geocrasher

For many years I have wanted to make an "Earth Sat" that is isolated as though it were in orbit, but is here on Earth. There's also the possibility of high altitude balloons but those have a finite life. Or might get shot down.

Great explanation, thank you. This makes a lot of sense.

Health insurance is not designed to heal people. It is designed to pay as little as possible to keep them paying their premium.

I know I'm answering late, but WOW I didn't know this was an ADHD thing. I have noticed that if I talk about doing a thing, I don't do the thing, and the opposite is true. I thought this was just a ME thing. Mind blown. Thank you for sharing this!

In the mid 1990's, as a teen, I once was hired to cold call a bunch of software companies to contribute to some non-profit, and I recall calling Mustang Software.

That was 30 years ago. I don't know who I talked to, but they were not too happy to have me on the phone lol. Sorry if that was you. and OP sorry about your father. I recall QModem well.

It would, if I had one.

Hans is a friend of mine, and this is hosted on my VPS. It might be of interest to some that in order to handle the HN Hug Of Death on my little server, I've manually cached this page as HTML on the server and it's served via a rewrite rather than being served by the rather old CMS running an equally old PHP.

Google "adhd hobby jumping". Too much to explain here. The main thing to keep in mind with ADHD is that when a normal person simply thinks about doing a task, they get a hit of dopamine that gives them the motivation to do the task. An ADHD person doesn't get that until after the task is done, which leads to them never starting. The exception is with things that are an instant dopamine hit. The new shiny. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

There are some things in my life that are too important for me to allow them to be impulse controlled.

It'll be here this weekend. I'm definitely going to binge-read it.

Indeed, this used to be my "secret trick" for laptops that wouldn't power on: Disconnect the battery and power supply, hold the power button for 30 seconds, then power it back up. Worked every time.

Thank you, I'm checking that out now.

I use this same (or similar) skill to solve the unsolvable problems by listening to a customers needs, which usually somebody hasn't done by the time they get to me, and then work on fulfilling that need in a way the customer never would have expected. It's very rewarding and turns a negative interaction into a positive one. It's customer service 101 type stuff, but when you get the technical side involved, and you're competent, you become more than a punching bag and become the solution. It's so fun.

I want to learn how to properly build a habit/routine that isn't dopamine driven. I have ADHD and I recently realized, even as I'm pushing 50 years old, that all of my hobbies, habits, and "likes" have been dopamine driven. I need to learn how to exclude the reward of a dopamine hit as the reason for doing something. Resources welcome.

Whenever I power cycle something that doesn't go right the first time, I leave it off for at least 30 seconds so all the caps can discharge and any saved state can reset. Especially true of routers etc.

It won't be long before you'll have people who learn English with ChatGPT and then it'll get even more confusing.

Perhaps I should have said "When used genuinely"

I also cycle commuted for 3 years, year round, in my late 20's and early 30's. It was the best. I miss it.

Oh it was completely honest! Really! For some reason my brain just didn't see that stop sign, on multiple occasions. Yes, literally on the opposite corner from where I lived.

Brains are weird.

He didn't hold me to a lower standard. He accepted my apology.

I once ran a stop sign, and nearly hit a car. They pulled up next to me, rolled down their window (I had stopped at my home) and were about to unleash who knows what kinds of profanities at me, and I just said "That was totally my fault. I didn't see the stop sign. I'm sorry."

They stopped dead in their tracks, shrugged and nodded, and left. Owning mistakes is an extremely powerful tool when used correctly.

   In short, the root cause was a new telemetry service configuration that unexpectedly generated massive Kubernetes API load across large clusters, overwhelming the control plane and breaking DNS-based service discovery.

The DNS song seems appropriate.

https://soundcloud.com/ryan-flowers-916961339/dns-to-the-tun...

Thanks! I was just playing with it, and for the FIRST TIME EVER I was able to fly a proper pattern without using an external view or the mouse to see where the airport/runway was. Wow. A whole new level of immersion, for $12. Money well spent.

your phone watches your face move. It can be off to the side, as the neutral position need not be dead center.

Tried it on my lunch hour (WFH FTW!) and wow that is disorienting. Going to take some getting used to after 30+ years without it!

As a long time simmer, I'm buying this tonight after work, especially now that my Pixel 4a 5G is sitting on my desk, propping up the 9 Pro XL that replaced it last week.

Also, FS2024. Wow.

I also have a 43" 4K monitor, and I find myself being in the same position as you. The left/right edges are difficult to see. I don't have the issue with the mouse, but I also doubt whether a larger screen would be useful to me. As it is there's a corner that gets unused because it's just out of "eye shot" if that's a phrase. It is now, I guess :D

I moved from a 3x 24" 1080p monitor setup to a single 43" 4K display... and holy smokes what a difference. The only thing it's missing is some curvature. That's needed at larger sizes.

Bandwidth.

I'd give it a good editor.