At some point it can get up to a few gigs and need pruning. But knowing you can just close a window with 50+ tabs and not loose anything is super cool

When on very bad connection, the only internet that works reasonably well is hacker news

Or bash.org :)

That died ages ago and it doesn't look like someone resurrected it. If they did, it would be a domain squatter anyway.

I wouldn't be able to tell. No load bearing or is not x, it's y.

I actually don't mind if it's good enough, informative and not overly long.

Haven't really read anything super well written (in terms of language and form) lately, other than a really fun hn comment summarizing Trump's War.

But I just haven't read that much lately.

I don't know precisely what to call it, but there is something about AI's word choice and phrasing that really stands out to me.

It's like it chooses "simple" words, but uses them in unclear or fuzzy or slightly abnormal ways that make the overall meaning more difficult to parse. On its own, each instance is defensible, but the aggregate result when it happens many times over is very tiring to read. It reminds me of XKCD's "Up Goer Five": https://xkcd.com/1133/

Like this:

> One waits for an expensive ad, then asks for a hand you can’t place.

It reads as though it started with a straightforward idea, and then was forced to express it with words of only one syllable.

The tell here is the "One ..., then ... ". This is "not X, it's Y" with the clauses reordered.

For some reason the current crop of LLMs are really insistent on generating contrast between two things in every statement.

The problem is that the "it's not X it's Y" construction is very useful, and shows up a lot in human-written text.

I think its really not all that common outside of Accenture pitch decks.

>The tell here

Is this AI written? It has "this is the smoking gun" vibes, just rewritten.

This line stands out to me:

> One waits for an expensive ad, then asks for a hand you can’t place

Something about “asks for a hand you can’t place” just triggers the alarm bell. I think it’s unfortunately because I’m reading a lot of AI at $job. I do read books in my free time but something about the patterns…

Some more quotes from early on:

“Most of Block Blast isn’t in the app you install”

And then

“It waits for three things to line up: you finished your last three rewarded ads, the ad loaded right now is worth at least 3.5 times your last one, and you’re 1,000 points past your high score. All three get checked in one function.”

A really big AI tell for me is sensationalism and drama about things that don’t matter. Ok, fair, checking code in one function doesn’t seem dramatic. But consider this: a paragraph is building to a conclusion. You have a fairly long sentence, then a short sentence. The contrast in length gives the short sentence a lot of emphasis when I read it. In a newscaster voice: “all three get checked.. in one function”

But obviously it doesn’t matter at all, even to the technical reader, if they check this in one function or multiple functions. AI does this ALL the time, they emphasize some implementation detail that’s true, but completely irrelevant to the point the author wants to make. In fact this detail really should be removed from the article completely because it adds LITERALLY nothing to our understanding of how this app works.

So my alarm bells go off because a technical writer probably wouldn’t emphasize that point.

I’m not actively analyzing that, but when I read AI, I notice emphasis on things that are entirely irrelevant. The text starts feeling self-important about complete nonsense.

I think it all adds up for me, and I just notice the patterns in a surprising number of blogs and YT videos. It gets distracting, but IMO the bigger issue is that the wrong details are put in focus, so explanations get hard to follow.

Claude loves announcing counts as well.

“X things follow”, or from your example, “It waits for Y things to line up”.

I've read too much Claude slop. It's very easy to spot the sentence construction.

The more AI slop you read the more you'll notice its patterns.

You don't get spam if you use aliases everywhere. The few that actually get spam can be turned off.

Like I recently had to turn off alias for made4men.no. srsly, signing me up for spam and not removing me from the spam list even after i unsubscribed. You can tell it's a swedish shop that just happens to own a Norwegian domain.

I actually had to do the opposite. I have a filter that catches all messages marked as spam and unmarks them as spam. VERY rarely there's a spam message caught in there. Much more often sth super important that just would have landed in spam if not for my genius spam filter.

With winter temperatures in Canada, people could actually enjoy it.

Can you post a picture? It sounds super cool. Was it a specialized hardware, or a consumer mobo with 3 PCIe slots?

It is just a Asrock motherboard and 1000w corsair power supply sitting on the bottom shelf of a "mining rack" open air case. The GPUs are attached with janky pci risers (the motherboard has four pci slots). I went with 5060s so I could stay with "short" 2-fan cards. The boot drive is a 500GB NVME with an encrypted 2tb NVME for storage, both on the mobo. I added four cheap fans and an oldschool (with a nob) fan controller to circulate air away from the GPUs. RAM options are maxed out at 4x16GB DDR4 sticks. Expansion options include adding a fourth 5060 and any number of SATA storage drives for content/models.

