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I haven’t been to a psychiatrist in five years. It wouldn’t hurt to go back and see what they say. Thanks for giving me some hope!

As someone with ADHD that definitely gets dopamine from novelty, is there actually anything that can be done? Adderral and vyvanse work for a couple days and then I build a tolerance. The only indefinite solution is to completely remove all distractions from my area (internet, games, food) but that’s never been sustainable for me. Moderation, rewards on completion, and other mental tricks don’t work for me. Crisis is a good motivator, such as overwhelming student loans, but I’m back to being unfocused now that those are under control.

At this point I’ve mostly accepted my success is severely limited by ADHD.

Yup, for years. It feels exactly the same as a MacBook track pad and lets you use all the same gestures. I like it better than a mouse for my work machine.

Their reason was that I didn’t comply with the RTO policy. It didn’t prevent me from claiming unemployment though.

I allowed myself to be fired for not returning. It took over a full year after the RYO deadline for the firing to happen.

I’ve been using Workflowy for over a decade. It’s mostly just an infinitely nested bullet point list and has only basic features. Organization is up to you.

It’s cross platform and has a good search.

My only gripe is that pasting from a separate bullet point list doesn’t always work well.

I have ADHD and perhaps undiagnosed autism. It’s severely affected my ability to build software, but lends itself well to supporting other teams in larger companies. I usually lose interest in my work within a few years. This leads to a lot of procrastination and a backlog of work that I just cannot force myself to do.

I am prescribed Vyvanse. It helps but regularly gives me heart palpitations and insomnia. I can’t drink coffee while using it. This causes me to only use it when I’m fairly behind in work.

I can’t really say I overcame ADHD, but I’ve managed to hold a few jobs long enough to reach financial stability.

Can't speak for this keyboard, but the build quality for 8BitDo's controllers are excellent. Better than the office XBox controllers imo, and a bit cheaper too.

I had a similar experience when a power surge killed my grinder’s motor. Great company.

I was in massive student debt from a failed attempt at an art degree. I signed up for online CS courses which allowed me to apply for internships. After a lucky break I got one in California. From there I dropped out again and started working at amazon, and then apple. It’s been about 10 years and I’m doing pretty well. I can’t recommend this path though. Pretty sure it was just a combination of luck and being good at interviews.

I should mention that the student loans weren’t all bad. I didn’t end up doing art, but I was able to get out of my small Midwestern town and meet some great people.

Love it.

Blizzard took surveys that showed the majority want permanent remote.

Yes and yes. It’s still business as usual and I’m happy to work as long as they’ll allow.

Yeah, and it’s a bit closer for me. I was asked to resign after not returning to the office when asked. I refused, hoping to get severance or unemployment insurance. I’m a few weeks past the deadline and am just waiting for HR to make their move.

I’m doing exactly that at one of the big name tech companies. I refused to resign when asked. It’s well past the return to office deadline and still been business as usual. Literally no negatives aside from a few awkward conversations with the manager. I’m told that HR will eventually fire me but that’s still better than daily commutes.

One box testing works well for some scenarios. It's not completely safe but the risks are low. If there is an issue then it only impacts a very small number of customers. If they retry they'll likely hit one of the thousands of stable instances. Comparing metrics between the one box and normal instances is helpful and can be tied in to CI/CD for automatic rollbacks if necessary.

My dental hygienist warned that Oral B isn’t effective and recommended I use a woven floss, like cocofloss. Stay safe out there.

Seems a bit disingenuous, though it may technically be true, to report that now with all the wildfires happening in the PNY. Yesterday the AQI in south Washington where I was hit 323, which was higher than Seattle. The rain can’t come soon enough..

He was one of the best illustrators of our time. He will be missed.

They publicized, I just didn’t see it.

https://eu.evga.com/thermalmod/

It was a known issue with the first gen 1070/1080 cards. Something about inadequate VRAM cooling. EVGA put out a notice that this was an issue and they would replace the bad part for free but I apparently missed the memo. They also pushed out a BIOS update that would prevent it from overheating but I missed that one as well.

My 1070 was two years out of warranty when it started on fire and they still replaced it. They're so helpful to their customers. I'm sad to see them going.

Wonderful idea, I’ll be coming back to this often.

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

I can relate. I was a game developer just breaking in when the whole gamergate nonsense happened. People were not only shitting on “political” games, but also doxxing people and harassing developers outside their offices. The experience caused several friends to leave the industry, myself included.

Genuine question, what is lobbying if not legalized bribery? It’s hard to think it’s anything else when things like this happen - https://youtu.be/CARiB_eYwys

This article promotes the idea of a "dopamine detox" as a way of making boring tasks more interesting and easier to focus on. As far as I know, there's no evidence that this actually works. Does anyone know if this topic is being researched?

I don’t doubt you, but I’d like to know the history of your statement. Which democracies became authoritarian regimes, and for which crisis?

I agree with this advice. My daily headaches stopped completely after getting computer glasses (which are just prescription glasses with the resting focal distance of about 6’ and higher-than-normal blue light filtering.) The only issue is that I often forget to swap to normal glasses so things are a little blurrier when I’m outside.

I’m another supporter of split keyboards. I used to get terrible shoulder pain before switching. I’m using the kinesis gaming keyboard, which has been great aside from some minor firmware wonkiness.