I would say except “no thoughts, head empty” and “want to do nothing”, the rest of the moods are failures to regulate.
If you can regulate, you don’t get into a hyperfocus that lets you forget your own physical needs; or feel you want to do “all the things” but simultaneously none of them feels appealing/right.
I think this might be the first time I find the right words to say this. Also it’s probably not the right thread but if I try to make a post I’ll lose motivation and not write this, so… Since we’re in an ADHD sub, here we go.
It irks me when people say I physically can’t get off the sofa and do things. Because no, there’s nothing physical preventing us. There’s no barrier, there’s no muscle weakness, our neurons haven’t stopped telling our legs to work. We’re mentally blocked instead (as evidenced, for example, by the fact that we might be able to get up to go get more crisps, while moping and feeling useless all the way to the kitchen and back).
Our mind, and by this I’m talking about the area of the brain that controls executive function, it’s refusing to either put together a plan (10:04 am - get up, 10:05 am - clean kitchen) or might know the plan but refusing to execute it and send the commands to another part of the brain.
I think when people say “I physically can’t move”, neurotypicals roll their eyes and don’t understand, because there’s nothing at a physical level actually preventing an able-bodied individual to move, and they make the mental shortcut to “this person is lazy”.
Sorry about the rambling. TL;DR: I think we need better wording to explain this to people who don’t experience it, as we’re blocked mentally, not physically.
I mean it’s your money, but if you already have a portable handheld with better screen, better battery, and that can run the whole of the steam catalogue… why spend $450 (or whatever) on the Mario Machine, is it just for the exclusives?
What are you smoking?
Not that it matters much, but I think these days it’s all called ADHD but with three subtypes: Inattentive (which would be ADD), Hyperactive, or Combined (which is the most common).
Are we seriously valuing this comic based on the quality of the drawings rather than the idea they convey?
IMHO this is all about the idea/text, which doesn’t look like AI slop to me.
I’d agree, I live in the typical ADHD chaos but this meme doesn’t feel relatable to me. I guess I’m lucky? Anyway, I’d totally say this is about anxiety, not ADHD.
Most people tend to develop coping mechanisms that help them pass as non-ADHD individuals, by lowering their standards for what they can achieve in life and by accepting the abnormally high amounts of stress that hiding their ADHD causes them.
Psychologists call this “growing out of ADHD”.
This can be correct, if they’re talking about training smaller models.
Imagine this case. You are an automotive manufacturer that uses ML to detect pedestrians, vehicles, etc with cameras. Like what Tesla does, for example. This needs to be done with a small, relatively low power footprint model that can run in a car, not a datacentre. To improve its performance you need to finetune it with labelled data of traffic situations with pedestrians, vehicles, etc. That labeling would be done manually…
… except when we get to a point where the latest Gemini/LLAMA/GPT/Whatever, which is so beefy that could never be run in that low power application… is also beefy enough to accurately classify and label the things that the smaller model needs to get trained.
It’s like an older sibling teaching a small kid how to do sums, not an actual maths teacher but does the job and a lot cheaper or semi-free.
I also think heating everything up is the smoothest solution. But to offer an alternative, I’d use dental floss to get in between the bowl and plate. If the bowl has slightly rounded edges (I believe it will), it won’t be too hard to get floss in. With the floss you’ll get inevitably some air in… Which will equalise the pressure and break the vacuum.
As an inferior alternative to floss, fishing line could work for this approach as well.
Oh no! They’re using an emulator! I choose you NINTENDO! Use “Sue for copyright”!
Unfortunately, it’s not very effective (Anthropic’s type is “AI Company”).
Even though there is a LOT more to a person than productivity and that can never be the thing that defines us, I’m going to focus exclusively on that because that’s what this post is about.
I had one of those days today. Absolutely awesome. I almost had no meetings and the software changes kept coming in. I nailed it. I’m still on a rush, I feel unstoppable!
However yesterday, I came home and I was almost crying to my partner because I couldn’t take the laundry off the rack and I felt useless.
But hey, so is the life of ADHDers. I accept it. Yesterday it took me a while to get out of that emotional state. I knew that rationally I’m not a useless person and I have a good handle on my life. However emotionally it was way harder. It took me a lot of processing to synthesise that knowledge into feelings.
So I know the rational part, and I lean on that and on a very understanding, loving partner (who is also neurodivergent) who helps me stay grounded when I panic. Our productivity is not constant. That is fine - on average, there’s nothing wrong with our output!
Over the past 5 years, I’ve installed ubuntu about 30 times on different computers. Not once has an install on an SSD taken me more than an hour, with it typically taking me 30 minutes or less except for rare occasions where I’ve messed something up.
Less conveniently while costing something like $700 plus a monthly $25 subscription.
I don’t get how it got pitched either.
Mine is Clippy, but it’s constantly retrieving information from the wrong word document.
“Hey, it looks like you’re on holiday abroad. Would you like to take your car to the garage? The MOT expires tomorrow.”
“Hey, would you like some help researching this really interesting camera equipment during working hours?”
“Hey, I see you’re going to the gym. Let me remind you of all the tasks you need to do at home and now you won’t have time to do: (…)”
Also because, as a person who has studied multiple languages, German is hard and English is Easy with capital E.
No genders for nouns (German has three), no declinations, no conjugations other than “add an s for third person singular”, somewhat permissive grammar…
It has its quirks, and pronunciation is the biggest one, but nowhere near German (or Russian!) declinations, Japanese kanjis, etc.
Out of the wannabe-esperanto languages, English is in my opinion the easiest one, so I’m thankful it’s become the technical Lingua Franca.
I recently discovered dupe.com , which works quite well by giving it an Amazon link and finding it on potentially cheaper, definitely non-Bezos websites.
Do a search on yourself - try to find out your real identity based on information online, and do it as thoroughly as if you were searching for your worst enemy.
If you can find who you are yourself, chances are they will.
Make sure you don’t have anything “hairy” tied to an email with an email address you’d use for anything uncompromising. E.g. keep the email you use to login on Lemmy and the email you use to login on netflix separate.
Use 2 factor authentication and a password manager. Treat your password leaks seriously and consider any leaked accounts burnt - assume the details you had in there are now known.
Avoid using your real name on anything you can.
Best wishes. Take care my friend!
Lessons will be available at least, even if nobody decides to take away anything from them.
Well the UK said they have no plans but now they have to actually debate it in Parliament. So it’s better than nothing - at least the proposal gets a chance to be heard.