It, of course, runs on linux. I went with stock ubuntu so I could attach a screen and/or remote in to a full GUI. Having a full GUI also makes the rig more relatable to people who's eye glaze over when they see a terminal interface. "It's just a funny-looking desktop computer."

At 48GB of VRAM it can run basically any LLM I would want to download. Speeds are fine for a single user (Tok/s numbers change based on model/mode). But if I were using it for something like ComyfUI I would ditch the multiple 5060s and go with a 5070ti or 5080 as ComfyUI does better with a single powerful GPU.

>I think public transport should be free.

>Absolutely not.

I think that having it very cheap compared to quality and service delivered is the best of both worlds.

That’s already the case in reality. The NYC Subway’s $3 fare is quite low for example. Just like roads are taxpayer subsidized, public transportation is almost always subsidized. (Some countries like China have heavier subsidies though.)

ADHD meds unlocked a new dimension of -social, normal people- fun previously inaccessible. Hanging out with people without annoying them, not being late to events, remembering to call friends.

But the -crazy- fun is still accessible. I'm more risk aware, but still get the unconventional ideas. And I can always drop meds for a day and have a "high" day with less productivity and more "crazy" ideas. And I don't mean crazy as a negative, more like an adjective that describes it well.

However, it's important to love yourself (and this can be practiced and trained) and all your aspects. Even your ADHD self without meds, even your depression and dark thoughts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s9PbBfwDfo

Also, I went through a lot of meds, and one I ended up with was because the first one made me a little too much "robot" like for my own liking. I'm too used to being "me" and didn't like how much the first one changed me. But I'd rather people try for themselves than have an opinion based on mine.

Edit: moved a coma, added yt link.

What meds did you go through and then settle on if you don't mind sharing?

Sharing my account as a fellow ADHDer that cycled through some drugs.

I ended up with 30mg Elvanse (European analog of Vyvanse). That’s minimum dosage possible: I was prescribed higher before but side effects made it uncomfortable.

Alternatives that didn’t work: - Dextroamphetamine pills, immediate release: short effect, jittery, pronounced crash - Ritalin: feeling of being overstimulated and uncomfortable, inability to focus - Strattera: closer to an antidepressant, sexual side effects (no pleasure when ejaculating), brain zaps

It's not deep enough not to be read together with initial post:

I went through different kinds of methylphenidate delivery. First with Ritalin MR 20mg (mod release) analog - methylphenidate Teva MR. If I'm not wrong, it's 50% instant, 50% after 3 or 6 hours? I asked for just 10mg, because friend told me they'll start me on 20 or 30 and it's better to go lower. That was a little strong, but let me experience the "calm" effect for once. Tried Concerta 18m, who have their own way to slowly release mph over multiple hours. But in addition to "robot like" feeling, it was still a little too strong, super dependant on eating enough with the pill, and after few weeks started metabolizing way too fast, with a crash after just 5 hours IIRC. I was also having a hell of a time from doing too high for me doses of stimulants for few months.

And mph hates coffee. I have a funny story - was once on a friend's child's birthday. It was Saturday, and happened to be the day I tested Concerta 27mg, to test if upping the dose will sort the issue of meds crashing right after work and leaving me crashed until late evening, when it's time to go to bed and too late to study (evening school). So, on the party, we were toasting with alcohol free champagne. After the second glass (it was yummy) I read on the bottle that it was based on white tee. 30 min later it started feeling uncomfy. After 45 I said sorry and left, walked briskly for some time and got the initial urge to panic and run away down. And took a train home. 2/10, don't recommend. Coffe and MPH have a similar effect, but different mechanism and they just multiply each other. So you end up with panic level amount of neurotransmitters in your brain. But physical activity lowers them down. It's also super person specific, close friend takes very high doses of Concerta + upping with small ritalin in afternoon, and drinks lot of energy drinks together with that. Says he sees no difference. He was diagnosed around 19? and it's been many years, he says he just feels normal on meds.

