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enneff commented on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

fossuser · 9 days ago

My hypothesis about this for a long time has been stimulants help everyone be more productive (with some tradeoffs) and ADHD is kind of a weakly differentiated diagnosis that could apply to most people.

Probably something like this was lost when people stopped smoking, obviously beneficial for health - but a huge amount of the public was taking stimulants regularly via nicotine until relatively recently.

enneff · 9 days ago

The science doesn’t support your hypothesis btw.

enneff commented on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/rilawa

dylan604 · 11 days ago

> I have that issue as well

You say issue, I say feature. It's a great way to just ignore boring babbling at parties or other social engagements where you're just not that engaged. Sort of like selective hearing in relationships, but used on a wider audience

enneff · 11 days ago

I don’t mean to speak for OP, but it strikes me as rude to make light of someone’s disability in this way. I’d guess it has caused them a lot of frustration.

enneff commented on Peep Show is the most realistic portrayal of evil I have seen (2020) mattlakeman.org/2020/01/2... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11

aunty_helen · a month ago

That’s because it reads like a PR piece. Gauging interest or preseeding a reboot or rerelease.

enneff · a month ago

That’s not how British tv works

enneff commented on ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/Topfi

lobochrome · a month ago

“The quip about 98% correct should be a red flag for anyone familiar with spreadsheets”

I disagree. Receiving a spreadsheet from a junior means I need to check it. If this gives me infinite additional juniors I’m good.

It’s this popular pattern of HN comments - expect AI to behave deterministically correct - while the whole world operates on stochastically correct all the time…

enneff · a month ago

In my experience the value of junior contributors is that they will one day become senior contributors. Their work as juniors tends to require so much oversight and coaching from seniors that they are a net negative on forward progress in the short term, but the payoff is huge in the long term.

enneff commented on Terpstra Keyboard terpstrakeyboard.com/web-... · Posted by u/xeonmc

joshlemer · 2 months ago

For those who haven't ever gotten into microtonal and other non-standard tuned music before, it's a really interesting space. I would highly recommend checking out Kyle Gann's album Hyperchromatica (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbT9oRbu3h8&list=PL1IsImnKxK...), which has a pretty wide variety of pieces/genres, showing the potential of nonstandard tuning. It takes a bit to get used to it but there are brand new colours and emotions that open up here IMO. Definitely worth checking out!

enneff · 2 months ago

Zheanna Erose’s channel is a goldmine of microtonal music and discussion thereof.

https://youtube.com/@zheannaerose

enneff commented on Canyon.mid canyonmid.com/... · Posted by u/LorenDB

layer8 · 2 months ago

The Zip drive in the picture feels slightly anachronistic though. Technically it isn’t, having been release a few months before Windows 95, but still.

enneff · 2 months ago

CANYON.MID was shipped with Windows 3.1 IIRC.

enneff commented on I do not remember my life and it's fine aethermug.com/posts/i-do-... · Posted by u/mrcgnc

TaupeRanger · 3 months ago

Hot take: aphantasia doesn’t exist, it’s just that individuals have very different understandings of nebulous words like “memory”, “minds eye”, “mental imagery”, etc. The essay here is just one person describing problems that everyone has in various degrees of severity.

enneff · 3 months ago

That is a hot take but it doesn’t really line up with research nor my anecdotal experience discussing the topic with close friends that have aphantasia.

enneff commented on Changing Directions jacobian.org/2025/jun/3/c... · Posted by u/speckx

SoftTalker · 3 months ago

Being an EMT has its rewards I’m sure. But a lot of it is showing up to help yet another person who hasn’t done anything to live a healthy life, or leads a violent life, or has abused alcohol or drugs or food, now demands the most expensive form of healthcare delivery we have, and is unable to pay a penny for it, and consumes resources that an accident victim may now have to wait for, and will go right back to those behaviors again and again.

Burn out is a thing in that line of work too.

enneff · 3 months ago

I don’t think EMT burnout has much to do with the situations you mention, but rather whether the workers are adequately supported by their employers: given the resources to do their job, healthy shift length and scheduling, mental health care, etc. My friends who work in emergency medicine seem mostly burned out by being overworked because the hospitals are perpetually understaffed.

enneff commented on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/minimaxir

mortenjorck · 3 months ago

Ive is basically the best in the business if your needs are to get a large amount of cutting-edge technology into a ridiculously constrained form factor and have it look good, feel solid, and be manufacturable at scale.

That is what he is world-class at. Not designing comprehensive product experiences or ideating new greenfield products (and definitely not designing app icons).

If IO or OpenAI also has a product visionary of the caliber to fully utilize Ive's singular industrial design talent, they'll rule the world. Otherwise, they're sinking billions into the next Humane Pin.

enneff · 3 months ago

I don’t think there’s any evidence that Ive has the expertise you claim. He was lead designer for Apple when they did the iPhone, but it is Apple who has the extensive deep expertise in hardware design and engineering.

enneff commented on What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015) old.reddit.com/r/AskReddi... · Posted by u/Tomte

akdor1154 · 3 months ago

> I have a stone cottage from the 1600s.

Is that a thing wealthy people buy but ordinary people know nothing about?

enneff · 3 months ago

It’s something Europeans buy. :)

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