…and considerably longer to develop certain aspects of a field. I’ve seen Professors whose work came to fruition 20, 30 years later. It wasn’t the person themselves, but the team they assembled around them ( which also takes lots of time).

If you are working now, please do remember the IRS demands you still declare/pay taxes, even if you renounce your US citizenship. So if you are emigrating to Canada or any other FATCA country, keep that in mind.

If you go back to school in the EU, like some have proposed, be advised most of European academia ist costing money. No clue about other places.

That said I’m in Europe now and looking at other places, because the overall climate is not great. There are pockets of progress and understanding. I’m lucky to be in one. My Canadian/American friends assure me there still are many friendly places left in the US. Maybe you can find one as a shorter term solution.

I use drip on android. Did not know they had an ios version.

+1 for immich. Not ideal, not bad either…

My mom was never that honest (with herself). When we went through her belongings after her death we found pictures with some of her “just friends” where they were kissing passionately. My dads response: that sure is normal behaviour for all women when their partners aren’t around… LOL.

I, too get blocked by certain sites. I think it’s a configuration thing, where it does not like my combination of uBlock/NoScript, even when I explicitly allow their scripts…

Well considering they have so much wealth, they can just build their Shangri la on top of Mount Everest or 50 miles below earth, and continue their existence, I’d say indefinitely.

Wouldn’t something like a T1000 (50w/8GB) be okay? I know I use a much older matrox card (30w?/ w/ even lower TDP) for this purpose. It’s not great, but it transcodes in hardware.

Thanks for typing it out! Doctors jumping to conclusions that are demonstratebly false by facts happened far too often to me too. Adapting by choosing a different one seems often the only solution.

At this occasion I think it adds to the insanity. It makes it look like the nurse is a pationt too, with her trying to roll away a normal chair

4090s are what price now? Didn’t keep track, I’m astonished. never thought I’d see the day when Apples RAM pricing is seen as competitive.

Just FYI: The “Mac Studio” when equipped with 32-core M3Ultra processors can have up to 512GB of RAM.

It costs like 15k after taxes, so not exactly the scope of this thread, but it exists.

As someone who was denied treatment for my ADHD because I am able to hold a job (diagnosed late in life) I’m curious: why on earth would doctors deny treatment the other way around too? That sounds so illogical.

If I’m intruding too much - just dont reply, I understand.

I can tell you how I did it. Stopwatch and webcam. Also getting used to a set of questions helped answer different questions.

I started a stopwatch and only answered the questions in my head. Went through a set of 50 questions. Noted the time. (While typing this out I think it could have been 20 questions, not sure.) I did this only three times so I had a consistent baseline.

Then I sat in front of my webcam. Put it on mirror mode so I could see my face, since faces are the most distracting to me. I should note my cam back then had a noticeable 2 second lag so that was very annoying to me. And faces are my biggest distraction. Maybe something else is in order today, since I do not know how to recreate this effect with modern software. I had the camera hooked up with FireWire and mirrored with some freeware stuff. Also my face was the wrong way further irritating me.

Different set of questions. Same number. Started the clock again. Looking down reading, then looking into the webcam when answering the question. Sound of the cam was off. First try - Took a looooong time to get through.

I only did the webcam thing the other times. I just multiplied the baseline to the cards I was reading.

If this is actually helpful to others, I don’t know. Maybe you can adapt this to your needs.

On the other hand there are fast card games where you need fast hand eye coordination to pick up and throw away cards depending on the cards your opponents are playing. I never figured out how to get better there. Still bad at it.

Edited to add: I also recorded one session and I realized how slow I was speaking. it never occurred to me before, since I usually think quite fast and was usually one of the first people to finish exams.

It will get better I swear.

I have the same problem. For me training took care of this temporary muteness under pressure. Unfortunately training took longer than my relationship who loved to play lasted, but hey, now I’m at least OK in it (and really good when I get to the zone).

Hope I’m not intruding. If OP is like me Salicylic acid will not work for some strange reason, metabolism maybe. I am currently in month 2 of 6 of trying silicon scar sheets like these and my scar is getting less pronounced and smaller. I usually put these on the scar right before going to bed and leave it on for the night. Sometimes even forget it and it stays on for the day too. So far I can recommend these.