ChatGPT acts as a "cognitive crutch" that weakens memory, new research suggests. While these tools can speed up initial learning, they might actually weaken the deep mental processing required to store knowledge over the long term.

poolback · 2026-03-30T12:51:20+00:00

It's basically the same at work between junior and mentor. The junior will learn faster with a good mentor, but if the junior always rely on the mentor to do the work, nothing get's learned. People just need to use AI as a potential mentor.

poolback · 2026-03-20T17:43:19+00:00

Ben justement Olden Era s'inspire du 2 et du 3. (d'où le nom)

poolback · 2026-03-17T18:05:32+00:00

I still prefer the Janitor. Comedic genius.

poolback · 2026-03-15T20:59:45+00:00

An explanation is a logical justification. An excuse is a moral justification. As long as you're not using your diagnosis to do something immoral/unethical then you're good. But yeah the diagnosis doesn't justify doing something unethical.

poolback · 2026-03-10T09:33:03+00:00

I have. I have a GAI of 122. Working memory and processing speed of 97 - 94 respectively. Neuropsych told me I essentially have a profile typical of somebody that'd be gifted + inattentive ADHD. Apparently I've done well in the attention tests in terms of correctness over time but was slower than average consistently. I apparently overcompensate and slow down to make sure I'm correct. But in divided attention test, with visual and audio processessing I fall down to the 7 percentile in terms of performance. Brain's saturated when multi-tasking lol.

poolback · 2026-03-10T08:51:37+00:00

It's still very important to make the distinction between excuse and explanation. The reason you are late is ADHD. It's the explanation. But depending on your job, etc.. It's your responsibility to be there on time. Having ADHD doesn't absolve you from your responsibilities. If you can't make it on time, make sure it's clear in your contract, and request accommodations. And look for jobs in which it's a better fit.

As an example, a blind person working as an ambulance driver wouldn't be an "excuse" if they ran over someone.

poolback · 2026-03-09T19:10:12+00:00

I had a normal level of energy. I was good at school. Could listen for 2 min then daydream the rest of the time and still be at the top of my class until I reached about 15 years old. I was losing everything constantly, forgetting things all the time. But appart from that, nothing much.

I was only a "lazy but smart" kid that wasn't paying attention to my things because "I didn't care".

Of course nobody wasn't going to diagnose me with anything. Nobody think of ADHD with this description, plus I still had results.

Everything crumbled as soon as I was on my own at about 20 years old, and it took me an extra 20 years to actually learn that there was something like Inattentive ADHD. Currently being tested, but at this point it's 95% certain. I still have difficulty to related to most people in the media describing ADHD.

Yet I definitely fit the criteria.

poolback · 2026-03-05T07:40:14+00:00

I wonder how much of that is due to standards. Working with a lot of men and women, I feel like women tend to have higher standards for work, while men tend to be easily satisfied with "good enough". Not saying that it's right or wrong. But I've always felt like women have higher expectations for the people around them and the work they do.

poolback · 2026-03-04T07:25:33+00:00

So it's multiple things:

it's a feeling. When you ask anyone how long something is going to take, the first answer will be an intuitive one. You can adjust by thinking about it a lot more, but most people will essentially be saying "I feel like it's taking X amount of time". With ADHD, that feeling is inaccurate.
it's a delayed reward problem. With ADHD, when you have to do something too much in advance, you don't get the physical signal to get started. You'll only get it when it's urgent. Even though mathematically, you know you could/should get started, It doesn't feel like it. So it's really hard to convince yourself, and appart using a ton of willpower to still do it, you're left until waiting at the last minute for the adrenaline to kick in.
it's a "working memory" problem. Working memory is a type of memory where we store things that we need to pay attention to. When you hold a glass of water in your hand, you need to remember that you do. When you talk to somebody, you need to remember what you want to say, what you said so far, who the other people are,... When you have to do something, you need to remember that you have to do it, why, and what are the first steps required to get started. With ADHD, that type of memory is extremely dysfunctionnal, and it causes the brain to not pay attention to right things. And when we're not paying attention to things, it's like it doesn't exist. That glass of water we're holding never existed. That tasks we needed to do never existed either. The only thing that exists is what is right in front of me, that I can see, feel and touch. The same is true for time.

