bleakenthusiasm

Oh yes, I hate this. OneUI has that as well. It makes searching for an app so much more conscious and bothersome. I don't want my app drawer to look as neat as possible, I want it to work with the least amount of attention that I can possibly get away with.

It looks really good. Like, really good. I have one thing that throws me, though: if you keep drawing over the same section, you don't get more coverage. It always looks like the first pass. But I'm so surprised at how well this works to emulate chalk.

May I interest you in another talk covering data in S3 buckets and how far companies will go to fix their misconfigurations? (Hint: not far)

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-projekt-bucketchallenge

For me a huge challenge is that I grew older (college years) in an environment where people were strongly convinced that opinions and tastes can only be right or wrong. If someone liked something else than the group, they just didn't see the truth. It was exhausting and also meant that "finding friends" basically meant trying to find someone who likes and values exactly the same things as you.

I learned pretty late that you can get along very well with people who have vastly different taste and as long as your ideals are not directly contradicting, it still works.

So I guess my suggestion is: don't artificially limit your pool of potential friends by looking for the perfect match. No need to find your soul-copy. Someone with whom concersation flows is just fine.

They usually do Translation live, so I'd be very surprised if they didn't offer them in the stream as well. They always offer English and I think some talks have been live-transcribed, too, for people with hearing disabilities, but that might be automated by now.

Personally I think it's good you are not forced to present in English. I know enough people who are not comfortable enough with English to present in it. There are also some niche topics that have a focus on Germany. For these sometimes German brings a bit of nuance/local flair that you can't really translate. For these I'm happy that German is available as the original and then the translators will do their best to provide an English second best.

To some degree I find it inevitable that conferences situated in countries that are not native English speaking will have some program points in the local language. As long as they offer help with understanding the content, I don't see an issue with this, regardless of how big/influential they are.

One reason is religion. That aside, people are afraid that this could be abused. People could choose this purelyto avoid additional cost to their relatives.

It could be used as an excuse why more costly options to avoid pain and suffering in old people might not be covered by insurance anymore.

People could be talked into it for various reasons.

Canada is a good example of a country where I think the base to make it work in a positive way is given. Their insurance covers a lot of treatments for basically everyone. The country cares about its citizens in a way that makes you believe they won't use euthanasia as a cop out to avoid paying for medical care.

If these circumstances are not given, euthanasia can easily be seen as an easy way to get rid of people who are too expensive for society or too cumbersome to take care of.

I think that's the point? The title is grabbing for attention, but the point of laws to choose assisted dying is basically always that people with terminal conditions often are in such pain that they choose a peaceful death over extending the pain.

You can read this title in an alarming way or just the same in a way that says "the law is working and people actually want this option".

I read this as "answer within the hour when preparing an exhibition". If you are in full swing to get an exhibition up and running and this is the time you decide to throw yourself into deep focus work, you are probably hard to work with. I would also assume if some artist told the author "look I know we open on Tuesday, but this Friday we have my kid's birthday so from 4 to 8 I won't be easy to reach", this would probably just be silently dropped from the cou ting of how fast they respond.

On the other hand, without warning going dark for 4 work day hours a few days before exhibition would look terrible if any serious question came up.

So I don't think it's literally responding within the hour, but it comes pretty dang close. You have to keep in mind that being an artist creating art and being an artist setting up an exhibition are basically two different jobs and if you end up doing them in parallel at the same time, that's your problem right there.

It's the same in Europe with the 5-stars-is-normal scale.

In my personal experience it's the app that fosters it. Many companies who ask for reviews follow up anything below 5 stars or 10/10 with "how can we improve?" Or some similar questions. This is friction they generate for me as a user if I rate anything below top tier.

Personally for me 5 stars or 10/10 would be service that is so good I couldn't even tell you how to do it. I couldn't tell you how to improve to that state unless the business in question is something I'm very familiar with. Still I sometimes find myself handing out 5 stars because otherwise I have to find something to complain about and I just can't think of anything.

So that is what has made 5 stars for me go from "mind blowingly outstanding" to "nothing to complain".

I agree with the author a little bit but overall I think she's mainly being selfish and ego-centric.

