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I wasn’t really looking for pity, just sharing the perspective of a person who has dealt with moderately severe ADHD. I’m doing just fine now and am enjoying my work again. Medicat…

> Picking up bits here and bits there, is not learning. It is just being lazy and clumsy. This is at best a lack of understanding of how attention disorders work, at worst a lack o…

>So you see that every base reality can contain a vast number of nested simulations, and a simple counting argument tells us we're much more likely to live in a simulated world tha…

>Every time I explain that, in roll the fans telling me I'm somehow doing it wrong. "Wrong strain, bro" I started experiencing cannabis induced panic attacks first year of college …

>I wonder if there’s an opportunity to teach a “how to search” class in schools. We did this in a public middle school around 2002-2003 with boolean searches. Was this unique to my…

>What’s the practical alternative? Single payer healthcare, not that your question is sincere.

what do you use now? i find that there are almost no alternatives to niche communities.

I'm in a situation where it's nearly impossible for me to job hunt. On top of endless work (nights and weekends) and stress is intense burnout that make it difficult to even think …

guess it depends on where you land. i'm in academia now and it's absolutely horrifying. understaffed, constantly dropped into new projects while other ones are on fire, tons of ove…

The only way to learn is to practice. Use practice problem sets in textbooks.

SF and NY are already competitive enough but remote positions make it 10x worse. If you're really insistent on remote work for a startup try to focus on Nashville, Charlotte, and A…

Most of the apply links soft 404. Shame because I like the concept :/

What sorts of companies are you applying to? And where? I consider myself to be about average in technical skill and I don't have much trouble passing interviews at good companies …

>Blog about each topic/micro topic/learning. Any recommendations for this? I've always wanted to make a blog but I never have anything to write about. What I work on is trivial so …

If Firefox had better dev tools I might. Chrome's entire development environment feels first class, whereas Firefox's feels like an afterthought.

How are iterators functional language features? They're not unique to functional languages and they don't require function composition to implement. They're present in most popular…

>Then today morning my favorite blog closed because of an attack by cancel-police. Isn't this still speculative at this point? Last I read about it (on Reddit) there was no actual …

Can I ask what field you went into?

I enjoyed working in restaurants in my formative years but I don't think I'd be happy owning one. Honestly I think my dream job would be working on a cargo ship or something but sa…

You and I are in the same boat, except I've grown to hate not only the culture, but programming too. I've not heard of former devs breaking into other technical fields, but I have …

If in order to get a job as a senior architect I have to have experience that I can only get by having access to come inside your house, then yeah I kind of do.