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Australis13

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  • Best way to work with USB devices that only have Windows software/drivers?

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  • No, didn't try that as I had several other applications as well that also won't run under WINE on Linux, so went with Windows VMs instead. But I'll have to give that a try when I have time.

  • Celtic Knot TNG com badge

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  • That's really neat. If it's your work, how long did it take you to draw?

  • Best way to work with USB devices that only have Windows software/drivers?

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  • The only solution I have found for this (I have a digital microscope with Windows-only drivers) was to use a VM. In my case VirtualBox + Windows 10 worked. That's a lot of overhead for what you want to do, though.

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    Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability

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  • Sigh. Misleading headline - the suspected radiotrophic ability seems to already exist in the species (which was identified in the late 19th Century; it's not new, despite the article claiming it's a "strange black fungus") and several others, based on research with non-Chernobyl collections:

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1866175/

  • Meet the Three Garbage Bag Cats; Tiny, Moustache and Chonky

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  • Wow, 16! That's an amazing effort and it's great to hear that they all get along. 👍️

    We only kept two of the eight that we rescued (I live in the suburbs of an Australian city where there is a low level of stray cats) but there have been two that I wish I'd been able to catch.

  • Meet the Three Garbage Bag Cats; Tiny, Moustache and Chonky

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  • Thank you for putting in all the effort to save these kittens. It's heartbreaking to think somebody dumped them in a garbage bag like that.

    Are you planning to keep them all or will they be rehomed now that they're older and healthy?

  • Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking

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  • I'm sure these idiots have no concept of the future. They want to burn everyone out in months to years for the sake of boosting their profits in the here and now. Doesn't matter that if you treat your workers well (and pay them well) you often get greater productivity over a longer period.

  • what is your clothes quirks?

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  • Agreed!

  • Outrage over Trump’s bill reclassifying nursing as not a ‘professional degree’ for college students

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  • I think you're right. It will be those with financial resources that can enter the profession, which basically means that there will be even fewer nurses and the cost of healthcare will increase even further. It will be only available to the 1%.

  • Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries

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  • Not remotely surprised that this is the case, but am not holding my breath that it will make MAGA followers any more likely to reassess their worldview.

  • Study reveals why the brain 'zones out' when you're exhausted

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  • I hear you! Getting the balance right is very challenging. One of my approaches has been to try to set up systems to make day-to-day stuff easier to do, which means I have more bandwidth for work and hobbies. But that in itself can be a real challenge, as those sort of systemic "upgrades" are often big tasks that take a lot of time and energy to implement.

  • Do people think you are miserable to be around?

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  • About the only time I've been told I'm unpleasant to be around is if I'm having a meltdown or highly agitated (so near a meltdown).

    The average person whom I mask around never sees an issue.

  • Study reveals why the brain 'zones out' when you're exhausted

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  • Fair enough, and I'd agree that the sense of "zoning out" is more prevalent in the ND community.

    I guess my main reluctance here is that whilst the effects may feel the same for some people, I'm skeptical that the underlying mechanism is (beyond the aforementioned increased risk of sleep issues), and wanted to ensure that headline-only readers didn't think this article was necessarily representative of autism.

  • Study reveals why the brain 'zones out' when you're exhausted

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  • Thanks, I appreciate the different perspective. As some who has experienced autistic burnout and also has sleep challenges, my personal experience is that the impacts are different, but that's just me.

  • Study reveals why the brain 'zones out' when you're exhausted

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  • Interesting but I don't think it's necessarily related to neurodiversity. The article is talking about severe sleep deprivation; it suggests that the brain is attempting to conduct activities usually reserved for sleep (e.g. clearing out waste materials via cerebrospinal fluid) whilst you're awake, resulting in those loss of concentration moments.

    Now, sleep is more often troublesome for neurodivergent individuals (particularly autistics), so some degree of this effect is potentially seen with greater frequency in autistics, but I would be hesitant to point to this as the main driver of attention-related difficulties without further data (especially when we know that there are other factors that influence attention regulation in neurodivergent individuals).

  • The MAHA Movement Has a New Misunderstood Hero: Elizabeth Holmes

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  • Sigh. I'm clearly too jaded for this kind of insanity to surprise me any more.

  • I wish debugging looked like this

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  • If only it were so easy...

  • Quark's Rootbeer

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  • This needs to be on a t-shirt.

  • Clock but we saved DB space by just returning the index of the array of DigitNames

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  • There's something to be said for consistency!