on My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll
This comments thread is so long that it might as well be scrolling infinitely
cja··on Ask HN: What real world problem does cryptocurrency solve?
Doesn't Transferwise work in the US?
cja··on One of the most famous Victorian dishes is a hilarious lie
Is this article an early April fools joke?
cja··on ADHD Accommodations Guide
Please can you give a source for your ASD description? Interested to know where this came from
cja··on Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations
I preferred GPM in every way except that it would silently remove songs from my playlists, probably as a result of the publisher updating or removing them. This lead to me losing songs I had painstakingly worked to discover over many years. I discovered this only after several years of using GPM. Spotify seems to leave removed songs in playlists but disabled, which at least means I don't forget them.

The Spotify UI is atrocious. It must be designed for income/royalty maximisation because it certainly isn't designed to help me find and play the music I like.

cja··on Peter Thiel: The education of a libertarian (2009)
Related: https://magazine.newstatesman.com/2021/09/29/the-spirit-of-t...
cja··on The Magic Behind the Scenes of Docker Desktop
It'll be magic when it can minimise to system tray
cja··on My MacBook Pro had over 10k USD in repairs
I was going to write exactly this! Bought XPS in UK in 2017 and repaired in Poland in 2018.
cja··on Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters
You saved one keypress on the e but added at least two on the capital letters
cja··on Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
I use SyncThing for this. Works perfectly. (But download SyncTrayzor to make using SyncThing easy)
cja··on Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
I use SyncThing for this. Works perfectly. (But download SyncTrayzor to make using SyncThing easy)
cja··on Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
I use SyncThing for this. Works perfectly. (But download SyncTrayzor to make using SyncThing easy)
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