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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 boring me or I’m not paying attention
It also seems to be missing part of Ermine Street from London up to Royston and then to Peterborough
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 be seen is October. My GP has contacted me to say there's a new service they're starting soon and that I've been referred there too, but they couldn't tell me how long the wait would be - basically they said to go with whichever one is available first.
If you can get a referral from your doctor, I would have a look at Right To Choose and go with someone private like Psychiatry UK as you shouldn't have to pay, the NHS will take the cost of that. (Also a note that paying them money doesn't get you seen any quicker, I've tried asking)
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!
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 over the years the interest in cricket in the UK seemed to fade, and hardly anyone was taking an interest in it anymore.
I can almost see this happening with the Olympics to some degree, if it continues to be shown only on channels you pay for, people are going to lose interest in watching it more and more over the years. I like watching the Olympics but to be honest not enough to pay an extra £7-10 a month to see it where the coverage isn't nearly as good as the BBC can do.
I've never seen a website chug so badly on my machine, I barely got 5fps on any of that page
It's just what we call a drink that isn't a diet version
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 at all unless I'm watching a video or doing certain things in VS Code.
I too looked at the title and thought someone had finally figured out how to get around having the laptop open and a monitor plugged in with no noise, but it seems like this basically makes no difference at all since it only works when the lid is shut. I've resigned myself to the fact that it'll never be solved, and hope to get this MBP replaced at some point
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
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 keen to explore some more history around Europe at that time
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 ends up saving me quite a lot of time. I've also taken to using it for URLs, as in some repsects its easier than having something bookmarked.
Definitely one of those tools that make me wonder how I got by without it
Works perfectly now!
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
There's a bit about the variability here: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/blob/master/docs/...
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"
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