What I agree with: We have built ourselves a society where it is far too easy to fall into a secluded lifestyle. That's not a problem for everyone but it does supercharge depression and anxiety. Both of these lead to you thinking that being left alone is good for you when actually looking at any research about them is not the case in the absolute majority of cases. Both get worse with lower amount of social contact and extrusion structure in your life. In the past the pressure to go outside and have some structure was much higher and thus depression and anxiety probably had more of a grave period where people around you had a chance of realizing you were getting worse and you had a chance of still pulling yourself out of it enough to get help early. Today the behavior of someone who is just really happy alone and somebody who is spiralling into depression becomes ever harder for me to tell apart.

The rest of the article to me just reads like "but I'm an extrovert and I liked it better the way it was before". Yeah, sorry not sorry? If your friends take more effort to get them to do a pub tour these days maybe they just weren't as much into pub tours as you are? Yes, the pandemic changed our society from catering mainly to extroverts to one that now makes it much easier to be not cut off entirely while taking time for yourself as an introvert. If you don't want your introvert friends to be able to have that, you're the problem in that picture.

So going by what they aimed for in building the laser: No. The nominal power and wave length of all of these appliances is less harming to the eye than going outside on a sunny day and forgetting your sun glasses.

The issue here I guess are malfunctions or rather cheap products with bad calibration. For total safety you'd have to get someone to measure input and output of the laser.

I'd love to reassure you about something like low input power, but at the end of the day with cheap products you don't know. If a higher powered laser was cheaper at the time of production, the extra milliwatts would probably be negligible compared to overall power consumption of the robot.

So the lidar is unlikely to immediately cause eye damage at a glimpse, but if your kid likes to chase the robot and thus might look into it for longer periods of time, maybe look into options of checking the laser's actual input power.

I've worked with a few sales engineers by now because I'm the person they try to sell to. I always saw sales engineers as the result of companies realizing that by now they often have to deliver sales pitches to engineers and not just manages managers and procurement folks.

In my case, that's exactly what they need. Sales people creep me out and make me want to hide under my weighted blanket. Sales engineers are the blessing that makes sales calls informative and bearable. I don't know how companies find and recruit them, but they make it happen and I'm very happy they do.

Well, that also limits you to basically one style of looks. And that style is kind of hard to sustain, so if you don't really like it, it's a major PITA. Kinda surprised that Captain Picard wasn't mentioned though. He actually is a hero who is bald and not steroid-levels of jacked.

I read this entire thread under the assumption that we are talking about long term partners here. Completely disregarding HIV, there are enough other STIs that say unprotected sex is a bad idea, so if we are talking about hookups, the person can tell me whatever they want, condom is mandatory.

Of course long term relationships don't magically shield you against STI, but I'd hope there is enough trust to share test results of any kind that are relevant to this matter if you are having the discussion about going fluid bond. And you probably know the person well enough to know if they are reliable with taking their meds on time.

I'm one of those low experience people currently accepting a job that wants you to do so 6 different jobs at a time. I'd love to be at a company that gives me one job and lets me get good at it, but somehow I can't find it. Instead I ended up in this position where I'm now a "Senior Specialist" who is neither senior (3 years of meaningful experience) nor a specialist (my tasks range from ops work all the way to strategic planning for the next 4 years across 3 different "specialist" topics).

I dream of a job where I can be a specialist, actually learn what I'm working with and focus on one thing for an entire day. But no, I'm a one-person show (in a team with another "specialist" who singelhandedly manages our entire IAM-structure from user management to integration to strategic planning) and all I can do is try to patch things up with my ideas of how things probably should work and applying more duct tape and prayers.

I recently mentioned that I really don't feel like specialist is the role I'm working here and I was asked why I feel the need to have a bigger role. I don't "need" it. I AM not a specialist. Never have been and with his job never will be. Also I wonder why the role of director for my team is still vacant after half a year. It's a mystery. It must look like such a good opportunity.

Also rice doesn't grow anywhere near Germany. Today that's not really s factor anymore, because it's so easy to shop, but my parents both grew up sticking very much to a local and seasonal approach to cooking, because everything else was new to them. They eat what they always knew best, so 5-6 days of the week the starchy side were potatoes. Rice is way more filling by transportation effort, but potatoes have been around their entire lives and in my dad's case also what his parents grew on their farm.

