IMO it's essentially marketing themselves. There can be good lessons there and they can be worth reading, but it's important to remember that the post itself is often there to "show expertise" rather than inform.
Thanks. I learned it from an Udemy course [0]. Took just a couple of weeks to pick up. Regarding overlays, Sketchbook supports the idea of layers. I simply put different elements in the illustration in different layers. Sketchbook gives me PSD files that can be imported in GIMP. I then export many PNG files by progressively selecting more layers in GIMP. These PNG files go into Beamer like this:
This article conviced me decide to research and possibly try using Dexedrine/Dextroamphetamine. Wish me the best! I always wanted to try a potentially powerful nootropic.
Humm… I knew a few people that managed to destroy their life by taking amphetamines. Sometimes there is a reason for some substances to be controlled.
But of course ultimately it's up to you and each case is a case. I just wanted to offer some deterrent because I know anecdotal reports on the internet tend to be quite positive since the people that wrote them probably just started.
Not necessarily. I hear a lot more often of all the people with destroyed lives by opiates than about all the people whose lives are improved(which is if anything a larger group).
> I hear a lot more often of all the people with destroyed lives by opiates
They get all the press & panic. The much, much, much larger group - they're the people who've become unable to be prescribed any pain meds (due to frightened Dr.s, 3 day state limits on Rx) and now live their lives in pain. They're pretty much off everyone's radar.
I have friends with chronic conditions (re:Rhum Arthritis) who responsibly took pain meds for years but now buy their pain relief off the street. Zero of their Dr.s are willing to Rx any opioids. Past that are the now commonplace stories of people being Rx Tylenol following surgery.
In the last year, I twice had to beg+negotiate for Tramadol. Once following surgery and once to tamper down severe knee pain so I could exercise. That latter one came with a "Don't Ask For This Again" vibe.
If you have been prescribed something, you are under doctor supervision so my comment doesn't apply to you. I was talking about people doing drugs and/or self medicating.
Just make sure your doctor's loyalty lies with you and not with some pharmaceutical company and you will be fine.
It’s perfectly safe as long as you monitor your blood pressure and remember to eat. The evidence is quite good that taking it reduces substance abuse in patients as well.
Aka "speed". Of course it works, it is a hard drug! You can also try MDMA, meth, cocaine, etc... they all work, until they kill you.
Ok, I am exaggerating, these drugs are not that bad, even if you include their "fun" applications, as long as you follow the harm reduction principles. And these anti-ADHD tablets are not dubious street drugs, they are well dosed, pure and slowly released.
But still, I would avoid these in the long run, caffeine is where I draw the line for regular use (and I'd rather not depend on it). Also keep in mind that ADHD treatment is meant for people with ADHD, basically giving them the stimulation their brain can't provide on its own, this way they can calm down instead of being in constant search for excitement. If you don't have ADHD you don't need any of that and it will just make you a bit high, an almost opposite effect.
> Also keep in mind that ADHD treatment is meant for people with ADHD, basically giving them the stimulation their brain can't provide on its own, this way they can calm down instead of being in constant search for excitement.
That’s not how it works. Your brain has networks responsible for keeping the rest under control and it’s those that get “stimulated”. It doesn’t just make everything more exciting - that’s MDMA.
Speed is typically not Dextroamphetamine and not as pure (at minimum the dosages seem quite different) though hard to tell what amphetamine you are getting with it. Otherwise yes, pretty close and it's possible that speed is more dangerous because of the amounts people take of it at a time vs the typically lower and more consistent dosing with Dexedrine. Similar for meth and vyvanse.
I used Dexedrine some years ago because I was dealing with a lack of focus, tiredness, and brain fog.
For the month or so that it worked, it was pretty awesome. My mind felt like it was hammering away and as sharp as I was in my twenties.
Unfortunately, that feeling didn't last more than maybe six weeks. I was advised by some to just increase the dosage, but my heart was already fluttering in my chest at the dosage I was at. Also, my sleep was odd, with weird dreams that would wake me up, preventing me from falling back asleep for hours. Added to that, my blood pressure got stuck over 140 and wouldn't come down.
If I could get a prescription that would give me the benefits of those first weeks of use, without destroying my health, I'd be all over it.
Eventually, my GP noticed that I had a thyroid deficiency that I'm not treating with thyroid hormone. That's helped a great deal with the tiredness and brain fog.
> For the month or so that it worked, it was pretty awesome. Unfortunately, that feeling didn't last more than maybe six weeks.
Sort of similar. I found every wrong road I took (supplements, diets, physical) helped - for 2 weeks and then never again. Stims turned out to be my right road.
IMO, just about any will do, but the simplest thing that'll get the job done is probably the best choice - less inertia.
If all you need is a markdown-powered blog, then choose something that does only that. I use Gatsby because I'm familiar with React and it does what I need it to do.
