Yeah this kind of stuff makes my blood boil. One can shame and belt their kid into compliance, and it might even get them (barely, only if they're lucky) all the way through university but holy shit the lifelong damage of self loathing and burnout and broken relationships it creates is im-fucking-measurable.

Taking a neurological imbalance and turning it into a morality thing is abuse. Even if unintentional. This is real. Parents look for simple answers like "give em the strap" but how is that less reductive than "give em the pill"?

Or, you know, set a good example. No one said anything about beating anyone, that's all you.

I brought up "the strap" in the comment I linked to. The sort of person who thinks ADHD is just a lack of discipline also tends to be nostalgic for a time when corporal punishment, including the use of straps and even paddles, was considered routine and even admirable. "Spare the rod and spoil the child" and that.

To add a data point, I used to do Pomodoro timing (25+5 min) but now switched to 15 min timer with a loose 2-5 min break. It's still hard to actually pull out of hyper-focus/anxious perseveration sometimes, but the shorter timer period seems to match my task cadence better. And the non-timed break just vibes better because it doesn't feel like punishment then.

Reminded me of one of my favourite text-art/PETSCII adjacent creators I follow - Mrmo - who creates satisfying retro stuff like this custom font/tileset: https://mrmotarius.itch.io/mrmotext

Suburbs are not the only place to raise kids though. Probably not the best place for it either.

One clever hack I've seen is Yield Prolog (https://yieldprolog.sourceforge.net/) which basically translates the querying/backtracking execution model into mainstream language syntax - such as JS, Python or C# - using the `yield` keyword and loops. Supports things like variable unification, too.

I also want to mention the Lichee Pi Nano, though it is much smaller and targeting a different use case: https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/08/17/licheepi-nano-cheap-.... Made an embedded distro Buildroot config for that one some time ago (https://github.com/unframework/licheepi-nano-buildroot).

I don't know why anybody would ever get the LicheePi Nano instead of the 4A or the regular LicheePi, because these two boards' main selling point is that they're RISC-V which the Nano isn't.

For some, the physical size is key. Seeed Xiao, Lichee Nano, Beetle, etc fit where e.g. an Arduino Nano won't.

Yes the physical size can be important, and so can the power draw.

Just like you wouldn't use a full-fledged Raspberry Pi for use cases where a Raspberry Pi Nano or other low-power microcontroller is enough.

I'd say for 95% of data fetches https://github.com/slorber/react-async-hook works really well without needing generator syntax or explicit promise cancellation boilerplate. I'm not the author but a satisfied user.

At least for parsing PDF into table I had decent success with Tabula.

The fact that choosing to use Uber represents a certain amount of trust in the driver (basic background check, identity information, etc), makes it more than lead generator or transparent broker.

Law as an industry is pretty dysfunctional. Plenty of data governance issues, losing track of documents, etc. A lot is at stake there, for sure, but that's actually the thing that process helps with - reliability and safety. And law is very resistant to incorporating that.

Lawyers feed on complexity and obscurity. If things made sense and the processes were logical and simple and easy to navigate, nobody would need their services.