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ycken | 2 years ago | on: Basic Physics of Rowing (2007)

I have owned a Concept 2 Model D for quite a while. It has been one of my best investments. It just works. There has never been anything that has come close in dollars per work, no gym, no other equipment, not even running shoes.

ycken | 4 years ago | on: What if there were no ad blockers?

Living in a world designed and geared towards others is always going to be harder. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was not born with nor had any dysfunction, affliction, malady, sickness, infirmity, disability, defect, or disorder that caused him to grow to 7’ 2” tall but if you asked him, other than basketball, how easy was it for him to fit into a world built and geared for people well shorter than him, I’m sure he will explain how difficult it is whether it’s fitting into a seat on a bus or a plane or finding pants or shoes that fit. No one would refer to him as having a disorder; he’s just much, much taller than most people. How your brain focuses on tasks or filters stimulating inputs is not a disorder. Embrace that diversity that is you.

< https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/neurodiversity >

Neurodiversity refers to the idea that neurological differences, such as those seen in autism or ADHD, reflect normal variations in brain development. Neurodiversity is often contrasted with the “medical model,” which views conditions like autism or ADHD as disorders to prevent, treat, or cure. There has been a push to move away from this idea of pathology and more toward a more nuanced perspective with variations of what is “normal.”

ycken | 4 years ago | on: What if there were no ad blockers?

> as essential as ramps are for wheelchair users Imagine a world where 93% of people used wheelchairs all the time; there would be no stairs

Imagine a world where 93% of people have the Hunter or Edison Gene, no one would have flashy things on webpages, ads or otherwise. That would also mean more than 10 times as many people with amazing creativity and insight and many fewer people who are willing to do the same thing over and over and over and over like 93% of the people in this world. We likely would have found ways to eliminate drudgery for most tasks. Perhaps we would live in a happier world where people were more fulfilled.

@krono, living with the Hunter Gene in a world built for people with the Farmer Gene does not mean you have a problem, dysfunction, affliction, malady, sickness, infirmity, disability, defect, or disorder but does mean you must adapt to a world built for others.

Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. Celebrate and build on your strengths, mitigate your weaknesses as we all should.

Edison Genes [0]

Although ADHD is often described by the problems it presents, several recent studies (see here, here, and here) have reaffirmed other potential advantages linked to the ADHD diagnosis, namely — the ability to think more creatively, and entrepreneurial orientation (EO).

ADHD has been linked to three aspects of creative cognition, namely: divergent thinking, conceptual expansion, and overcoming existing knowledge constraints.

[0] https://medium.com/welded-thoughts/adhd-the-return-of-the-hu...

ycken | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to get started with CB radio?

Most anyone on Hacker News should consider all of amateur radio. Morse Code is no longer needed for a license and it opens many more possibilities especially for disaster communications.

Those in the Bay Area should check out "The San Francisco Radio Club ( 1916 - 2020 ) Celeb rating 104 Years serving the city of San Francisco & the Community" < https://www.sfarc.org/ > They are a great bunch and are, as one would expect, very knowledgeable.

ycken | 4 years ago | on: Git undo: We can do better

> The truth is, while we use git every day, most people really don't understand how it works.

It is a tool. One should not need to understand the inner workings of a tool to use it. How many APIs do we use where knowing how it does what it does is required? Whether it's Stripe or Node or Bundler or ..., the user does not have to know what happens inside. The need for incantations makes some people feel powerful or exclusive. I just want my tools to do their job so I can focus on doing mine.

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