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oski commented on Notes on Managing ADHD borretti.me/article/notes... · Posted by u/amrrs

nerdsniper · 2 days ago

They can for some people on some days or parts of days (my anxiety peaks when stimulants are wearing off). But like the other poster said, its more that they do nothing to solve it. I found a beta blocker in addition to stimulants was good at unlocking my productivity. YMMV.

Additionally, the boost in dopamines rewards anything you happen to be doing, so it can lock you into your avoidant behavior that day once you start doing it.

oski · 2 days ago

This article addresses your last point well: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/08/how_to_take_ritalin_...

oski commented on Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to clean up your Gmail inbox locally inboxpurge.com/... · Posted by u/thefisola

alimbada · a year ago

I use a Google Apps Script to clean up my Gmail inbox. It runs daily, searches for various senders and/or subject lines which are older than a certain amount of time and moves them to the Trash/Bin. It runs without intervention and I've got it set up to report any failures back to my inbox. Since my workplace also uses Google I've even set up a Script for my work inbox on my work account. Various notification emails, e.g. from Slack get cleaned up if older than 3 days old.

oski · a year ago

Can you share the code for this?

oski commented on Wirecutter CEO Sells Top Reviews for Kickbacks a Pay to Play Strategy Exposed xdesk.com/wirecutter-stan... · Posted by u/yasp

oski · 2 years ago

Honestly, I'm not surprised. The corruption shows in the quality of their reviews, which has decreased significantly. The Atlantic has a story on it: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/wirec...

oski commented on Walmart didn’t kill the small town, it is the small town discoursemagazine.com/cul... · Posted by u/nickwritesit

throwawaysleep · 2 years ago

It’s price and the ease the price enables.

Low price demonstratably rules in everything from plane tickets to groceries to basic services to clothing as it enables a life of abundance and mental ease.

A friend loves Walmart as it means he no longer has to maintain his lawnmower. He just throws it away and buys a new one annually at the start of the season. He can still mow his lawn while abandoning the need to maintain mechanical knowledge.

I love Walmart as I no longer need to really consider how many of an item I need. When socks are $5 a pair at some of the more expensive stores, buying a huge pile is pricy. Walmart let’s me buy 40 pairs of socks for like $20 and just not keep track of their wash status or where they are in the house.

Walmart makes it so that everyone can solve their problems with a bit of money.

Small stores can’t replicate any of that due to economies of scale. Sure, their workers might be experts in lawnmowers, but when lawnmowers are so cheap as to be single season items, that expertise no longer has value.

oski · 2 years ago

Sorry but this attitude towards material goods, while quite common in America, is quite depressing.

oski commented on Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into food pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... · Posted by u/celticninja

oski · 2 years ago

I would really like to see some research around PEX piping. How does it handle hot water? Does it release microplastics as well?

oski commented on Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco sfgate.com/bayarea/articl... · Posted by u/rdl

yosefjaved1 · 2 years ago

Wow. RIP Bob Lee.

He died at Harrison and Main st. That area is tame compared to the mission, tenderloin, and other spots in SOMA. Of all places, I would never have guessed a stabbing would occur there but I haven't been in the area since 2020.

Just a give a sense of the place, the area has a lot of apartments and skyrises. A friend of mine lived two blocks away at the jasper building. We would walk around there at night with his dog and never really saw anybody else in the area past midnight.

My company's headquarters was also a few blocks away directly across the street from the Salesforce park. Several major tech companies and organizations had satellite offices and/or headquarters in the area.

oski · 2 years ago

While that area is usually pretty quiet, it is pretty close to the on-ramp to the Bay Bridge. This is purely speculation, but it is plausible that the crime was perpetrated by someone from the East Bay looking for a quick getaway.

oski commented on Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco sfgate.com/bayarea/articl... · Posted by u/rdl

publius_0xf3 · 2 years ago

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oski · 2 years ago

Link?

oski commented on Matt Levine: Silicon Valley Bank Ran Out of Money bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/VagueMag

taeric · 2 years ago

I'm curious how you got that from this article. To quote, "SVB actually did relatively little lending, for a bank, and had rather a lot of safe bonds." That is, they were run like you would expect a small regional bank that doesn't like milking interest out of their region to be run. Straight forward take in deposits and stick them somewhere with silly modest returns.

Are there other sources going into shady things they were doing?

oski · 2 years ago

This article touches on some: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/17/technology/svb-tech-start...

oski commented on Algorithms to Live By – The Computer Science of Human Decisions blog.galowicz.de/2022/12/... · Posted by u/ingve

oski · 3 years ago

I’m curious to know if anyone has “implemented” any of these approaches in their own life…

oski commented on Circadian lighting with Home Assistant: Like f.lux, but for your house tylercipriani.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/modinfo

oski · 3 years ago

Wyze smart bulbs have a sun match feature