I provide a few small businesses with simple websites to advertise their services (opening times and the like) where wordpress would have been the "traditional" choice, and the main thing I've learned from this is to stay away from loads of plugins or extra functionality until you absolutely need it - it's just more maintenance overhead and things to mess about with/configure. When I update a client site, I simply edit some text and regenerate the site - no plugins to update or config files to edit.
Reply to a deleted comment, mentioning that once the client wants to make edits themselves you end up back at wordpress:
Absolutely correct. Unfortunately, I wouldn't trust most of my clients with a wordpress login so that's never been an option. Coming from wordpress sites that clients have installed all manner of plugins on and I have to fix every two weeks, updating some text files manually is a minor issue. I will never go back to wordpress hell.
I am looking into online editing of the content files to address this issue, but I would rather stick with making the edits myself than see a client site with 5 H1s in a page.
You're right about the minimalist approach. I just want something quick and easy. I shouldn't dread to use it else I will end up dropping it altogether.
I'll be picking up Go as I'm unfamiliar with React and Go seems to be easy to grasp. Thank you for suggesting Gatsby though, I'll give it a shot once I learn React, which should happen this year.
I might be a bit grumpy, but I'm getting really sick of these type of pages. There's no information, just a smart-arse "NO". It doesn't help anyone and it's so overdone I don't think it's funny anymore.
>The post now points to the PDF of a 7-page paper which goes into some detail.
Thank you for the note, I missed the "original" link.
Surely the "No" is more than a bit snarky, but it is not like the paper in itself contain that much of meaningful "news" or "ground-breaking" considerations, the conclusion (like it seems to me is happening very often on similar papers, i.e. a not-conclusion) is:
"We conclude that depending on the application scenario, there are indeed valid use cases for each, permissionless and permissioned blockchains, and centralized databases that need to be determined carefully."
It is not a "No", but it is a "it depends" that is not providing much more than the "No".
It's not just a static bit of text, theres a decision tree you can traverse by answering some questions. They don't all lead to "NO" - my second attempt at random clicking took me to an answer like "probably"
It's quite surprising that he doesn't mention Solus - quite a lot of effort has gone into making Steam run as well as possible. The readme at the following URL goes into detail about the problems with the steam-native-runtime, and how Solus tries to rectify the issues.
The article does got not really go into the real issues with Linux gaming and instead just mainly presents some gaming targeting distros. There are only two things that are important:
1. Can you get Steam running?
2. Do you get modern versions of your gpu driver?
Ubuntu is good for both, though you need a PPA to get the current Mesa driver, which is the only choice for AMD gpus (and that driver works great!). Otherwise a rolling release distro like gentoo is actually great for gaming, since you get the current driver, but it takes some effort to get Steam to work (also because of 64-bit vs 32-bit). I needed to delete old steam libs[0], set the LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH for Steam[1] and then, depending on the game, need to re-set the game-specific LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH[2] again.
If Solus integrates Steam automatically and also has current drivers(?), that would make it a good alternative.
For what it's worth, using the solus steam runtime (SLI) I see noticable improvements over steam-native.
When I installed Solus around 4 months ago, steam was noticably faster on the same hardware than it was when installed on Ubuntu.
There are probably ways to get the same experience on Ubuntu, but if I were a non-technical user I think I'd only really care about which gave me the best experience out of the box.
> When I installed Solus around 4 months ago, steam was noticably faster on the same hardware than it was when installed on Ubuntu
That's not impossible, but are you sure that did not come from moving to newer driver versions? Especially if you use the Mesa driver each new version in the last year or so brought very big performance improvements.
Can you explain what that (Solus) is? The website is rather light on details. Maybe a distribution. With three different DE editions, one being 'home-grown'.
I haven't found any information about the history of the project, if it's built from scratch or based on another distribution's work. Can't even figure that out by looking at the 'how to install software' documentation - it just gives a screenshot of a GUI package installer, no clue what the package manager is.
Searching Google for Solus (or Solus Project) comes up empty or with a survival game based on the Unreal 4 engine.
What is Solus?
Edit: While their website answered none of my questions, distrowatch and wikipedia did. Started as Debian based distribution, seems to be something completely new/different now.
It's not something I've used to any great extent, just that I use the steam runtime developed for it on my arch system and the lead developer has been a guest on a few podcasts I've listened to. That said, this is my impression of it so far:
Solus is a distribution built from scratch. I believe the main target is non-technical end users, rather than, say, servers or power users. What that quite equates to, I don't really know beyond missing certain development or server software from the base install and in some cases the repositories. I currently can't see a way to install external packages (like the AUR or PPAs). I've had a play with it for a couple of hours and it's pretty slick, with really fast start up times. It's probably not ready for you to hand to your Grandmother just yet, but it seems very user-friendly to me. I have it currently running on a laptop I gave to a friend around 4 months ago, and so far it's the only distribution I've been able to hand over to a non-technical user and not get called to fix/change/etc. every couple of weeks.
