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Finally an actual shitpost

Felt this in my chest...had a window of my life where things were so rough I was basically ordered by my therapist to take seek medical treatment for both, and even with treatment existing felt like a chore...couldn't even will myself to look at memes when I woke up. Basically just laid in bed with my eyes closed for half the day for a while. Getting to the point where I could properly take care of myself again was very much a recovery process.

I was incredibly lucky that I had just started a new job when that happened and was full remote for the first few months, so a lot of that time was just supposed to be spent passively learning.

The ADHD/depression combo can be an insidiously detrimental co-morbidity, peeps. If there's even a hint of that happening to you, ask for help. I had no clue that's what was happening to me and was lucky that I was in therapy already when everything went down, because my doctor caught it right away.

Saxophone. But not always because it's smooth. Because sometimes it ROCKS...

https://youtu.be/7QFNAtnUDJ8

...Or because it's crazier than anything you've ever heard!

https://youtu.be/BARAHLk-8dk

Not really, we tend to have a "main street" where all the popular businesses are lined up, but otherwise a lot of towns are pretty car-centric.

Thanks, I try. ;)

No! You're not allowed to have fun with AI!! AI bad!! sprays you with spray bottle /s

Personally I find AI use in silly, unserious scenarios like this perfectly fine. While I think that it's a shame that there will be less of a culture of "spending a ton of time and effort just to create a silly meme in Paint for Internet Points™", I think the point of memes is for people to express themselves informally in good fun, and how they choose to do that is up to them.

What I don't like is when people try to use it to generate an entire art piece and then sell it at the Louvre as something they made from scratch, especially when they generate it to look like another artist's work. That's not "in good fun"; that's fraud and theft at the same time.

I don't hate the tool, I hate the people who misuse it.

Big words coming from the most hideous and deformed rabbits I've ever seen.

Understood, thank you!

Also thank you for your lovely write-ups on the weekly blog! They're my primary source of news on the Raku language development, and something I look forward to each week.

One thing I'm a bit shaky on after reading both the rakudoweekly.blog post and nine's personal blog report: was the RakuAST bootstrap effort fully completed?

The former seems to suggest there's some more work that needs to be done to leverage it for an upcoming release, while the latter seems to suggest the work is done already.

It might just

I might just be misunderstanding, but if there's still work needed to ensure that it the bootstrapped RakuAST front-end be used in a release, what would that entail?

I've read that humans can only sustain maximum focus about an hour. I used to think "I can focus for longer than that!", but I think a more correct interpretation is that "after more than an hour, you start to see diminishing returns on your effort."

Upon more careful reflection, that sounds about right. I do engineering work that involves deep focus and complex mental manipulation, and I can say that you really can't do that for more than 1-2 hours at a time without a break. Try to force it longer than that, and you won't be able to go back for a second round of that in the same day.

The reason why students seem to be able to do it is because of the staggered classes and the variation in complexity for their course load and, you guessed it, taking short breaks in their sessions. Common advice for engineering students is to pair their engineering courses with lower-stress liberal arts courses or courses that use different parts of the brain in a given semester so they don't burn out, and to rest between classes and study sessions.

And lastly, as an ADHD adult, I'll offer this insight on the nature of motivation: everyone's threshold for how much motivation they need to perform a task with sustained focus is different. Sometimes, you just don't have it in you, because you've used the energy on other things. Willpower is not some magical force that you can limitlessly tap into to achieve the impossible; it is very much a finite resource. So if you're struggling to bring yourself to do more towards a specific goal, consider where you can shave off some energy elsewhere. Or, perhaps after thinking about it, you realize you are already putting in exactly the amount of energy you are willing to. In that case, there's no need to feel guilty, because you're already doing what you can and want to.

When I truly internalized that I don't have to prove my worth to anyone, even if I don't always know what I'm doing.

Looking back, that sense of self-worth and confidence is what I probably saw in all of the adults around me that made them seem so incredible as a child.

So when I felt that, I thought "huh, so this is what being an adult feels like."

Boxer briefs. The longer, form-fittint leg sleeves seem to prevent inner thigh irritation the best for me.

In the past I would have said boxer shorts because they tend to not catch on leg hair as much since they're loose, but the loose fabric seems to cause more irritation from friction, weirdly.