janeerie

I'm not qualified to give much of an opinion on epigenetics, but I do find it interesting how it is talked about in popular culture, and I think it's good for us to be careful about that.

At my last employer, we had a diversity training where the speaker framed the lesson around the idea of epigenetics and how we all inherited generational trauma. My BS-detector instantly went off, and I found it hard to take the rest of the session seriously. This seems to be a concept, like "quantum mechanics," that can be easily misused in general discourse.

Dang, this did give me a panic attack. The sort of thing OP describes is my greatest fear, and I have a hard time dealing with the fact that it really happens to some people.

Oh, I agree. And I'll take muted colors over no colors at all.

I do love me some bright Ikea-style colors though, even though they are more difficult to coordinate properly.

The trend the article discusses is using colors that are tones, meaning a hue mixed with gray. So it's not just that a lot of things are gray, it's that even the things that are colored have a gray-ish cast.

The trend of gray tones in consumer goods brings to mind the Puritan rule of wearing only "sadd colors." Perhaps we are experiencing a new wave of Puritan chic?

From the book Albion's Seed: "The taste of New England ran not to black or gray, but to “sadd colors” as they were called in the seventeenth century. A list of these “sadd colors” in 1638 included “liver color, de Boys, tawney, russet, purple, French green, ginger lyne, deer colour, orange.” Other sad colors were called “gridolin” from the French gris de lin (“flax blossom”). Still others were called puce, folding color, Kendall green, Lincoln green, barry, milly and tuly."

Oh, so you’ve met my father-in-law?

The other alternative is that this is not actually true. I’m having trouble finding any evidence that intelligence is correlated with depression.

I have come to believe that social interaction is like exercising or eating your vegetables. Some people naturally enjoy it; some people don’t. Either way, you will be a healthier person if you do it.

Many people, if you ask them if they want a gift, will say no just to be polite. In this scenario, if somebody said "I'd like to take care of the lawn for you if that would be helpful," I would deny the request because I wouldn't want to impose on them.

Just going ahead and doing it for me would be amazing. The number one gift anybody could give me in a tough situation is to not force me to make one more decision.

Which is to say, I guess it comes down to knowing the person.

Your final statement seems a bit contradictory to me. If the client can't hire employees for certain work, doesn't that increase their reliance on consultants (and reduce the chance you'll get cut)?

The one specific person I saw that was laid off today was in their bike-share division, so it apparently is involved in the layoffs.

I would like to see more discussion of the role of SSRIs in treating anxiety, rather than depression (which always seems to be the default focus). I also suffered from panic that went away completely with SSRIs. I have never had issues with depression, but these medications gave me my life back.

I appreciate how they lay out the challenges they have faced, which gives me more confidence in their projected timeline.

I am curious if somebody with a conventional implant would be able to reimplant with this new technology. It seems like all the required structures would still be intact.

I'm guessing you weren't a female teenager.

I had a very similar schedule to the person you're responding to, except our high school started at 7:25. I'd take a little extra time in the morning just to get my head together before going to school.

When I upgraded to Monterey, my AirPods started giving me robot voice on any call. It appears to be a conflict with my Logitech keyboard and mouse. I’ve switched to USB connection for those, but it’s not an ideal solution.

Plus the expense of maintaining two different wardrobes.

I'm curious what you consider to be the bad consequences of recalling your dreams? I remember at least one dream every night and enjoy going back over any of them.

I especially like that I can identify a dream as the cause if I wake up in a weird mood. I worry that if I didn't have this recall, I might wake up just being vaguely pissed at my husband (because he was being a jerk in a dream).

Yes, I have gotten nearly every one of my jobs by applying through a website. If you're applying for roles that are a reasonable fit, you have a decent chance of getting a response.

Jury sequestration is pretty rare and only for super high profile cases.

I hate this one. The other one that gets me is "Tell me about a time where a team member was underperforming. What did you do?"

I think the correct answer to this is to get on their ass about it or rat them out to their manager. In reality, what I have done is just do their work myself so it gets done.

Pretty sure this is why I failed my Amazon interview.

I know it sounds insane, but this is honestly my favorite game of all time. I would love to see an updated version for today's systems.

Within the sphere of education, FIRE (https://www.thefire.org/) is pursuing this mission.

Definitely bookmarking for when you're hiring again!

So true. My son was born with severe hearing loss, and for 5 years we have heard treatment was on the horizon.

His hearing has now declined to the point where he needs a cochlear implant, and I worry that if we do that and a treatment is eventually developed, he might not benefit from it. However, I think it would be foolish to wait. Gene therapy seems like the only hope, and I don't think there have been great developments in that area.

I love JustWatch, but it's frustrating that they don't have a Roku app. It looks like this will be a good substitute.

Usertesting.com is the leading product in the field of remote user testing. It's very expensive, but very much worth it.

I started a casual meditation practice a couple of years ago and was getting benefits from it, when I came across an article (on Hacker News) written by a man who had developed severe disassociation and other disorders from meditation.

The irony is that I started meditating because I struggle with panic disorder. Now I was hearing that my most common panic trigger (the thought that I could think myself crazy) was actually real! This sent me down quite a spiral that I have had to resolve by accepting the tiny odds that I might go spontaneously nuts. That's not an easy one, and I wish there was more reliable research on this issue.

We had to wear those, too. Our son is deaf, so he would just scream as loud as he possibly could. I knew that I would end up with hearing loss also if I didn’t protect myself.

One data point here - I knew all the female words and 15 of the male words. I definitely feel more confident about what the female ones mean, though.

I have an interview with Amazon next week. My primary motivation for this is to make significantly more than I do now, and a hope that my division/role would be different from those that produce the horror stories. I'm seriously considering cancelling though...