So, after Concerta I had a break, and then tried lisdexamphetamine (Vyvanse). Doc wanted to put me on 30mg, I asked for less. She gave me 20, and advised trying half first, because they have more of an adjustment curve than MPH, or even, smiling, said 5mg maybe. I made the mistake of treating both meds the same. Expected calming effect with the 10mg, went shopping. Was mildly anxious, listened to piano music to keep anxiety down. Decided it was my regular anxiety because meds din't work, so I tried 20mg on the next day. Was just high on amphetamine, albeit not super high. Wasn't that bad initially, but later came crash. And very unproductive, got stuck at things, was jittery and such.

Now I'm using 10mg (using water bottle with markings to get rid of half). And use it in two doses, one in the morning, the other 5h later and it kind of works. Still a little to intense in the beginning and I'm currently experimenting with doing 2.5mg 4 times instead, over 6 hours. I'd love to get my hands on medical grade scales and be able to just get it into small capsules to avoid the hassle with water and be able to prepare them once for a whole week. But scales that can reliably measure 3 or 5mg with 0.5 tolerance are crazy expensive, so that's a later project.

Still, I can get much more done. I get less stuck on stupid stuff. I'm not fighting with my wife because it was too boring to do laundry or other stuff. And I'm still the lively person that greets and chats up everyone I know at work. And I'm also more resistant to anxious stuff. If MPH wouldn't make me so robotic and had an easier way to use lower doses, it could be preferable some days. With MPH I'm more organized and are better at task prioritization. With lisdex, it's still an issue sometimes. Getting stuck in sth fun, while supposed to do other things, but to a lesser degree.

It's been only a year so far. I'd like to get proper scales, find the EXACT perfect dose (whether it's 8 or 12mg). And also get a good schedule on when to introduce brakes each week. Most likely I just have to choose two weekdays, so the weekend can stay productive for school.

Thanks for sharing your experiences.

My psychiatrist advised against splitting vyvanse. The reason being that fillers are mixed into the capsule. Splitting the pill into two, for example, can give you the full dose in the first half and no dose in the second half.

Maybe shaking the bottle can account for that.

Thanks for sharing

Research on kids show that as long as you do 5d/week 10m/y, the effects on height are not noticable. If kids are on drugs all the time, they will be on average about 1.5 cm (IIRC) shorter.

Based on that, and my experience with taking meds everyday (diagnosed at 35, weekend school), where they tend to "accumulate" tension and I eventually have to take few days off, I'd extrapolate that side effects of 5/7 10/12 dosing are minimal.

But there's a whole other dimension to thinking about side effects. Based on research (I believe on thousands of Scandinavians) on pregnant women with ADHD, giving them stimulants during pregnancy is better for their children than not. (Based on lectures by Jarosław Jóźwiak, Polish MD, psychiatrist, specializing in ADHD, which themselves are based on current research). There's so many side effects of having unmedicated untreated ADHD other than deaths and accidents, that, quoting Joe Rogan's common sense comment, "giving amphetamine to kids (end of quote)" is a no brainer. Obesity, drug abuse, poor diet, depression, anxiety, emotional disregulation in general, ppl at school hating and mobbing you for being overly emotional and "crazy", poor school and life results, avg. age of first sex at 13 vs 18 for women, not having sex at all for young guys, and the general feeling that something is wrong with you compared to others.

In light of all these and other ADHD symptoms and effects, treating it with a well adjusted dose of stimulants sounds like the much better alternative. Just talk to your doctor early, when you suspect sth wrong with meds. They change how they work through lifetime, sometimes requiring dose adjustments. You might have to consciously eat more food (due to less appetite and burning more calories), than feels needed.

When I hear the "giving amphetamine to kids" crowd, i.e. the people who oppose medicating children with hard drugs, I instantly think of an article from 1930's, where a bunch of farmers burned down a radio station, because it "interfered" with their crops.

Just knowing that drugs are bad, without understanding the underlying mechanism with mutated dopamine pathway system and how it benefits from miniscule (for that individual) doses of stimulants is such a bad Dunning Kruger example. And it will hurt people (unmedicated ADHD sufferers) until the general population level of awareness rises. Or until people stop distrusting science and doctors, but I think that ship has sailed.

With this line of reasoning I can sell any car as a plane without wings. It flies, but only off a cliff, and doesn't land, but I only said it flies, not that it lands.

Most people expect other things from something marketed as flying, but specialists know that this is exactly how most things fly. And lawyers know to read the fine print.

/s and argumentum ad absurdum, sorry for eristic tricks.