gaetgu

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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Comment · 2 years ago
I’ll speak personally, I don’t know how other people experience ADHD, but I don’t just get “bored,” I have a crippling and anxiety inducing inability to do something. I REALLY want to do it, but I just, can’t? Like I physically can’t get up or walk over and do it, even though I know I have to and I even want to.

It really is a motivation problem, I have a strong desire to do it but I just… can’t?

Comment · 2 years ago
This is one of those things that I would really love to have ten of, but I can’t even afford one.

I guess I’ll stick to my normal straight slide rules for now.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
This is an interesting point. I know for sure that I have been taught in school to never trust the electronic BP machines, since they can be pretty far off for some (but not all) people.

Instead, using a sphygmomanometer is much more likely to give accurate results.

Anecdotally, I always have a super weird initial blood pressure reading when I go to the doctor and they use the electric machine (one time it was 112/95), but when it is rechecked with a sphygmomanometer it tends to level out at somewhere around 130/85.

Comment · 3 years ago
I'm sorry—30 mmHg?

Maybe I am misunderstanding, or there is something wrong with my own knowledge, but "30 mmHg" added to systolic seems extremely high.

I am currently an EMT-B student here in the United States, and taking vital signs like blood pressure is our bread and butter. We practice it several times a week, on different people with different body types and different blood pressure baselines. Anything more than ±4 mmHg in a manual reading is terrible accuracy, and anything like +30 mmHg probably comes from someone who doesn't know how to use the equipment.

But again, maybe there is something I am missing. If there is I'd love to be educated and hear about it!

Comment · 3 years ago
I have gotten in to go down five layers (at which point I run out of screen space) and it is still perfectly responsive. Actually at this point feels more responsive than the real windows 11.
Comment · 3 years ago
> I will admit that I'm not a fan of org mode and find it to be oversold and another time waster for people who are already wasting time configuring their editors. I personally use vimwiki, there is a vim plugin for org mode.

I actually use emacs solely for org-mode. I find editing single files and even larger projects to be more of a pain that it is worth, so I just use my custom vim to do that.

What keeps me with org mode and emacs is mostly bibliography management. I have emacs set up to read my Zotero directory, and with a keybinding I can insert a reference to a book or magazine or the such. Now, what is really great about this is that when I export the org file (usually to latex->pdf, but also occasionaly to HTML), it exports the references in the style that they need to be in (MLA, APA, Turabian, etc.) and creates a bibliography page at the end of the export with everything that I referenced.

I can also add notes to any references using org-roam, so that I have have annotated bibliographies quite easily.

If I could have something else that does just this, I would drop emacs in a heartbeat. But until I do find that, emacs and org-mode it is.

Comment · 3 years ago
That’s interesting. On my mountain bike that (used to) get a lot of constant use, tubeless was much better than my old MTV with tubes. When the tubes get a flat it is a whole process to get it patched, but tubeless both seem to get less flats and seal better with whatever I put in them.

That being said, tubeless tires do require being used fairly regularly, which includes pumping them up (just topping them off) almost every time you go out. Right now I haven’t gone mountain biking in quite a while so I guarantee that my tires are flat

Comment · 3 years ago
I think that this may to prevent a loop-around where the same events are repeated in order twice a day.
Comment · 3 years ago
Likely a reader app, one of the many available on every app store
Comment · 3 years ago
It is different than just a simple “dislike”. I can’t really explain it, but hearing mouth noises (chewing, swallowing, lip smacking) invokes deep, almost instinctual anger within me. I can’t explain it, but it is certainly different.
Comment · 3 years ago
Speaking with some of the devs, yes (asterisk). From what I understand, they are working out what they can open source while also retaining the ability to make money from the editor (mostly from the collaboration features)
Comment · 3 years ago
It is more like remotion than manim, though the two are not the same.
Comment · 3 years ago
touche.

Also... WHY?

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