green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
Instead of comp, here's a pool table. That'll keep everyone in the office!
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
My favorite way to end brushing my teeth.
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
Yes, that's exactly the feeling. https://youtu.be/AbSehcT19u0
I hope you are able to find a doctor and get some relief.
It's amazing how much ADHD I've been fighting moment to moment without realizing it. I work in a bit of a chaotic job where work is generally self directed and I get a constant flow of email, messages, and people coming to talk to me. I just got my ADHD diagnosis and have an appointment for medication coming up. I decided to do an activity log to see what I was doing in a day so I could compare before and after medication. I tried to plug in my phone *4 times* in the span of an hour before I finally did it. Like had the end of the charger and my phone in hand and got distracted because I realized I forgot/needed to do X, Y, Z. I set out the day with a goal and before I knew it I had a half dozen half written messages, a longer Todo list, and no work done towards what I needed. Guess what I'm doing this evening? Lol How long has this been going on? I knew I was struggling with motivation and focus, but it blows my mind how present it is moment to moment. Fingers crossed for medication. I would highly recommend doing an activity journal as a point of reference. Within a day it has already put things into perspective for me.
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
I had not thought about having the sunscreen leech into the water. Thank you for educating!
Or ever. It's difficult to know when it's been properly applied. Stick to something that you can be sure is applied properly to exposed areas.
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 0%
How do you will yourself to the right thing? Is it a matter of creating the right environment? Being mindful?
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
Yeah, but one day the thousands of browser bookmarks will come in handy. Right?
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
The per degree temp control is a huge win along with the spout. Itll also stay warm for 30mins, optional beeps when done heating, and you can have it boil water automatically for a specific time. I really enjoy mine.
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
I have the same one. Mainly got it for temp control for white tea and figured having per degree control was a huge plus. Plus it's so nice artistically
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
Ugh, I hate that this resonates.
Does medication help with this?
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
I was recently diagnosed from a neuro-psych. Similar process of many hours of testing (~5h). My friend was also diagnosed recently from a psychiatrist through question answer, but no formal cognitive evaluation measure. The amount of clarity I got from the neuro-psych in terms of cognitive function and my specific circumstances was significantly more helpful than what my friend got from the psychiatrist.
After all the formal testing, I was given a thorough 17 page report including a breakdown of each aspect of cognitive functioning, any applicable disorders (with recommendation for therapy to investigate further and confirm), next steps, and treatment and coping mechanism recommendations. My friend was given a broad diagnosis of unspecified ADHD with no additional information.
If you are able to afford the neuropsych eval, it is well worth it.
An important distinction is that a neuropsych eval focuses on cognitive function. It works for ADHD because it is a cognitive function disorder and will show directly in testing as a deficiency in executive function (plus possibly other stuff, I'm not an expert). They also do the psych eval tests but they can normally point to broad things that you will need therapy to dig into.
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
Ah, that's the stuff
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 50%
Exactly.
At the end of the day people like him are allowed to have so much influence because of regulations (or lack there of). Tax them, hold them accountable legally, something.
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
No! Adding it to the watchlist, thanks!
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
It's crazy to me that we live in a world where money and celebrity implies influence, and credentials don't mean much on a general public stage. This man can tweet something insane and its taken as a serious discussion point.
Given that money can buy influence, it is a legitimate risk to society, I get that. But how crazy is that as a concept?
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
It's actually pretty shocking. It seems so normal to struggle to buy a house, yet most of the last generation have one. It's going to be a rude awakening for society as this trend continues. At some point the older generation is going to pass on and free up houses. What is that even going to look like? Are they going to be jacked up too? It's just not sustainable if you project it out. There has to be a tipping point. People need homes and renting is so limiting.
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
https://engineering.fb.com/2015/05/04/core-data/under-the-hood-facebook-s-cold-storage-system/
This is an article from 2015 where Facebook/Meta was exploring Blu-ray for their DCs. You're definitely right though. Tape is key as the longest term storage.
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
This is such a great example of the potential consequences of making a decision without understanding the landscape/context. It's obvious this would happen in hindsight.
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
Super cool, blew my mind! I would love to see it in operation. The logistics from the machine side + the storage heuristics for when to store to a disc that's write-only sounds like a really cool problem.
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 97%
There are also techniques where data centers do offline storage by writing out to a high volume storage medium (I heard blueray as an example, especially because it's cheap) and storing it in racks. All automated of course. This let's them store huge quantities of infrequently accessed data (most of it) in a more efficient way. Not everything has to be online and ready to go, as long as it's capable of being made available on demand.
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
Well now I'm grabbing ramen for dinner.
The pork looks incredible. Is that from a flattop? oven broil?
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
I agree. I much prefer text stuff. It's hard deny the shift though. Looking at TikTok as an extreme example, a whole generation is getting their news from someone doing a dance while two other videos play of cutting playdough. I'm not saying it's wrong, but I do think it's really hurting our ability as a species to exist without attention hacking.
If you've managed to exist outside of that band of information exchange, I commend you.
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
Attention spans. News content these days are moving to video other text to better grab your attention. When everything is really engaging, you have to be more engaging than that to get seen.
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
The number of articles out about the latest and greatest game updates from a few hours ago which are rehashing patches released a week or more ago drive me nuts. How many times do I have to wade through multiple screens of preamble to find out that content is being recycled from week old news.
But yes, the ratio of low signal to high signal content is crazy in general. I get that people have to make a living and want to do it via communicating on YouTube/articles/... but I feel we've really lost access to high quality content. ChatGPT and other LLMs are going to make this wayyyyyyy worse.
Content recommendation algorithms push for length and frequency, which inevitably means meeting the quantity bar is more important than quality. Meanwhile we have really thought out high quality content buried in a mountain of clickbait and those creators both don't get as good monetization or exposure. It's a sad system :(. I want to see more ErrantSignal quality bar and less clickbait please.
green_light_stop 1 year ago • 100%
Do you have a detailed list of duties? Ask for one. If you don't feel comfortable doing that look for duties of similar positions for different companies. If they are asking you to do these management related duties under some pretence that you'll be promoted to a leadership role, then that's one thing. I think it's fair to have a conversation with your manager about how you are feeling, what you are doing (make a list), what your career goals are, and how you can align that with the company.