> I think they just want families with young children to pay to sit together, like everyone else has to
Oh great so now I have to sit next to someone’s unattended child in the name of fairness? Am I gonna get the option to subsidise the family’s seat grouping instead of being saddled with that noise? Talk about creating problems for no good reason.
You reject his premise but you did not refute it. Reiterating the adaptive struggles you and other ADHD sufferers face does not invalidate the idea that it is a competitive advantage under certain circumstances.
I did refute it, vociferously. If you have evidence for it being an evolutionary advantage, you are welcome to present it. The only scientific argument I've seen presented is that it made us better foragers but I ask you, who is foraging today? It's an utterly absurd position to take that it is a competitive advantage in a scenario no one in the first world will ever encounter.
Sounds like you don’t even dispute his point, so how could you have refuted it?
To your point about relevance : nobody here has claimed this competitive advantage is wildly useful in a “first world” context, something the GP actually framed explicitly.
Personally I don’t think one needs to invoke post apocalyptic scenarios, as there are plenty of “first world” professions or scenarios that benefit from the same skill sets - military, emergency medicine, firefighting, just to name a few. The first world isn’t all spreadsheets and jira tasks.
I honestly don't know where you're going with this. You're theorizing about a condition you presumably don't have and then extrapolating your theories to professions you imagine to fit your idea of the "skillset" people with ADHD supposedly have.
There is not a skillset attached to the diagnosis of ADHD. There is no time to develop a skillset when the mind is constantly roving and unable to concentrate.
Could not disagree more. Nothing is “interesting” in perpetuity. Hence why so many with ADHD engage with various topics in an intense but sporadic manner.
In the overwhelming majority of cases this scattershot approach is deeply frustrating for the individual, and orders of magnitude less productive - in terms of meaningful creation and innovation - than persevering on a focused set of tasks.
I don’t think your comments are in conflict, being engaged with an interest does not necessarily mean being directly engaged with a project/task related to that interest. I definitely empathize with the scattershot approach being frustrating, but i think that comes out of an intense interest in a topic, and a lack of ability to focus on a specific task, even if it is self-selected and related to an interest.
I can think of many examples of times where I was unable to complete a project (in part) due to a drive to answer every question that I encountered in the process, and questions branching from those answers. So yes it does definitely impact productivity and perseverance for specific tasks, but I would separate that from the unique ability to learn intensely about interesting topics with reasonable depth and exceptional breadth that ADHD seems to give.
> He might not be a super technical software engineer, but is he "non-technical" in that he can't even write some simple python or something equivalent?
1. that's a very low bar, almost to the point of making any distinction meaningless
2. imho, "technical" and "non-technical" are context dependent, and not intrinsic human qualities. Speaking for myself : I'm a technical individual contributor on my current team, but there are plenty of domains (bleeding edge AI research likely being one of them) where my technical acumen would fall short of expectations for an IC, and hence where my most logical role would be non-technical in nature.
Purely out of ignorance - what's the context here? I'm not in this space, but afaik Ghidra was released years ago so I'm guessing this post was triggered by a recent development, but it's not clear what that might be.
As someone who is in this space, I’m not aware of any recent major developments so it’s most likely someone just thought it’s cool and hasn’t been talked about on HN in sufficiently long
Yesterday Joe Grand put up a video explaining how he used Ghidra to find the password generator pattern and helped someone recover 43 BTC. For some folks, that was probably their first time seeing Ghidra in action and I imagine it sparked the curiosity flame again.
People post random stuff on here all the time. Often it is just a Wikipedia link to some topic with no context, no discussion or anything. I think it is lazy karma whoring and it works because people upvote it if they know what it is an like it. I might go ahead and submit the Wiki page for Rust :)
It probably should. The amount of ancillary and contextual information required to correctly distinguish between legal and illegal settings and application is invasively high.
Your observation is neither novel nor helpful. People suffering are often not suffering due to a lack of information, or because they’ve never taken middle school history.
Possibly due to social stigma. I don’t know that what I’m describing can be attributed to the safety net itself, but many countries with excellent social safety programs also have a low social tolerance for failure. This is not limited to using social benefits - e.g fail in business and you’re a business failure who will struggle to get any financing ever again.
Oh great so now I have to sit next to someone’s unattended child in the name of fairness? Am I gonna get the option to subsidise the family’s seat grouping instead of being saddled with that noise? Talk about creating problems for no good reason.