I've lived in a few places in the uk and it does depend on where you live. The east and East Midlands are a lot sunnier than the northwest.

Had the same thoughts

I'd say it's even worse than that. If you are going to eat something it can also just be about right, meat is quite non specific, it's mostly about texture and your only eating it for a few minutes after which it changes composition in your stomach and you have no idea how that goes. Artificial blood is a medical product that has to emulate blood for some time, that's very specific behavior and it needs to remain safe to the recipient. I don't think the two are even similar in difficulty.

Some don't implement APIs anyway and for good reason. Retail sites have to advertise their prices to customers but they don't want competitors getting that data so easily. Obviously retail sites are not going to expose a pricing api publicly but competitors will scrape their site for them.

Yeah the GPs I saw seemed to think the same. The problem is that many of these doctors have little to no experience of psychiatric problems and hear frequently about all this scare mongering about adhd medication. The result is that depression is heavily over diagnosed because no one is worried about those drugs and studies show that just taking them reduces the chance you'll visit a doctor while on them regardless of if you have depression. adhd is often brushed under the carpet because we go to the doctor and get told it's all in our heads and we go to work and get told we absolutely have got to try harder even though doing so just makes it worse. With the right work place adjustments I actually don't think ADHD really needs medication except in more severe cases, but without it the medication is basically the only way to do anything at all and the doctor can't make your employer listen to you. I have friends with adhd who have had to hop from job to job because of all these absurd requirements placed on them even though about every third job they find, they'll be doing the same role and some how not have to do all this extra stuff that's just inappropriate to ask a person with adhd to attempt to do. We should embrace diversity and spread tasks out to people who enjoy them and stop trying to nail people to the wall because one person can't do what another can.

Some situations like longer meetings (over an hour) would be just impossible for me and I'd be fighting to stay awake like I'd been awake for 36 hours even though 30 minutes after the meeting I'd fully recovered. I was also self medicating by drinking absurd amounts of caffeine which meant that I was basically choosing between motivation and anxiety because too much caffeine does that to you and at the amount I was drinking I would have constant anxiety during the working week. Now I just take my medication and I have normal levels of anxiety, my attention is reasonable and I've just got to deal with all the other problems of adhd such as not being able to remember what I'm currently trying to do unless it's one thing and I'm literally doing it right now.

As someone who has an ADHD diagnosis my broad experience of people is that there's a distribution of ability to pay attention and generally people who find it easier to direct and maintain their attention have very low tolerance of people who aren't able. Often I am dismissed as stupid, lazy or possessing little will power or self control even though I've had to make sure I'm none of these things to manage in my situation and any evidence that this opinion is incongruent with the reality is ignored because many people just can't cope with the realisation that attention isn't entirely a choice but it's also a resource of the mind that suffers fatigue and with it none of us are created equal.

I generally drive exactly by the rules and when I was still driving to work daily I would get rear ended every now and then. Of the 3 times I can recall this happening, only one time did I find any sympathy for the other driver. First time the guy was on the phone and the second time the other driver actually tried to blame me for not pulling away fast enough in traffic which was unbelievable. The third time I'd had to break harshly and unexpectedly because another car had made a very unpredictable and illegal manoeuvre and the lady who hit me was just slower to react. She did also apologise.

The primary reason for this shift is that children work in economies based on low skill labour but they don't work in countries that need skilled labour. The justifications are varied and my opinion on if that's right don't matter, the fact is that if your kids help you out while they're still living with you, that adds motivation. In a developed economy your kids can't work both because it's usually illegal and also because they don't have the skills yet. It doesn't help that wealthy people are less likely to want to invest time or money in raising kids when they could instead use that to do things they will more obviously enjoy.

GPU use for model training means you'll want a bunch of them for very short bursts. You don't want one for 4 months you'll want 10 for a few hours once a week for a few weeks and then you'll be done. You'll never even pay as much as a whole unit would cost to buy and you'll get several times of them at your disposal.

It's funny actually but a mate of mine had this happen. Everyone else had game boys, consoles and or PC games (late 90s early noughties) but his parents went out of their way to make sure he didn't and it's become a social handicap. Some times I think he's lucky he's hard working enough to put in the time to catch up on the practice he missed with a PC because he was surely barely able to type at some point and much much later than the rest of our generation.

That's just not how wealth works at all. What it means to be wealthy isn't just having money in the bank. There's a dividing point where you have so much money that you can invest it and live off that instead of having to worry about the things normal people do, so you can't just take their money off them slowly over several years and have them end up desolate, no that's how wealth works for everyone else and how people end up homeless.

Extroverts are more likely to end up in management roles, they are much more interested in human interaction and tend to end up in charge rather than in the case of a software company, coding. Before the pandemic very few organisations took work from home seriously because these people make up the majority of the management and they don't want to work from home. Now that it's happened some of them are very unhappy about it, but the norm will never go back to being in the office because in software companies at least, they are heavily outnumbered.

I think its even simpler than that, surely air pollution and antibiotic resistance would almost always trend in the same direction as population density. I actually think this is just another one of those "Science has proven yet again what we all already knew." Not that collecting the data, analysing it and publishing the results has no merit but its certainly not news worthy to anyone outside the area of research either.

Learning the hard way is counter intuitively easy. What's difficult is learning pretty much any other way. The only easier option is not learning.