My school district's budget for "Data Processing Services" is around $9m...I wonder how much of that is the fancy new grading/attendance software they recently purchased
I've maintained for a while I could write something better in a month
Looks like i probably don’t have adhd then, I’m just bad at time management+lazy+sloppy, not enough to screw up my life all that much outside of academics
—-There go my dreams of becoming an amphétamine dealer—-
A lot of people I know with ADHD, myself included, fall into the ""high-functioning"" category: apparently fine at school/work, but a disorganized mess at home
Ngl i used to think high functioning meant like functioning at a higher level than the average person because i first heard the term in the context of autism
@lyxal how are we going to cook without pseudo , mr white?
today in US news: Montana has become the first state to "ban" TikTok
I'm using "ban" in quotes here because 1. it doesn't take effect till next year, 2. it only fines appstores that distribute the app, not people who have it installed, and 3. it's probably going to be challenged before it goes into effect
> True story: I was once prevented from leaving a neutron-science facility at Los Alamos after the seat of my pants set off a radiation alarm on exit. This was odd because the neutron beam had been off for weeks.
> It was a Saturday, so the radiation safety technician on call didn't arrive for half an hour — at which point I was clean, so the detective questions began. I had spent the day sitting on a plastic step stool. The tech looked at it, said that radon's decay products are concentrated by static electricity, and told me that I needed to get a real chair.
Stack Exchange's removal of "last seen" has demonstrated that the time that users are active is considered private information. However, there are still a variety of ways to circumvent that, and I've found what I believe is a new one.
SE's websockets have a <userid>-topbar endpoint. This is used ...
Imagine a rock in the shape of a chessboard with pieces in a certain configuration.
Throw the rock down a particular hill. The hill is shaped in such a way that, given the correct throw, the chessboard-rock will be chipped and flinted in a deterministic way as it rolls and bounces down.
At the en...
@emanresuA So many of their questions are "let's take this commonly-used word that doesn't have a clear definition to most people and ask whether it applies to a situation"