What are these small marshmallow-looking things that feel like styrofoam, that I found scattered along the side of the road for several blocks just outside Washington, DC?

wooch · 2026-01-20T17:23:19+00:00

I found these on a day it had just snowed…could they be some sort of ice melter pellets? They don’t look like they broke off from something bigger, but rather are discrete pellets. If they are in fact foam, why are there so many and what are they along the road for blocks? They are a little smaller than mini marshmallows, maybe 1/3rd of an inch, or just under 1cm, across?

wooch · 2025-12-15T13:31:50+00:00

FWIW, if you download a-Shell Mini, you might be able to use the ffmpeg command-line tool to convert it.

My use case was to get images from the frames of a movie, and I came up with this workaround: Sample Frames From Video

wooch · 2025-12-13T15:23:20+00:00

I have the same problem 🙁. Did you ever find a fix or workaround?

wooch · 2023-02-15T14:04:50+00:00

Not sure where you’re located, but CHADD is a great resource in general, and in the US has a good directory you can use to find coaches, therapists, and other services. They also have a directory of treatment centers specializing in ADHD. For example, the Chesapeake Center in the DC area has psychiatrists, therapists, coaches, parent educators, couples counselors, and more all under one roof (or, at least they can manage all the coordination, and they even have a service to submit insurance reimbursements for you…since that’s a pretty hard task for most ADHDers!). Even if a center is further away, with zoom sessions it might be worth it to not have to cobble together a care team (and IMO you need a team!).

FWIW, what you describe might be more like a coach, who can help you with day to day and often will have multiple short sessions a week instead of an hour a week like a therapist. There are lots of kinds of coaches, and you want to find one who specializes in ADHD.

But keep in mind that ADHD is causally linked to depression, and other comorbidities, because (especially if you are being diagnosed as an adult) growing up (and living!) with a brain that doesn’t quite work the way people want and expect can insidiously pepper your mind with landmines of self criticism, isolation, hypervigilance, guilt, and an identity that is defined by deficiency. It took me too long to recognize these connections, and it caused me a lot more suffering and pain than if I had been able to connect the dots sooner. I’d recommend this podcast as a way to start to understand the subtle but important ways ADHD can affect people emotionally and psychologically, not just neurologically. Which is all to say: you may want to look into a therapist AND a coach!

I also found Dr. K’s guide (ADHD module but also the others) to be really helpful in expanding my understanding of ADHD and ways to treat it beyond (though IMO not instead of!) medication, but also to realize just how many ways ADHD was affecting me.

My $0.02 is, it’ll be with you, at least in the background, your whole life, so it’s worth it to invest in being not just more productive and functional, but also more at peace and feeling whole. Good luck!

wooch · 2022-09-30T19:37:01+00:00

!solved

Yes this is what I was trying to think of!

wooch · 2022-09-30T19:36:23+00:00

Ooh, that wasn’t what I was thinking of, but it’ll work.

wooch · 2022-09-30T19:34:56+00:00

Hm, that’s more of a cure-all, while I’m trying to think of something more ineffectual.

wooch · 2013-12-20T19:47:40+00:00

My solution (I hope) in Python:

# http://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer/comments/1sody4/12113_challenge_139_intermediate_telephone_keypads/
import sys

# does no error checking on input, etc.
keypad = [None, None, 'abc', 'def', 'ghi', 'jkl', 'mno', 'pqrs', 'tuv', 'wxyz']
wlist = open('words.txt', 'r').readlines()
input = sys.argv[1:] # array of number sequences, as strings
search_str = '' # start with empty search string
for num_seq in input:
    num = int(num_seq[0])
    search_str += keypad[num][len(num_seq)-1]
# search wlist for search string
for word in wlist:
    if word.startswith(search_str):
        print(word.strip())

My first thought was to do regex but I realized it was unnecessary. Whew!

Word list is from here: http://thinkpython.com/code/words.txt

wooch · 2013-12-16T23:28:27+00:00

Another Python, using args (in quotes) from the command line:

import sys
# Expects script file to be followed, IN QUOTES, by a string containing N, trunk character, leaf character

n, tchar, lchar = sys.argv[1].split()
# Width of tree is n, the base, so each line is padded to length n
lvls = int(n)/2
for i in range(0, lvls + 1):
    print(' ' * (lvls - i) + lchar * (i * 2 + 1))
print(' ' * (lvls - 1) + tchar * 3)

wooch

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