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by dafman 3y ago
Scattered Minds by Gabor Mate. Really helped me understand my ADHD (diagnosed in my 30s) and why I do certain things or act a certain way around other people. I feel I’m much better at explaining my actions so people don’t think they’re bor
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by dafman 4y ago
It also seems to be missing part of Ermine Street from London up to Royston and then to Peterborough
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by dafman 5y ago
I was referred by my GP over a year ago for an adult ADHD diagnosis. I used the NHS Right To Choose so that I could use a private clinic, however even with them the wait has been a year and they're saying the earliest I'm going to
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by dafman 5y ago
I also grew up there. I never thought I’d see it mentioned on HN, let alone see someone else post here who also grew up there!
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by dafman 5y ago
My favourite sport is cricket. When I was younger, it was always shown on terrestrial TV (mainly BBC or Channel 4), but after the huge success of the 2005 Ashes, Sky bought the rights and you then had to buy Sky Sports to watch it. As such
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by dafman 5y ago
I've never seen a website chug so badly on my machine, I barely got 5fps on any of that page
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by dafman 5y ago
It's just what we call a drink that isn't a diet version
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by dafman 5y ago
I agree, this doesn't seem like much of a solution. Due to the incredible amount of noise my 2019 16" MBP makes when I have it open and a 4K monitor attached, I have to always use it in clamshell mode, which makes almost no noise
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by dafman 5y ago
Firefox for iOS has a dark mode built in, it's how I always read HN on my phone these days. The only downside is it can make some websites look very strange as it will invert a lot of the colours, but for HN it works really well
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by dafman 6y ago
This is great, and something that I would get completely lost in for hours. I've become much more interested in ancient history after recently getting the book "Secret Britain: Unearthing Our Mysterious Past" and I'm kee
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by dafman 6y ago
I've been using Espanso for about a month and it's made some tasks in my daily life so much easier. I regularly have to use template text, and instead of having to copy-paste it every time I've just set it to a snippet and it
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by dafman 6y ago
Works perfectly now!
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by dafman 6y ago
Not sure if it's just me, but playing the 'See Brick in action' video in Firefox results in some strange behaviour: https://imgur.com/y0zJ0gB
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by dafman 6y ago
There's a bit about the variability here: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/master/docs/...
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by dafman 7y ago
Yes, at least where I live in the south of the UK. Other phrases you might hear are "What a shambles", "That is an absolute shambles" or "Omnishambles"
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by dafman 7y ago
It is, that’s the Touch Bar that has replaced the function keys on MacBook Pros. Not a fan at all as I use the fn keys a lot on a MacBook but I can’t see them getting rid of it for a while