I’ll speak personally, I don’t know how other people experience ADHD, but I don’t just get “bored,” I have a crippling and anxiety inducing inability to do something. I REALLY want to do it, but I just, can’t? Like I physically can’t get up or walk over and do it, even though I know I have to and I even want to.
It really is a motivation problem, I have a strong desire to do it but I just… can’t?
An extremely, miserably stressful and depressing experience I have been through countless times! I’ve gotten somewhat better about it over the months and years (especially as its impact becomes more of a problem) but now I tend to channel it more into bikeshedding and perfectionistic tweaking....
Not diagnosed and got a high functioning score on an ADHD test so I may or may not have as bad of a problem as others. On the other hand, I failed out of college twice. it’s not great.
My favorite source for all space-related pictures are the Apollo flight journal photography archives[1].
I’m not sure if there’s a better resource, as-is you have to click through to see a higher resolution version to check if the picture is even in focus, but honestly that adds to the fun of it :)
This is an interesting point. I know for sure that I have been taught in school to never trust the electronic BP machines, since they can be pretty far off for some (but not all) people.
Instead, using a sphygmomanometer is much more likely to give accurate results.
Anecdotally, I always have a super weird initial blood pressure reading when I go to the doctor and they use the electric machine (one time it was 112/95), but when it is rechecked with a sphygmomanometer it tends to level out at somewhere around 130/85.
The way a manual sphigmomanometer works is different from the way the electronic ones do[1], I would not be surprised if for a few people something else affects the reading of the pressure in the arm band.
Maybe I am misunderstanding, or there is something wrong with my own knowledge, but "30 mmHg" added to systolic seems extremely high.
I am currently an EMT-B student here in the United States, and taking vital signs like blood pressure is our bread and butter. We practice it several times a week, on different people with different body types and different blood pressure baselines. Anything more than ±4 mmHg in a manual reading is terrible accuracy, and anything like +30 mmHg probably comes from someone who doesn't know how to use the equipment.
But again, maybe there is something I am missing. If there is I'd love to be educated and hear about it!
It's not high if you don't know how to measure your blood pressure. Your BP increases a lot if you're moving around, and not properly rested.
When you're at the GP's office, you might have been rushing to get there, you do a minute of small talk and then they strap on a cuff and tell you "oh my, it's very high", this is the reason. And it happens so often it even has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_coat_hypertension
I have seen dozen of times, because of effort, anxiety, whatever, my BP being 160/110, which drops to 130/85 after 15+ minutes of complete relaxation. Many amateurs (which apparently includes most GPs) simply do not let the BP settle. The medical value of tracking BP is to know its baseline at rest, otherwise it's a meaningless number.
I have gotten in to go down five layers (at which point I run out of screen space) and it is still perfectly responsive. Actually at this point feels more responsive than the real windows 11.
> I will admit that I'm not a fan of org mode and find it to be oversold and another time waster for people who are already wasting time configuring their editors. I personally use vimwiki, there is a vim plugin for org mode.
I actually use emacs solely for org-mode. I find editing single files and even larger projects to be more of a pain that it is worth, so I just use my custom vim to do that.
What keeps me with org mode and emacs is mostly bibliography management. I have emacs set up to read my Zotero directory, and with a keybinding I can insert a reference to a book or magazine or the such. Now, what is really great about this is that when I export the org file (usually to latex->pdf, but also occasionaly to HTML), it exports the references in the style that they need to be in (MLA, APA, Turabian, etc.) and creates a bibliography page at the end of the export with everything that I referenced.
I can also add notes to any references using org-roam, so that I have have annotated bibliographies quite easily.
If I could have something else that does just this, I would drop emacs in a heartbeat. But until I do find that, emacs and org-mode it is.
That’s interesting. On my mountain bike that (used to) get a lot of constant use, tubeless was much better than my old MTV with tubes. When the tubes get a flat it is a whole process to get it patched, but tubeless both seem to get less flats and seal better with whatever I put in them.
That being said, tubeless tires do require being used fairly regularly, which includes pumping them up (just topping them off) almost every time you go out. Right now I haven’t gone mountain biking in quite a while so I guarantee that my tires are flat
It really is a motivation problem, I have a strong desire to do it but I just… can’t?