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  • That was true 20 years ago, but Ford has been moving more and more towards a global strategy.

    The Ford Escape, Explorer, Ranger, Focus, Mustang, Mach-E, are available in both US and Europe, and I think now even the F-150 and Bronco have made it into Europe. Plus the Transit commercial range.

    So no, they’re not quite separate anymore. Some models get developed in Europe (Focus, Escape), some in the US (Mustang, Ranger) but the general goal is to sell across the Atlantic.




  • Jrockwar@feddit.uktoADHD@lemmy.worldADHD and Caffeine
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    20 days ago

    That’s quite frequent. My Not-a-doctor, simplified understanding is:

    Caffeine doesn’t target processes related to dopamine but it’s a stimulant. Outside of hyperfocus mode, ADHD brains are constantly understimulated because the lack of dopamine makes things not feel engaging and interesting. This is why our thoughts race, our brain is struggling to find ALL THE THINGS (thoughts, hobbies, worries, plans, memories) that might give it the stimulation it needs.

    Since coffee is a stimulant, the brain gets what it’s looking for and doesn’t need to race through all the possible thoughts, it’s happy. The two main problems are:

    • Coffee doesn’t have a controlled release or amount of caffeine, so the effects can be at points unpredictable (peaks, crashes, jitteriness, sudden releases).
    • Since it doesn’t affect dopamine production/intake/etc, it doesn’t help with the “uuuughhhh I can’t be bothered to do this” that happens when the brain can’t see/understand there is a reward.




  • I’ve seen this claim recently and it’s rubbish.

    Yes, if by “nothing” we mean writing next to no code, because they’re busy either:

    • architecting software solutions, as they’re knowledgeable enough that they should be doing this instead of writing code
    • understanding a lot of what is going on in components and/or the system so that when there’s an issue they say “oh, this is likely because of X” and the resolution takes days instead of weeks.

    I.e. yes, there is a percentage of developers who we pile other tasks on and they don’t get to write code.

    My experience is that the more knowledgeable developers get, the less code they write.

    Then neurodivergent peeps are different - an Autistic dev might be super knowledgeable and happy writing unit tests because they don’t enjoy the uncertainty of large problems, or an ADHD developer might have a large system-wide view but write what seem like small contributions.