Hyperfocus is actually one of the odd trades of ADHD. If people with ADHD work on a topic that motivates them, they can easily loose hours just like you describe. However, if the task is too mundane or overwhelming, I can easily procrastinate months on them.
Also, aren’t desktop CPUs constrained by thermal load at some point or can we use ever bigger coolers?
Personally, I find it almost obscene that my desktop PC consumes roughly as much as a good old incandescent lightbulb (60+W) while idling. My laptop uses as much under full load.
4. I am exhausted or did not sleep enough. Sometimes it is difficult to realise / accept that I simply need some downtime. In that case cut yourself some slack.
Can confirm. When I started working in academia, we built very sophisticated Excel models. But every new project would ask form ever more sophisticated sheets and workarounds. Once the calculations took more than a few minutes, I moved on to macros. But at that point I realized that I am using Excel as nothing more than a data container. That finally pushed me to learn Python and I felt never more liberated. Whenever I supervise PhD students now, I push them hard to learn programming early on. I am pretty sure never has any one of them had regret for following my advice. It simply adds a few degrees of freedom to their work.
It is an amphetamine. Go to r/ADHD and read the thousands of enthusiastic stories of people that just took it for the first time and are basically just high. I took medication for a while and it helped me surmount a bunch of issues. Now I can do well without. I never liked the effect on my body and mind.
I read this post from 2015 yesterday and was amused because the guy clearly seemed to have ADHD in my opinion [0].
Then in the comments on HN somebody mentioned that the author recently wrote about being diagnosed at 40, which may be an interesting read here [1]. The author says it was like living the Truman show.
ADHD can be harmful and comes with a bunch of comorbidities that can also develop later in life. If you have trouble listening, tend to hyperfocus on things but also emotional states, etc. I recommend going forward with a diagnosis.
Thanks! That is so funny. The article was screaming ADHD at me all the time while reading it. Especially this feeling of vague anxiety. He basically comes up with typical ADHD coping strategies.
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I did the same for 3 years, but mostly for environmental reasons. It is a very effective strategy to shave off a fair amount of your personal carbon footprint (next to not flying).
As you say the rush after the shower is amazing! I stopped, because in winter (central European) there were days where I was cold all day and felt like I would never quite warm up again before going to bed. In summer, however, I still do it regularly and it really helped during the recent heat waves.
I wish Apple stopped releasing new major versions every year. When they changed to the annual release cycle with 10.7, the time an OS X version was supported dropped also by one year (from 4 to 3 years).
Unfortunately, there is no up-to-date and comprehensive guide out there. I should write one i guess. I takes some tinkering. This is a good first start: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-nas-windows-share-time-ma...
If you’re using a USB drive, I recommend to make the first backup while directly attached to save some time. Also if the server is a Mac (and I believe there are ways to do that with other OSs too), you can simulate a time machine capsule. Now whenever I am in my home wifi my MacBook does automatic backups.
Not from the future, but for the future: In 30 years from now (2050) we should be carbon neutral in order to have a shot at the 1.5° C target. Average building lifetime is >30 years. So in my opinion it would be irresponsible to build anything else than a passive house or a zero energy building today.