This might depend on the country for EU. In France especially if you're an adult, getting an appointment for a diagnosis is either extremely long (public health sector delays regularly exceed one year), very expensive (over a 100€ out-of-pocket) or downright impossible (if you're in a big city you're fine, some places don't have anyone available at all). Sometimes it's a combination of those (yay).

And then if you're getting medicated, another whole world of fun begins (restricted prescriptions, shortages, etc)

You're talking about Paris here, not France. Even 'big' cities like Rennes or Nantes I never had to wait more than a week or two, and in the small city I live in I usually get appointments within a week (but I'm in a high QOL area so we might have a large concentration of specialists), and never out of pocket. But yes, in some areas you will have to drive up to two hours before finding a specialist.

Hey this is not my experience. Getting an appointment for my daughter - in France - was a few weeks wait. But also the whole diagnostic was around 500€, barely touched by the Sécurité Sociale and totally reimbursed by the insurance (mutuelle). This was in a minor city.

> over a 100€ out-of-pocket

My understanding is that you typically pay something like this in the US for a specialist visit even if you have insurance, especially if you haven't already paid the year's deductibles.

Fellow ADHDer here, I'm not a smoker but long before I was diagnosed, lyrics from a song of my favorite band/artist hit me particularly hard. It was Drag by Joey Cape/Lagwagon, a song about the struggles of smoking. Here's the part, especially the last two lines.

  The drag on the next one
  Is something I can look forward to
  Something to slow the synapse
  Something to do with my hands

I'm lucky enough to be properly medicated now and to have been shielded from smoking by a combination of favorable family environment, a great pediatrist back then and great prevention efforts in school, because if not I'm pretty sure I would have been a heavy smoker. The need for mental peace and focus was just too strong.

This was my first thought. Why TP-Link, why now? Looks like another extortion scheme from POTUS.

Our first terraforming goal should be the Earth, not the Moon, not Mars.

I.e. we're all threatened by the climate catastrophe and if we're not able to fix the planet we're the most fit to inhabit, the rest is just absolute lunacy.

He didn't need to own Twitter for this, so even if you give Musk some slack about his God-awful opinions, his (real and hypothetical) achievements are still not a good reason at all to stay on X.

They also need an outlet for all the garbage they generate, hence the transformation of Sora into a shitty social network.

Well no. French person here. While this verdict is a great victory for democracy in itself, a lot of problems around it are still not solved.

- Prosecuting white-collar crime still takes ages and takes over a decade, long after the resulting sentences have a real impact

- People like Nicolas Sarkozy have powerful media relays (most of the TV/newspaper owners in France are friends of him or at least sympathetic) and they can smear the judgment, smear the judges in the media with impunity

- His allies are currently in power, he was invited for a short discussion by president Macron and got a visit in prison from the minister of justice Darmanin, which reeks of favoritism

So the road ahead is still long, and I'm not even talking about current political climate which is horrendous.

Although, as you note, it could always be better… it is still impressive that your system seems to be overcoming 2 and 3.

compared to most countries you are still doing great!

> Current state-of-the-art models are, in my experience, very good at writing boilerplate code or very simple architecture especially in projects or frameworks where there are extremely well-known opinionated patterns (MVC especially).

Which makes sense, considering the absolutely massive amount of tutorials and basic HOWTOs that were present in the training data, as they are the easiest kind of programming content to produce.

Don't make me tap the "Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" sign.

Everyone always thinks they're right and the market is irrational. But taking the outside view, at least some of the people who think the market is irrational are actually just wrong and the market is right. And those are the people who will observe the market staying apparently-irrational the longest!

Yeah, markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. But also you can stay wrong longer than you can stay solvent. And it's much easier to be personally wrong about something than for the market in aggregate to be wrong about something. So you have to expect that, most of the time, if you disagree with the market, you are in fact wrong.

Also with betting against crypto I always question who is the counterparty, where will the bet happen and if I win will I actually get paid?

Ryanair talks a lot, but they mostly do it for the free PR they inevitably get when people act shocked. Almost all of their proposal are unfeasible or downright illegal and all of them should be considered bullshit until proven otherwise.