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Unlike insulin, which cannot be produced with any sort of therapy, it does seem that ADHD can be significantly improved.

I'm sorry though that the facts seem to bother you so much.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22480189/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28413900/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32036811/

Bazzite works, so I'm happily using it. If it stops working, I'll just install another distro. Easy as

Also made me think about how much the technologists have become almost a cult of money and power. If only we could devise gadgets that bring us together and build community.

Which is why this Jesse Welles's stuff hits me like a freight train

https://youtu.be/I6vjaimSK4E?si=e18sT1m179W2bM2G

We extract out oxygen from the air constantly. I tried to guestimate it once and came up with the rough number that it's possible as much as half of our total energy comes from the air.

So it's not always a violation of the laws of physics, but rather an equation where we're only counting half the variables.

Don't worry, karma dictates when the interviewer goes looking they'll get rejected for not knowing some similarly esoteric graph theory equation or the internal workings of a NIC card.

Too much of our interviewing is reading the interviewer's mind or already knowing the answer to a trick question.

The field is way too vast for anyone to even know a majority, and realistically it's extremely difficult to assess if someone is an expert in a different 1%.

Sometimes I feel like we need a system for just paying folks to see if they can do the job. Or an actually trusted credentialing system where folks can show what they've earned with badges and such.

A better interview question about this subject doesn't assume they have it memorized, but if they can find the answer in a short time with the internet or get paralyzed and give up. It's a very important skill to be able to recognize you are missing information and researching it on the Internet.

For example, one of my most talented engineers didn't really know that much about CS/SWE. However, he had some very talented buddies on a big discord server who could help him figure out anything. I kid you not, this kid with no degree and no experience other than making a small hobby video game would regularly tackle the most challenging projects we had. He'd just ask his buddies when he got stuck and they'd point him to the right blog posts and books. It was like he had a real life TRRPG Contacts stat. He was that hungry and smart enough to listen to his buddies, and then actually clever enough to learn on the job to figure it out. He got done more in a week than the next three engineers of his cohort combined (and this was before LLMs).

So maybe what we should test isn't data stored in the brain but ability to solve a problem given internet access.

I guess though a backpack version probably could be more like an always attached glucose device with just a tiny line.

I would have gotten much more if I'd attended university starting at 25. However, it would have set me much farther behind in my career, by 25 I was already deep into my career. That would not have happened if I'd been still in school.

For example, perennial fruit and veggie gardens in your backyard let you invest a small amount of time and energy building a long term yield of high value food. This year I spent about 25 hours growing $800 of clean organic veggies. I also prepped areas to plant fruit trees and bushes that I expect will increase my yields in a few years.

Solar on the roof / yard can reduce electricity costs for decades.

Rainwater capture and filtration can reduce water costs.

Renting out a bedroom can produce dollars.

Building a climate battery into a yard can reduce heating and cooling costs.

I ran some numbers and figure I can shave several hundred dollars a month off at a 30% ROI.

And it's not just about dollars, there's something very powerful about knowing my property is supporting my life with these investments.