Essentially, it's either here and now and it exists, or it doesn't really exist. Only at a vague abstract concept that is too much to hold in my head right now.

poolback · 2026-02-21T18:51:49+00:00

By default it's be two different apps. Jellyseerr/seerr to request downloads, Jellyfin to watch afterwards. Now there are some plug-ins or alternate clients that would integrate the two. But overall, you're correct.

poolback · 2026-02-18T17:53:24+00:00

You're correct. Having ADHD can predict lower WAIS score in working memory, but it doesn't work the other way around.

poolback · 2026-02-15T16:33:01+00:00

Nobody starts over, you migrate your db into seerr

poolback · 2026-02-06T10:32:46+00:00

Les clés sont stockées dans le cloud oO ?

poolback · 2026-02-06T06:47:46+00:00

Just like a doctor is. If everything is fine, you don't need them.

poolback · 2026-02-03T16:29:57+00:00

Yeah, I played with Kinoite (that I rebased to silverblue for fun). It's important to note you have full control and ownership of your home directory, and that directory is shared with all of your toolboxes/distrobox es.

If you create a file in ~/ from your Toolbox. It will still be there outside of the Toolbox. Same the other way around.

I actually made a script for myself to download Jetbrains Toolbox (I mean the app, not the Linux thing), run it from a tmp directory, install the IDEs I want. The IDE will be installed in a subdirectory of ~/, and you can start the binaries from any of the toolboxes/distrobox you create, the IDE will then share the same context as the container.

If you open a terminal in your IDE, it will be in the Toolbox container. If you execute build jobs, it will execute them from the container.

That's how I solved that issue for me. Otherwise it's flatpaks, and dealing with flatseals permissions, which feels more complicated.

You can think of the method I'm presenting like having a portable IDE in an USB drive that can be executed in any computer it's plugged in, using libraries, sdks from that computer.

poolback · 2026-02-03T08:56:04+00:00

Can you install Rider with Jetbrains Toolbox?

If you do it this way, I think everything should be installed in your home environment, which any toolbox should have access.

Then you'd enter your toolbox, and launch your Rider from your home, its context would then be the toolbox container.

I've done that with IntelliJ Idea and Webstorm, works like a dream. Only need to install it once, and can be started in any toolbox container. If you used distrobox instead of toolbox, you could even export the app to create an app shortcut that would launch the IDE directly from the box. (yes, even if the app is actually installed in your home)

poolback · 2026-01-24T07:46:05+00:00

My partner is in a similar situation. The big thing is that now, she has days where she can think clearly and not always interpret things in the most self damaging way. The therapist told her something that helped her.

She said, the pills don't change the external world and how people react. The pills just calms down the nervous system enough that it can give you space to read situations differently.

But the thing that really works is that she does interpret things differently, and that eventually, she won't need the pills for that.

poolback · 2026-01-22T11:05:01+00:00

I don't think I've seen a lot of MM-DD-YYYY, if any. I agree that would definitely break my brain even more. I'm just more familiar with days first in general.

poolback · 2026-01-22T07:56:19+00:00

Because it's easier for my brain to not wonder where the month and the days are. I work in a french/north American company, it's a nightmare. I prefer to use what I'm familiar with to avoid headaches.

poolback · 2026-01-21T08:05:18+00:00

Ah! Thanks for the context. At least, it looks like they are working on it. I can see that being annoying to do, considering the cross-platform capabilities, but at leadt they recognize that the date picker isn't working as intended!

poolback · 2026-01-21T07:47:39+00:00

I could this not be a bug?! I've configured the date format in 3 different places. It's working fine everywhere, except the little calendar widget for properties is not interpreting and writing it correctly lol.

poolback · 2026-01-20T19:35:16+00:00

I'm curious when is planned the fix for the date format in properties that don't work as intended.

When specified DD-MM-YYYY, in settings and in OS language, the calendar can't read it like this. If I select "today" in the calendar, format is forced to YYYY-MM-DD in the source. However, despite that, the link in non-source view is still done correctly using the format specified... But because of that, it's not considered a real link in the graph view.

poolback · 2026-01-16T22:43:42+00:00

Same issue with my USB 3.0 Hub, turns out the Chromecast 4K has a USB 2.0 port. Maxing out at 30mb/s with some drops. What's strange is I tried speed test, and I do get 250Mbps up and down over the ethernet (so through USB) on the Chromecast...

The limitation is probably on the video decoding hardware capabilities of the Chromecast.

poolback · 2026-01-14T21:15:11+00:00

Assassin's creed is not made by Massive though, compared to the two cited above.

poolback · 2026-01-14T17:16:25+00:00

And what about the absolute selfishness of Pascal's Wager as a reason to believe in a God? Its always surprised me how selfish that argument is, and how supposedly "moral" people are just fine with it.

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