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by hnick 1y ago
FWIW ritalin reduced my anxiety a fair bit. It changed my brain from one with multiple concurrent streams of thought, often negative and never truly going away, to focusing on the task at hand. As a direct outcome it means I don't have
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by hnick 1y ago
A study I glanced over a while ago said something like 40% of people respond to dex or ritalin, around 80% to either (I'm in this group but dex had more annoying side effects), and the last 20% to neither (but there is other stuff out
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by hnick 1y ago
It can also use fonts which map glyphs via characters which do not represent the final visual item e.g. "PDF" could be "1#F" and you only really know what it looks like by rendering then viewing/OCR. A nice file won
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by hnick 1y ago
I assume you mean open source or free, but just noting Acrobat Pro was almost there when I last used it years ago. The problem was you had it in reverse, browsing the content tree not inspecting the page, but it did highlight the object on
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by hnick 1y ago
Which (as I'm sure you know), also literally has 'content' :) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/content
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by hnick 1y ago
Even if the format is understood, it's also very much a case of Acrobat handling extremely badly formed PDFs instead of erroring out if it were strictly adhering. If you've ever seen a save prompt when making no changes, that happ
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by hnick 1y ago
PDF was basically created as a final presentation format, it's essentially append-only by design, which is why you hear so often of redactions just marking up a white/black box over text. You can edit text streams, which needs a d
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by hnick 1y ago
I can't find it right now but I recall seeing somewhere that around 40% of ADHD patients reported better effects on Ritalin (methylphenidate) or dexamphetamine roughly equally, another 40% says both are about as good as each other, and
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by hnick 1y ago
Ritalin was a game changer. After the initial adjustment it just feels like it brings me up to normal, I'm not particularly stimulated (in fact my lack of wandering mind makes it easier to doze during the day), I just prefer coding to
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by hnick 1y ago
From a skim it looks like the highest setting tested was 60°C which can kill, but wouldn't be considered sufficient in all cases for food safety for example. My own washing machine is nothing special (front-loader Euromaid, whatever wa
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by hnick 1y ago
Search just seems bad in general in many applications. So many these days do not even support a verbatim (as in, find what I typed, exactly) search. They insist on ignoring certain characters, fuzzy matching, or treating everything as indiv
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by hnick 2y ago
Yeah that makes sense, if they collaborate and share information. But more-so it avoids the case where a patch drops then people suddenly get banned - it's easier to match the exact version and what changed or is different compared to
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by hnick 2y ago
The intent is usually to gather data then ban in waves. If a new tool comes out and you ban a couple of players the tool authors might figure out why and update it. Let it sit a while and you can get hundreds/thousands of players who g
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by hnick 2y ago
I think what you mean is what I wasn't sure about (but found with a quick search), some banks do offer home loan and insurance bundles here in AU. I found one that offered a discount on the insurance if you get the loan with them, for
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by hnick 2y ago
Some of the sites we work on are insurance based. We save every step of the calculation (inputs and outputs, e.g. rates and sub-totals). An administrative user can see the entire calculation from start to end, including overrides at various
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by hnick 2y ago
Yes from what I heard it would be very few users, definitely not the general public. Maybe academia, signage, marketing, historical/legal use, etc. It might be enough to simply plug the gap with occasional images instead of fonts. But
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by hnick 2y ago
I'm not Korean but my understanding is they do use the Chinese-derived script occasionally, for emphasis or to solve ambiguity, among other things. So some users will need access to that script too. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by hnick 2y ago
I liked perl's taint mode. It seemed pretty good against the "oops, forgot to sanitise this and you used it as output" situation that probably accounts for a lot of these issues. It won't force you to correctly sanitise,
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by hnick 2y ago
Can help routing induced latency as the other comment says (or force a new route if having downstream issues with your ISP peering), and some games in the past could leak IPs especially if using a p2p model and a VPN can mitigate that (espe
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by hnick 2y ago
I'm not sure if it qualifies as mixing logical levels but I once tracked down a printer bug where the PDF failed to print. The culprit was an embedded TrueType font that had what (I think) was a strange but valid glyph name with a doub
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by hnick 2y ago
Yes I live here and it seems quite successful. Most smokers I see now in my area (not counting vapes) are foreign Asian students who didn't grow up with it. I don't think it'd work well online for similar reasons, the interne
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by hnick 2y ago
I had a small laugh when I read your comment and imagined legislation for fighting attention-grabbing sites, requiring them to all look like this site. Want to see an image? Follow a link, sir. It is far too distracting to have it simply be
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by hnick 2y ago
Yeah they really do vary a lot. Something I did not appreciate until getting my first as an adult (as a child, I had no positive feelings towards dogs which I find sad now). I have heard trainers who suggest meal time is meal time, the food
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by hnick 2y ago
A rule of thumb we were taught is half the food comes from training (not to the point of cruelty, adjust the training to be easier if needed so they get enough). You can adjust per dog, but many people treat training rewards as "treats
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by hnick 2y ago
Too many don't actually verify the identity. I often get emails lying in the footer with something like "you are receiving these emails because you signed up" - no I didn't, someone else did, and you didn't check. B
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by hnick 2y ago
We offered it on a site with a "guest login" where people redeem vouchers but might not want to make an account. So I think that's one valid use case. We need to associate the voucher with the email, so we need to ensure they
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by hnick 2y ago
Multiple newer parents I've met (in Australia) have practiced complete avoidance of such serious potential allergens. The idea seems to be that a very young child may have a reaction, but not be able to tell you and just cry or go red
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by hnick 2y ago
I've heard of the "technically illegal" thing and find it odd, is that actually true? Over here in Australia I think they just decided it was easier to make them all illegal too, with the schedule saying things like "TET
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by hnick 2y ago
Applies to other things like music too. Sometimes people are ahead of their time and most people can't digest it.
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by hnick 2y ago
I might have misunderstood. I took it to mean that engineers would be responsible for all code they write - the same as another engineer may be liable for any bridge they build - which would mean the common "as is", "no warra

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