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As a side note, there is also a push to change the name of an important knitting technique, Kitchener stitch, which was named in honor of the General.

Cochlear implants actually are kind of miracle devices. With early implementation, deaf children can have perfect speech and pretty good hearing (not perfect). We are at the point where denying your child speech and hearing is a choice.

My son is deaf, with a CI in one ear and hearing aid in the other. If you couldn't see them, you wouldn't think there was anything different about him.

Deaf children can be taught to speak by very explicitly demonstrating tongue/throat position. It's a pretty arduous process and has fallen out of favor, so most deaf people who don't get a cochlear implant will use sign language only.

However, with early implantation language acquisition is relatively easy (thought it varies per child).

You can get over-the-ear hearing aids in plenty of colors. This is not where the gap lies.

Very similar situation here (except both my husband's father and mother live with us). Yes, there's occasional friction, but we make it work. My father-in-law makes dinner, gets the kid on and off the bus, runs the errands, etc. At this point, doing the nuclear family thing seems quite intimidating.

I'm glad he's still doing the Lateral podcast (as that's the only thing I know him from). I do wish he would get somebody besides Youtubers as guests, though. It's frustrating to hear 20-somethings with very little cultural and historical knowledge try to work through the problems.

You're discounting the time you spend waiting for your order to be prepared. I now pretty much exclusively get lunch at places that have online ordering, because I can order before I leave the house and it's ready when I get there.

They sent me the wrong item, and now I not only don't have the item I ordered, but have to take a trip to the UPS store to send this thing back. Extremely frustrating!

I also received an item that was shattered in transit and had to send it back. I felt bad for the UPS store employee dealing with the broken glass.

It was explained to me that they have to do the "tour" model (which is a minimum of 1 year, up to 4 years) because it is the only way they can bypass the usual lengthy government hiring process.

I interviewed with them yesterday, and they hire fully remote also.

There did used to be one like this and I can't for the life of me remember the name of it.

My friend didn't meet her husband on it, but she did meet her future husband's roommate.

Having worked on a couple of these projects, the new design system is being implemented as new systems are built or when upgrading tech on older systems. I don't think anybody is doing an overhaul just to implement the design system, but as part of a new design or redesign, it's quite useful.

My brother lives in this county, and all he's told me is that there's a lot of shenanigans going on there.

Oh I haven't thought about Regretsy in ages! That was a good one.

Poorly calibrated hearing aids actually can damage your hearing (even worse than it was). It’s sending highly amplified noise directly into your ear drum.

I have never in my life seen “butter aroma” in butter (from US).

That isn't quite the conclusion the article draws though. Most people would interpret "positive/negative" impact as meaning whether the badge will help or hurt you in your job search.

Instead, the article evaluates whether engineers with the badge are higher or lower skilled than average.

As such, the only conclusion you could really draw is if you're a hiring manager, you should not view an "Open to Work" badge as a negative signal for a candidate.

Ugh, good luck.

I do currently have a job, so I've decided to just drop out of this game for a bit. It's too frustrating to waste my time.

In that scenario, I doubt they would go all the way to discussing the offer and how they can shape the role for me. Also, I'm in design, which has less of an H1B presence. I think the org just decided at the final moment that they didn't actually want to hire for the role.

Even worse, I've had two instances in the past few months of going through the entire interview process, being told that they just need to make the final decision or put together an offer, and then having the job disappear. One of those postings is still up...

Thank you for this. There are multiple comments in this thread saying exercise is the "silver bullet," but if you have a severe anxiety disorder, it often isn't.

I am much less anxious on the days I don't exercise. I still do it nearly every day because I want to stay healthy.

What works for me? Good old SSRIs. They are my silver bullet.

A couple of years ago, I started a light meditation practice (10-20 minutes) and did it for about a month with good results. At that point, I read this article (on Hacker News) and spent the next two years terrified this would happen to me.

I had struggled with panic disorder in the past, but CBT pretty much fixed it for me. This article triggered my first panic attacks in years and led to a constant sense of dread and anxiety. It was so terrifying to think that a simple mental process could potentially trigger a breakdown (and like you, I had a family to take care of).

Fast-forward a couple of years, and I'm moving towards the view that these breakdowns are simple anxiety disorders that just happen to be triggered by meditation, in the same way that a panic attack triggered my anxiety disorder when I was young. I don't think there's anything particularly special or mystical about it - it's just our stupid brains activating the fear response, and it appears that the same methods for dealing with anxiety disorders work here.

I feel like in a way I was the control group for an experiment - can a fear of meditation provoke the same response as meditation itself?

I'm curious about this. If everything in a design file is aligned left, do you need an annotation on each object telling you that it is aligned left?

This is one of the funniest things I have read in a long time. I used to work for a Japanese company and was surrounded by anime fans who had fantasies of learning the language. I was perfectly happy to work with our translators.

I think it's great, because I have no problem actually taking it. As a parent, it was really hard to juggle the huge number of days-off that schoolchildren get when I worked for a place that had fixed PTO. I am really happy to now have unlimited PTO.

I suppose the ideal would be to work for a place that gives you something like 6-8 weeks fixed PTO, but I don't know too many places doing that.

Same here - my son is an incredibly picky eater, and salmon is the one thing we can rely on him eating.

Whether these answers are helpful to people will depend on if they have particular mental health issues.

In my case, the most commonly recommended actions - exercise and meditation - trigger my health anxiety and OCD. Courses of CBT (cognitive/behavioral therapy and ERP (exposure and response prevention) have been much more productive.

Which is to say, we're all working on our own difficulty levels, and if the basic maintenance isn't working for you, don't hesitate to reach out to the specialists!

Facebook Groups are what keep a lot of people on. In small cities, that’s where the social organizing/news sharing happens. I have edited my feed down to where it’s just my groups and a couple of friends who only post photos of their cute kids.

Do you mean that you are forgetting to increase/decrease at the right points? As mentioned, stitch markers will help, as will a good row counter.

Of course, you will still have to remember to increase your row counter at the end of each row. I have a row counter I keep hung around my neck, so it's easily accessible. A physical row counter (as opposed to an app) is better for this. I really like this cheapo one: https://www.amazon.com/Clover-Knitting-Stitch-Counter-Kacha-...

It also depends what projects you choose. Colorwork generally requires counting and keeping careful track, but there are plenty of projects where you can get away with just stitch markers and occasionally glancing at the pattern.