I get it, though. I often crave salad when I have eaten too much fat for a day or two. Sometimes the body really just tells you what it needs.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I always feel like a complete tool when people talk about events in their adolescent years or even if we talk about the movie we watched at the theater yesterday. I remember what the movie was about and I'm probably able to recall one or two scenes that had the most impact on me, but then someone roles up and starts a discussion on "all the scenes where Rebecca and Lydia felt lost and how they were set in similar places" and I'm just lost myself. I'd be able to recall they were lost but not what scenes there were to transport that idea to me.

This makes so many moments of my life make so much more sense.

I don't have full blown aphantasia I think but mental images are always very hazy and dark to me and calling them up takes immense effort. Seems like I'm a 4 on the VVIQ scale.

On the other hand, imaginations in psychotherapy, be it for exposure it for revisiting childhood places and moments, still work for me. They are just not very visual. They contain emotions and haptic aspects, sometimes sounds and smells, but the visual is kind of like really old polaroid pictures. They frizzle out at the edges really quickly, they never move, the colors are muted and sometimes off.

At least now I know that people who claim that books evoke vibrant mental images in them are not bullshitting me. And I can stop sitting there with Lord of the Rings in hand, staring at a wall for 10 minutes and wondering why I still don't manage to "see" what Moria looks like.

I feel like this is exactly what I'd be getting into if I had heeded the recent call at work to step up taking over the lead for my team. And there is one important factor in your answer that differs from most others here: You feel like any growth or progress someone else is making is coming purely from their own work and drive.

I fully expect myself to do the same when managing people. But most answers here are different. They take pride and claim part of the success as theirs and looking at this from the IC's perspective, I don't disagree.

Sure, there are people who go at this from a "you'd be nothing without me"-approach and that's not good either. But as manager of a team you can do a good and a bad job and good managers are so important for the team.

You should learn to see your part in the team's success and your role in helping someone grow. I'm not sure how you change your mindset on this, but I think if you want to stick to management, that's your only way to make it work.

And again - as an IC I believe it is justified. I've worked under good and bad managers and bad managers can ruin the job for the entire team while good managers don't just help you be more productive. They help you grow as a person and as a contributor and they enable the team to work on things that make an impact instead of burning up their energy with the thing that looks most fancy to leadership.

I'm not sure if this is something everyone can get accustomed to see, but it is something that I see in some managers and I hope they can get their endorphins from it.

I think the underinvestment has been going on for much longer than that. It's just really been starting to show more and more throughout the last ten years or so. I'm not very optimistic with it being remedied any time soon, either. For some reason politicians have been talking about it doesn't return a profit for over a decade now. I don't know where this reasoning came from, but it's spreading to postal service as well. Suddenly public infrastructure needs to be profitable. Unless it's parking or roads of course.

Not sure if this is a German thing or specific to my bubble, but I feel like at least my friends and I have a different interpretation of "kafkaesque" than the author of this article.

Usually kafkaesque situations have something to do with bureaucracy, politics or law. They contain some element of someone sticking to rules or procedures no matter how uncomfortable and useless they might be in the specific situation. You also don't know the procedure, you just try to follow along but keep getting it wrong while everyone else seems to assume that everyone would know how this works.

Peak Kafka is reached if these rules or procedures end up in a deadlock with other procedures or if you have two or more people sticking to the official process but they all have different versions of the process that don't work together. And you are just standing right in the middle, wondering how on earth you ended up here, you just wanted to get a license renewed.

I like the entire structure that they put up for their kids to learn and I think it would work for many children. However, I doubt it would work for many parents.

The author already pointed out that it worked because they both worked from home. To most this is an unimaginable luxury.

The parents didn't strictly supervise or guide the kid in this case but I strongly assume that they engaged if the kid had questions or just wanted to talk something through. They also apparently had specialized software and a 3d printer at hand or were ready to buy one without long preamble.

The kid's interests were rather easy to handle up until a pretty high level of skill. With writing games and building small stuff you can get very far without a large workshop, risky activity, rare or hard to buy supplies etc.

I'm not at all saying the public education system can hold a candle to the effectiveness of what was told in this article and we could definitely improve a gazillion things about it. I'm just saying that this kid a lot of lucky factors coming together for it to work out THAT well.